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Trump's executive orders targeting law firms are unconstitutional and threaten judicial independence. Firms should sue to stop them, Adam Unikowsky argues.

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Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?" Leavitt: "That's his policy."

submitted 22 hours ago • 325 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1297 comments

Are there any GOPs in Congress speaking out on the dismantling of our country? Any?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I acquired these brioche hot dog buns from Whole Foods and was annoyed that they aren't even split. When I took a bread knife to one I learned that they're split along the top 🙄

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 22 hours ago • 495 comments

First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.

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OA: Counsel why is this settlement taking so long? Me: Because I don't really take your case seriously tbh

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 1337 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 1006 comments

2024: If they can prosecute Tr*mp for his various crimes, they can go after you too! MAGA: F that! Now: If they can disappear legal residents and citizens without due process, they can do that to you too! MAGA: Nah I'm cool with them just taking out these brown people

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There will be no restoration of a constitutional republic until he is not only removed from power but repudiated as having never legitimately held it. The system simply can't fit back together again without that. You can't shatter the foundation to this degree and then try to rebuild on top of it.

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I feel like at this point the president of El Salvador could say "here, take him, we don't want him" and this administration would still be like "there's nothing we can do. Oops" #abregogarcia

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I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 5 days ago • 183 comments

Is Signal eavesdropping on me? I ate at a restaurant one time, a year ago. Got an email receipt and one promo email. Haven't been back. Yesterday a friend mentions the place in a Signal chat. Today I get another promo email from the place.

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Hello, #Dearborn. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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“The Trump administration’s attempt to deny due process is especially galling because the man who leads it has benefited from—some might say exploited—his own right to due process so extensively and so recently,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in the Atlantic Daily:

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

So basically what's happening is Trump is slashing the government workforce, and then "forcing" private firms to do its dirty work for free

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

They'll disappear innocent immigrants to scare you from coming here They'll arrest women who miscarry to scare you out of seeking an abortion They'll deport protesters to scare you into being quiet They'll bankrupt law firms to scare you from standing up to them Authoritarianism is here

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp. As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.

submitted 19 days ago • 3017 comments

Ossoff: This is what happens when you have Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.

submitted 21 days ago • 492 comments

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

submitted 22 days ago • 1183 comments

'Fight back': Two Dems in deep-red districts are heavily out-fundraising the GOP —here's why https://twp.ai/1V8Anu

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

A crucial point is getting lost about detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri: Legislative history of the provision Rubio is invoking explicitly shows it's not supposed to be used primarily to punish viewpoints. That means Rubio is likely abusing it. newrepublic.com/article/1930...

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If you're not a US citizen, I would highly recommend that you don’t come here right now… Don’t visit. Cancel your travel plans entirely/immediately! Don't spend your money here, as this country doesn't deserve your good company, or your money. It’s. Time. To. Teach. Them. A. Lesson. 😎✨

submitted 22 days ago • 238 comments

Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."

submitted 23 days ago • 1274 comments

Yunseo Chung is: – a legal permanent resident – a high school valedictorian – a Columbia student who merely participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations And ICE wants to deport her. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis starts with a long description of how traumatizing the events of the early 1980s were, and how he started many times to write out the narrative but it was all just blocked from his memory... ... then he launches into 600 pages of very very detailed storytelling

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 22 days ago • 2026 comments

Oh, also, re the El Salvador concentration camp, Wong Wing v. United States, 163 U.S. 228 (1896), by the way. The punitive imprisonment even of removable immigrants without trial has been clearly established to be unconstitutional for over a century.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes blocks Trump’s anti-trans military ban EO and the orders implementing it. She stays her order until 10a March 21 to allow the government to seek a stay from the DC Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

A New York Times review of flight data shows how the Trump administration sent more than 200 migrants to El Salvador over the weekend — despite a federal judge's ruling seeking to block the deportations. Here's a timeline of what happened. nyti.ms/42c7AOe

submitted 29 days ago • 31 comments

I guess we have the answer now.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

"If the administration is claiming inherent constitutional authority to ignore court orders whenever it doesn’t want to follow them, not much to the rule of law remains." Harrowing stuff from legal scholar Matt Seligman on Trump border czar vowing to ignore courts: newrepublic.com/article/1928...

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis is the place to be! Be certain you stop by and support them! chatterboxjazz.com

submitted 30 days ago • 788 comments

oh this is a big mystery

submitted 29 days ago • 1221 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 29 days ago • 1042 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 31 days ago • 2095 comments

Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.

submitted 31 days ago • 218 comments