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annabower.bsky.social
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

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11:19 14 in shot, i the Post's facts are correct it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the "two men were blown apart in the water," as the Post put it. It is unclear from the Post's Seporting precisely what role Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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genna.bsky.social
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This seems to be the perfect distillation of the point that putting volunteer military with no law enforcement experience on the streets of an unfamiliar city actually worsens public safety
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
The individual cases often get lost in the sheer volume — many are people who fled violence and set up roots in the U.S. for decades, often married to U.S. citizen partners or w U.S. citizen kids, while their own asylum applications are pending. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.

More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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keribla.bsky.social
absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
To the contrary: In Moore v. Harper, the majority acknowledged that state courts may play a legitimate, meaningful role in congressional redistricting. Ziegler seems to have made up a quote that (a) doesn't appear in the opinion and (b) contradicts its holding. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22p...
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Question about the dissent by (the far-right) Justice Ziegler: Does this quote actually appear in Moore v. Harper? Did Moore say that state courts' role in congressional redistricting is "exceedingly limited"? I don't think it did! vhdshf2oms2wcnsvk7sdv3so.blob.core.windows.net/thearp-media...
Worse yet, the plaintiffs’ theory disobeys the United States Constitution’s Elections Clause which vests redistricting responsibility exclusively in “the Legislature thereof.” U.S. CONST. ART. I, § 4. As the United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed, the role of state courts in congressional redistricting is “exceedingly limited.” Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S. 1, 34 (2023). This lawsuit invites the very judicial meddling that the Constitution prohibits. We see other states invoking fairly interesting procedures to address congressional maps.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
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November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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modemjunkie.bsky.social
Bodycam footage reveals Trump border chief framed Chicago protesters for violence.
by @mjsdc.bsky.social and @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

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Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out.
The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
ICE goons entered a woman’s home without a warrant, guns out, terrorizing her and her two children. The man they were looking for didn’t live at the house.

www.fox5ny.com/news/ice-rai...
Video shows ICE agents raid Queens home with guns drawn as mother pleads, DHS denies wrongdoing
In the video, agents can be heard ordering the woman to come out of the bedroom while she tells them she has her baby in her arms.
www.fox5ny.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing “cute” responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Rev. Black in the head. Doc. 191- 3 at 162:21–165:17; Doc. 22-44 (Ex. 44 at 0:10–12, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). In another video shown to Bovino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, one of Plaintiffs’ declarants. Doc. 191-3 at 172:13–173:7; Doc. 22-45 (Ex. 45 at 0:19–30, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). But instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bovino denied it and instead stated that force was used against him.
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9d
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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vulgareconomics.bsky.social
People think this is outlandish prosecutory behavior, but charging arrestees with assault for injuries cops give themselves during arrest is quite common. In fact, people can be (and are) charged with felony murder when cops kill an innocent bystander or an accomplice when responding to a crime
walterolson.bsky.social Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 9d
A federal judge dismissed felony charges filed against an ICE arrestee based on "the scrapes on an ICE agent’s hand after the agent punched a hole in his car window—a use of force that the judge found to be unconstitutionally excessive." @qjurecic.bsky.social]
The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?
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November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
The screengrab below is nuts. "This officer was so indiscriminate about shooting protesters that plaintiff, as a matter of law, cannot demonstrate he was targeted in retaliation for his First Amendment activity."

DO WE NOT SEE THE PROBLEM HERE
gabrielmalor.bsky.social Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9d
6th Cir. holds that because police officer also shot pepper balls at George Floyd protesters who weren't filming police, plaintiff (causing permanent vision loss) cannot show the officer shot him in retaliation for filming.

QI for officer.

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Keup argues that Deputy Palmer specifically targeted him or singled him out from others at the scene. That is true, but not enough. Another officer pointed out Keup, and Deputy Palmer shot him. But immediately before that, the other officer pointed out another protestor, who was not holding a backpack or otherwise “aiding” the recording of police, and Deputy Palmer shot him, too. So even though Keup was targeted, there is no reasonable inference that Deputy Palmer singled him out because of his First Amendment activity.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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🚨 Here we go again. Govt cover up.

Surveillance footage that could provide evidence of abusive, inhumane conditions at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago is somehow “irretrievably destroyed.”

DHS has no explanation.

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⚖️ Court records: is.gd/d4n98Y
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November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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BREAKING: Federal court ruled Texas’ congressional map enacted thru a sham legislative process, can’t be used for the upcoming 2026 midterm elections b/c it is a unconstitutional racial gerrymander harming Black and Hispanic voters.

Read LDF’s statement.
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LDF and Civil Rights Organizations Applaud Federal Court’s Decision to Block Texas’ Racially Discriminatory Congressional Map in the 2026 Elections
A three-judge federal panel ruled today that Texas’ 2025 redrawn congressional map, which was enacted through a sham legislative process in August, cannot be used for the upcoming 2026 midterm electio...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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SCOTUS: “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech”

TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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brianlyman.bsky.social
My column this week. The cost of an Elmore County prison continues to soar beyond estimates. And state leaders don’t mind. Because when it comes to incarcerating Alabamians, they never think a dollar is wasted.
Alabama can never spend enough money on a prison | Alabama Reflector
State leaders who prioritize punishment and control over the welfare of citizens will never see any money spent on walls and bars as wasted.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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maustermuhle.bsky.social
This week the House is set to vote on two bills targeting D.C.'s criminal justice laws. One would repeal a 2020 city law that imposed new training, discipline, and disclosure standards on police. The other would bring cash bail back to D.C. 30 years after it was eliminated.
dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 12d
We stand united against all 13 anti–DC Home Rule bills in Congress.

DC is home to more than 700,000 residents who pay taxes, run businesses, and serve in the military. Like all Americans, we deserve the right to set our own local laws.

Congress should reject this unprecedented federal overreach.
"We are united in our forceful opposition to the bills recently advanced by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. These bills are an affront to Home Rule and the principles of democracy and local self-governance on which this country was founded. The District is home to more than 700,000 residents who pay taxes and serve in the military. Like all Americans, they deserve the right to elect local leaders who have the authority to determine the local policies that govern them. We urge members of Congress to reject this unprecedented federal overreach and vote against these bills." Muriel Bowser, Mayor for the District of Columbia Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia Phil Mendelson, Council Chairman for the District of Columbia
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Guilty until proven innocent
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
FOX: Here's a viral video of landscapers who were being addressed by a CBP agent. What do you say to people who say that falls outside the purview of getting criminals out?

GREG BOVINO: Martha, do we know the criminal records of those so-called landscapers?
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM