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NEW: It's been 5 days, and lawyers for the Djibouti Six say their clients still haven't gotten due process, including the phone access to counsel required by Judge Murphy's May 21 order. Judge Murphy is getting frustrated as well. Free gift link >>> www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

it's pretty damning when it's all laid out like this www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 3 days ago • 763 comments

Scientists, I am asking us to do something that goes against our nature: Step away from fine-grained, nuanced arguments. Zoom WAY out. Share the big picture. Don’t soften the seriousness of this moment with “xxx may be ok in xxx circumstances” talk. It’s uncomfortable AND necessary.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Sen Shaheen: Will Afghans who fought with us be allowed to stay? “Rubio was vague in his response. “We are determining whether we are properly vetting people.” This is how WH admin speaks when they are open to retracting a bad policy. Keep attention on it www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s corruption from his crypto dinners to his $400 million dollar plane is plain as day. The Democrats need to speak out about this every day. It is the largest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

If there’s money for a parade, there’s money for Medicaid.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Note that NWU has received zero communication from the administration about this. No explanation, no rationale, no demands. Nothing. They're not even paying on grants that were already awarded and budgeted. It's tyrannical

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

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submitted 7 days ago • 151 comments

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 68 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 9 days ago • 306 comments

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hello from Greenbelt, MD, where a federal judge will hear arguments over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about what it has done to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the US. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

The sitting Speaker of the House is an oathbreaker

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is a nine week pregnancy. This is what the state of Georgia says matters more than the dignity of Adriana Smith.

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake

submitted 14 days ago • 170 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 14 days ago • 237 comments

View from a white South African journalist on #AfrikanerGate “what Trump and his lackeys, several of whom are ex-South Africans, are trying to build is apartheid. That’s the aim. So it stands to reason that these Afrikaners will feel right at home.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

submitted 16 days ago • 305 comments

My god. Where is the public outcry for Petrova (and so many others) like there was for Ozturk? We need eyes, hands and hearts on all of these cases. Here is a start. h/t @etche.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

For those following along in the Worcester story, they are not allowing the public at City Council meeting tomorrow. Call in only.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Believe it!

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

If I were a member of Congress I would have already introduced a bill prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face masks and requiring them to wear official identification at all times

submitted 18 days ago • 430 comments

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

submitted 19 days ago • 146 comments

Days before she was fired by the Trump administration, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman (since the 1800s) and first African American to hold the job, spoke out about the danger of disappearing history and preserving Black history. loom.ly/0M0b1B0

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A phone call from Robert Kennedy secured King's release in late October during the 1960 campaign.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 20 days ago • 631 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments