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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on.
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The Static of a Collapsing State: On Being Trapped in the American Nightmare There are nights you wake from a nightmare and the relief is a physical thing, a gasp of air in a silent room. But what do you do when the nightmare is the room? When the country you live in has becom...

I wrote about living in a reality where every day feels like a waking nightmare filled with new horrors. After today's SCOTUS rulings and glam tours of concentration in Florida, I keep coming back to it.

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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church

He was detained outside church.

“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

Actor & WNBA fan ⁦‪⁦James Roday‬⁩ shares his bold prediction for the Las Vegas Aces.

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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

Photograph of the ABA logo and the words "American Bar Association" in metal on the glass exterior wall of the ABA building in Chicago.

The American Bar Association filed a lawsuit today to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. Learn more: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I feel like it's my obligation to share all the Stanley Pup player cards.

Don't say I never did anything for you.

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We don't have to terrorize aspiring lawyers like this. What works in Wisconsin can work elsewhere! scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1...

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

this is THE most basic lesson and a lot of our reps are flunking it on the daily

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.

The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.

No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

One of the main lifelines small businesses have to surviving the catastrophic damage being caused by this admin, is local support by everyday people like us. The food cart, creative, farmer’s market, salon, indy services. We advocate for each other.

Know your community to build community.

PSA for anyone covering the effort to destroy the DoE - here is a @justsecurity.org piece by the former Senior Counsel of the DoE: www.justsecurity.org/107918/disma...

This is unconstitutional. A violation of the First Amendment. A violation of federalism and the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutionally vague. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful.

An anonymous post on a blog yesterday said this was happening, and now it's confirmed.

JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking SCOTUS to immediately block a lower court’s midnight deadline to pay $2 billion in invoices for foreign aid work done by State Departments/USAID contractors. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Diana Taurasi, the goat of women's hoops has called it a career. What a career it was.

BREAKING: U.S. District Court of Maryland issued an order blocking the Trump admin's policy that enables ICE to enter houses of worship indiscriminately to conduct immigration enforcement operations, bringing immediate relief to our clients, representing Sikh, Quaker and Baptist individuals. (1/3)

SCOTUS just gave abortion clinics a rare win But more significant threats from Trump's Department of Justice remain

On Monday, the Supreme Court handed abortion rights advocates a rare win when they declined to take up a pair of cases seeking to challenge a decades-old decision limiting protesters’ actions near the entrances of abortion clinics.

Interesting timing here between this and OPM's reversal. I'd bet cash money that DoJ got this motion for sanctions on Sunday, called OPM to tell them to knock it the fuck off, and then today OPM accordingly knocked it the fuck off.

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Rose-Tu’s calf has a name! Meet Tula-Tu 💕

Murkowski introduces bill to keep Denali as the name of North America’s tallest peak The legislation comes after President Donald Trump ordered last month for the name to be changed back to Mount McKinley.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has introduced federal legislation that would officially designate North America’s highest mountain as Denali, refuting an executive order from President Donald Trump.

Sherrilyn's Newsletter hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing. But this moment we find ourselves in is the result of the reckless voting of our fellow Americans in 2024, the failures of our media over decades, the critical political mistakes of our leaders, the short-sighted greed of the corporate community, and the longstanding lack of urgency about repairing the gaping cracks in our democratic infrastructure over far too many years. There is no magical way out. We are reaping what has been sown by many, many years of inattention to the eroding foundations of our democracy and we must face it.

To insist that nothing can be done is to surrender to the pull of inertia. To numb ourselves and settle for watching our country's demise, rather than fight it. If this seems like an option to you it is only because you are unable to imagine how truly bad it can get for our families, our friends, and our communities. I am clear that it can and may become not just worse, but intolerable for many, many people, and that none of us will be immune. That recognition makes it clear to me that there is no option but to fight.

A great piece by @sifill.bsky.social here: sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...

Skippers Corner: Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a global celebration to promote the full and equal access and participation of women in Science, Technology...

READ: This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, get to know some of the @sailorsforthesea.bsky.social Skipper volunteers who are leaders in both sailing and science! oceana.ly/3WWw2QQ #WomenInScience

The American Bar Association is the largest professional organization of lawyers in the country and completely nonpartisan. They have issued an unprecedented indictment of the Trump administration’s actions over the past three weeks.

Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

A3: "race your own race" and "be here" i.e. run the mile you're in. #runchat

A2: Bravey by Alexi Pappas. Or Good for a Girl by @laurenfleshman.bsky.social #runchat

Happy National Pizza Day! Another year of unbeatable Connecticut pizza—or “Apizza,” as we call it in New Haven.

Thanks to the hard work of our small businesses and local aficionados, Apizza continues to reign supreme.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you—it’s love at first bite🍕