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Lawyer in Blackfoot Territory. I mostly do work for First Nations and Indigenous companies.
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Well that's not great. time.com/7280114/dona...

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Page One. Freep.com

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope? But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers? This is the thread for you!

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

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alright, i'm asking in seriousness. do folks know what lynching is? do folks know the *legal* issues with lynching? it's actually more complicated than you think, and i'm not a legal scholar so i don't want to step out of my lane--BUT I'VE READ BOOKS.

This guy had a small fishing violation that was later dismissed and a couple of speeding tickets. Please let anyone you can know that they are targeting people like this who are in no way violent criminals (who, obv, also deserve due process).

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

In our book "No More Police," @dreanyc123.bsky.social and I recount a story featuring Peter Werner - www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/w... - In 1966, he and his crew rescued a group of teenage boys who had been stranded on an island for more than a year.

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

excessive doomerism is genuinely super toxic to be around. a better future doesn't manifest itself out of thin air. we have to fight like hell for it, as our ancestors did to establish the good things we have in our modern society.

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

The DOJ's latest Abrego filing (the wrongful Gulaging case) is just as ghastly as everyone is saying. But I see the broader situation a bit differently. The Bondi DOJ can claim that "facilitate" means whatever it wants. But the latest filing not only misstates the clear meaning Roberts' order ...

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Very informative chart from Washington Post

A vial of insulin costs far, far, far, far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada, as do most other drugs. Could our beloved price gap become a casualty of Trump's trade war? Possibly, if a group of pharma companies gets its way. canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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That's some real tough love parenting. "If you didn't want to go to a concentration camp, you shouldn't have decided to have ADHD!" /s