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Everything about Trump 2 is worse, even the spineless collaborationist comedian whitewashing stunt. Jimmy Fallon’s tussling of the hair was pathetic but omg Bill Maher is just cringe

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I admit I am frustrated that it is taking too many Scaramuccis for them to have ego fights and start purging themselves from power

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How it started // How it’s going

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Because they are white supremacist fascists.

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I really have such a low opinion of the “I was pro human rights and progressive in the early 90s but now you crazy wokes want me to say [Muslims/Trans people] have human rights” kind of Boomer

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I can’t stress this enough: this has been the case since 2011 and the Al-Aulaqi case. Democracy is only ending now because white Americans perceive that the underlying nudge nudge wink wink understanding that these abuses of power would not apply to them but “only the terrorists” is being eroded

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Hey Washington DC public transport, I want to get one of your city’s famous cupcakes and visit the Lincoln Memorial. DC public transport: No.

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China waited 200 years for the chance to avenge its “Century of Humilliation”. There is no scenario where China loses or backs off a trade war with the US.

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The people who just said that the Nazis treated Jews with love during the Holocaust are using antisemitism to persecute people on ideological grounds and purge them from the US

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In the US, the Executive can: Kill you with a drone Deport you for your ideas Send you to a Salvadorean torture camp And there is nothing you can do about it. Nothing. But don’t worry, we all know it will only happen to people by last name al-Aulaqi, Khalil and Abrego nudge nudge wink wink

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Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Always a pleasure to speak with al-Jazeera’s Mat Nashed. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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As a lawyer I feel like these question are always a trap that you shouldn’t just answer in one word. I’ve read enough comics to know “I want matter manipulation powers” can land you either as Atom Eve, and be awesome, or as Molecule Man, and be a nightmare. Then again I am a huge dork…

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I hope the US opposition is aware by now that they don’t need to defeat Trump in 4 years, they need to defeat Trumpism - for the foreseeable future, even after Trump is long gone from politics. These are your new national politics

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There’s only one way to be rid of Trumpism: resist

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The main lesson of the post-Iraq US was “why invade a country and invite scrutiny when you can get a global south autocrat to host a drone base that no one will care to scrutinize and achieve the same objectives?” This is more “what if Kenya for the War on Terror but El Salvador for immigration?”

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“All available steps” is the right way standard. All measures that comply with international law are “available” to the government. And so, there’s a lot it is authorized to do to undo its crimes

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There’s a reason why I dropped the only US constitutional law class I signed up for in my US masters… I’m sorry, they are disappearing Latin Americans to torture camps and people are double daring Trump to comply, because there rly is a scenario where it’s ok that he doesn’t cuz “deference”

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This is the inevitable consequence of the Supreme Court’s shameful “do what you can” language. Now a man’s life depends on whether social media can trigger the fragile masculinity of a man-child as the best way to redress a freaking crime through a double dare. I’m going crazy make the lunacy stop

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I say this with as much respect as I can muster rn for the US legal system: this is a crazy rule. Courts have to be able to compel a govt to fully undo the unlawful effects of arguably a crime against humanity and bring back the status quo ante. If they don’t then the rights violation continues!

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I don’t get folks who are satisfied with the court’s decision in Abrego and I think it’s cuz I’m used to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as the final decision maker in Peru… man do you guys need that!

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The question posed by the US Supreme Court is not really “what can the Court tell the government to do given deference”. It is instead “what does int’l allow the US to do to get Abrego back”. That should be the lower court’s interpretation. If it’s legal, it can and should be done

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It is also bonkers that the government’s duty to remedy the harm it caused is described as an obligation of means (“do what it can”) not of results (“recover Abrego”). What the actual hell is this language? How is this unanimous? Sorry am I missing something here?!?!

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It’s sort of bonkers to me that the US Supreme Court is actually talking of “deference” to the Executive in matters of “foreign affairs”. Human rights violations, hell arguably crimes against humanity, are not foreign affairs. A lesson the post War on Terror US NEVER LEARNED

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This is the administration imposing 145% tariffs on the second most powerful economy (arguably military too) in the world. What it “can’t” do should be a very small number of really bad things things no?

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I shared this video on Twitter - where I have 134k followers - at the same time as here. Hilariously, it’s got 1 RT and 4 likes over there. Less than here where I have 12k followers. In case there was any doubt critical content is suppressed in the hellsite

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Ok seriously… EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH except the US guarantees paid leave. So frankly the insistence on the “major” adjective here seems particularly troubling. Again please oh please someone explain to me in non-racist terms what makes Denmark “major” but Brazil, Mexico, etc “minor”

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Years as a professional? 15 Years in academia? 11 Years since PhD? 3 Ah! An ECR! This way please 🥲

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In the context of Latin American dictatorships, this is called “civil death”. Nicolás Maduro has done stuff like this in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua…

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In yesterday's stream, Chat and I looked at the current fight for democracy in the US from the perspective of critical legal studies. What do we mean when we say "US democracy is dying"? And who is the "we" who is doing the talking here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8gZ...

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That’s the UNION difference.

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