Liz Vladeck
@lvladeck.bsky.social
“Power without love is reckless & abusive, & love without power is sentimental & anemic.” Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. Lifelong NY-er, Mets fan, proud mama. Слава україні! Tweets/opinions mine alone.
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Liz Vladeck
@lvladeck.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Perkins Coie Drags Trump Administration Clear To Hell In New Lawsuit - Above the Law
They're cooking.
abovethelaw.com
IT'S THE CONSTITUTION STUPID...1/x
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abovethelaw.com/2025/03/perk...
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🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of software giant Intuit vote to reject anti-DEI proposal (tally TBA). Intuit Board calls the proposal's requests "unnecessary and wasteful." Shareholders of 32 out of 32 companies have voted to defeat anti-DEI proposals in 2025-6.
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
BREAKING: Intuit Shareholders Vote to Defeat Anti-DEI Proposal -
Shareholders of software giant Intuit voted today to defeat an anti-DEI proposal, adding to chorus of companies saying DEI is a business imperative. The company, which serves approximately 100 million...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of software giant Intuit vote to reject anti-DEI proposal (tally TBA). Intuit Board calls the proposal's requests "unnecessary and wasteful." Shareholders of 32 out of 32 companies have voted to defeat anti-DEI proposals in 2025-6.
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
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JACK SMITH: “I have seen how the rule of law can erode. My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it.”
January 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
JACK SMITH: “I have seen how the rule of law can erode. My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it.”
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Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
The report deeming an ICE detainee’s death in Texas a homicide comes the same day that a federal judge temporarily barred the deportation of two witnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.
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Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Ted Lieu: “The reason Acting President of Venezuela Donald Trump sucks at running Venezuela is because he sucks at running the United States of America — we ask Donald Trump to be the President of America, not the President of Venezuela”
Is neither a choice - I choose neither
Is neither a choice - I choose neither
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Ted Lieu: “The reason Acting President of Venezuela Donald Trump sucks at running Venezuela is because he sucks at running the United States of America — we ask Donald Trump to be the President of America, not the President of Venezuela”
Is neither a choice - I choose neither
Is neither a choice - I choose neither
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AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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309-14 against.
That's the scorecard of federal judges ruling on the Trump administration's attempt to treat *any* non-citizen who was never lawfully admitted as having been stopped at the border for purposes of detention w/o bail.
Here's my earlier explainer:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/195-the-im...
That's the scorecard of federal judges ruling on the Trump administration's attempt to treat *any* non-citizen who was never lawfully admitted as having been stopped at the border for purposes of detention w/o bail.
Here's my earlier explainer:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/195-the-im...
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
309-14 against.
That's the scorecard of federal judges ruling on the Trump administration's attempt to treat *any* non-citizen who was never lawfully admitted as having been stopped at the border for purposes of detention w/o bail.
Here's my earlier explainer:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/195-the-im...
That's the scorecard of federal judges ruling on the Trump administration's attempt to treat *any* non-citizen who was never lawfully admitted as having been stopped at the border for purposes of detention w/o bail.
Here's my earlier explainer:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/195-the-im...
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?
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Fair warning:
If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow.
My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history.
We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.
If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow.
My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history.
We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.
January 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Fair warning:
If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow.
My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history.
We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.
If you don’t want to see a LOT of get out the vote content this year, I’m probably not a good person to follow.
My goal for 2026 is to help hand the GOP the largest midterm loss in history.
We’re going to make 2018 look like a small trickle.
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1/x...In my mind, I am always seven to eight hours ahead of my actual physical location on New Year's eve. It's the biggest holiday of the year in Russia and Ukraine, and I am always celebrating in my mind with my dear friends and colleagues hours before fireworks hit the east coast here in NYC...
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
1/x...In my mind, I am always seven to eight hours ahead of my actual physical location on New Year's eve. It's the biggest holiday of the year in Russia and Ukraine, and I am always celebrating in my mind with my dear friends and colleagues hours before fireworks hit the east coast here in NYC...
17/17 Бажаю всім у Новому році визволення, справедливості, миру та можливості бути повністю людьми-Желаю всем Нового года освобождения, справедливости, мира и возможности быть полностью людьми. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
16/x I miss & love my friends all very much & I fear every day for their & their families' safety. I hold them all in my hearts & wish for all a New Year of freedom, justice, peace, & the ability to be fully human...
15/x ...instead 2 things: 1) the unique qualities and experiences, always quirky, esoteric, surprising, that make them each an individual, distinct, special, beloved; & 2) deploying that individuality every day to be fully human & do all they could to make space for others to be.
December 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
17/17 Бажаю всім у Новому році визволення, справедливості, миру та можливості бути повністю людьми-Желаю всем Нового года освобождения, справедливости, мира и возможности быть полностью людьми. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
16/x I miss & love my friends all very much & I fear every day for their & their families' safety. I hold them all in my hearts & wish for all a New Year of freedom, justice, peace, & the ability to be fully human...
15/x ...instead 2 things: 1) the unique qualities and experiences, always quirky, esoteric, surprising, that make them each an individual, distinct, special, beloved; & 2) deploying that individuality every day to be fully human & do all they could to make space for others to be.
14/x My Russian & Ukrainian friends all taught me that what was important about each of them wasn't whether their passport said "Russian" or "Ukrainian" or even "Jewish," wasn't which language they preferred to speak, wasn't where they were born, who their parents were, or where they lived but...
December 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
16/x I miss & love my friends all very much & I fear every day for their & their families' safety. I hold them all in my hearts & wish for all a New Year of freedom, justice, peace, & the ability to be fully human...
15/x ...instead 2 things: 1) the unique qualities and experiences, always quirky, esoteric, surprising, that make them each an individual, distinct, special, beloved; & 2) deploying that individuality every day to be fully human & do all they could to make space for others to be.
14/x My Russian & Ukrainian friends all taught me that what was important about each of them wasn't whether their passport said "Russian" or "Ukrainian" or even "Jewish," wasn't which language they preferred to speak, wasn't where they were born, who their parents were, or where they lived but...
13/x ...To wind a center into the whirlwind, to make an order where previously there was none, to root humanity into the soil of that earth, so the earth may sustain human minds and bodies, instead of power operating meatgrinders to fertilize the physical earth with those minds & bodies...
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
15/x ...instead 2 things: 1) the unique qualities and experiences, always quirky, esoteric, surprising, that make them each an individual, distinct, special, beloved; & 2) deploying that individuality every day to be fully human & do all they could to make space for others to be.
14/x My Russian & Ukrainian friends all taught me that what was important about each of them wasn't whether their passport said "Russian" or "Ukrainian" or even "Jewish," wasn't which language they preferred to speak, wasn't where they were born, who their parents were, or where they lived but...
13/x ...To wind a center into the whirlwind, to make an order where previously there was none, to root humanity into the soil of that earth, so the earth may sustain human minds and bodies, instead of power operating meatgrinders to fertilize the physical earth with those minds & bodies...
12/x ......the numbers of people who we KNOW could know better but instead choose the whirlwind. Yeats wrote of that "widening gyre" that "the centre cannot hold." But Ukrainians and those who support them are engaged in a counterfactual experiment to Yeats' vision:
December 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
14/x My Russian & Ukrainian friends all taught me that what was important about each of them wasn't whether their passport said "Russian" or "Ukrainian" or even "Jewish," wasn't which language they preferred to speak, wasn't where they were born, who their parents were, or where they lived but...
13/x ...To wind a center into the whirlwind, to make an order where previously there was none, to root humanity into the soil of that earth, so the earth may sustain human minds and bodies, instead of power operating meatgrinders to fertilize the physical earth with those minds & bodies...
12/x ......the numbers of people who we KNOW could know better but instead choose the whirlwind. Yeats wrote of that "widening gyre" that "the centre cannot hold." But Ukrainians and those who support them are engaged in a counterfactual experiment to Yeats' vision:
11/x In other words: nothing to defend and no one to defend it. No one to defend and no one to defend them/us. This permanent disorientation is consuming us here in the U.S.-we sink ever deeper into prolonged, all-consuming Soviet-style nonsense, the scariest & most befuddling aspect of which is...
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
13/x ...To wind a center into the whirlwind, to make an order where previously there was none, to root humanity into the soil of that earth, so the earth may sustain human minds and bodies, instead of power operating meatgrinders to fertilize the physical earth with those minds & bodies...
12/x ......the numbers of people who we KNOW could know better but instead choose the whirlwind. Yeats wrote of that "widening gyre" that "the centre cannot hold." But Ukrainians and those who support them are engaged in a counterfactual experiment to Yeats' vision:
11/x In other words: nothing to defend and no one to defend it. No one to defend and no one to defend them/us. This permanent disorientation is consuming us here in the U.S.-we sink ever deeper into prolonged, all-consuming Soviet-style nonsense, the scariest & most befuddling aspect of which is...
10/x "Nothing is true and everything is possible" a fantastic book by Peter Pomerantsev & an apt description of a deliberate and central state policy: to ensure the population is always off balance, with nothing to hold on to, fall back on, no center as a point of orientation or departure...
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
12/x ......the numbers of people who we KNOW could know better but instead choose the whirlwind. Yeats wrote of that "widening gyre" that "the centre cannot hold." But Ukrainians and those who support them are engaged in a counterfactual experiment to Yeats' vision:
11/x In other words: nothing to defend and no one to defend it. No one to defend and no one to defend them/us. This permanent disorientation is consuming us here in the U.S.-we sink ever deeper into prolonged, all-consuming Soviet-style nonsense, the scariest & most befuddling aspect of which is...
