Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The 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 300177615767
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about Sigbovik 1134
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise. 20991303426
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialDimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 27/05/2025There's a new Adventuring Academy out now on Dropout with guest Erika Ishii! Join Erika and Brennan for discussions about tabletop romance, wet beans, Elvish poetry, and so much more! #AdventuringAcademy 736522
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 25/05/2025it is so so good and I wish there could be more 110
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 25/05/2025Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen. 631992515
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/05/2025The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return. I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:youtu.beWATCH: Van Hollen meeting with Vice President of El SalvadorYouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen 37933283
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I was curious where exactly this text came from, and it seems to be available at www.congress.gov/118/plaws/pu... ("Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47)")congress.gov 000
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/05/2025And that's it. "All rise" as judge leaves the bench. In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand. She hugs her attorney, smiling. 23121486
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialNational Immigration Project @nipnlg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025🚨BREAKING: Yesterday, in a huge victory for due process, a federal judge ordered a Venezuelan couple immediately released after finding that government could not provide the evidence required to designate them as alien enemies. 🧵 (cc: @dcmigrantmutualaid.org & Amnesty USA) 12512132
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialSirine Shebaya @sshebaya.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Despite repeated outreach from @nipnlg.bsky.social attorneys ICE refused to let the parents speak to each other or mom speak to her attorney. We filed a late-night habeas petition ICE was fully aware of, but they deported them anyway. 5292117
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 18/04/2025for the last time, people, this is to conform to human *intuitions* about arrays. If your array has 0 elements fahrenheit, i.e. -32 elements celsius, that's a clear sign of a memory error. If it has 100F, i.e. 68, that feels like kind of a lot of elements. 010
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender. 17772931823
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with. 1302311627394
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Never again is now, friends. Don't look away. We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch. Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities? If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now. 91459675
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 14/04/2025For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences 010
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/ 9865832191
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens. 953225479146
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/04/2025NEW: The Trump administration has now filed its status report on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It says that he is alive and being held in CECOT pursuant to the “domestic authority of El Salvador” 117759183
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12/04/2025NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 4775941920
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday. What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time? 71774194
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...cbsnews.comCarnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanationLocal universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked. 452456899
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul... 9674663406
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule. But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself. 402112702265
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case. 27492151224
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialmcc @dryad.technology · 08/04/2025The thing that is currently fueling my creativity is Affinity Photo and the fact I don't have to pay a monthly fee to use it 0642
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A man gets wrongfully deported, to a Salvadoran supermax prison, in direct violation of a binding federal protective order. And Roberts' response is a one-sentence administrative stay with zero explanation. The guy who made Trump king is letting him act like a king. Our country is f*cked.documentcloud.org24A949 Admin Stay and CFR 22298111
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond. 318269144374
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialMichael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack. 6646981527
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now 168176366349
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun... 20756233060
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate 16350941145
jcreed.bsky.social @jcreed.bsky.social · 27/03/2025a million times this. if the goal is "go back to your own country" then why is she in a jail cell in louisiana? 020
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025So the position of the Trump-Vance administration — and every member of Congress unless they explicitly say otherwise — is quite literally you do not have guaranteed free speech rights in America if you say things they don't like. That is the headline. 421656603
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialMatthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025tHeY Can aLL fILe HAbEas peTitIOns, youR hoNEr. 0192
Reposted by @jcreed.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The idea that the federal government would send secret police to grab you off the street, terminate your visa, and dropkick you out of the country is chillingly authoritarian and deeply unamerican under any circumstances. But if it’s really over that? Just bugfuck insane too. 12637118