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submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

The most urgent item in @nevadaag.bsky.social new Model Immigration Policies is actually not new: Under Nevada law, police cannot arrest or detain people on immigration grounds, even if ICE asks. This has been NV law for more than a century, and the bipartisan NV AG interpretation for 40+ years.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

andrew solomon's the noonday demon still slaps nearly a quarter century later

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

submitted 35 days ago • 57 comments

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

submitted 41 days ago • 250 comments

Something that is really going to be more necessary than ever is embracing uncertainty and it's actually the most difficult thing for human beings to do. It really is. But everyone needs to practice. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN. That means there's a possibility your actions can make a difference

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

VERY important: ICE still needs judicial warrants before they can go into nonpublic areas. Not “administrative warrants.”

submitted 41 days ago • 24 comments

White liberals especially those with money — now is your moment to live up to your vision of yourself, to use your privilege. Join ICE watches. Join Rapid Response. Put your body on the line. Be who you imagined you’d be when you read about the Nazis. Don’t acquiesce.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Absolutely hate “we went too far” revisionist history. “We all believed women and it went too far.” No we did not all believe women. I was there

submitted 47 days ago • 231 comments

I keep thinking about this. It’s just so disturbing that someone at Facebook is getting paid to brainstorm approved slurs against queer folks and immigrants and put them in a neat list to circulate. It’s their JOB

submitted 53 days ago • 38 comments

I see @washingtonpost.com is reporting on DOGE again without saying anything about the (il)legality of DOGE and the role it is attempting to play as a non-governmental organization that runs the government with no legal or regulatory accountability to the people of the United States

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

The stigma of being a convicted felon only affixes to specific groups of people. I'll just leave it there.

submitted 52 days ago • 36 comments

100%. We're going to see stories about people in NYC being rounded up and arrested being presented on TV with images of migrants crossing the Rio Grande.

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

I've watched this happen over the last four years on immigration and it's terrifying. There are large swathes of the country and Congress whose entire worldview about the border and immigration law is based on distortions, falsehoods, outright lies, and entirely fabricated stories.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Speaking of the H-1B debate, if the Laken Riley Act passes, Ken Paxton or Andrew Bailey could go to a federal judge to get a court order requiring the State Department to stop issuing all visas to Indian and Chinese nationals. It could cause diplomatic chaos with huge international ramifications.

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote. I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole). www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...

submitted 58 days ago • 101 comments

It's my experience that Usians mostly despise poor people. So you can safely ignore most who invoke poor people in policy fights or to suggest that something they want to happen should happen or something they don't should not.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

north carolina republicans about to make “democrats cannot legally win elections that might deprive of us of power” a principle of state constitutional law

submitted 55 days ago • 85 comments

And I saw some leftists calling it 'cope' but I thought and still do that it's important to be precise and actually truthful about political reality. And I'm sorry but a lot of people did not vote and he barely won those who did. Those are facts.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

What stage of climate crisis is bulldozing abandoned luxury cars to make way for firetrucks?

submitted 55 days ago • 198 comments

every time a law is passed named after a white girl you know someones constitutional rights are about to get fucked

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Today is not a “peaceful transfer of power.” It’s the completion of a violent coup attempt that began this morning four years ago. Yes, Trump won the ‘24 election; but he was only able to run because we failed to fully confront the fact of that violent coup attempt.

submitted 56 days ago • 103 comments

I used to think this was an expression of concern, not a promise.

submitted 56 days ago • 249 comments

Trump won so nobody is going to attack the capitol today

submitted 56 days ago • 27 comments

well that turned out to be a bit of an understatement

submitted 56 days ago • 137 comments

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

submitted 66 days ago • 91 comments

Many people do not know that Trump banned large swathes of legal immigration during the pandemic, using the same legal authority from the transit ban to bar the State Department from issuing new immigrant visas.

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

The best example I can give for this is the fact that US immigration law is structured with an explicit presumption spelled out in law that everyone person on the planet wants to immigrate to the U.S., and thus the law requires anyone wanting a non-immigrant visa to prove they won’t stay.

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

It’s pretty extraordinary how you can turn the entire government over to billionaires and get called “populist” just because you resent scientists and integrated schools.

submitted 71 days ago • 18 comments

Books are a total scam. Every single word is already in the dictionary—they’re just selling them back to you in a different order.

submitted 77 days ago • 169 comments

Hooray for South Korea impeaching the incel president. When they voted for misogyny they voted for authoritarianism. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

submitted 79 days ago • 11 comments

The missing link is that those sorts of assassinations seek to entrench existing power structures rather than upend them

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

I'm going to say an unpopular thing: 90% of his voters will be convinced that groceries are cheaper in a few months whether they are or not. It's motivated reasoning. If he's bashing the people they despise, groceries will become cheaper. [I'm talking about his voters not the country]

submitted 81 days ago • 51 comments

Donald Trump wants to make life harder for workers. Democrats should consider actually trying to stop him. open.substack.com/pub/mollycol...

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

Really says something about the partisan asymmetry of political appointments that Trump appointed Christopher Wray (a Republican); Biden kept Wray on for four years, governing under a GOP-run FBI; and now Wray is resigning because otherwise Trump will fire him to install a more extreme Republican.

submitted 82 days ago • 9 comments

quick but great piece framing things up as we leave four years of Biden and head into four years of Trump, highlighting the continuities between the two, what we already know about how to fight, and what will be required of us in the coming years inquest.org/the-terrain-...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't!

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them

submitted 83 days ago • 374 comments

The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding. To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.

submitted 84 days ago • 123 comments

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

submitted 83 days ago • 745 comments

The return of exiled Syrian refugees, who have been waiting for this moment for so long, should be a lesson for leaders of powerful countries. Don't like "mass" migration? Don't prop up dictators and fuck up someone else's home.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments