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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Some very useful new polling data on Democrats from @changeresearch.com: "Our new nationwide poll suggests that ideology is less important to primary voters than willingness to fight." 90% of Ds prefer a "moderate fighter" to a "quiet progressive." changeresearch.substack.com/p/the-new-ce...

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Man, I gotta tell my autistic friends to stop using a toilet unassisted, quit their job, stop paying taxes, and divorce their spouses

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If you are a Republican wanting a photo-op you get a VIP visit to the prisons. If you are a Dem asking about someone wrongly jailed, you are turned away.

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 7 hours ago • 345 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' Direct File program, an electronic system for filing your tax returns for free.

submitted 9 hours ago • 105 comments

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

submitted 10 hours ago • 319 comments

Who would want such absolute rubes represent them in either the court or the board room?

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Judge Boasberg finds that there is probable cause to find the government in CRIMINAL contempt over its non-compliance with his order prohibiting the removal of people to a prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

Congrats, again, everyone, on our c.2022 National Conversation™️ about whether Joe Biden was holding Trump rallies, politicizing the military, being too partisan in discussing imminent threats to democracy, & whether he gaffed/overstepped bounds by talking about "semi-fascism." Truly, well done 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

I guess they don’t cover ConLaw at Yale

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Compare with this and tell me who is the better father: bsky.app/profile/atru...

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What the judge is doing here is using the authorities that are most clearly within her power to make life extremely difficult for the government and keep the case in the public eye. People can reasonably disagree, but I think this is the most effective way of getting compliance.

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Unsurprisingly, this fencer is now being invited to testify before Marjorie Taylor Greene's DOGE subcommittee, along with the head of USA Fencing

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I asked one congestion pricing opponent in Congress (represents Long Island) if there was any amount of evidence that'd change her stance on it, and she basically said no: rollcall.com/2025/04/07/r...

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"As we continue through holy week, my heart aches for my husband, who should have been here leading out Easter prayers. Instead, I find myself pleading with the Trump administraiton and the Bukele administration to stop playing games with the life of Kilmar.... My children miss their dad so much."

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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse."

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They were indeed very conscious of this distinction and it was carried through to the 14th Amendment. Within literally the same sentence the privileges or immunities clause applies to "citizens" and then twice "any person" for due process and equal protection. They knew what they were doing with it.

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A big part of the problem, I think, is how many people have posited that it's not Real Lawlessness until Trump unambiguously violates a court order. And that misconception is very much the fault of the lawyers and legal commentariat over the last ~ 75 years.

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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

submitted 3 days ago • 371 comments

all accurate. To my friends who keep saying “we’ll see how this plays out,” it played out.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

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Van Hollen: "I think that the situation for both Trump and the president of El Salvador is unsustainable. SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that the administration has to facilitate his return, and you have the president of El Salvador saying, 'Well, I don't have the power to release him.' Both things are untrue."

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Despite what you’ve probably heard, Trump’s immigration agenda isn’t actually popular. While Americans sometimes approve of “the way he is handling immigration” in abstract, they are very negative on the details. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

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In Holy Week of all times can Christians in the Trump/Rubio camp see it’s wrong to arrest someone just for what they say? That Rumeysa is not from the US makes no difference, either in law or Christian tradition. If anything it should be easier to see she deserves her freedom.

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Gonna go out on a limb and guess the guy who tried to burn down Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home on Passover isn’t a an anti-war grad student at Columbia

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

An arson attempt on the Governor's home on the first night of Passover. What the hell.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I’m curious if Roberts genuinely thought that Trump would comply with his 9-0 decision. Because John Roberts’ level of credulity is going to determine a lot of outcomes in the very near future.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

Going to start sending articles like this to voters who claimed they wanted to fix the immigration system www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a small point and nobody behind this cares, for obvious reasons, but if what happened at Columbia were a response to something Columbia or anyone specific there did wrong, it would make no sense to treat it as a “prototype” to replicate across a “sector.” Faculty who leaned into this are fools.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Shakedown approaching a billion dollars

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Shame on WaPo.

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Reminds me of how some historians have said widespread lead poisoning contributed to the downfall of Rome (Roman elite liked the taste of lead, which is sweet. It’s also a well documented neurotoxin.) www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

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BREAKING: US 10Y rises to 4.52%, the largest single weekly increase since 2001. U.S. 30-year treasury yields rise to 4.94%, weekly increase is biggest since 1982.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

tapping the "we are barrelling towards a plainclothes fed getting beaten to death by a dad story" sign again.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

what’s the point of access journalism if you don’t use your access to do journalism

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

I don’t mean to dunk on Kevin or historians - we really should learn from the past! - but, uh, one of the Senate office buildings is named after the guy who lead opposition to civil rights in the 60s. Sadly, History’s memory fucking sucks

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

To be fair to Dems, most are talking about tariffs not stop. Don Beyer went on Fox just now to blast tariffs. The Dem rapid response on bsky here had 7 posts about tariffs, 1 about insider trading today and a couple about RFK Jr.

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Interesting response (sorta) to Abundance here from Diana Lind thenewurbanorder.substack.com/p/lets-claim...

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MLB needs to fix its blackout policy. There's no good reason I should be allowed to watch the White Sox.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

My first @USAToday newsletter - Translating Politics - is out, focusing on what Trump really wants from tariffs. www.usatoday.com/story/nlette... Sign up here: profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments