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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 23h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 21h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 1d

This blatant corruption also means that the regime needs to hold on to power--hence, wave after wave of gerrymandering, largely blessed by the courts.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

There are worse things that Trump has done, but I don't know that any judicial appointment has been more of a middle finger to the legal system and the rule of law than Bove's appointment.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 1d

What this means is that grant money will go to universities based on their professed loyalty to the regime and not the expertise of faculty. What could possibly go wrong, @mbkplus.bsky.social?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 2d

A CIA official ordered the destruction of 90+ tapes of interrogations because they made the agency "look terrible." Looking forward, not backwards helps to explain the current mess.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

If there had been robust accountability for U.S. personnel involved in torture, wonder if the U.S. would be engaged in premeditated killings in the Caribbean.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Fragments of 2003 Cable Detail Torture in a Secret C.I.A. Prison

www.nytimes.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 2d

The @nytimes.com insists on treating minor disputes involving outside speakers as equivalent to governmental suppression of disfavored views on campus. The scheduling of an Ilya Shapiro event at NYU tells us little about higher education or law schools, despite what a former DOJ prosecutor thinks.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 2d

Also, despite the headline, only one law school is mentioned in the piece. This is a classic misinformation tactic.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This framing is a bit of a choice:
What happened: Ilya Shapiro and the Federal Society wanted an event on anti-semitism at NYU. Campus officials proposed another day, worried about the anniversary on Oct 7. After pushback, they relented. Is this a cancelation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 5d

I almost can't believe @nytimes.com ran this, @mbkplus.bsky.social. Even if one is sympathetic to Rowan's talk of crisis--conveniently timed with anti-Israel protests--the compact is completely unworkable. For more thoughts re: Rowan and private equity, check out episode 8 of the podcast.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 2d

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Panda Bernstein @j4years.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t think this is evil, there is nothing anyone can do to save your soul.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 4d

Trump v. US is in a league of its own, but Nebraska v. Biden was a harbinger in its hackishness.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 4d

The anti-Israel protests were the last straw for some powerful Columbia alums, and they used the Trump administration's threats to remake the university. They did not care about the precedent they were setting or higher ed as a whole. They also deluded themselves about future grant funding.

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 4d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 4d

If the country survives Trumpism, it will be partly due to the administration running out of competent lawyers.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…”

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A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 4d

Re-upping since Kavanaugh Stop continues to catch on.

Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 5d

Has a judge ever resigned in shame because of an egregious and widely mocked opinion?

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Kavanaugh stop

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

You love to see @akalhan.bsky.social having successfully coined a new phrase.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Temple University Beasley School of Law @templelaw.bsky.social · 5d

We share the obituary of Professor Emeritus Henry J. “Hank” Richardson, III, known as “The Father of Black Traditions of International Law."

A pioneering scholar, advocate, mentor, and friend.

https://www.mcguire-services.com/obituary/Henry-Richardson

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 5d

I almost can't believe @nytimes.com ran this, @mbkplus.bsky.social. Even if one is sympathetic to Rowan's talk of crisis--conveniently timed with anti-Israel protests--the compact is completely unworkable. For more thoughts re: Rowan and private equity, check out episode 8 of the podcast.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, the 9th Circuit decision barely analyzed the statutory language, even though the administration circumvented Newsom entirely.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 5d

Good for MIT! The Trump administration's politicization of the grant process has harmed science. Cc: @mbkplus.bsky.social.

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