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Paul Gowder

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Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · Sep 9

The president does not have the power to make laws. That’s literally the first (operative) sentence in the constitution.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

The president does not have the power to make laws.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 4h

Except in the To Serve Man sense with RFK

a man with a big head and beard is reading a book

ALT: a man with a big head and beard is reading a book

media.tenor.com

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 13h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 7h

“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 18h

Yo this is wild AF

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

Got the flu & new COVID shots today with the family, but my kids only got the flu shot because there are no pediatric COVID vaccines right now because dangerous anti-science lunatics have taken over the centers of national public health & are sabotaging them

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 6d

For anyone subscribed to Counterpunch, the “ICEBlock story” is out

Paywall removed soon

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 11h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 5h

We're pretty damn good at jailing people in this country. And they're conveniently building lots of extra jails themselves, so we will have the space...

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 6h

CI's proposed Article of Impeachment for treason is great. Skeptics are badly underestimating how powerful it would be for Dems to keep introducing such articles. They could be angry, funny, provocative! Even in "failure," it would be a way of seizing the narrative through quality political theater.

Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 17h

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social joined Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social on Lights On last night.

"What we need to do is get message discipline. That the remedy for tyranny and treason is impeachment. Period. Full Stop. That’s all you need. And we can take it from there."

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 13h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

Is THIS who you want writing your essay????

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michael veale @michae.lv · 14h

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 7h

It’s a Watergate-level crime every damn day in this administration, and Congress is appallingly unwilling to exercise its Article I obligations to check executive branch power.

Reprehensible, inexcusable, and indescribably dangerous.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

One would think headlines couldn‘t get more abnormal, but they can. www.oregonlive.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 8h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 7h

Slash don't bring them/bring a burner

Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 8h

Protesting 101: keep your cell phone in a Faraday case at protests, always.

Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 7h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 7h

Feels like the United States has been invaded by a hostile force and we are getting the equivalent of de-Baathification domestically by the Trump administration which is treating its own government and blue states as enemies.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

Post-Trump government reform is obviously going to have to include moving a bunch of agencies out of the executive, but I think it probably also needs to include the creation of a watchdog org under congress that explicitly *always* has standing for constitutional violations by the executive.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 17h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 9h

Oh good 🤣