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David Rosenthal

@davidros.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Website: www.davidrosenthal.org

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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
Shrouded in secrecy, the US agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trump’s ominous ICE security state www.ft.com/content/b6a5...
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Trump’s ominous ICE security state
The nation of immigrants’ shift to mass deportation is among the most shocking turns in US history
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Trump administration is increasingly targeting unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record as it ramps up arrests www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record
ICE officers are ramping up arrests. But the share of detained migrants with a criminal conviction has been declining.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move which city officials and attorneys blasted as “utterly unlawful.” www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/02/i...
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ICE agents now snatching migrants with open court cases; NYC officials, lawyers say it’s ‘utterly unlawful’
In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move whi…
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App Donald Trump’s administration is claiming that the number of assaults against immigration enforcement officers has skyrocketed, but when pressed, even they can’t keep their phony numbers straight. newrepublic.com/post/197544/...
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ICE Lets Slip It’s Making Up Assault Claims While Trashing Tracker App
Not even ICE can remember its bogus data.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It does seem like Germany leading up to 1933: Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism. newrepublic.com/post/197523/...
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Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert
An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Tell Congress: Investigate Stephen Miller
Our lawmakers must stand up for justice, for immigrant families, and for the rule of law. We demand a full House Oversight Committee investigation into Miller’s abuse of power.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Cute: The Senate postponed implementing Medicaid stuff till January 2027--so it don't be felt till after the midterms. They know what they're doing.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Some government scientists in the United States will no longer have easy access to papers in more than 3,000 journals published by Springer Nature, Nature’s publisher. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
International Corruption: Donald Trump is threatening to withhold U.S. funding for Israel—unless the nation lets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk away from his corruption charges. newrepublic.com/post/197436/...
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The Unbelievable Reason Trump Is Threatening to Cut Aid to Israel
Donald Trump is trying increasingly unhinged methods to come to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aid.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
No surprise: Trump’s DOJ issued a directive making it a priority to strip some Americans of their citizenship. newrepublic.com/post/197422/...
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Justice Department Announces Chilling Plan to Revoke Citizenship
Trump’s DOJ issued a directive making it a priority to strip some Americans of their citizenship.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential. newrepublic.com/article/1970...
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The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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The Coming Health Care Apocalypse
One chart on the Big Ugly Bill
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
President Trump has ratcheted up his rhetorical battle over recent US airstrikes in Iran by having an attorney send legal letters to CNN and The New York Times demanding retractions of accurate reports. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...
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Happy Friday 🙌 My "doomscrolling" query prompted so many replies (thank you!) that I need another day to sort through them all. In the meantime, scroll down for the latest on "F1," President Trump, Anna Wintour, Tucker Carlson, and much more...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The whistleblower alleged that Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer, stressed that deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act had to take off no matter what. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Whistleblower says top DOJ official suggested ignoring court orders on deportations
The whistleblower alleged that Emil Bove, formerly Trump's personal lawyer, stressed that deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act had to take off no matter what.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Taking into account previously allocated funding, we’re looking at some $200 billion in spending on immigration enforcement, far above what’s allocated to any other federal law enforcement function and more than has ever been spent on immigration enforcement. newrepublic.com/article/1967...
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The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A Fox News poll shows that a majority of voters disapprove of Trump’s job performance by an eight-point margin. The poll, regarded as one of the best in the industry, found that a majority of voters are still feeling pessimistic about the state of the economy. newrepublic.com/post/196998/...
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Trump Lashes Out at Fox News Over Devastating New Poll
Donald Trump railed against his favorite news network for showing his low approval rating.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
You’ve heard Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and Laughing Kamala, but now get ready for … Weird Stephen. “And even Trump calls him ‘Weird Stephen.’ Because he is weird, by the way. I mean, you can’t spend a moment with him and not say, ‘Oh, something’s off here.’” newrepublic.com/post/196955/...
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Trump Doesn’t Like Stephen Miller Any More Than the Rest of Us
Donald Trump’s nickname for Stephen Miller reveals exactly what he thinks of his deputy chief of staff.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
At least 24 people sent to CECOT have had their immigration cases dismissed in their absence. ... many cases have pending requests that have not received rulings from immigration judges, who are DOJ employees rather than members of an independent court system. www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...
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Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees’ immigration cases have been dismissed – denying Trump’s victims their day in court.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Two years ago, reporting about how the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, I discovered something surprising about Justice Amy Coney Barrett. In a secret internal vote about whether to hear the case, she had voted no. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
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The Morning: Minnesota suspect arrested + a Supreme Court surprise
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My article, "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities," forthcoming in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, is now up in a penultimate version as a preprint on PsyArXiv at osf.io/preprints/ps...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill. newrepublic.com/article/1966...
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Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness
The media has it wrong. Trump is not coming across as fearsome and strong. Instead, his watch-me-play-fascist-on-TV routine is self-evident overkill.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What Trump has wrought: Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Minnesota lawmaker killed in ‘politically motivated assassination,’ governor says
A prominent Minnesota Democrat and her spouse were killed, while another state lawmaker and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings, police said.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk www.science.org/content/arti...
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Open-access revolution is squeezing scientific societies’ budgets, survey shows
Decline in journal revenues puts scholarships, advocacy, and other activities at risk
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. newrepublic.com/post/196684/...
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Republicans Plan to Ditch Trump’s Birthday Military Parade
Only seven Republicans have confirmed they plan to attend Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing
Device translates thought to speech in real time.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“We’re celebrating big on Saturday … if there’s any protest that wants to come out they will be met with very big force.” ... This is the president saying that he will crush anyone who dares to use their First Amendment right to speak out against a display of power. newrepublic.com/post/196672/...
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Trump Issues Horrifying Threat to Parade Protesters
The president said that anyone who protests his birthday parade on Saturday will be met with “very heavy force,” even if they’re being peaceful.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A new poll finds double-digit disapproval of Trump’s decision to send in the Marines. newrepublic.com/post/196374/...
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Americans Hate Trump’s Plan to Unleash Troops on Los Angeles
A new poll finds double-digit disapproval of Trump’s decision to send in the Marines.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump's decision to send in the troops is elevating a protest movement that was already mobilizing against him. Search for "No Kings" on Google News and you'll see page after page about anti-Trump, anti-autocracy protests already planned for this Saturday. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/174...
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Good morning — here's the latest on Bob Costas, Kristi Noem, Maggie Haberman, Miranda Devine, "GMA," The Nation, "Call Her Alex," Paramount, The Atlantic Festival, and much more...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"[S]ince the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“[Does] everyone that has been arrested by ICE agents have a criminal record like you’ve described?” an MSNBC host asked Homan on Monday. “Absolutely not,” Homan replied. As of June 1, there were 7,781 people in ICE detention with no criminal record. newrepublic.com/post/196292/...
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ICE Director Admits He’s Rounding Up People Without Criminal Records
In an interview with MSNBC, Tom Homan quadrupled down on his nationwide crackdown.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
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RFK Jr. removes all current members of CDC vaccine advisory committee | CNN
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, sayi...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Now, a study published Thursday in the academic journal Science has found that dehorning rhinos has led to a large reduction in poaching in game reserves in and around the Kruger National Park in northern South Africa apnews.com/article/rhin...
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Cutting off rhinos' horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it works
A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...
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Persecuted by Mao, Xi’s Father Became a Reformer. Did Xi Reject His Legacy?
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The U.S. DOGE Service and its allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel set up Starlink satellite internet service this year, www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex t...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss to join Jenner & Block, defecting from a firm that struck a deal with the Trump administration to sign on with one that fought it in court. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Former U.S. attorney Damian Williams leaves Paul Weiss for Jenner & Block
The former prosecutor is leaving a firm that made ​a deal with the Trump administration for one that fought it.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Women who miscarry in West Virginia should be prepared to face potential criminal charges, a county prosecutor warned a local news outlet last week, saying other law enforcers have raised the possibility with him. www.huffpost.com/entry/west-v...
huffpost.com
West Virginia Prosecutor Warns Miscarriages Could Lead To Criminal Charges
Women should protect themselves by alerting law enforcement about their miscarriages, he advised.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A powerful video circulating on social media is reminding some that “there are more of us than there are of them.” www.huffpost.com/entry/neighb...
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Neighbors Band Together To ‘Shame’ ICE Agents Out Of Their Community, And It’s Powerful
Heavily armed ICE agents raided two restaurants in San Diego Friday, but residents fought back despite the deployment of flash-bang grenades.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | They are not good at this
Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...
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How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting Federal immigration agents bust up a birthday party on grounds that it was a Tren de Aragua gathering. They still have no evidence for their claims. newrepublic.com/post/196138/...
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ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting
Federal immigration agents bust up a birthday party on grounds that it was a Tren de Aragua gathering. They still have no evidence for their claims.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
SO MUCH FOR CUTTING A DEAL WITH TRUMP: White House Threatens Columbia’s Accreditation Over Protests Columbia University no longer meets accreditation standards after violating antidiscrimination laws, the US says mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ta...
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
People should expect Trump to pick “even more bold and fearless nominees” this time around. “He will look beyond the garden-variety Federalist Society choices and install a new generation of judicial titans who will change the landscape for generations to come.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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New Term, New Judges: Trump 2.0 Is Likely Going For Court Picks Loyal To Him
As Trump's first judicial nominees head into their Senate hearing, the political landscape is dramatically different from his first term ― and he's gotten darker.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
‘Disbelief and Shock’: An Immigration Attorney Fighting ICE Disappearances in Lower Manhattan Speaks About What She’s Seen hellgatenyc.com/immigration-...
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‘Disbelief and Shock’: An Immigration Attorney Fighting ICE Disappearances in Lower Manhattan Speaks About What She’s Seen
And what New Yorkers can do to push back against ICE.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Ukraine Just Blew Up a Third of Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Fleet. With Drones. On Russian Soil. www.theconcis.com/p/russias-pe...
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Russia's Pearl Harbor
Ukraine Just Blew Up a Third of Russia’s Nuclear Bomber Fleet. With Drones. On Russian Soil.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We know Murrow’s story — exposing the red-baiting demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy — as history. But Murrow’s success was not preordained. It required hard work. It required guts. It required journalists to risk personal ruin and some to experience it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/a...
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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Remembers When TV Had a Conscience, and a Spine
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
An interventional cardiologist explains the research on plastics found in arteries and its connection to cardiovascular disease. healthmatters.nyp.org/understandin...
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Understanding the Link Between Microplastics and Heart Disease
An interventional cardiologist explains the research on microplastics found in arteries and its connection to heart disease.
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David Rosenthal @davidros.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Immigrant advocates say the threat of new criminal penalties has left those migrants with a perilous choice: register and risk deportation or refuse and face possible criminal charges — and eventual removal from the country anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Migrants criminally charged after failing to register with U.S. government
Prosecutors are criminally charging unauthorized immigrants who have not signed up on a little-known government registry. Some judges rejected the charges.
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