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BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today seems like a good day to remind ourselves of Trump’s legacy- of credible sexual assault allegations and convictions 1/https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/

Maybe this time there will be interest in this story. Its been here all along - and i can certainly imagine there is a mountain of other information on Trumps illicit activities underneath it.

In the last 7 weeks alone, we’ve seen at least 5 (high-profile) terrorist attacks in the US. So, who did Trump’s DHS just appoint to oversee prevention of terrorism, mass shootings, & violent extremism? This lil bro who parties with Madison Cawthorn. 👇 1/🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

this is what internationalist intersectionality looks like

Our statement tonight on Trump’s new discriminatory travel ban.

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

“[S]teps from Harvard’s campus, Bannon took credit for Trump’s fusillade of orders restricting federal funding to universities *** ‘Once you cut the money off,…that’s a bitch slap, right?’ he said.” Event panelist Amy Wax said “it’s important to have a European majority.” 2/11/25 (Link post 2) 1/

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Armed FBI agents knocked on the doors of two pub defenders at SEVEN AM, asking to talk w them, having made no earlier effort to reach out. Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE. FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true. HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

He illegally closed investigations into his businesses, illegally fired regulators, illegally had the state dept pressure countries into allowing starlink, and illegally got huge new no-bid govt contracts. Why are we talking about this like he took some time off to renovate his kitchen?

The way I want just someone prominent to stand up and say “The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act are two of the best laws in any nation’s history and anyone who disagrees is a bad person who shouldn’t be allowed to hold power”

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

Sometimes the perfect view can really help.

Well payed, Harvard, well played. Harvard offers FREE American Government course.

"U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary" Further evidence one may argue that we are not witnessing a constitutional crisis in the 🇺🇸 but a rule of law breakdown

Trump officials argue that the administration is ensuring children are not abused or trafficked. But current and former agency employees say the Office of Refugee Resettlement is drifting from its humanitarian mandate.

Here is Harvard's new lawsuit, over the international student revocation, filed by the same team of lawyers behind the first lawsuit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russ Vought — the Project 2025 leader who is now Trump’s budget chief & the driving force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab — said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers. By @mtredden.bsky.social

Evil. Trump administration seeks to end basic rights and protections for child immigrants in its custody www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Honest Americans will recognize the reasonableness of this long overdue effort to call the government to account. I can’t speak to the legal struggle but the historical research will be long and difficult work. The commitment, however, is worthwhile. ictnews.org/news/two-tri...

Some very useful context.

Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

This is so bad. People need to brace for how bad this is. The structure of government just changed and the downstream results of this will be seismic.

I’ve been begging Dem reps to adopt criminal framing for Trump and GOP actions. Because it’s clear, memorable, and has the benefit of being true. The president is a convicted criminal. He is out on bail. His EO’s are illegal. DOGE’s actions are illegal. ICE is kidnapping people.

A Federal judge has ordered the return of an airplane carrying deported migrants to South Sudan. The Judge says if they fail to comply, he will jail all officials and the pilot, for Contempt of Court. 👍 As for officials, pilots, and flight crew, we're past the point of "I'm just doing my job."

We should all be afraid of what will happen if they succeed in using Adriana Smith’s body as an incubator. apnews.com/article/preg...

It appears that the Republican administration has started deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, in blatant violation of court orders.