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Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

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Tom Homan, Acting Director of ICE, implied last week that he would begin arresting mayors and governors who do not cooperate with their unconstitutional ICE plans. They just arrested Ras Baraka, Newark's Mayor. This cannot stand. This is a direct threat to any possibility of democracy.

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Q: The administration appears to have started dismantling the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Does the administration not believe that it's important? LEAVITT: It's a federal agency within the executive branch. Who's the head of the executive branch? POTUS. He has the right to fire people

submitted 22 hours ago • 708 comments

This is so fucked up. Sorry that’s the academic description for it. They are really dismantling everything

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

www.ajc.com/news/nation-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 76 comments

let's fucking go

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Good breakdown of the operational impacts of Richardson’s declaration yesterday that he alone makes decisions for FEMA. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Your regular reminder that the European Law Journal lost all credibility when Wiley tried to impose its will onto the editorial board which had to resign en masse. As a rule, one should not publish nor cite any articles in the ELJ.

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Mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social : “If ICE released their names, you’d hear about the father stopped on his way home from buying decorations for his son’s bday party… they found his empty car on the side of the road…” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DJcqZ5k...

submitted 17 hours ago • 42 comments

lol. she thinks it's a town lending library?

submitted 20 hours ago • 186 comments

Sue them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 76 comments

Look there’s a lot of horrible things going on and it’s easy to get distracted but I don’t want anyone to forget that Stephen Miller went to Duke.

submitted 17 hours ago • 149 comments

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1454 comments

MAYOR BARAKA: “@AlinaHabba wasn’t there. I didn’t break any laws.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 190 comments

She was jailed for writing an opinion column

submitted 13 hours ago • 126 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government. Congratulations to @democracyforward.org, their co-counsel and clients on their amazing work in securing this victory.

submitted 14 hours ago • 257 comments

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

submitted 17 hours ago • 975 comments

Who gave the order to arrest Ras Baraka while he was on public property complying with an officers order? And who was the officer who shoved the Congresswoman? We need names.

submitted 15 hours ago • 130 comments

BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could. "Schumer 101," said one source. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

submitted 20 hours ago • 881 comments

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1104 comments

posted some of my thoughts on using LLMs for basic tasks on tiktok and i’m getting cooked by people who insist that it is actually good to offload your critical thinking skills to a bullshit machine

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

This is an absolute disgrace. apnews.com/article/dona...

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European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming - Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months...The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

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Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below). IG sistersreport and ncronline

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

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In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

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1/ On 4/16, fed’l Judge Paula Xinis characterized the steps the gov’t had taken to facilitate Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. by saying, “The record reflects defendants have done nothing at all.” She ordered expedited discovery including depositions. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-record...

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First point to note-- the headline automatically signals that the NYT agrees with Trump's assertion that these White South Africans are facing life-threatening persecution. 2) The story does not give readers context about the international definition of refugee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

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"The group, which seeks...damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals." do you have a moment to discuss the Good News of dialectical materialism? www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

Thank you @victorerikray.bsky.social for calling this what it is. Earlier this year, I argued that media needs to use the word "Segregationist" instead of anti-DEI, or "culture wars". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is America.

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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

submitted 2 days ago • 2016 comments

Actually, this just broke me. Thank you.

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Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

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We sued Indiana on Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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“This is a really hard time for anyone who wants to do research, but particularly for people who are starting out,” Dr. Sussman said. “It is very disheartening to see the wheels of science kind of grinding to a halt.” #TRUMPCUTSKILL

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Read @tphillips.bsky.social on the double-edged sword of overturning the Congressional Review Act: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Wild how many reasonable candidates there are

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Casar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

Bloomberg listed the firms with the most recent Supreme Court arguments. Gupta Wessler is in the top five, with seven cases over the past two terms. As a tiny firm, we're proud to go up against corporate giants--and even prouder to keep scoring wins for our plaintiff and public interest clients.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Shutting down the Energy Star program will raise your energy costs and make you sicker. There is no good policy reason to shut it down. None. It saves people lots of money and helps cut pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments