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Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus. This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.

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Bowser Now Stealing 33% More Stars and Coins From American Mario Party Players hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

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BREAKING: Supreme Court sets oral arguments for May 15 over Trump administration's request to partially enforce Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."

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Not for nothing but that first sentence is patently false. Congress has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations! Which, as in the domestic case (indeed much more clearly than in the domestic case), doesn't just mean mercantile trade, it means goings-on

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cuomo’s position here is basically that it is unsporting to do politics www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-cuomo...

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Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

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Days after a delegation of House Republicans were in that slave labor camp for a photo op.

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Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program First, Elon shuts down SmartPay cards. Then Peter Thiel swoops in to take over the business. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Congress blew a hole in DC's (self-funded, balanced) budget — and now Metro very well may pay the price. --- Stellar reporting from James Jarvis at @51st.news 51st.news/metro-faces-...

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In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR

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ICE wants to deport a BYU PhD student for the crime of organizing a church fishing trip 6 years ago, where he himself did not fish but the other attendees caught too many. How is this reality???

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Feel free to dunk on Lisa Murkowski all you like but in fairness, the pull quote misses a lot of context. She’s asked “What do you have to say to people who are afraid” and she replies “I’m often afraid to speak up but that’s the job you gave me to do, so here’s how I’m doing it”.

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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The Trump administration hit Harvard University with fresh demands late Wednesday, ordering the school to release disciplinary records of international students or risk losing the ability to enroll them at all.

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This headline could not be any more chefskiss 2025's white women leaning in! on top of the heads of other people! and the planet! funded by Jeff Bezos! ... and all her counterparts funded by all his counterparts.

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Real talk in @theatlantic.com today from Garry Kasparov

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Really don't like where this guy is headed.

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Diplomatic immunity is a fun phrase that certain folks should be using more often.

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#BREAKING Senator Chris Van Hollen was turned away at a military checkpoint while trying to visit Kilmer Abrego Garcia.l at the CECOT prison in El Salvador I was in the convoy as it was flagged down at the side of the road. Traffic continued as normal otherwise. We were 3km from CECOT

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I've said it before when anime fans were trying to justify supporting the new Kenshin anime: "Death of the Author" only works after the author is dead in the ground. So long as you're doing things that support their work and give them money and mindshare, you're advancing and endorsing their agenda

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Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

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King: hey clive i read online that you were pro trans rights Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people Barker: but yes

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a) this is racist and authoritarian b) we cannot oppose a federal police state while building a local one c) Chicago hates children and it makes me furious

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SOME AUTISTIC PEOPLE WILL NEVER PAY TAXES OR WRITE POEMS AND THAT’S OKAY. WE ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST WITHOUT CAVEATS OR JUSTIFICATIONS. MANY AUTISTIC PEOPLE ARE VERY CAPABLE AND TALENTED INDIVIDUALS, AND MANY STRUGGLE JUST TO SURVIVE. BOTH ARE AUTISTIC AND BOTH DESERVE DIGNITY AND HAPPINESS.

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Old, old rule. Never grant your favorite politician power that you would not give to your worst enemy.

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As respite from all the big legal news, some different big legal news: Google loses adtech monopoly case: it wilfully engaged in anticompetitive behavior to monopolize power in the ad publisher and ad exchange markets storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... www.theverge.com/news/650665/...

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the ruling doesn’t require this at all btw, but it does show they can get away with it

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Harry Potter was a big part of my childhood. So was being abused. I've dumped both.

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Going into the federal courtroom now for the VOA vs. USAGM cases hearing on the preliminary injunction request. Good turnout from colleagues and supporters. Offline until the lunch break. Stay tuned.

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Make 28 U.S.C. § 546 Great Again

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Philly Fed. “From +44 to -26 in three months. oof.” @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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This

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I sympathize with feeling fear to do your job but I feel strongly the remedy is to quit your job, not to stop doing it, especially when people rely on you to do your job.

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Something I learned today: The US was so worried about the estimated casualties from invading Japan in 1945 that the stockpile of Purple Heart medals it made in advance lasted through Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War.

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This is shocking. Before anyone says it's the biggest failure ever seen in science communication, it's not (all) our fault! It's politically driven disinformation

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Also bound to infuriate Trump and goad him to do something even stupider, though I'm sure that was not the purpose.

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