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At this point, Judge Xinis should order the immediate return under threat of contempt and let the Supreme Court tell the Administration otherwise.

submitted 45 days ago • 170 comments

The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes. They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured. Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.

submitted 59 days ago • 390 comments

SignalGate is not only a national security scandal, it is a scandal about breaking the law. As a former SEC enforcement attorney, I take the law seriously. Clearly, Oversight Republicans don’t. Watch more from @newsnation.bsky.social

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 60 days ago • 127 comments

Medicare is so weird sometimes. My mom ran out of skilled nursing days. So, we appealed. That appeal was denied. We started to do the 2nd level appeal, but it turns out the 2nd level appeal is handled by a different contractor. Neither appeal is handled by the government.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

“Scott? Hello? Look at me. You and I are talking.” You can tell Scott Jennings knows how un-American this dismissal of due process is by how red-faced and petulant he gets when Abby Phillip is simply trying to have an adult conversation with him about what our laws actually say.

submitted 59 days ago • 262 comments

Gonna have to update the punishment theory section of my Crim Law casebook.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Reacher is equal opportunity competence porn, everyone is allowed some extrajudicial murder Neagley kills someone this season while making a world class dad joke (“call me an ambulance” “okay, you’re an ambulance”) Reacher: what if a man was Large and Woke and Supported Women’s Wrongs

submitted 61 days ago • 23 comments

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?

submitted 64 days ago • 706 comments

it's nice of the New Right to explicitly write out what i've been talking about (for months now) is their plan

submitted 68 days ago • 11 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 68 days ago • 1160 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 68 days ago • 4458 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 68 days ago • 463 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 69 days ago • 1234 comments

While this is still up.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Our cultural default will be to sneer at Rachel Cohen, dismiss her as privileged, question her tone, scorn her ability to make a difference, conclude that by working at BigLaw she’s part of the problem. Among other things, that’s a self-indulgence you can’t afford during fascism. /1

submitted 70 days ago • 33 comments

either floating a SS payment shutdown is the world’s worst ever attempt to bluff a judge or they already broke SS

submitted 69 days ago • 125 comments

Paul Weiss and Columbia are taking exactly the wrong actions in acceding to Trump, and they are among the entities most well-positioned to fight back. These are legacy-shaming decisions by the leadership of both, and those far less powerful will now, and surely in short order, pay the price.

submitted 69 days ago • 134 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 69 days ago • 586 comments

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

submitted 70 days ago • 877 comments

This is why I’m leery of any social media profile that references “the resistance.” All hat, no cattle. The OGs in WWII did not advertise. They quietly figured out where they could help, and then went and did the work.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

There’s a Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is acting as Dilbert’s criminal defense attorney and he tells Dilbert “I made a deal, if you plead guilty and take the death penalty they’ll give me a Walkman, but I think I can get you a Walkman too,” but I can’t find it so I can’t post more about Paul Weiss.

submitted 70 days ago • 33 comments

This is a judge who is very slowly and very carefully making an impeccable record for appeal - one that shows that the government has been given every conceivable opportunity to make its case. And that's all I have to say about that.

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Secretary Duffy now has a whole extra month to read Streetsblog's coverage of how congestion pricing is benefiting New Yorkers -- and working better than predicted. 🧵

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments

this is where the analogy to Brexit is really useful. A similar attitude that the US is completely self-sufficient and needs nothing from anyone. Too bad a lot of innocent people are gonna find out the hard way that this isn’t true.

submitted 70 days ago • 455 comments

At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

submitted 71 days ago • 65 comments

Not every day that a case you worked on leads both @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com! Musk & DOGE unconstitutionally hijacked & destroyed USAID—our case w/my wonderful colleagues @sddaction.bsky.social & Marziani Stevens Gonzalez proved it

submitted 72 days ago • 57 comments

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

submitted 72 days ago • 169 comments

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.” That’s fatuous. /1

submitted 72 days ago • 126 comments

INCREDIBLE Ruling! Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus. Trans military members may continue to serve.

submitted 72 days ago • 215 comments

NEW: Judge Chutkan has blocked the EPA from terminating grants for climate programs held by Citibank, saying the Trump administration failed to abide by legal procedures and provided no evidence of impropriety. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 72 days ago • 92 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 72 days ago • 2574 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 73 days ago • 1680 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 73 days ago • 1032 comments

So, it's not just the press secretary - the DOJ is arguing in a motion that oral orders don't count.

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

People.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

submitted 77 days ago • 722 comments

It's a bold move to piss off all your constituents when your name rhymes with "fuck."

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

submitted 79 days ago • 71 comments

I continue to feel separated in every meaningful way from people who think this is okay. I’m not sure being their neighbor or their fellow citizen is an achievable or desirable goal.

submitted 78 days ago • 117 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 79 days ago • 1384 comments

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

submitted 78 days ago • 864 comments

sitting down damn, Dictionary got hands

submitted 78 days ago • 379 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 78 days ago • 500 comments

Feels like I'm leaving money on the table by not doing a scam or swindle of some kind. Would you guys buy a car for $100,000 if I pretended it can drive itself. What about a fake currency

submitted 78 days ago • 123 comments

Rep. Nadler speaks.

submitted 80 days ago • 144 comments

“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?

submitted 79 days ago • 117 comments

A last alliance of elves, dwarves, and men.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

@juddlegum.bsky.social's MuskWatch rolls out the DOGE tracker, showing that $96B of DOGE's claimed savings are bullshit. doge.muskwatch.com

submitted 79 days ago • 176 comments

So, here’s the thing: This thing seems facially unconstitutional. Vagueness, procedural due process, maybe even nondelegation. Even if Rubio is invoking it, which doesn’t seem clear. Yes, there’s a case.

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments