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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
She’s right. Mass deportations require an authoritarian infrastructure. ICE will now have funds comparable to a Western military.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/07/2025
Trump is breaking US judicial system, says star litigator Abbe Lowell on.ft.com/4lamtHV
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Donald Trump is breaking US judicial system, says star litigator Abbe Lowell
Lawyer who defended Jared Kushner and Bill Clinton has ‘never been as concerned’
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Given KAG's filing outlining torture in El Salvador, *anyone* being removed to El Salvador should, under both domestic and international law, have an opportunity to file a claim showing that they have a credible fear of being tortured if removed to that country (in addition to other due process)
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It really is amazing how far down the list this is on the outrage scale for Trump when any other president saying something like this would have been a massive scandal, complete with Senate hearings over accusations of quid pro quo and cronyism.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This isn't just a big story because someone died in ICE custody. It's also a big story because it suggests Trump and Stephen Miller are now starting to deport people who were paroled into the country many decades or even a half century ago.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A federal judge is keeping this man in jail to protect him from the federal government.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2025
The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I read Trump + Senate Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" so you don't have to. It came out at *midnight* & we're still getting numbers in from Congress's bookkeepers. Early returns: Nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts. Happy Saturday. Follow for more. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Lawyers should start suing based on this confession that Hokan is spending $$$ Congress didn’t appropriate.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A thread on pulling up the ladder.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/06/2025
I have been receiving a ton of emails about the ethics report showing Stephen Miller owning stock in Palantir - lining his pockets off his unlawful mass-deportation agenda. Tomorrow I'll be interviewing the author of that report. Subscribe for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Daily Beans
Daily News Podcast · Updated Daily · The Daily Beans is a women-owned and operated progressive news podcast for your morning commute brought to you by the Webby award-winning host of Mueller, She Wrot...
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I've lived in NYC for a quarter century and continue to be amazed how the city scares people who don't live in it.
"NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the nomination of Trump's former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to become a judge on the 3rd Circuit. It's unprecedented & there are 3 big reasons, laid out here, for concern. joycevance.substack.com/p/packing-th...
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Packing the Courts
Civil Discourse offers a unique perspective on issues at the intersection of law and politics based on my 25 years at the Justice Department and service as a U.S.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tomorrow the Senate takes up Trump lawyer Emil Bove's nomination to the 3rd Circuit: Republicans are about to tell us if they still believe in the rule of law. Let’s make sure they know we’re waiting for the answer, and we will hold them accountable for it.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 24/06/2025
Trump judicial nominee pressured DOJ to defy court on deportations, whistleblower says
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Trump judicial nominee pressured DOJ to defy court on deportations, whistleblower says
A top U.S. Justice Department official tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as an appellate judge profanely pressured department attorneys to defy court orders to carry out mass deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally, according to a whistleblower complaint seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2025
NEW: Read the whistleblower letter that proves Trump's DoJ intentionally defied court orders and lied to Judge Boasberg in the Alien Enemies Act Proclamation case. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-eviden...
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New Evidence that DOJ Intentionally Defied Court Orders and Lied to a Judge
In an incredible letter, whistleblower and now-fired DoJ employee Erez Reuveni details how Emil Bove instructed him to tell the court to "fuck off."
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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Narciso Barranco is a father of three Marines and longtime Orange County resident who was punched repeatedly in the head by ICE agents. Mr. Barranco is represented in Congress by Republican Young Kim, who is introducing a resolution this week commending ICE "for keeping our communities safe."
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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I find it silly that Iranian government would try to teach the Americans a lesson. Americans won't even learn the metric system for their own benefit. 🤷‍♂️
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Intelligence Community said a week ago that Iran had not moved towards a nuclear weapon. Have they changed their assessment? And if not, what the hell is the U.S. doing ignoring our own intelligence?
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Such a child.
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viper13.bsky.social @viper13.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Boeing C-40 Clipper, CNV6623, 168980 is in the wrong place right now. Out of Bahrain heading to Naples.
Boeing C-40 Clipper, CNV6623, 168980 is in the wrong place right now. Out of Bahrain heading to Naples.
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)
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gaotuuk.bsky.social @gaotuuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Will China move military nearer Iran ?
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
«Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other U.S. firms control more than 70 percent of the cloud computing market in Europe, which is the essential way for storing files, retrieving data and running other programs …»
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Trump is caught in a downward spiral: When his polls tank, he compensates by escalating his war on Blue America. But that hurts him further, because voters don't like it, and Trump/Miller are incapable of grasping that possibility. On the pod @harrylitman.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1970...
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Trump Rages at Brutal New Polling as Press Sec Rushes to Calm Him Down
As Trump erupts over awful new polling and Karoline Leavitt goes full North Korea to inflate his ego, the author of a good piece on Trump explains how he’s badly wounding himself by waging war on blu...
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/06/2025
This would be a good moment for Virginia Democrats to see if the Republican Party of Virginia is willing to condemn senseless violence in our streets, or only violence against white American-born Christians. I kid! We know the answer. The exercise would be useless.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 19/06/2025
He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The thing is, when people don’t identify themselves it’s very hard to know which part of the security forces they are! Or if they are just random masked guys with guns! Maybe someone should look into how to solving this problem, with like, uniforms or badges or somesuch
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Peter Sean Brown, a Philly native, should have never been held on an ICE detainer by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office nor should he have faced deportation to Jamaica.
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He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica
A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Do we really need Congress if they are unwilling to defend their authorities and do their job? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
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White House Eyes Rarely Used Power to Override Congress on Spending
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We keep hearing credulous pundits say MAGA is "antiwar." So how many MAGA Republicans will support the new resolution requiring Trump to get congressional authorization for war with Iran? This resolution is important. People should pay attention to it. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1969...
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Trump Is Suddenly Raging at Tucker Carlson—and MAGA Is Deeply Rattled
Is opposition to “forever wars” really a core pillar of MAGA Republicanism? Looks like we’re about to find out.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Dozens of heavily armed ICE agents swarm popular L.A. County swap meet
With a Department of Homeland Security helicopter circling, several dozens of heavily armed, masked ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear raided one of the most popular swaps meets in Southe…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
There's a lot of silly pundits who demand that Dems GET ARRESTED (as if they're the ones picking the arrest). But they're not bearing witness to what's behind it. THey're not even covering the efforts that don't result in arrest.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last night Russia used 440 drones and 32 missiles to attack Ukrainian civilians. 15 dead. Residential buildings, dormitories, hospitals, child centers, historical buildings, a bookstore If the American President wants to threaten a nation with consequences, Russia would be a good place to start
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Somehow we're doing Iraq again, but dumber.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/06/2025
Not good enough. He needs to resign or be expelled.
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Ed @edvartvon.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The EU and UK are pathetic. The sooner you all realise this and fix it the better. It kills me to say it, but maybe Trump selling you up the river has hastened this awakening.
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A criminal gang has taken over the White House. It's not a group of "conservative politicians." It's a criminal gang run by a convicted felon. It's breaking laws every day. It's kidnapping people. It's soliciting bribes and extorting businesses. This is not a political story – it's a crime story.
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