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A good starting point for reporters, headline writers, and readers is to not take for granted the government's initial claims. Because they are probably not true.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

These cases will never survive federal courts overseen by federal judges...which means at some point I'm pretty sure they're going to resort to military tribunals or kangaroo courts in soccer stadiums

submitted 11 days ago • 339 comments

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

submitted 11 days ago • 659 comments

This may be why Kash deleted his tweet. He claims Dugan "intentionally misdirected federal agents" away from Eduardo Flores Ruiz. But that's not the allegation. She allegedly directed him to leave via chambers, but didn't hide his ID. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 223 comments

Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime

submitted 17 days ago • 2196 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 17 days ago • 1750 comments

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit denies Trump administration's request to enforce its anti-trans military ban during the administration's appeal of its loss below. As covered at Law Dork, the same panel previously denied an administrative stay: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Van Hollen: "As the federal courts have said, we need to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia home to protect his constitutional rights to due process...If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone else in America."

submitted 17 days ago • 73 comments

From 1999-2013, RFK sold his own brand of bottled water (in plastic bottles, and with a horrible carbon footprint) that contained TWO TIMES the upper limit of fluoride recommended for dental health, which is more than the safely allowable amount per US Public Health Service, and IS potentially toxic

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent vacates Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 28 days ago • 709 comments

Important by @stevevladeck.bsky.social: Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling, detainees held in El Salvador may still bring habeas in DC circuit: "There is good case law to the effect that venue for a habeas petition filed by someone outside the United States is proper in the DC district court"

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: The Trump administration tells Judge Boasberg that now that SCOTUS has ruled, he should dismiss the Venezuelan plaintiffs' case for lack of jurisdiction—and also abandon his efforts to determine whether and how it defied his orders! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 28 days ago • 215 comments

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

submitted 47 days ago • 2296 comments

Meta swiped my book for ai training. It appears the entire book is available for the taking. Not quite certain how they’re getting away with this…

submitted 47 days ago • 64 comments

NBC News has confirmed: The Justice Department informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including Putin.

submitted 47 days ago • 116 comments

The latest news from Trump's America is that his Supreme Court said that there can be more shit in the water and overruled the EPA's clean water standards. All the women, including ACB, dissent from befouling the oceans. But the boys aren't housebroken. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 63 days ago • 47 comments

Whitehouse: "I see the VP and the president acting very directly as agents of Putin and Russia in these so-called negotiations. Imagine if FDR had told Winston Churchill, 'We're cutting off Lend-Lease, you have to negotiate with Hitler, and be prepared to give up some of your territory.'"

submitted 63 days ago • 122 comments

This is actually not right: what's going on is worse. If you compare what DOGE is doing w/what Project 2025 (starting with USAID), DOGE has been FAR more destructive.

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

submitted 63 days ago • 75 comments

Just fwiw www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted...

submitted 65 days ago • 36 comments

The ACLU is suing the Trump admin to stop the transfer of immigrants to Guantanamo Bay. The suit alleges the transfers are "arbitrary and capricious" and violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution, citing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment.

submitted 65 days ago • 21 comments

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

submitted 65 days ago • 834 comments

It's been over a month since American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington D.C.'s Ronald Reagan National, killing all 67 aboard in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001. Donald Trump still hasn't gone to visit any of the victims' families.

submitted 65 days ago • 47 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 66 days ago • 289 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

submitted 67 days ago • 189 comments

Some bozo on Twitter named "Insurrectionist Barbie" said that "most of our major cities look like Third World countries." This is what our three largest cities look like vs. an actual third-world country.

submitted 86 days ago • 844 comments

Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

submitted 86 days ago • 1033 comments

1/2 Read. Then watch #Project2025 training video. Acting deputy A.G. "Bove repeatedly asked the FBI’s interim director ...to turn over the names of employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigations. He did not put down his initial requests in writing, which former senior FBI agents say is unusual."

submitted 86 days ago • 24 comments

Don’t mess with @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social

submitted 88 days ago • 341 comments

Donald Trump is bragging about liquid natural gas exports to Japan during his press conference with the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, the price of LNG continues to increase since he was elected.

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 88 days ago • 2303 comments

In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave. This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

submitted 102 days ago • 670 comments

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka: ICE agents, during a warrantless raid, detained undocumented residents as well as citizens. “One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.” www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

submitted 102 days ago • 709 comments

After Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other U.S. climate funders announced that they will “ensure the United States meets its global climate obligations.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

submitted 102 days ago • 320 comments

I appear on @CNN often. And if saying this means my days at CNN are over, then fuck it. CNN, removing @Acosta.bsky.social from his am show is cowardly bullshit. Acosta is an independent, unafraid host. To demote him to appease the crybaby in the White House is pathetic. Shame on u CNN. Don’t do it.

submitted 102 days ago • 1645 comments

Senator Chuck Schumer on Pete Hegseth's nomination: He "lacks the experience or the judgement required by job. If there is one word that should never describe the Secretary of Defense in this important position, it is 'erratic.' But that is the one word that describes Mr. Hegseth best."

submitted 102 days ago • 29 comments

If any of Trump's unfit cabinet picks make it through, America will lose its power, integrity, and security. And we will never get it back. Call your Senator today and tell them NO on these dangerous cabinet nominees 202-224-3121.

submitted 102 days ago • 219 comments

JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were commuted from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

submitted 102 days ago • 1469 comments

BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Petition to Toss 60k Ballots, Waits for Lower Courts. Paige and I explain this big development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLi...

submitted 103 days ago • 240 comments

With ICE raids already starting, remember this when you get asked if you've seen anyone they're looking for, NO I don't remember I haven't seen anyone I don't know Fuck off Ok, maybe not the last one, but erase your memory Be an ally

submitted 103 days ago • 736 comments

NEW: Judge CHUTKAN is now weighing in on Trump's mass dismissal of Jan. 6 cases, saying it "cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake." www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 103 days ago • 86 comments