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In a very interesting proposed surreply (extra) brief in SCOTUS, immigrant rights attys in DVD (3d-party removals case) bring to SCOTUS' attention the whistleblower letter alleging conspiracy to violate court's orders "in this very case." www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... /1

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

Polish divers have discovered two 18th-century wooden shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea off Poland's northern coast. The findings include well-preserved ceramics and glass bottles originating from Westerwald (present-day Germany) between 1725 and 1740.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give any reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

submitted 2 days ago • 590 comments

Une bénévole qui nettoyait une plage en Norvège a découvert une bouteille lancée à la mer par une écolière écossaise, en 1994. Elle a décidé de répondre à son message, plus de trente ans après.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The problem is very simply that America - the nation - espouses that empathy and kindness are weakness. I don't know how you fix a nation that is institutionally proud of how cruel it is, how smugly it sneers at the rest of the world, of how its perceived superiority grinds everyone to paste.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The US basically enacted a policy originally proposed by UK Secretary of International Development, Priti Patel, when she proposed ending all foreign aid and sending the exact same amount only to the IDF, which happened after she had covert meetings with Israeli officials. The speed run continues.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

“DEI” wth a hard R

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

Munro found the coolest part of the house today. Apparently it's the basement garage in this makeshift hammock.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

the NBA moved it's all star game out of north carolina! it was a huge deal with a groundswell of support from everyone to the left of ben shapiro.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

oh my god

submitted 7 days ago • 184 comments

Sotomayor stating plainly that the majority is full of shit.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

😬 We are teetering on the edge

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I really wonder if they saw it as aspirational.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

The 3.5% rule comes from @chenoweth.bsky.social's incredible research. It's commonly misunderstood or misused in public discourse, but it's still a very helpful goal to aspire to. In my opinion, the biggest misconception is that you need to simply activate 3.5% of the public once.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 86 days ago • 46 comments

U.S. Marshals, who provide security at federal courts, are now detaining people in the halls of SF's Federal Court on behalf of ICE. sfstandard.com/2025/06/16/i...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

UPDATE — Here are the 25 members of Congress who have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Guerre à Gaza : au moins 47 personnes tuées par des tirs israéliens près d’un centre d’aide, selon la défense civile

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone who said that immigration is a distraction, solidarity with immigrants isn't a winning issue, & the Democrats who decided that chest-thumping about border security was the move instead of just saying "immigrants are good people who should live their lives" can all gargle my entire asshole.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating point. Now to look up why Russia was booted from the G8…

submitted 9 days ago • 149 comments

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

submitted 10 days ago • 287 comments

“If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because ‘violence’ is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as ‘peaceful’ are, in reality, quite violent.” Read more:

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Under what authority and how did they square it with the Non-Detention Act?

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

The latest move by the Trump administration to share personal information of Medicaid recipients with DHS should deeply concern everyone. Targeting families for their immigration status is a dangerous breach and we’re exploring all avenues to protect their information.

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration gives data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials, documents obtained by AP show.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

submitted 12 days ago • 127 comments

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

SHUT. IT. DOWN. A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism. Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's you on the ground.

submitted 13 days ago • 138 comments

@democrats.senate.gov STOP VOTING FOR BILLS THAT WILL HARM US AND NOMINEES THAT HATE US.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 13 days ago • 390 comments

Can confirm that Rep. Neal's staff in the Springfield office are answering their phones.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

When you read about the slide from democracy to "competitive authoritarianism" in other countries, it's composed of things like this. No big, sudden breaches, the kind that might spark widespread resistance. Just crossing these little lines, one at a time, each one a seemingly small thing ...

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

submitted 13 days ago • 218 comments

Don't print lies in the newspaper. It's the one thing you can't do if you want to succeed as a news organization! Every lie you print discredits every other journalist who works there.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats are obsessed with the phrase “we need answers.” Answers on what!? It’s all on film, man. There are no remaining questions.

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments