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Trump now saying — contrary to his previous statements and those of federal officials — that people removed from the U.S. to El Salvador are in the “sole custody” of El Salvador

submitted 3 hours ago • 355 comments

Very fair requests by attorneys for Abrego Garcia⬇️ Needed transparency for all the detainees unlawfully sent to El Salvador torture center. - compel government to produce written documents on agreement with El Salvador - require government officials to appear as witnesses before district court

submitted 5 hours ago • 26 comments

If the United States wanted him out of that prison, he would already be home, with or without El Salvadorian assistance.

submitted 5 hours ago • 30 comments

“He is detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador.” Thoughts on this formulation having helped draft a number of declarations for State officials: 1) Unusual and may not have originated at State. 2) Emphasis on “sovereign” authority may presage further USG slow rolling.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

submitted 4 hours ago • 378 comments

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

submitted 4 hours ago • 372 comments

Trump: I am the strongest, most powerful person ever! The whole world lines up to kiss my ass! Courts: Return Kilmer Abrego Garcia from the El Salvador torture prison you sent him to Trump: Sorry. No can do. Totally out of my hands

submitted 3 hours ago • 26 comments

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

submitted 3 hours ago • 69 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 5 hours ago • 331 comments

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

submitted 5 hours ago • 166 comments

FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 23 hours ago • 292 comments

EEOC agrees to drop pending enforcement letters against law firms that pledged major dollars to Trump "pro bono" fund. We now live in a country where making a payment to the ruler's slush fund lets you buy your way out of regulatory difficulty.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

You can’t do “mass” deportation and give due process, and what conclusion you draw from that says important stuff about your commitment to law.

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

submitted 10 hours ago • 474 comments

We stand by our reporting. So read it here:

submitted 10 hours ago • 152 comments

haha imagine if I had pulled the trigger on a new computer when I was thinking about it yesterday because even though I don't need one now I might in 6 months so much better this way when every moment is a surprise and there's no sense in making plans at all

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Note the consistency among Dem/Lean Dem respondents about the effects of tariffs on the US and individuals versus the Rep/Lean Rep people who thought that it would be better for the country than for themselves. Also noteworthy: Double the "Not sure" ignorance amongs Rs.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

We stand by our reporting.

submitted 11 hours ago • 243 comments

Astounding levels of illegality.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

To put this in terms even a Trumper could understand: Trump's position is that ICE can grab Don Jr. and send him to be imprisoned indefinitely in El Salvador, and there is nothing the court's can do about it, because it would interfere with the president's power to carry out foreign policy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸 This is no longer the United States of America to them. It’s Trumpland. #MomSky #Voices4Victory

submitted 13 hours ago • 270 comments

Tale as old as time. Big businesses who make friends with the kleptocrats get special exemptions from the regulatory burdens so they can lock in their market position, rather than removing the regulatory burdens across the board.

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

The dream is dead

submitted 12 hours ago • 1786 comments

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.

submitted 11 hours ago • 73 comments

Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

Trump was asked this week how he would determine tariff exemptions for American companies. “Instinctively,” he responded. That’s not a policy — it’s racketeering. Pay Trump. Get a deal.

submitted 11 hours ago • 25 comments

Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and retry him for deportation in a lawful way. That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

submitted 15 hours ago • 160 comments

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

So. Much. Winning. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This account of Richard Grenell’s email exchange with musician Yasmin Williams is disgusting. The man shouldn’t be an intern, let alone president, of the Kennedy Center. www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

When delusion exceeds self-preservation. “McConnell watched her invested pension money drop by 8 percent at one point and wondered if she might have to delay retirement. 'If this is what it takes to make other countries treat us fair,' the 64-year-old said, 'then I am okay with that.'”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

According to this article, China will win the trade war because Xi is even more willing to let his people suffer than Trump is. But of course all of this suffering was avoidable to begin with. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Very helpful for Trump to publicly concede that he has the power to bring him back if he wants to.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

They’re going to accidentally deport a U.S. citizen aren’t they

submitted 1 day ago • 330 comments

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?

Trump now saying — contrary to his previous statements and those of federal officials — that people removed from the U.S. to El Salvador are in the “sole custody” of El Salvador

Very fair requests by attorneys for Abrego Garcia⬇️ Needed transparency for all the detainees unlawfully sent to El Salvador torture center. - compel government to produce written documents on agreement with El Salvador - require government officials to appear as witnesses before district court

If the United States wanted him out of that prison, he would already be home, with or without El Salvadorian assistance.

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

Trump: I am the strongest, most powerful person ever! The whole world lines up to kiss my ass! Courts: Return Kilmer Abrego Garcia from the El Salvador torture prison you sent him to Trump: Sorry. No can do. Totally out of my hands

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

100%. It really is time to go there. Again.

FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...

EEOC agrees to drop pending enforcement letters against law firms that pledged major dollars to Trump "pro bono" fund. We now live in a country where making a payment to the ruler's slush fund lets you buy your way out of regulatory difficulty.

You can’t do “mass” deportation and give due process, and what conclusion you draw from that says important stuff about your commitment to law.

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

We stand by our reporting. So read it here:

haha imagine if I had pulled the trigger on a new computer when I was thinking about it yesterday because even though I don't need one now I might in 6 months so much better this way when every moment is a surprise and there's no sense in making plans at all

Note the consistency among Dem/Lean Dem respondents about the effects of tariffs on the US and individuals versus the Rep/Lean Rep people who thought that it would be better for the country than for themselves. Also noteworthy: Double the "Not sure" ignorance amongs Rs.

We stand by our reporting.

Astounding levels of illegality.

To put this in terms even a Trumper could understand: Trump's position is that ICE can grab Don Jr. and send him to be imprisoned indefinitely in El Salvador, and there is nothing the court's can do about it, because it would interfere with the president's power to carry out foreign policy.

Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸 This is no longer the United States of America to them. It’s Trumpland. #MomSky #Voices4Victory

Tale as old as time. Big businesses who make friends with the kleptocrats get special exemptions from the regulatory burdens so they can lock in their market position, rather than removing the regulatory burdens across the board.

The dream is dead

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.

Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

Trump was asked this week how he would determine tariff exemptions for American companies. “Instinctively,” he responded. That’s not a policy — it’s racketeering. Pay Trump. Get a deal.

Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and retry him for deportation in a lawful way. That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

So. Much. Winning. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

This account of Richard Grenell’s email exchange with musician Yasmin Williams is disgusting. The man shouldn’t be an intern, let alone president, of the Kennedy Center. www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/p...

When delusion exceeds self-preservation. “McConnell watched her invested pension money drop by 8 percent at one point and wondered if she might have to delay retirement. 'If this is what it takes to make other countries treat us fair,' the 64-year-old said, 'then I am okay with that.'”

According to this article, China will win the trade war because Xi is even more willing to let his people suffer than Trump is. But of course all of this suffering was avoidable to begin with. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

Very helpful for Trump to publicly concede that he has the power to bring him back if he wants to.

They’re going to accidentally deport a U.S. citizen aren’t they

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?

the three of us are having a conversation

Let’s see him do it then.