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Law professor at the UF Levin College of Law (for identification purposes only; the views expressed here are strictly my own).
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NEW: 549 Palestinians now killed in the last 30 days. Itself shocking. But, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS KILLED AT A FOOD AID STATION. A unique war crime. Firing squads using aid as bait. Palestinians in #Gaza face two choices: starve to death, or risk death to get food. 🧵

Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.

Why are federal agents wearing masks? It undermines trust and poses a threat to American democracy.

Streisand Effect will soon be renamed Baby Vance Effect

Another education under attack gem. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

We are so screwed.

Trump’s Gestapo is completely out of control, bound by no laws, openly racially profiling brown people and grabbing U.S. citizens and treating it like a video game. (Clearly getting paid per person)

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

This is unacceptable. A senior Justice Department official openly talking about their plans to disobey court orders is a serious threat to our democracy.

Honestly, I am just at a point where I'm gonna say it. Fuck this guy. He sucks.

Prediction: massive firings at Defense Intelligence Agency, leaving us even more blind to critical facts and analysis.

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👀⚖️👇🏾 #palantir

It may not reflect the views of the “professor,” but it sure reflects his lack of qualifications to teach a historically oriented class. I am a huge fan of Merritt, I don’t envy her position here. I think this boils down to she has to firmly back her faculty’s grading choices. Full stop. But…

Sadly, there will probably be quite the competition from the cases for internment of all Latina and Latino US citizens and how the Handmaid's Tale is mandated by the Bill of Rights.

I read the paper. It’s bad. It’s just Dred Scott repackaged. No new historical research. No innovative argument. It isn’t poorly written but that’s about the only thing I can say about it— certainly could not have been the best paper in the class.

The stupidest, cruelest age of the human species.

Gee, I would have thought that first, perhaps, they might debate the legality of a state assassinating the leader of another state.

I saw a license plate yesterday that seemed odd: "WUZ-GAY". 🤔

Happy Emancipation Day, y’all!

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

A federal judge ruled Secretary of State Marco Rubio can’t detain or remove Mahmoud Khalil from the United States for now.

“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes,” Newsom warned. “The moment we’ve feared has arrived. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I suspect the update to this disgusting tale is that the alleged ICE gestapo fled when they realized their victims were citizens and LAPD is investigating the assault with a deadly weapon.

Brad Bondi points out that he and his sister Pam are stalwarts against the politicization of legal matters. He is very sad that people were mean to him and actually voted for another candidate.

Whats happened in LA over the weekend is pathetic. Once again we see the commander in chief agitating and escalating shit. On another note, it doesn't seem like dems were "overreacting" when we said the fate of democracy depends on this election.

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

So much this…

Holy cow! This Max documentary the Mortician is a truly twisted tale! 😳😳😳

Undocumented immigrants pay $100 billion a year in state, federal & local taxes subsidizing Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment with no benefits from these programs. Raiding their workplaces is demonstrable proof they are WORKING & paying taxes! Receipts here @itep.org itep.org/undocumented...

The shit's hitting the fan. I fear that this is Drumpf-II's very intentional BLM moment when they again unleash the gestapo storm troopers. It's going to be worse this time.

Indeed. I think of children who may wish to live in a state where cops run toward the active shooter with an easily-bought military assault rifle who is trying to kill them.

Irony, honesty, decency, integrity and humanity are dead in him.

The Nazi thug behavior, and "I don't care about *your* feelings" attitude, are not at all surprising from this administration. But what really gets me, is their fragility and self-righteousness.

'Besides lack of political will, there is another reason for TB’s success: one of its greatest skills is its ability to fly through the air.' @carlzimmer.com @newscientist.com 🤷Perhaps, one day, #COVID's airborne nature will be recognised too? And action taken? www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

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The statistics are clear that these officers are a danger to the students they are purportedly protecting. And they run away from active shooters when that happens.

www.latimes.com/california/s... Police state

Silly question: Are the streets of DC, or any American city, engineered to handle the weight of tanks rolling on them?

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

So very well put!

Well played.

Indeed.

Trump Chickens Out of Musk, Epstein Files Press Questions The audio feed from the event was cut and reporters were told to leave meidasnews.com/news/trump-c...