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Amateur philosopher, atheist, former NYer, husband, proud dad of two girls. Love sci-fi, the Yankees, and doing the right thing even when it’s hard. Fight for the little guys. I don’t like bullies.
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Don’t worry. He’s redeemed by his lord and savior.

Obviously, a huge victory for the migrants here and a major defeat for Trump’s lawless effort to rush out a rendition flight before the courts could act. But also—potentially a massive signal from the Supreme Court that it is finally prepared to go toe to toe with Trump to halt AEA deportations.

💯 this!!!

The Washington Post is out with a nice profile of my friend @acyn.bsky.social

Important to note the Potemkin villages they're going to set up each time someone with a soul goes down to monitor the conditions of the concentration camp are part of the war crime itself. The audience for this propaganda is MAGA rubes, not The Hague, which will be indifferent.

I have a theory that FDT has been dead for quite awhile now and Tim Allen took over when he placed the combover on his head. #ConfusedTimAllenGrunt

Congrats @bluesky on 35m !

Either the president follows the law or the president is illegitimate.

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!!!

“Helping ensure our country is viewed as a force not to be reckoned with.”

Your occasional reminder, if you needed one, that RFK Jr can fuck himself gently with a cetacean-laden chainsaw

Fascists.

they want us poor, sick and desperate

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

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F Trump. That is all.

When you're afraid to speak is the most important time to speak. It's the last chance you have before it's too late.

Putin

Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.

I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

NEW VIDEO: Federal Judge James Boasberg has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for showing “a willful disregard” toward his March 15 orders requiring it return hundreds of migrants it sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Paige and I explain.

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

The projection is off the charts here

He's insane.

Six months apart. 🇺🇸 @economist.com

"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over." Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it

How many people do you think have received threats from Trump, Musk & their goons? Thousands? This interview by Rachel Maddow was chilling. You must watch & share it because our government is being attacked from within! The bravery of Daniel Berulis is so inspiring. I hope it's contagious. 🧵

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

The White House basically gave Boasberg no choice. And unless they start cooperating very quickly, possibly even if they do, they’re looking at criminal contempt like a freight train. That’s going to raise some tricky issues of penalty, but the underlying finding should be secure. What total jerks.

We are in a constitutional crisis. The President is illegally sending people to foreign prisons. He’s defying a unanimous Supreme Court decision. Congress cannot be business as usual. We need to go to El Salvador and demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

(The Atlantic) - Donald Trump took one step closer to openly defying an order from the Supreme Court today—effectively daring the justices to defend the law or pack up and go home. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

If you have friends or loved ones in the military, please ask them to disobey any orders they get from the Trump regime to commit violence against fellow Americans. I’d like to say it won’t come to that, but I’m increasingly afraid it will come to that because the government is run by fascists.

I was just cc-ed on an email where a Nobel prize winner and green card holder who's spent a lot of time in the US says he cannot risk coming back at this point for a visit. And I cannot blame him for this decision. We are witnessing absolute mad king behavior.

This NYT story ably details Trump's authoritarian attacks on the rule of law. But it avoids words like “authoritarian” and “anti-democratic.” Instead, it tiptoes. It’s the equivalent of a story about enormous winds and rain in a swirling storm off the gulf that avoids the word “hurricane.” 1/2 🧵

By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens. Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak. We are on a path towards dictatorship.