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Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚨Breaking: Today, SCOTUS delivered a devastating blow to asylum rights. In our case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court ruled that the gov can block people from seeking asylum at official border crossings—turning people away w/out the chance to seek the protection they have a legal right to request.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Apparently the National Guard has already been spotted playing. What a time to be alive...

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

On October 18, 2025, 62-year-old Renea Gamble attended her local No Kings rally dressed in an inflatable penis costume. Her fellow protesters found it funny. Police didn't. 🧵

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Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest

The 62-year-old was arrested for wearing a penis costume to an Alabama No Kings protest — then prosecutors doubled down.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do. When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide. We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Of the bullies, by the bullies, for the bullies.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

When armed soldiers come marching through your local park, it ruins the vibes. For my blog, I wrote about living alongside the National Guard deployment in DC and how humanization can make a worst case scenario less likely.

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And Together We Will Walk In Peace Again

On a gorgeous spring day, a couple friends and I took advantage of the sunshine to meet up for an afternoon picnic in the park. Lots of other people had the same idea. As my friends and I swapped l…

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just because an illegal war has been launched against you, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to potentially commit war crimes

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

At its core, Trumpism is fundamentally about normalizing the resolution of political differences with violence, whether threatened or applied. In this sense, the caning of Charles Sumner is both origin story and logical conclusion. As aberrant as this exchange is, it's central to what's happening.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Iran war was a bad idea from start. But Joe Kent is not the right messenger on this. See his alleged associations with Nick Fuentes and live streamer who said Hitler was “a complicated historical figure which many people misunderstand” @splcenter.org @westernstatescenter.org 2025 letter:

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 06/03/2026

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

As my favorite teacher in high school always said, words mean things. 🧵

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"If America wants to stand for human rights again, we must start by telling the truth—and by making clear that no badge, no agency, and no president is above the law.” - @repmcgovern.bsky.social Proud Team McGovern alum right here.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

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Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"

"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A reminder to everyone glued to the news: If it is not explicitly your job to watch the video, you don't have to. It doesn't make you a bad citizen or a bad activist. If you're a journalist or researcher or investigator and it is your job, don't forget to take care of yourself.

humansecurityproject.org

What gets lost when atrocity footage becomes shareable content? | Human Security Project

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

What appears unprecedented isn't as unprecedented as we think it is. In my latest for the International Policy Journal at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I write about how the abuses we're seeing under the second Trump admin are an unfortunate consequence of decades of unaccountability for similar 🧵

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We need accountability from Venezuela to Minnesota - CIP

The impunity of security forces brought us crises at home and abroad. Only accountability can lead us out.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Good showing in Pershing Park for the @freedcproject.bsky.social protest of the Trump administration. “Our homes, our rules,” read many of the signs.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/01/2026

When Google cuts off the headline at the proper place.

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Stephen Repetski @srepetsk.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

tfw you have no elected senators to call and demand impeachment proceedings from because you live in #DC and you have no voting representation 🫠

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I am sure Suzanne Collins takes no pleasure in being right about the reality TV-ification of political violence

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Win Without War @winwithoutwar.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Trump's assault on Caracas is his foreign policy in a nutshell: reckless, illegal, and completely counterproductive. These actions won't improve the lives of people in Venezuela or the U.S and our thoughts are with those impacted by this violence. We’re watching the situation closely.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Whenever foreign policy is about advancing peace and development the line is “we can’t do it because the American public is against it” but when it comes to invading countries—which is way more unpopular—suddenly public opinion goes out the window

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

...and this isn't the silliest I've seen them look this week. I'm not gonna presume everybody's Christian, but I can guess from the states that they're deployed from that most of them are. They should be at home taking silly Santa hat photos with their families.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 23/12/2025

Really hard to imagine this opinion coming down the way it did if Illinoisans hadn't rallied to protect their neighbors and Pritzker hadn't publicly and forcefully resisted the administration.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand. He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt. He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This past year, I finally got around to reading Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. Yes, it's as good as everyone said it was. Unfortunately, it's also quite relevant to U.S. politics. In my blog, I reflect on reading Wolf Hall in 2025 and the perilous gap between actions and consequences

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Scaramella Goes to War

A mercurial leader obsessed with his own status, power, and virility makes policy decisions based on petty whims and grudges. Uninterested in the everyday act of ruling, he outsources governance to…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

One of Ms. Weiss's suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and the architect of Mr. Trump's immigration crackdown, or a similarly high-ranking Trump administration official, two of the people said. Ms. Weiss provided contact information for Mr. Miller to the "60
Minutes" staff.
Ms. Weiss also questioned the use of the term "migrants" to describe the Venezuelan men who were deported, noting that they were in the United States illegally, two of the people said.
In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a
'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient," Ms.
Alfonsi wrote.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

again, the crisis of masculinity people care about shoring up masculinity, not about the health and well being of men. these two things are antithetical. and nothing shows that more clearly than gun violence.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

DC Cir. will allow the continued deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. while the litigation continues. Decision rests on idea that D.C. has no sovereignty (or federalism interest) of its own bc it is not a state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Deploying an out-of-state Guard to a non-consenting State to conduct law enforcement would be constitutionally troubling to our federal system of government, and courts no doubt have a duty to construe ambiguous text in statutes to avoid serious constitutional questions. See United States v. Hansen, 143 S. Ct. 1932, 1946 (2023); Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Auth., 297 U.S. 288, 348 (1936) (Brandeis, J., concurring). But the only issue that was before the district court and is now before this court is whether the President could request such deployments to the District of Columbia, which is not a sovereign State, but instead is a unique federal district that serves as the Capital of the United States and the seat of the federal government. In that specific context, the Defendants are correct that staying the preliminary relief ordered here would not require reading Section 502 to permit a president to call on governors to deploy their Guards into non-consenting States. See Emergency Mot. 19; Reply Br. 8.

The District of Columbia, in contrast, is a federal district, not a sovereign State. From its inception, the District has been a creation of Congress. See U.S. CONST. Art. I, § 8, cl. 17 (vesting Congress with the power “[t]o exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District * * * as may * * * become the Seat of Government of the United States”). And not just a federal district, but also the Nation’s Capital—a jurisdiction in which Congress has distinctive power to provide for the defense of the operations and property of the federal government.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Trump implying that one of his supporters murdered Rob Reiner for criticizing him is really something

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A majority of Indiana Senate Republicans stood together to reject Trump’s mob-boss politics. There is more power in standing up to a corrupt, unpopular administration rather than playing its game. Law firms, universities, foundations, and media companies should take note.

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Rosie Berman @rosie-berman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Some wholesome content for your Friday morning

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 09/12/2025

I’ve been notified of two more deaths in ICE custody in the last 24 hours — meaning that 25 people have now died in detention since Trump returned to office. That’s the most in more than two decades. The cruelty and inhumanity of this administration must end.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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