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If tomorrow they made being undocumented a felony, it wouldn’t justify any of this. Things that are harmless or even good can be criminalized.
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
If tomorrow they made being undocumented a felony, it wouldn’t justify any of this. Things that are harmless or even good can be criminalized.
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One interesting thing about a lot of the discussion I've been seeing from the centrist pundit class about this is that they keep trying to frame Crockett as far-left when she's just... not?
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launches bid for U.S. Senate in Texas, looking to flip a Republican-held seat.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for the US Senate in Texas. Allred to seek House seat
Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats and a frequent target of GOP attacks, jumped into the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
One interesting thing about a lot of the discussion I've been seeing from the centrist pundit class about this is that they keep trying to frame Crockett as far-left when she's just... not?
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It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry as Kristi Noem implies that it is illegal and a Constitutional violation to notify immigrants of their rights.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry as Kristi Noem implies that it is illegal and a Constitutional violation to notify immigrants of their rights.
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It does seem that way. The question is whether this is just the herd chasing after the next thing. Or is there a deeper hostility in tech world towards the sort of collective reorganization of economic life that a serious response to climate change would require?
Tech was all in on net zero just a couple of years ago; the concept seems to have completely vanished. It’s like someone declared war and now it’s no holds barred.
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
It does seem that way. The question is whether this is just the herd chasing after the next thing. Or is there a deeper hostility in tech world towards the sort of collective reorganization of economic life that a serious response to climate change would require?
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not exactly what I mean, former Obama press secretary turned Amazon PR and policy chief turned Airbnb global head of policy and communications. but kind of
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
not exactly what I mean, former Obama press secretary turned Amazon PR and policy chief turned Airbnb global head of policy and communications. but kind of
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Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists)
www.columbia.edu/content/repo...
www.columbia.edu/content/repo...
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists)
www.columbia.edu/content/repo...
www.columbia.edu/content/repo...
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Significant update in one of the key cases in the crackdown against questioning U.S.-Israeli policy around Gaza:
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Significant update in one of the key cases in the crackdown against questioning U.S.-Israeli policy around Gaza:
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🔴 US & Israeli officials initially portrayed new civil-military coordination center (CMCC) as a transfer of authority over Gaza aid to Washington, but nearly 2 months into the ceasefire Israeli forces still control the perimeter & every shipment entering the territory, according to the Guardian...
![🔴 U.S. and Israeli officials initially portrayed the new civil-military coordination center (CMCC) as a transfer of authority over Gaza aid to Washington, but nearly two months into the ceasefire Israeli forces still control the perimeter and every shipment entering the territory, according to the Guardian.
A U.S. official described the arrangement: “We didn’t take over [aid],” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It is an integration. It is hand in glove. They ([The Israelis] remain the hand, and the CMMC have become the glove over that hand.”
American logistics teams experienced in disaster response arrived expecting to expand aid flows, only to discover that Israeli political restrictions, not engineering obstacles, were the main barrier. Within weeks, several dozen American personnel had left the site.
Diplomats say talks have eased some “dual-use” bans, including tent poles and water purification chemicals, but Israel continues to block other basics, including pencils, paper, and unexplained school supplies, as parts of Gaza remain on the edge of famine.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avtgggryiqtjlg5wwsufccua/bafkreibs3jtcdgyub6rbzb6t5been36uohllzakrovfdtzcqjmup5us4ly@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
🔴 US & Israeli officials initially portrayed new civil-military coordination center (CMCC) as a transfer of authority over Gaza aid to Washington, but nearly 2 months into the ceasefire Israeli forces still control the perimeter & every shipment entering the territory, according to the Guardian...
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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The EEOC has now opened a portal for Jewish Columbia students to file claims regarding antisemitic harassment or discrimination. There's a slush fund of $21 million earmarked for this purpose.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/21-...
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/21-...
$21 Million Payout Process Begins in Columbia University Antisemitism Settlement with EEOC
NEW YORK – The U.S.
www.eeoc.gov
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The EEOC has now opened a portal for Jewish Columbia students to file claims regarding antisemitic harassment or discrimination. There's a slush fund of $21 million earmarked for this purpose.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/21-...
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/21-...
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Remember Ellison is also angling for co-ownership of TikTok alongside Rupert Murdoch
Maybe it's not a good idea to allow the billionaire Trump-supporting Ellison family at Paramount that just took over CBS News to also take over Warner Brothers, the company that owns CNN. There will be no free press in America if the president and his allies control all the major media outlets.l
Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Remember Ellison is also angling for co-ownership of TikTok alongside Rupert Murdoch
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🇵🇸 The last Columbia University protester still in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia, describes conditions inside the Texas facility where she has been held for the past 9 months.
KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”
“Another word for...
KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”
“Another word for...
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🇵🇸 The last Columbia University protester still in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia, describes conditions inside the Texas facility where she has been held for the past 9 months.
KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”
“Another word for...
KORDIA: “Right now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”
“Another word for...
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A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money.
LPE lfg
lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
LPE lfg
lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times
As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…
lpeproject.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money.
LPE lfg
lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
LPE lfg
lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
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for those with short memories
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
for those with short memories
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“The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought” - my latest balkin.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Balkinization: The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought” - my latest balkin.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
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5/6
giving up manufacturing share. This is just arithmetic.
As Joan Robinson explained, when some major economies control their external accounts and others don't, the resulting beggar-thy-neighbor imbalances will eventually force the latter into protectionism.
giving up manufacturing share. This is just arithmetic.
As Joan Robinson explained, when some major economies control their external accounts and others don't, the resulting beggar-thy-neighbor imbalances will eventually force the latter into protectionism.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
5/6
giving up manufacturing share. This is just arithmetic.
As Joan Robinson explained, when some major economies control their external accounts and others don't, the resulting beggar-thy-neighbor imbalances will eventually force the latter into protectionism.
giving up manufacturing share. This is just arithmetic.
As Joan Robinson explained, when some major economies control their external accounts and others don't, the resulting beggar-thy-neighbor imbalances will eventually force the latter into protectionism.
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"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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🚨 Netanyahu’s Strategy to Drive Palestinians Out By Freezing & Starving Gaza Through Winter
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
🚨 Netanyahu’s Strategy to Drive Palestinians Out By Freezing & Starving Gaza Through Winter
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
Please listen in full to this update Gaza NGO coordinator Eyad Amawi shared w/ Drop Site, in which he describes in detail the humanitarian catastrophe engulfing the enclave.
He also lays out what he...
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🎥 Watch | “This so-called peace plan is nothing but a pleasant title hiding a catastrophic reality,” Eyad Amawi, humanitarian aid coordinator in central Gaza tells Drop Site.
“There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of...
“There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of...
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
🎥 Watch | “This so-called peace plan is nothing but a pleasant title hiding a catastrophic reality,” Eyad Amawi, humanitarian aid coordinator in central Gaza tells Drop Site.
“There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of...
“There has been no real change in living conditions, except for a small economically privileged segment.” He says 90% of...