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Law professor, Drexel Univ • Fellow, UC Nat'l Ctr for Free Speech & Civic Engagement • Affiliated fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Cmte A on Academic Freedom ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
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Nice leisurely pace, wouldn't want to ruin their weekend 💤 Two GOP Trumpjudges and a Biden judge

The gaslighting here is off the charts. With a quiet, moderated voice, measured cadence, and downcast eyes, Johnson will gladly facilitate the disintegration of our government.

Trump's immigration approval has fallen 6 points on net this week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

a new washington post / GMU poll finds trump 15 points net negative on immigration, soft disapproval of his handling of LA protests (with lots of don't knows). the narrative that these protests are good for trump is not supported by data at this point. see: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the-la...

Stop giving Netanyahu bombs and money. This is insane and horrifying.

"well well well...."

De Blasio having the time of his life rn

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

Impeach. Force her out

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The company we now keep

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The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

She will not. They will promote her if they can. As such it is up to Democrats in the House to file articles of impeachment [I KNOW THEY WILL FAIL] - FILE THE ARTICLES and keep bringing them up ALL OF THE TIME. Tell folks that you will impeach her if you have the majority in the future.

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

“accustomed to remaining free”

Gestapo is short for Geheime Staatspolizei. Literally translated to Secret State Police.

NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

Trump at -11 net approval on immigration and -16 on deportations in new Quinnipiac poll. Possible this isn’t the dominant issue for Trump that some people have assumed! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Updated presidential issue approval ratings chart (YMMV) reveals a dip in Trump's immigration approval over the last week. Due mainly to a couple of big negative polls. This is the trend to watch over the next week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

I guess I'd missed this. The new head of the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ is a former Ken Paxton soldier from his wildly corrupt AG's office down in Texas. Old news. from Jan. But I hadn't heard. Arsonist now running the fire dept. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

KENNEDY: Harvard is in many respects violating federal law SCARBOROUGH: What federal law is Harvard violating? KENNEDY: Harvard practices ideological capture

Reporter: "This administration has talked a lot about defending law enforcement...but you've been criticized for having a double standard with the president pardoning all these people who attacked police officers on Jan. 6." Bondi: "Well, this is very different."

Cops on horses hitting dudes in plaid shirts with sticks because the dudes are not walking quite fast enough? Anyway totally insurrectiony, very invasion.

Republican senators freaked out when asked about Trump's military parade costing $45 million. Some hid in elevators. Some stared off into space. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped: “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-se...

ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

Pathetically incompetent journalism

Dear @washingtonpost.com : Why will any academic talk to you now? That parenthetical is an insult to his academic integrity: “Is he saying this bc of his years of hard work and research, or just bc he is a partisan hack? 🤷🏻‍♂️” If he’s wrong, show he’s wrong. Don’t attack via snide insinuation.

the insinuation here that Levitsky’s politics might influence his scholarship has the causation exactly backwards

the word "constitution" does not appear in this article nor does any indication that the Trump regime's actions might be illegal it does however note "White House officials maintain that the president is ... standing up for 'law and order' as Democrats go soft on violent agitators."

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

Journalistic malpractice/incompetence to not point out clearly and up front that this directly violates a federal statute

This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in. (I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

FFS @politico.com

Somehow showing more leadership on immigration than elected Democrats