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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued used underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

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The tenacity of my Gators.

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Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

submitted 2 days ago • 253 comments

Hooo boy

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TLDR: basically, the rule of law itself is at issue

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Do not look away.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.” A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment. ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Trump just pardoned crypto firm BitMex for violating money laundering laws — making him potentially the first president in American history to pardon a corporation. It's truly a new Golden Age for corporate crime.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 593 comments

I want to note again how completely insane you have to be for your goal to be a “bilateral trade balance of zero” with every country. Just nutso.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

NEW: ACLU tells Judge Boasberg that he should reject the government's invocation of the state-secrets privilege, saying that it is "unaware of any case in which [it] has been invoked to withhold evidence from a court seeking to enforce its own orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Remember this shit, I am pretty sure it’s still on his agenda

submitted 10 days ago • 102 comments

Saw a post on TikTok about Columbia taking away degrees backfiring, and it made me realize - taking Degrees is way as punishment demonstrates how these institutions believe that their mission is conferring privilege and not providing education.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1256 comments

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

submitted 12 days ago • 453 comments

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

submitted 12 days ago • 1161 comments

Capitalism unfettered, advances like The Nothing, swallowing all.

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On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

submitted 13 days ago • 319 comments

A President who disregards Congressional appropriations unifying all federal payments under a single department run by his appointees alone would have total control of the federal purse, capable of punishing or rewarding individuals at will. "Anti-constitutional," as @jamellebouie.net says.

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

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ICYMI: Just coincidentally, I’m sure, Pam Bondi’s BigLaw partner brother is running to be President this year (of all years!) of the DC State Bar Association. DC-barred lawyers: VOTE FOR DIANE SELTZER! April 15-June 4. Make sure you get your email ballot.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

submitted 18 days ago • 258 comments

Gutting generations of copyright protections for the benefit of AI bots would have a chilling effect not just on news organizations but on all creative content creators, from novelists to playwrights to poets. www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/17/e...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This story is fucking bonkers

submitted 20 days ago • 297 comments

One suspects the entire point of Cerna's circle jerk here is to mock the rule of law. We don’t have evidence that they’re terrorists, but because we don’t have evidence, that itself proves they’re terrorists??? Kafka, eat your heart out.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

submitted 21 days ago • 210 comments

Concepts of a plan.

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I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

submitted 22 days ago • 450 comments

At least there's some good news out there.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Note here: a foreign head of state mocking and assisting defying the order of a US federal judge and then the Secretary of State amplifying the mockery.

submitted 23 days ago • 187 comments

🧵I've posted previously about how institutional capture by disordered discourse works, and I want to highlight this post from DOD Rapid Response to show what it looks like in action, and what it tells us. It’s a textbook example of Stage 5: Entrenchment & Epistemic Closure. bsky.app/profile/elio...

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

General Zymo, scourge of the outer rim, hands another setback to Qiagen, putting his seat on the Jedi counsel in jeopardy.

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Other countries are fully targeting US academics with social media ads now, basically of the form "we still have inclusive liberal democracy and academic freedom here"

submitted 26 days ago • 150 comments

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

submitted 26 days ago • 218 comments

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 507 comments

Hannah Arendt accurately identified loneliness as the fuel for Totalitarianism.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

submitted 28 days ago • 82 comments

I swear JG Ballard did a short one along these lines

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It should terrify everyone that a green card holder was black bagged and disappeared to Louisiana simply for having opinions this administration dislikes. They're building the prisons and camps to do it to citizens. The time to stand up to this is now.

submitted 29 days ago • 49 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 32 days ago • 219 comments

Quite an opening sentence: “I write in response to your letter dated February 17, 2025, which you sent to me via email on March 3, 2025.” And somehow the rest of the letter is even better.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

You don't often see a complaint with an epigraph, let alone an epigraph with an epithet. (This is AP's amended complaint over its exclusion from the WH press pool, filed late last night. It's excellent.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 36 comments

A crypto national reserve is like a national reserve of Beanie Babies. It serves no function. There is no situation where it would be necessary. Except to move massive sums of taxpayer dollars to private interests in exchange for worthless garbage.

submitted 37 days ago • 57 comments

Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”

submitted 37 days ago • 1321 comments

Wow: Jeff Grant, a top career official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, retired today. On his way out, Grant sent this letter excoriating Jeffery Anoka, who carried out the DOGE firings, and said Anoka is "ethically and legally bound to restore" the jobs of the fired employees.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments