Valerie Merriam DeBill

Ellis:
"It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’ Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

How can I want it so much when I didn’t even know it was an options two minutes ago?

Same place folks get the idea that *they* don’t need proof of citizenship to get a TDL because “they should be able to tell I’m American just looking at me!”

<-- can't care about or focus on the tariff nonsense when Trump just openly articulated a plan to begin abducting and remanding US citizens to foreign concentration camps without due process

It’s important for people like us (cis, white, older) to risk arrest not just because our arrest experience is safer for us than BIPoC. (Still important!)

But every time they handle someone like me or Chris with kid gloves it shows the hypocrisy when cops try to defend their actions against BIPoC.

Highly relevant. I’ve been sending the story itself to people for days.

I think there may be an attempt to do that in/near Austin. Mr Doge already has a ‘company town’ in the works for Tesla employees, and is going to build an elementary school. All in the unincorporated areas.

We asked journalists around the world who have endured attacks on press freedom what advice they would give their American colleagues. We have collected their wise and remarkable responses in a special issue of @niemanreports.org. “Dear America,” they wrote.

It was the Busta Rhymes, it was the Wusta Rhymes.

Huh, this whole #starterpack thing is a thing, isn't it?
Quick re-introduction:
I'm a musicologist & my research subjects are RechtsRock (music of the far right incl. NSBM), racism/antisemitism in musicology, pop & transgression.
Music is not a thing, but something that people do!
#noNazis #noTERFs

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.

The best take I’ve seen yet on the problem of populism turned autocracy and how to fight it.

A must read.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Be sure to keep your light bright and shining - you never know just how many people you may be a lighthouse for. You never know how many people find their way home, even in the wildest storms, because you are there.

- Cleo Wade

I will never understand what makes a person so sure of their own infallibility that they will double down on something that ends someone’s life.

Thank you for clueing me in to Gerald Horne via the Observer. I hadn’t remembered where I first heard of him until I followed your link!

I feel this in my bones here in Texas.

As soon as I saw @iwriteok.bsky.social on the list I knew it was legit.

Experts in far right extremist movements: go.bsky.app/PXBrCW9

Watch “one person one vote?” on PBS if you get a chance. Very good doc on the EC and why we have it, against the backdrop of Colorado’s referendum on the national popular vote compact.

Also incidentally includes Lauren Boebert’s origin story, a dude who was an elector for Kanye, and Jan6 up close.