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The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s front office. news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...

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Just 24 hours left for our spring book sale: 20% off ALL BOOKS in our online store! Just use the discount code SPRING2025 before you pay. Check out our full collection here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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the four democrats who voted yes on the SAVE Act: Jared Golden Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Henry Cuellar Ed Case

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For real, pay attention any time you see/hear someone call one of these things “beautiful” (e.g., Lutnick saying Europe doesn’t want our beef because it’s “beautiful”), and then go read Klaus Theweleit

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crushing cuts to medicaid and possibly snap as budget reconciliation has finally begun

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A few notes on where JGG v Noem, the Alien Enemies Act case, stands. First, I'll just salute the @ACLU lawyers who may’ve saved 5 lives. If not for ACLU, the 5 named plaintiffs would be languishing in CECOT, where @PamBondi tried to send them without due process. ... 1/9

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What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

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The fact that even the mildest gun law is treated as the most egregious violation of the Second Amendment possible, but millions of people are meekly accepting blatant government assaults on First Amendment freedom of speech and expression when it comes to diversity and inclusion.

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As SCOTUS endorses Trump's move to disappear immigrants to El Salvador prisons, the horrid truth is this extremism is not an aberration—but a manifestation of SCOTUS extremism throughout history. Here's a recap of how SCOTUS has always upheld white supremacy: www.qasimrashid.com/p/what-if-am...

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men in ski masks are abducting random people off the streets of america.

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servicvey! the story of how much state/municipal budgets rely on federal funding, and how much cutting that funding undermines services these governments provide, is under-told, and this is important work

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I'll be on @majorityreport.bsky.social today talking about my new book Copaganda. I'll be talking about the role the news media, liberal academics, and non-profits play in rising authoritarianism.

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As straightforward a 5th Amendment due process clause (“nor shall any person …. be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;”) issue as anyone could imagine.

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THREAD: Ahmad Manasra was 13 when Israeli authorities imprisoned and tortured him. After nearly 10 years, now 23, he's finally free—but forever changed.

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An interesting little thing I noticed today: the Eugene McDaniels song Headless Heroes, an anti-war and anti-capitalist track from his album that was banned by the Nixon administration, is conspicuously absent from the Apple Music version of the album but is available on Spotify.

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$264 gets my friend and brother Mohamed to a nice round number. Perhaps we could do that today while I have an 11 hour drive hauling a trailer of angry goats?? www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...

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A shameful act by this Chicago prosecutor, done to protect a Chicago police/Guantanamo Bay torturer and keep someone locked up whom he likely tortured into making a false confession.

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Democrats lose moral high ground in attacking Trump if our party puts a fraud and creep like Andrew Cuomo back in office. fair.org/home/nyt-cov...

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Folks this summer is likely to be terrible for young people re both summer employment opportunities & also basic summer programming [given cuts at the Federal level that will trickle to the state level]. What are you planning so that young people can have some money in their pockets &/or some fun?

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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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With SCOTUS now ruling that the Trump admin may continue AEA deportations to El Salvador, albeit with detainees supposedly getting a morsel of due process, it's worth recalling the role that NYC & the NYPD had in cultivating the Tren de Aragua panic. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-n...

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LA law library has an incredibly-powerful exhibit called “lawyers without rights” (based on the book of the same name) about Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933. their stories were harrowing - many who were prestigious thought their success & good relations with the govt would save them

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When are states justified in not turning over federal taxes and just funding their own operations? I don’t think that’s a good way to be a country but are blue states supposed to keep paying and let Trump keep retaliating and keeping the money forever?

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We asked the Office of Legal Counsel whether it reviewed Trump's executive orders for form and legality. This is the letter we received in response. cc: @charliesavage.bsky.social @martylederman.bsky.social @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

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‘Infinite License’ | Omer Bartov | The New York Review of Books

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