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Welp, the National Science Foundation just "disestablished" all of its advisory committees. That definitely seems like it will "promote American freedom and innovation."

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This two weeks is NOT DISCRETIONARY. Judge Xinis has to allow that at a minimum before she could find contempt for failure to obey.

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“God hasn’t forgotten about you.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

What the judge is doing here is using the authorities that are most clearly within her power to make life extremely difficult for the government and keep the case in the public eye. People can reasonably disagree, but I think this is the most effective way of getting compliance.

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Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

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Xinis says she's going to force multiple Trump administration officials to sit for depositions over the next 7 days to confirm whether they're complying with the Supreme Court.

submitted 49 minutes ago • 30 comments

In 2018, the first Trump admin. wrongfully deported an Iraqi man, despite a court order. The U.S. govt quickly recognized the mistake and worked with the man's attorneys to bring him back. He was later returned. My story on the difference from then to now: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

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POWERFUL: "As we continue through Holy Week, my heart aches for my husband, who should have been here leading our Easter prayers. Instead I find myself pleading with the Trump administration and the Bukele administration to stop playing political games with the life of Kilmar."

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HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador. Follow along for updates ⬇️

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DOJ provides no new information on Abrego Garcia but says if he manages to return to the US, they'll detain him and remove him to a different country (not El Salvador) or seek to "terminate" his order of removal and send him back to El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Oh jeez. They fired Erez Reuveni, the number 2 in command at the Office of Immigration Litigation, because he had the audacity of being honest and fulfilling his duties as a lawyer.

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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As for Mr. Abrego Garcia’s wrongful detention in El Salvador, government officials should be held in contempt and fined daily (perhaps exponentially — start at 1 cent and double it every day) until they prove exhaustion of available measures or AG returns to Maryland.

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Really important piece, especially the part on how courts could respond to the government’s intransigence. It seems to be that the govt position creates a situation not unlike the death penalty — an irrevocable punishment beyond review — and so has to be checked by the same procedural barriers.

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I have heard that at least two people with leadership positions at NIH and National Cancer Institute may retire in the coming days, basically because they keep getting ordered by political appointees to illegally freeze grant funds to large recipients like Harvard and Columbia.

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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

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It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

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Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to much/all of this any time they wanted. They are enabling authoritarian government.

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As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

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It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste

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Another troubling sign that the Trump admin is defying the Supreme Court, which said that they MUST give anyone potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act "reasonable time" to "actually seek habeas relief" before any AEA removal. Now DOJ and ICE say they won't even commit to giving 24 hours!

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this week 20 years ago, Nature published two seminal papers showing for the first time that BRCA-mutant cells were selectively sensitive to PARP inhibitors, paving the way for clinical trials and approval of PARP inhibitors for patients with BRCA-mutant ovarian and breast cancers, and beyond.

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Either the U.S. government is able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

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The president and his lackeys are trying to defund the children's hospital where I am trying to bring my daughter, in hopes of reducing her pain from a 499 day long headache, and they are using lies about widespread discrimination against our religion and our people as the excuse.

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Because it helps me, personally, to see people whose assessment I trust articulate this, I want to say: Yesterday, for me, was one of those overwhelming days where I can't quite manage to compartmentalize enough to keep functioning, handle the responsibilities of everyday life, be a decent parent.

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Good job, Stanford admin. More of this. “America’s univs are a source of great national strength, creating knowledge and driving innovation and economic growth,” they also wrote. “This strength has been built on government investment but not government control.“ stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

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I was just cc-ed on an email where a Nobel prize winner and green card holder who's spent a lot of time in the US says he cannot risk coming back at this point for a visit. And I cannot blame him for this decision. We are witnessing absolute mad king behavior.

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

After you read this @dandrezner.bsky.social evisceration of the lies our nation's top diplomat told to get this student deported for speaking her mind, ask yourself, and/or your nearest university president, why they have not filed an amicus brief supporting Tufts, which has supported her.

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one of the more important aspects of the Harvard story comes at the end: the grants being rescinded are “vital to national security, American manufacturing, economic competitiveness and progress toward energy independence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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