10/x "Nothing is true and everything is possible" a fantastic book by Peter Pomerantsev & an apt description of a deliberate and central state policy: to ensure the population is always off balance, with nothing to hold on to, fall back on, no center as a point of orientation or departure...
9/x ...without facing physical or other punishment or destruction as a consequence. But we are now living through the Russification/Sovietization of this country: Soviet and post-Soviet power has always specialized in nonsense.
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
11/x In other words: nothing to defend and no one to defend it. No one to defend and no one to defend them/us. This permanent disorientation is consuming us here in the U.S.-we sink ever deeper into prolonged, all-consuming Soviet-style nonsense, the scariest & most befuddling aspect of which is...
10/x "Nothing is true and everything is possible" a fantastic book by Peter Pomerantsev & an apt description of a deliberate and central state policy: to ensure the population is always off balance, with nothing to hold on to, fall back on, no center as a point of orientation or departure...
9/x ...without facing physical or other punishment or destruction as a consequence. But we are now living through the Russification/Sovietization of this country: Soviet and post-Soviet power has always specialized in nonsense.
8/x ...Respect human life & dignity. Make room for all of us - especially our children - to have a safe, independent existence, where independence at its core simply means exercising autonomy over one's self & having means to act on structures that exercise power over us...
December 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
10/x "Nothing is true and everything is possible" a fantastic book by Peter Pomerantsev & an apt description of a deliberate and central state policy: to ensure the population is always off balance, with nothing to hold on to, fall back on, no center as a point of orientation or departure...
9/x ...without facing physical or other punishment or destruction as a consequence. But we are now living through the Russification/Sovietization of this country: Soviet and post-Soviet power has always specialized in nonsense.
8/x ...Respect human life & dignity. Make room for all of us - especially our children - to have a safe, independent existence, where independence at its core simply means exercising autonomy over one's self & having means to act on structures that exercise power over us...
7/x ...Ukraine has evolved into a society that has decided - through protest, practice, poetry, and so many other pathways over the last 20 years in particular - that they are also determined to be human. That there are moral absolutes, most of which are very simple: do not hurt others...
December 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
9/x ...without facing physical or other punishment or destruction as a consequence. But we are now living through the Russification/Sovietization of this country: Soviet and post-Soviet power has always specialized in nonsense.
8/x ...Respect human life & dignity. Make room for all of us - especially our children - to have a safe, independent existence, where independence at its core simply means exercising autonomy over one's self & having means to act on structures that exercise power over us...
7/x ...Ukraine has evolved into a society that has decided - through protest, practice, poetry, and so many other pathways over the last 20 years in particular - that they are also determined to be human. That there are moral absolutes, most of which are very simple: do not hurt others...
6/x ...Ukraine, a country with a similarly complicated, often ugly (especially antisemitic - more Jews died there than any country during the Holocaust, including dozens of my family members) but certainly less imperialistic history than Russia's...
December 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
8/x ...Respect human life & dignity. Make room for all of us - especially our children - to have a safe, independent existence, where independence at its core simply means exercising autonomy over one's self & having means to act on structures that exercise power over us...
7/x ...Ukraine has evolved into a society that has decided - through protest, practice, poetry, and so many other pathways over the last 20 years in particular - that they are also determined to be human. That there are moral absolutes, most of which are very simple: do not hurt others...
6/x ...Ukraine, a country with a similarly complicated, often ugly (especially antisemitic - more Jews died there than any country during the Holocaust, including dozens of my family members) but certainly less imperialistic history than Russia's...
5/x ...human life has no value beyond the spoils it brings to the powerful. Being unable even to comprehend, let alone accept this foundational principle is a commonality my Russian friends (an appallingly small minority) have with the incredibly brave people of Ukraine, also including dear friends.
December 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
7/x ...Ukraine has evolved into a society that has decided - through protest, practice, poetry, and so many other pathways over the last 20 years in particular - that they are also determined to be human. That there are moral absolutes, most of which are very simple: do not hurt others...
6/x ...Ukraine, a country with a similarly complicated, often ugly (especially antisemitic - more Jews died there than any country during the Holocaust, including dozens of my family members) but certainly less imperialistic history than Russia's...
5/x ...human life has no value beyond the spoils it brings to the powerful. Being unable even to comprehend, let alone accept this foundational principle is a commonality my Russian friends (an appallingly small minority) have with the incredibly brave people of Ukraine, also including dear friends.
4/x The reason for this danger is simply that, post-USSR, these, my friends, were constitutionally incapable of accepting anything less than being fully human. The ugly, criminal, terroristic practices of Russia's regime are of an absolute piece with centuries of history in Russia and its empires:
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
6/x ...Ukraine, a country with a similarly complicated, often ugly (especially antisemitic - more Jews died there than any country during the Holocaust, including dozens of my family members) but certainly less imperialistic history than Russia's...