Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyProf Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New book 🚨: Lights and Shadows: The Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court, eds Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo & Fabio Ferraz de Almeida. Incl. chapter by @profkmm.bsky.social, Valerie Oosterveld & me on the forced marriage findings in the Ongwen case. brill.com/display/titl...brill.com 153
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2025Militarized federal agents patrolling the streets doesn't make anyone safer. People should never have to fear being brutalized by their government for protesting.oregonlive.comFederal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protestAn 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers. 11445155
Kathleen M Maloney @profkmm.bsky.social · 30/09/2025www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...thenerve.newsTONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE HOLY LAND'S DARK MESSIAHAs Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill... 010
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyAaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid 25092484412842
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/06/2025The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries they aren’t from — including Libya and South Sudan — without giving them time to contest the deportation. By @eleanorbpaynter.net @uoregon.bsky.social:buff.lySupreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t fromA federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained detained in another African county, Djibouti. 72319
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/06/2025Trump has opted to respond to weekend’s horrific political violence by insulting Gov. Tim Walz.motherjones.comThe ghoulish response of Trump and the GOPInsults and mockery fly after the horrific shootings. 89762223
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him. 36954581974
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼 648173835904
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneySenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 12/06/2025In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress. 1872187552
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneySenator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 12/06/2025This is a shocking video. I've texted @padilla.senate.gov to let him know that we support him and will speak out against this injustice. There is no excuse for this. 410420
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator. 67722354
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Musk and his gang rather disrupt than save lives. 50643263
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis] 14854891666
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Trump's mishandling of the economy during his first 100 days shouldn't surprise anyone. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. Watch. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=tmQLdtdCWpV…youtu.beHow Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert ReichLet’s set the record straight: Trump is not a “successful businessman.” He is, objectively, a business failure. 1293045879
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyTampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 04/05/2025 701758618
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/05/2025Legal challenges to President Trump’s El Salvador deportations have focused on due process, writes @conor64.bsky.social. Less attention has been paid to another constitutional protection: the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”bit.lyDonald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual InnovationsDeporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment. 1225172
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyPeople’s Party Deadpool⚖️ @democracysdeadpool.bsky.social · 03/05/2025This motherfucker straight up admitted that he rigged the election. Plain English. 45530246
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyCédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 30/04/2025Good Night World 471386468787
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful. 12585407613731
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14/04/2025No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone. 340109003138
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/04/2025The two men shook hands over the unjustified, indefinite imprisonment of people convicted of nothing. “We have bad ones, too. I’m all for it,” Trump said of sending US citizens to El Salvador.motherjones.comUS and El Salvador celebrate their refusal to return man wrongly deported to "gulag"Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and US President Donald Trump called a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador a “terrorist.” They say they cannot bring him back. 45353134
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The Trump administration defied two courts orders: they won't let the AP back into the White House, and they're refusing to give updates on their plans to return the man they wrongly deported. These keep stacking up.therevolvingdoorproject.orgTrump Administration Non-Adherence to Court Orders | Revolving Door ProjectTracking the Trump administration's non-adherence to court orders after his illegal funding freeze was blocked by federal judges. 24323
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMaryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 14/04/2025‘Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.’ www.thenation.com/article/worl...thenation.comIsrael’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s FailuresIsrael has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months. 16637
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Holy shit. This is the funniest political ad I’ve ever seen. The Republican House Caucus wants it taken down. You know what to do. 14335091597
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 6773172494
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/04/2025Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff 22360401392
Kathleen M Maloney @profkmm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Typical corporate media (lack of) coverage... 000
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyS.V. Dáte @svdate.bsky.social · 06/04/2025NEW -- Trump's new tariff scheme increases tax on Americans by trillions and could well tank the economy -- but at least it gives an openly transactional president a whole new potential profit center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...huffpost.comTrump Tariff Scheme A Great Opportunity For Even More Presidential CorruptionA desire to avoid U.S. import taxes will give companies and countries an incentive to win over a man who has already demonstrated a willingness to sell favors, experts and critics fear. 36220
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Millions of people took to the streets yesterday to send a message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Even during these dark days, remember that you are not alone. Solidarity. 14673741277
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyKatherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Where I explain how the revocation of student visas and illegal detention of our non-US students amounts to a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing of our universities. youtu.be/qAJ7YQkIU0kyoutu.beImmigration Enforcement as Ethnic Cleansing at ColumbiaYouTube video by Katherine Franke 0165
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...msnbc.comAmid turmoil, Trump heads to Florida for a golf event (again)After setting much of the global economy — and retirement accounts — on fire, taking a golf trip isn’t a great look for Trump. 56576661973
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else. 1013036905
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyThe Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 01/04/2025Trump and Bukele want to disappear these men, but we have an obligation to recognize their humanity, and to demand their return and their freedom. Because if we don’t, then who else will they come for next?bit.lyThe US Is Now in the Human Trafficking BusinessThe Trump administration spent $6 million to knowingly disappear hundreds of people into a foreign prison where they are being made to work, without pay, in tortuous conditions. 619997
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyHuffPost @huffpost.com · 01/04/2025The cuts will impact about 4 million low-income Americans every year.huffpost.comTrump Admin Cuts Millions In Family Planning Services, Partially Defunds Planned Parenthood 179
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”nytimes.comU.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at GuantánamoThe disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by five senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a waste of resources. 36695347
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Today’s bonus issue of “One First” uses Tuesday’s executive order on elections to illustrate what a President can (and, as importantly, *can’t*) do through an executive order—and how major media organizations should do better in reporting on them: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-134-...stevevladeck.comBonus 134: What Executive Orders Can (and Can't) DoPresident Trump's ominous new executive order on election administration is constrained by the limits on what an executive order can directly accomplish, especially outside of the executive branch. 181177378
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes. 654247819424
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did. 12350901823
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets They are disappearing people off the streets 372162405042
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 28/03/2025BREAKING: We, @aclu.org and CLEAR are joining Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after ICE unlawfully arrested and detained her in retaliation for her political speech. Speaking out against a war, a policy, or a government is not a crime. The government must immediately release Ms. Öztürk. 12272321614
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/03/2025Any cop pulling up a mask and obscuring their face should be fired. How is this legal? This is what you see in Georgia and other countries that have authoritarian regimes. 64465311768
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyBrennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/03/2025The SAVE Act may as well be called the anti-voting rights act. Here’s why:brennancenter.orgVoting Rights Act at 60: Congress Could Hit New Low with SAVE ActThe new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. 25746350
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025From “What the accidentally leaked war group chat reveals about the Trump administration” by Moira Donegan Read more: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 24880193
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/03/2025Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movementsdemocracynow.orgElon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi MovementsElon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country’s racist apartheid laws. Musk’s family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics.... 73725350
Reposted by Kathleen M MaloneyOona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 24/03/2025They not only shared highly classified information on a private messaging app, but they also presumably did so on private unsecured phones--phones that are highly likely to be of interest to our adversaries. People have spent years in jail for far less. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 852242604
Reposted by Kathleen M Maloney𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙝 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @wayneesmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Funny. Not so funny. It is a complete endrun around national security channels to use an insecure device and app to discuss highly classified, imminent military plans. 18 U.S.C. § 793(f) a crime for people entrusted with national defense info to disclose it to others out of gross negligence.theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 35629152