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strongly recommend reading justice kagan's dissent in FSC v Paxton. for one, it's measured & rooted in law/precedent. but more than that, it shows that the liberal wing of the court is now the main defender of american freedom of expression. not the right. not the phonies. the left.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve gotta say, I'm rapidly becoming more anti-anti-Zohran than anti-Zohran.

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

Imagine if instead of running like hell from immigration in 2024, Democrats had actually showed some leadership, defended immigrants, and explained how ugly and inhumane Trump’s mass deportations were going to be.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Hang it in the Louvre www.ft.com/content/f462...

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"Mamdani’s victory needn’t be a death knell for a winning Democratic party. It should be a death knell for an ossified Democratic establishment. And it should be a wake up call for non-socialist Democrats to show some of the audacity and the ability of Mamdani." www.thebulwark.com/p/wake-up-ca...

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

well we're really playing the hits of 2000s Islamophobia, I see. (which in itself was a bizarre echo of British fears of Jesuit 'casuistry' back in anti-Catholic days.)

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Thinking a bit more broadly, one thing that comes out pretty clearly in the beating the Iranian regime has taken over the past two years that one hopes many countries are watching is how much better it is to be a friend of America than, say, Russia or China.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

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Trump kidnapping your spouse and bombing Iran because he got mad and sending the Marines to Los Angeles to prop up his campaign of domestic warfare and rendition, while ordering the Justice Department to wage expensive psy ops on people who say he didn’t win an election he lost are all a distraction

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

SCOTUS grants the “jailers threw away the Fifth Circuit opinion the prisoner literally brought with him to save his dreads and then shaved his dreads” case

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

According to them, we are currently at war with Venezuela (through a Venezuelan gang, somehow) and also Iran’s nuclear program but not Iran.

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

If you offered any U.S. policymaker from the last 40 years, “You can (potentially) knock out Iran’s nuclear program for decade or more with no real risk to American pilots,” they'd almost all take that deal without blinking (if you're surprised why he said this lol)

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Serious answer: The percentage of Americans who actually care about the legality of presidents ordering military action is quite small. Plus, presidents ordering use of force without proper Congressional authorization, and Congress acting like that's okay, has been bipartisan for decades.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Everyone is throwing out examples of Iraq War-era mass derangement so I might as well throw in Amanda Bynes doing a peace sign on a movie poster being photoshopped out for fear of being seen as an antiwar statement

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

submitted 6 days ago • 770 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 6 days ago • 565 comments

As I have argued for months: The person calling the shots in this admin was never Musk or Bannon or Susie Wiles. It's always been Shadow President Stephen Miller. Anything Trump says on e.g. immigration is cheap talk; Miller is the decider. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 185 comments

This is what I find so strange about this piece. It proceeds from the assumption that the paper was well argued but simply edgy in its conclusions. The actual academic freedom q is whether the administration can override the views of the person giving the grade. The real story is about the judge.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

submitted 7 days ago • 98 comments

This is terrific: two dozen generally right-of-center public interest & law groups join in a letter saying Congress must not adopt Senate budget language "that would require courts to impose financial bonds before issuing temp restraining orders or prelim injunctions against the federal gov't." /1

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

OK, since the "Globalize the Intifada" thing is coming up again, and I've seen Mamdani's comments on it, I'm going to try to explain why the "it's no big deal and nobody should find it threatening" approach is a bad one and should be rejected by people of good faith (which, IMO, includes Mamdani!)

submitted 7 days ago • 65 comments

Who would’ve imagined that this particular individual would’ve been a catastrophe as DHS secretary

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 97 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 8 days ago • 296 comments

This is more notice than they are prepared to give people before deporting them

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Wendy Edelberg & Tara Watson of @brookings.edu and Stan Veuger of AEI: For the first time in at least half a century, the U.S. could see more folks leaving the U.S. this year than immigrants arriving. wapo.st/3HFn5GR

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 My new paper, "The (non) effect of tariffs on manufacturing employment" is hot off the presses. A 🧵 Link: www.aei.org/wp-content/u... #econsky

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 8 days ago • 3210 comments

Yeah man. Think we have to dismantle an agency that's sending masked dudes in civvies to raid baseball teams. Absolutely lost their fucking minds to try to do shit like this.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

If the VP's job now is being a full-time social media troll, his basic problem is he's the guy who can be a little bit funny sometimes, but thinks he's ten times funnier than he actually is, so that's all he does. He's in the Dunning-Kruger zone of internet humor.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

From @nickkristof.bsky.social: "'We have a whole set of solutions,' said Shawn Baker of Helen Keller Intl, which works in nutrition and blindness. He noted that a recent World Bank study estimated that each $1 invested in nutrition yields a return of $23. Try finding a hedge fund with that return."

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

“If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.”

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

submitted 10 days ago • 215 comments

my favorite ben domenech fact is that after being fired for plagiarizing pj o'rourke he was then fired again a few years later for taking payola from the malaysian government.

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments