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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

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CNN: Trump’s decision to leave for Florida a day earlier than usual created “a split-screen of being on a golf course in one of the wealthiest enclaves in America as economic worries deepened.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/p...

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“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Has anyone tried unplugging the government and plugging it back in?

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BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.

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A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to DEI, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics. More: pen.org/banned-words...

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Grift is what Trump does to people who can’t afford membership in his club. Graft is what he gets from those who can afford it.

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A group of 346 former federal and state judges have filed a proposed amicus brief in Perkins Coie's challenge to the Trump EO targeting it. The order "undermines the constitutional role of the courts as independent forums for adjudicating disputes." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"How are authorities supposed to know who is wearing a mask for quote-unquote legitimate reasons and who is wearing one for supposedly nefarious activity? There's no way to tell without questioning the person, raising concerns about selective & prejudicial enforcement." 📣No mask ban in NY's budget.

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Yesterday, we filed an amicus brief w/ @aclu.org & 9 other legal organizations asking the court to strike down Trump's executive order placing sanctions on the law firm Perkins Coie for its work on voting rights & for representing Trump's prior political opponents. knightcolumbia.org/content/lega...

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Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky knows that if we do not hang together, we will all hang separately: "despite the risks of speaking out, silence itself comes as at enormous cost. Giving in to a bully only makes things worse."

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The Knight Institute (@knightcolumbia.org) joined a cross-ideological amicus brief led by the @aclu.org, in arguing that President Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP is unconstitutional. knightcolumbia.org/cases/perkin...

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*as an Independent, as it turns out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/n...

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Last week I was lamenting the lack of graffiti etc speaking to the moment in NYC. Today on the subway

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In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

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The strategy is to divide and conquer. Refusing to stand together—staying divided—just makes each successive attack more likely and more successful than the last. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

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Paul, Weiss removed from its site information about its pro bono work on topics like immigration, voting rights, LGBTQ issues and reproductive rights. Paul, Weiss also retracted dozens of press releases, including previous statements denouncing antisemitic attacks and racism against Asians.

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Getting out of political predictions for the day.

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“One of the fundamental discontinuities in American politics right now is that private institutions know that Republicans will use the power of the state to punish them, and that Democrats won’t.” www.liberalcurrents.com/je-me-souvie...

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At the Paris Review's annual fundraiser last night, this year's winner of the Susannah Hunnewell award, Julien Columeau, honored for his short story "Derrida in Lahore," was not able to accept his award in person because the US government denied him a visa. He works for the International Red Cross.

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Trump has now extorted $350 million in pro bono work for right-wing causes from Big Law firms. That's enough to fund three-and-a-half Heritage Foundations.

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www.thebulwark.com/p/a-tale-of-...

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Good question, @nealkatyal.bsky.social?

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the idea of doing pro bono for an administration that is using the DOJ as its personal law firm is EMBARASSING

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The language emphasizing pro bono work for conservative causes, specifically, seems to be getting firmer and more explicit. Law enforcement defense? I take it to mean, pro bono defense of excessive force/rights violation cases?

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“The Rifkind sisters wrote, ‘you …surrender[ed] before you had even begun to fight. … It is plain to us, as it would have been to our grandfather, that taking action to stay off an enemies list does not advance the rule of law … it undercuts it and emboldens those who seek to dismantle it.’”

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He’s going to run as a Republican, isn’t he?

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Here’s a story about a kid-a legal immigrant to the US-who Trump deported to the worst prison in the world. The kid wasn’t in a gang & didn’t have tattoos. Your federal government in action: no due process, no common sense, no decency. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

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Can someone please explain how “helping the administration launch a sovereign wealth fund” would even qualify as “pro bono” work serving the public good?

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ICYMI, I tried to go to the immigration court inside the Krome Detention Center, but ICE refused to let me past the gate. A DOJ spokesperson later told me they sent an email to DHS to remind them that the court is "open daily to the public." reason.com/2025/04/01/i...

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I wrote about the surreal experience of teaching the First Amendment right now on a green card, teaching lofty doctrine while the government is rounding up people like me for things they say www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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banning Tiktok was never about propaganda or national security, it was about money and information control. the ban push started to help Facebook kill a competitor it couldn't out-innovate. now it's morphed into helping the GOP convert another online community into a right wing safe space

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Trump's student deportations are a test for conservatives who claim to stand for free speech. They're mostly flunking it. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

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I guess I don't think these are "bribes" in the narrow technical legal sense, but they are obviously bribes in our lay understanding of the word. We'll give you $100 million in free services if you don't come after our firm. It's pure extortion - complete with a price tag!

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Shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

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BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

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This latest craven capitulation by Wilkie Farr seems to go even further than committing some of its pro bono work to causes favored by the Trump administration (itself an illegitimate government intrusion) but says all the firm’s pro bono work must have the govt’s stamp of approval. Ugh.

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"There’s been much discussion of what the other branches would do, and how the public would react, if the Trump administration were brazenly to defy the law and attempts by courts to uphold the law. That’s no longer a hypothetical question. That future is now." www.thebulwark.com/p/innocent-b...

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Just filed: Our motion for a preliminary injunction in our lawsuit on behalf of @aaup.bsky.social and @mesa1966.bsky.social challenging the Trump admin's policy of targeting noncitizen faculty and students for deportation based on their pro-Palestinian speech. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

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BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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Harvard attempting to stand up to Trump

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Not off to a promising start.

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Time to speak up

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The leaders of academia are not equal to this moment.

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Doesn’t even acknowledge the lawlessness of the administration’s threat or the damage it poses to academic freedom.

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Dave Pozen on the ongoing disaster at Columbia. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

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who hasn’t sent millions of dollars to someone who isn’t the mother of their child

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