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Bukele is happily holding innocent Venezuelan deportees captive (in exchange for $6M from the U.S. government)—and is now willing to exchange them for Salvadoran political prisoners being held in Venezuela.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

This is, I think, the single greatest problem with the media's coverage of the last nine years of US politics. Democrats are broadly assumed to be the adults in the room, and as a result, Democrats and Republicans are held to wildly different standards of behavior by the media.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 17 days ago • 253 comments

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

submitted 6 days ago • 754 comments

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 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 6 days ago • 1750 comments

One point that's going to get lost in the discussion of #SCOTUS's intervention in the Alien Enemy Act case: This is the value of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).

submitted 6 days ago • 120 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 7 days ago • 420 comments

Update: 96-year-old’s bank account was cleaned out by Social Security on the grounds that he had been dead for a while and they were reclaiming benefits SS had paid to the allegedly but not actually dead man. He now has no money. DOGE strikes again. Anybody know a lawyer for this?

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 116 comments

This was never ever about anti-semitism

submitted 8 days ago • 136 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 8 days ago • 952 comments

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...

submitted 9 days ago • 378 comments

After writing my history of concentration camps, I came to believe that short of committing murder yourself, one of the worst things you can do is to abet or exploit the suffering of another human being to increase your own power in the world.

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 11 days ago • 125 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 1203 comments

ok but i'll say it

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

submitted 10 days ago • 961 comments

Trump admin officials who have conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was erroneously removed to El Salvador: 1. Solicitor General John Sauer, in a filing at SCOTUS 2. ICE official Robert Cerna, in a sworn declaration 3. DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni, in court filings and at a hearing

submitted 11 days ago • 108 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 11 days ago • 226 comments

Yesterday they refused to answer two of the three questions ordered. Today's refuses to address, in any way, all three. None of this has anything to do with the order. This is open defiance of a district court backed by a unanimous three-judge circuit ruling and a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

submitted 11 days ago • 230 comments

No revenues but at the same time people here are curtailing their purchases and investments, and other countries are collecting tariffs on U.S. imports. The worst of all worlds! Only a stable genius could have accomplished all this!!

submitted 14 days ago • 112 comments

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 14 days ago • 639 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 229 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 16 days ago • 3197 comments

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

submitted 16 days ago • 235 comments

Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.

submitted 16 days ago • 86 comments

This will absolutely kill people. The decimation of USAID, the gutting of CDC, NIH and now he’s about to create drug shortages.

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

When I worked at the Bronx Defenders we helped so many immigrants file back taxes. Promised them it would be ok. I hate myself for ever trusting that information would be safe.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

It’s not deporting, if you’re sending citizens to another country. It’s human trafficking. In this case, it’s also slave labor. You’re talking about an administration selling US citizens into slave labor.

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

Are we really doing this again

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

submitted 17 days ago • 318 comments

This.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit. While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall. Hello?

submitted 17 days ago • 367 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 17 days ago • 216 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 17 days ago • 1250 comments

this guy should call his senator tbh

submitted 17 days ago • 122 comments

Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 86 comments

Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful.

submitted 18 days ago • 930 comments

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

submitted 19 days ago • 473 comments

From this morning's Nanos tracker, all voters including undecideds: 🔴Mark Carney as preferred PM polling above LPC 🔵Pierre Poilievre polling slightly below CPC See report here: nanos.co/wp-content/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 19 days ago • 614 comments

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

submitted 19 days ago • 612 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 54 comments

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

submitted 20 days ago • 257 comments