Jeff Berman

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

“Abundance contains within it a bigness that befits the American project…. It is a determination to align our collective genius with the needs of both the planet and each other.” #booksky 💙📚

Judge Boasberg was a prosecutor when I was a public defender. We battled. Hard. He is a paragon of integrity. This attack, to use a technical legal term, is just so deeply fucked.

Holds up. Unfortunately.
#booksky 📚💙

Beep beep

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Love this.

Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.

This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm.

It's all out in the open.

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump The California Senate’s move follows a letter from three US senators to the embattled media company.

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www.semafor.com/article/05/3...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Sen. Joni Ernst, after an audience member yells, “People will die,” during her discussion on Medicaid cuts at her town hall:

“Well, we all are going to die.”

Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.

So many snowflakes.

Arya Sundaram @arya_sundaram DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St. I identified myself as a member of the press and said I was there to observe. They still didn't let me in, saying I had "no business" there. 11:04 AM · May 29, 2025 · 82 Views

15 min. ago, Arya Sundaram, "migration reporter for Gothamist/WNYC" tweeted:

"DHS agents just denied me entry to the immigration court on Varick St."

That Immigration Court is at 201 Varick Street at Houston St. @aryasundaram.bsky.social of @wnyc.org/ @gothamist.com

Link:
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This is a senior Justice Department official.

Who is in charge of pardons.

And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.

Trump cut staffing at the VA, and now Dallas vets are waiting months for care.

Surgeries are being delayed. Vets are being left without mental health care.

I’ve called for an investigation—because if you claim to support veterans, act like it.

Axios Pro Rata

AXIOS: Trump's move on Harvard "could hurt America's economy by reducing the number of startup founders. ..

".. Around 44% of U.S. unicorn companies — startups valued at $1 billion or more — are founded or cofounded by immigrants .."

@axios.com
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Checking in with the BlueSky historians. How has appeasement worked out? You know. Like historically?

Because of course they did.

This “deep state” is in fact the last vestige of a democracy committed to equal rights and the common good in what had become a corrupt oligarchic sham of it. The “unelected bureaucrats” were the only ones listening to and responding to the people.

All dismantled in the name of “democracy.”

Do speaker phones in indoor public spaces next please.

The abusive weaponization of the Trump Justice Department is getting to be so extreme it would be a farce if it weren't so dangerous to our system of government.

And remember, it's not my assertion -- this is what Trump himself vowed to do if returned to power.

Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan

1/ Another case meeting the international human rights law definition of disappearances.

"A lawyer for the Justice Department, Elianis N. Perez ... declined to say where the second migrant ... was deported, saying it was classified information.

'Where is the plane?' Judge Murphy asked. ..."

This is unconscionable.

Immigrant rights advocates claim US violated court order by deporting migrants to South Sudan Immigrant rights advocates accused the Trump administration on Tuesday of deporting around a dozen migrants from countries including Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in violation of a court order and asked a judge to order their return.

"I have a strong indication that my preliminary injunction order has been violated," Judge Murphy said after learning the Trump administration had swiftly deported a group of migrants to South Sudan. www.reuters.com/world/immigr...

Goldman on McIver charges: "I want to know what prosecutor is going to put his or her name on that indictment ... Alina Habba doesn't care. She's a hack. She doesn't even know how to introduce evidence in court during a trial, and yet she's the US attorney in New Jersey."

Mistaken ID: Did a gang database error help send the wrong man to a Salvadoran prison? A mugshot in a Texas gang database flagged a Tren de Aragua member. His identity was wrong, but the real man was sent to a Salvadoran prison.

Just gets worse.

"Law enforcement officials admit that the photo was of another suspect and the entry was removed last month from the Texas database, known as TxGANG, when authorities realized the mix-up. "

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This seems bad