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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"A St. Paul resident says ICE agents knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week" Fed.l spokespeople did not respond to a request for information, according to article. www.twincities.com/2026/01/12/s...

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ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target

Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Res, and I cannot stress this enough, ipsa loquitur. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

But it's not profiling.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

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Melissa Sanchez @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime

Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

As a clever form of peaceful protest, a DC man walked along near National Guard troops deployed in the city playing the Imperial March from Star Wars from a portable speaker. To disprove this scurrilous slander... they arrested him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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D.C. man sues after being detained for following National Guard around while playing 'Darth Vader's Theme'

Attorneys for Sam O'Hara said law enforcement violated his constitutional rights.

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

When Kavanaugh writes his solo opinion saying the VRA was great then but unnecessary now, just remember on the day the case was argued: - ICE detained citizens based on skin color - Gorsuch’s former clerk called the Minority Leader “Soros’ house slave” - American Nazi flag in congressional office

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The idea that the Court may use the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution to bar a remedy that helps minority voters is both ahistorical and repugnant.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

[lolsob emoji]

New Yorker cartoon showing people mingling at a party. The quote at the bottom reads: “ I read this article and it said that, apparently, there was a time in our history when we didn’t all stagger around in horrified disbelief.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/09/2025

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Kavanaugh in 2023 in the argument on Biden’s loan forgiveness: “Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.”

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2025

While Trump and RFK Jr. have been illegally cutting funding that Congress approved, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services can barely agree that RFK Jr. can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face. This is bad.

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Trump’s nominee can barely agree that RFK can’t cancel a grant because he doesn’t like your face.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Ming Cheung @mingcheung.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Maybe that's because China doesn't have rule of law...?

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“From the Canadian side of the border, it is evident that the American left is in the middle of a grand abdication. No American institution, no matter how wealthy or privileged, seems willing to make any sacrifice for democratic values.”

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The federal legal system will not fare well at all if, when Trump's DOJ misbehaves in district court, the most likely person to be sanctioned or censured is... the district court judge.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It’s striking how the workings of a competitive authoritarian system have already been internalized by the mainstream political press. It is now officially “politics as usual”.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Bending the knee one after the next

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/07/2025

Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Senate Confirms Judge Who Says Government Can Ignore Court Orders I wish that was a joke. But if anything, it's understating what just happened.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/07/2025

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

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The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible

Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

McConnell and Tillis are retiring. They’ve both *occasionally* spoken out against the administration and voted against them *sometimes*. But it’s all for show—they voted for this because they’re in on it.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Institutionalized xenophobia and bigotry

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New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... - this is basically Ender’s Game in real life

Russian authorities have systematically involved children in the design and testing of drones for the country’s war in Ukraine through nationwide competitions that begin with innocent-seeming video games and end up with the most talented students headhunted by defence companies, an investigation has found.

The revelations, part of an investigation by the exiled Russian news outlet the Insider, are the latest to show just how much Russia’s leaders are dragging the country’s youth into the war effort in Ukraine, with “patriotic” and militarised education often spilling over into outright participation.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Maybe Democratic leadership should stop cowering on this issue and take a stand

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Old enough to remember when US revoked visas for people attacking democracy rather than defending it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through. Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The "financial decision" being "it is expensive to mock a President who will fuck with our businesses"

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

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Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

As Roberts privately praised Trump's "civility," a massive spike in threats hit the federal judiciary. The threats were fueled by Trump's rhetoric calling them "USA HATING JUDGES", "MONSTERS", and "sick." Roberts got a handshake at the SOTU; the judges depending on his leadership got death threats.

Marshals’ Data Shows Spike in Threats Against Federal Judges
Data gathered by the law enforcement agency responsible for judicial security showed 162 judges faced threats between March 1 and April 14.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

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Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster

We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

when a judge legit tries to protect you from the lawless president by keeping you in jail

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Weird version of a Christianity where you worry more about what logo is on aid to the very poor then the fact there is a whole lot less of the aid

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated,
"Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then
forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in
the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head
was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons
along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel
from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no
windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other
officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight
others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.
123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The American taxpayer is paying to send people to this place

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is generalizable: Anyone with the personal traits required to rise in this administration is, for that very reason, presumptively morally defective.

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