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Retired lawyer and public policy analyst, leftist humanitarian. I don’t look like this anymore.
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Yunseo Chung, the Columbia student and green-card holder who has been in hiding since ICE tried to disappear her in March, wins sweeping order preventing her arrest and detention. She becomes the first of these pro-Palestinian advocates to circumvent the Trump administration policy to deport them.

Haven’t seen so many sad 21-year-old sociopathic dudes since the Sig Epps got kicked off campus

This thoughtful analysis from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social is well worth your time.

🚨🚨 Not just Medicaid, they are now coming after Medicare. "Trump gave GOP senators a green light on Wednesday to explore ways to save money on Medicare. The party screaming death panels is the party of death panels as they push their big brutal bill. www.axios.com/2025/06/05/r...

White South African Immigrants: Hey brothers what’s up? Are you here to wish us good luck here in our new home? Is there news or something? Lead Heavily Armed ICE Agent: [tapping tactical baton steadily on boot]

Scientists long figured Orcas killed Great White Sharks—but no one had ever seen it; we’d only observed them menacing smaller shark species. UPDATE: Here’s my fav [60 yr-old‼️] Orca, solo matriarch MS. SOPHIA, absolutely BODYING a Great White—rams so hard she shatters ribcage, immobilizing the fish.

She hopes her legal fight will help others know they can speak out against Israel’s genocide despite ongoing attacks on pro-Palestine speech by both universities and the federal government. interc.pt/45alAdx

When all is said and done, Azeen Ghorayshi at the New York Times will go down in history as helping to cause incalculable damage to an entire generation of trans kids. I hope advancing her career is worth dead trans kids. She's absolute scum.

Divorce is always toughest on the kids.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil. With @adn.com‬

Hey, remember when Trump told a room of Big Oil CEOs he'd make all their wildest dreams of climate denial come true...for $1B in campaign cash? Now the White House war on the environment is the Trump corruption scandal we don't talk about nearly enough My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Found out today that my state cut all preexisting funding for overdose prevention, addiction, & “harm reduction efforts to reduce overdose rates and deaths.” The city I live and work in has as many overdose deaths as San Francisco and my state is in the top worst for overdose for the past 15 years.

This story is wild: Rather than just comply with court orders; the Trump admin has ICE offices and detainees living in a shipping container in Djibouti unde threat of rocket attacks wapo.st/4kPIACX

The inside of my head after this week is like the inside of a bar toilet on Sunday morning but by God I'm plowing through it just to spite my enemies

NEW: Harvard asks for a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from barring its international students from entering the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elon Musk has punched Trump harder in the past two hours than most Democrats in Congress have done since Trump took office. That is part of the problem for us, Dems!

woah: “Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen…”

Polis has gone out of his way to make clear that he doesn't have a future in office in this state. He's told us who he is eighty times over.

TODAY: We filed a 127-page comment against a proposed rule by the Trump admin that would strip an estimated 50,000 or more career federal civil servants of critical protections by reclassifying them as “Schedule Policy/Career” (Schedule P/C) employees. (Called Schedule F in the last Trump admin.)

Postcard Writing - Stop the Maga Murder Budget · Indivisible

Gift link with details on Polis violating state laws to turn over children to ICE: When he shows up on the national scene, treat him like Andrew Cuomo.

The Israeli Prime Minister admitted this today. It's not an accusation, it's a fact.

Marcelo is home. Now bring them all home. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...

NEW: A day for the Democratic appointees on SCOTUS — but what does it mean? Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan each wrote a majority decision on Thursday. The decisions provide some insights into their approach in this moment. This afternoon, at Law Dork:

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

Among other actions, the EU must protect the ICC through the Blocking Statute: finance.ec.europa.eu/eu-and-world... There can be no further delay: www.jurist.org/news/2025/04...

is being terminally online bad for you? yes does it make you less happy than your offline friends? absolutely is there anything that matches the high of a poster's ragnarok? there is not, and that's why we can never log off

There’s another scandal buried in the Trump-Republican budget plan that’s not getting enough attention: massive giveaways to Big Oil.

The U.S. follows Russia's example by targeting ICC judges. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

💔😞 Southwestern Ontario infant dies after measles infection #Ontario Vaccinate your children. halifax.citynews.ca/2025/06/05/c...

NEW: Palantir threatened to call police on @wired.com reporter @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/palant...

After POTUS promised that Medicare would not be touched, Medicare changes on table for 'big, beautiful bill,' says GOP senator thehill.com/homenews/sen...

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

I just want to say that the DoJ attorneys handling the DOGE cases deserve every bit of how humiliating this is going to be. I hope they suffer.

In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone

The Utah justice who wrote the opinion last year that blocked the state's near-total abortion ban is retiring. The Salt Lake Tribune notes he was also a defender of the ballot measure process, & of legal representation for poor Utahns: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Lord, I know I am not perfect. I know I stray from Your will. I know I fail every day to earn Your grace. But if You let Donald Trump sue Elon Musk for defamation I will clean up my act and do everything I can to glorify you. No monkey’s paw stuff please; I want to be able to cover it too.

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

Immigration judge rules Milford teen Marcelo Gomes da Silva should be released from ICE detention. "The crowd erupted into cheers, whistles, and yelled Marcelo’s name once they learned his release had been ordered.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...

This week, Louisiana legislators objected to adding rape, in cases where a minor is impregnated as a result of a sexual offense, as an exception for one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. LA has the 2nd highest maternal mortality in the US. A 9-year-old is currently pregnant in the state

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

So this week, Palantir told me I was banned from its booth at a tech conference (didn’t give a reason) & threatened to call the cops if I came back In recent days, Palantir has been increasingly defensive toward multiple journalists and perceived critics: www.wired.com/story/palant...