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You gotta wonder, why do some ppl want to make it hard to vote …

Some 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. And the SAVE Act would require these documents to register to vote.

Detailed takedown of the NYT op-ed casting doubt on birthright citizenship, www.justsecurity.org/108070/funda...

Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the DHS, explains why the treasury secretary violated the law by giving sensitive, personal data to Elon Musk's DOGE.

What does it mean to designate cartels as foreign terrorist orgs? 👇🏽

On Feb 5, AG Bondi disbanded TaskForce KleptoCapture, the DOJ’s Kleptocracy team, and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

Julia Angwin gets to the heart of it. Its about AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

I was just outside the Treasury Department where Elon Musk has launched a full scale authoritarian takeover. My message to Musk is simple: get your hands off our money and get the hell out.

Attempt to deny birthright citizenship flatly unconstitutional, detailed explanation here. www.justsecurity.org/107321/doj-b...

Forget defund the police, its defund govt and damn the consequences www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

We’ve long known about how $ distorts politics & policy, esp after citizens united. But this is a whole other level.

It definitely feels that way …

They said they were going after criminals (just like previous administrations). Apparently not. Trump administration seeking access to database of immigrant minors

I wrote on how this EO aims to remove non-citizen protestors from the country, a move with serious 1st Amm problems.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Gitmo shd have been closed long ago.

So … we’re going send ppl to Gitmo again. x.com/cspan/status...

x.com/cspan/status...

The First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities. Says who? Government lawyers, during the first Trump administration. knightcolumbia.org/content/newl...

This is a really bad law. If it passes many Americans could lose their votes.

Setting artificial targets for immigration arrests doesn't make our communities safer. It forces law enforcement to divert resources from serious violent crime, white collar crime, drug trafficking & civil rights crimes to go after non-violent immigration offenses. Bad motives & bad priorities.

The GOP’s new bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is a solution in search of a problem. Only U.S. citizens vote, with vanishingly rare exceptions. Even though the problem is fictional, the threat of disenfranchising millions of eligible Americans is very real.

Note, the DHS IG who independent panel found engaged in misconduct was NOT fired. Hmmm …Trump ousts at least 15 independent inspectors general in late-night purge

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Imp takedown of the Trump administration’s efforts to bully state officials who don’t cooperate with the mass deportation agenda. www.justsecurity.org/106723/sanct...

Notable that troops still in support roles (which they have been doing for years). Will be interesting to see how courts react to the BS interpretation of the public health pretext. Trump shuts off access to asylum, plans to send 10,000 troops to border

Persistence pays off!

The new #DHS #AI inventory significantly expands federal public disclosures on AI use cases. But there is still room for improvement, argue @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social and @sreynolds.bsky.social. www.justsecurity.org/106502/start...

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The best ppl again …Hegseth Routinely Passed Out From Alcohol Abuse, Witness Says

Exactly!

Super interesting knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks...

The possibility that the exchange is "uneven" because there are 90 Israelis held by Hamas while there are literally thousands of Palestinians held by Israel seems to have eluded these journalists. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Let’s not lose sight of why the govt actually banned tiktok and what the inciting incident was for Democrats to take up the charge. It was speech on the app related to Gaza. Drop Site News has been doing great reporting on this x.com/dropsitenews...

Dedicated journalist & an active FTC -> good outcome

This is fascinatin, but I can’t help but be skeptical of her avowed attachment to the bot. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Yes! Ideally w/o carveouts for law enforcement

Grt piece by Alex Abdo. thehill.com/opinion/5080...

Control/data loses to off the cuff “authenticity”& btr targeting of low propensity voters. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This seems about right. newrepublic.com/article/1900...