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Tom Clark
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Political scientist at Stanford University studying law, courts, policing, public safety. www.tomclarkphd.com Go birds.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 13h
So, what the Administration, without any legal authority, is now rolling out check boxes to decide which people in the country can use or move their money. I recall a historical example like this.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."

Reposted by Tom Clark, Michael J. Nelson

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American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · 17h
Reviewing fast or slow: A theory of summary reversal in the judicial hierarchy by Alexander V. Hirsch, Jonathan P. Kastellec, and Anthony R. Taboni is now available in Early View. @jkastellec.bsky.social @anthonytaboni.bsky.social ajps.org/2026/01/09/r...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18h
Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Reposted by Tom Clark, David Rosnick

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19h
For the purposes of jurisprudential parsimony let us take it as given that Renée Good is alive.

by Brett Kavanaugh

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Reposted by Reece Jones, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 34 more

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Reece Jones, Nina Jankowicz , and 39 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

Reposted by Tom Clark, Ryan Enos, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 2d
The Greenland fixation feels like a personal insult to anyone who's spent more than about five minutes thinking about national security. "Hey, let's demolish our most valuable alliance so we can get get access to arctic territory we already have access to!"

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 2d
“If this was about safety, you wouldn’t do stupid things like that.”

If this were about safety, very little of what the administration is doing would make sense. But it’s about creating a spectacle. Like all things Trump, it’s about a show, not substance.
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d
Mayor Frey describes incident where federal agents snatched someone out of their car on 3rd Ave: "They left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park. So you've got this vehicle that's rolling down the street with nobody in it."

Reposted by Tom Clark, Mark Rice

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d
Mayor Frey describes incident where federal agents snatched someone out of their car on 3rd Ave: "They left the car in the middle of the street. The car wasn't even in park. So you've got this vehicle that's rolling down the street with nobody in it."

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 2d
This is probably right.
schooley.bsky.social Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d
If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 2d
I think that in a free democracy, we shouldn’t have secret police using the state’s power against civilians and then having the government lie to use about the details.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Smith, Scott A. Imberman , and 2 more

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d
If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Tom Clark , and 1 more

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d
So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
We read thousands of internal ICE chats. They show how officials make raids go viral
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
www.washingtonpost.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.

@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3d
ah. they all got the memo
xcancel.com/JDVance/stat...

Reposted by Tom Clark

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Once again, they learned that when you do the bribing in the open, people don't think it's that wrong.

Reposted by Tom Clark, Guy Grossman

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Matt Collin @mattcollin.bsky.social · 3d
We are truly in the dumbest timeline

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
After Machado Offers Her Nobel, Trump Says It Would Be an ‘Honor’ to Accept It
www.nytimes.com

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 3d
Something that always strikes me when I see the ICE/CBP paramilitary agents in full tactical gear is that when there are better-trained law enforcement with them, like FBI agents, they're just in jeans and windbreakers.

The contrast is something.

Reposted by Tom Clark

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d
Pretty upsetting to see the vice president argue that the government can send masked agents out and allow them to shoot Americans and have “absolute immunity”. (Also, they don’t, to the extent we’re following the law.)

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d
My fear is that this is why Trump invaded Venezuela and is now channeling their oil money into offshore accounts (non-Treasury) that he ostensibly controls.

Consider a world where one person can unilaterally use the US military to raid another country and use the proceeds without any oversight.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d
America First (TM) means paying 30,000 Danish citizens $100,000 bonuses EACH while Americans can’t afford health insurance.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d
Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????

This is a joke right ?

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d
America First (TM) means paying 30,000 Danish citizens $100,000 bonuses EACH while Americans can’t afford health insurance.

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Tom Clark, Steve Peers , and 9 more

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d
This is not the law.

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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 4d
There's lots of room for disagreement in politics, but we've known since Trump's first administration that he'll say whatever he wants, the facts be damned. In the far more Orwellian second administration, we really do find ourselves in these kinds of 1984 situations more often.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."