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Southern lawyer. Blue dot in a formerly independent but now very red state. Could be a textualist or originalist if the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amends are included. Profanity = Art (& a 2d Language). Aldo Raine did nothing wrong.
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The benefit of birthright citizenship is that no politician will ever have discretionary authority over whether you maintain citizenship or are rendered stateless.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🚫 US Rejects Russian Demand for Ukrainian Troops to Withdraw from Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia Regions, — NYT ❗️According to sources, US negotiators called the demand “unfounded and unworkable” and assured Kyiv that they would not support it.

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The average life expectancy in the U.S. has increased by 10 years since 1960 due to vaccines, and better disease prevention, diagnosis, and management. This increased lifespan would quite obviously carry with it a higher rate of chronic disease diagnosis. But RFK Jr. thinks it’s seed oils.

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

Deep dive into Trump administration's U-turn on mass cancellation of foreign students' immigration records in US. One seems 'terminated' for boarding an out-of-service city bus. Another due to dispute over airline's $100 carry-on bag fee. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

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At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."

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True story. Hitler (& Stalin) had lawyers, judges, & legal codes that were construed hyper technically.

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Pete Hesgeth takes a radical approach to FOI by sharing previously super-secret defence stuff on his unsecured office wifi - the guy is single handedly turning 5 Eyes into 5 Leaks - all normal say Lib/Lab www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Is it okay for judges to be arrested by the FBI? It depends on their political beliefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 51 comments

The judge who unsuccessfully intervened to protect the rights of a US citizen toddler he believes was illegally deported is Terry Doughty, one of the batshittiest Trump appointees. He was the district judge on the right wing social media case. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Because the framers of the Constitution referred explicitly only to men, no authority can lawfully restrain Pam Bondi from organizing a terrorist police state. by Jonathan Turley

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Lol

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LAW: "DOJ should not disclose a photo of a defendant unless it serves a law enforcement function or unless the photograph is already part of the public record in the case." Kash Patel on Twitter last night👇 They arrested Dugan to stoke fear They published this picture to stoke fear Period

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DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday.

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Since he’s currently out of America, can we change all the locks?

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“Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge," an atty for Dugan said in a statement. "Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated." www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

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Weird story. Moral: Don’t be stupid. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

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President Zelenskyy described his meeting with President as potentially historic. We have to see that. It also paraphrases that Putin was missing once again at a world historic event. Not good for him. For Russia this is very painful.

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WISCONSIN: The chair of the elections commission, a lawyer, breaks down what actually happened using the actual complaint. Arresting judges like this is a wild fast-forwarding of our plunge into authoritarianism.

submitted 5 hours ago • 173 comments

Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.

submitted 21 hours ago • 381 comments

A reminder that Virginia Giuffre was recruited from Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 5 hours ago • 270 comments

Sooo in these troubling times I would focus on listening to the people who told us all about how this was going to go down and stop listening to the people who scoffed or mocked that Mmhmm.

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

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Trump’s opposition STILL suffers from a huge media infra disadvantage. And yet his polling is going south, even before real pain of his catastrophic economic policies hit. Imagine what would happen if the oppo could fix this?

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New Ed Martin letter—this time to Wikipedia about its tax-exempt status. In it, he asks about topics including its editorial practices, editor anonymity, "hateful content and conduct by editors," and content used to train LLMs. www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros... Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...

submitted 20 hours ago • 89 comments

Via Christo Grozev at Xitter, Russia's SVR is trying to preempt French and Brit reports of ties between Trump and Russian business interests. svr.gov.ru/smi/2025/04/...

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Pam Bondi Reverses Media Protections to Cover Up Her Complicity in Unlawful Renditions www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/26/p...

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I once flew the spine of Alaska at 1,500 feet. The silence, the mountains, the weight of service — it all reminded me why I still fight for this country. And why you should too. My latest Substack: Above the Spine adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/above-the-...

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The level of criminal conduct here is hard to imagine www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 15 hours ago • 88 comments

No song for this shit show.

submitted 17 hours ago • 217 comments

If plainclothes policemen can’t grab random people off the street and deport them to a foreign death prison, do you even have a country anymore? This Federalist Society judge says no.

submitted 15 hours ago • 27 comments

Trump denies disaster aid, tells states to do more. FEMA has denied federal assistance for tornadoes in Arkansas, flooding in WV, and a windstorm in Washington state. It also has refused NC’s request for extended relief funding in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. stateline.org/2025/04/25/t...

submitted 19 hours ago • 94 comments

President Volodymyr Zelensky: “The Russians have always wanted – and still want – the destruction of the United States. This is the policy of the Soviet Union. We are fighting for your rights as well as our own.” (Kyiv Post)

submitted 21 hours ago • 99 comments

“Kayleigh McEnany’s Oxford-hewn sunny cerebralism”? WTF?

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Judge Dugan was arrested for enforcing the law. ICE did not have the correct warrant to make an arrest. Judge Dugan is innocent of hindering a federal investigation as the arrest was not legal. Pass it on. These fucks MUST BE ARRESTED. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fbi-...

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From @tnedreport — NORTH DAKOTA just killed the voucher scam there. Sadly @govbilllee got his passed in Tennessee, where school privatizers are having a feeding frenzy. open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

I don’t know. People want to grasp to grasp to ideas of legality like a life preserver while authoritarians warp the legal system. If you want to drown in the water, best of luck. But people are going to have to wrap their minds around the fact that authoritarian takeovers change everything.

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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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