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Excellent way of putting it! I’m going to adopt this. Sits perfectly well with science being a collective, social enterprise of constructing knowledge of the world.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

At some point I suggested that this might be less the institutionalist-constitutionalist rebuke of Trump that it was universally reported as, and more a "we got your back" reassurance to him: be patient, appeal the cases to us, and we'll take care of them.

Yeah.

This is a horrifying ruling that shows a disdain for basic human rights principles — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees did so with no reasoning and on the shadow docket.

"Mr. Khalil was never accused of a crime. Instead, Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked a rarely cited law from the mid-20th century to deport him on the grounds that he had undermined American foreign policy. The administration argued that he had contributed to the spread of antisemitism through his role in the protests at the university."

In an article on Mahmoud Khalil's release, the NYTimes notes he was detained on the grounds of "a rarely cited law from the mid-20th century." They don't tell you that this law was originally used primarily to deport Eastern European Jews, including Holocaust survivors, as suspected Communists.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

MAGA political violence claims more victims Trump’s movement relies on terror.

Trump's Sunday night screed about Democrats who are "sick of mind" and "hate our country" is the exact sort of rhetoric that radicalizes people like Boelter to commit acts of violence. But instead of responding to the Hortman assassination by turning down the heat, Trump keeps ramping it up.

Holding a sign in front of the Capitol "Killing our speaker won't silence us."

Proud of Minnesotans

Dem Assassin Is Armed Guard Boss With Anti-Abortion Hit-List The suspect is Vance Boelter, 57, according to police sources.

万斯·博尔特57岁，被认定为明尼苏达州议员枪击案主要嫌疑人。他涉嫌伪装警察，杀害众议长梅丽莎·霍特曼及其丈夫，并枪击州参议员约翰·霍夫曼夫妇。警方在其车辆中发现一份“击杀名单”，列有逾70人，包括明州州长沃尔兹、联邦众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔，以及多名堕胎服务提供者与支持者。曾被沃尔兹任命为州工作发展委员会成员，现为明州Praetorian Guard安保公司武装巡逻主管，有中东与东欧地区安保经验。其家庭为福音派背景，子女多数接受在家教育，社交平台频见圣经引文，进一步强化其右翼宗教极端主义动机。

News orgs tend to fixate on giant peaceful protests, which generate iconic A1 photos, and ignore smaller ones (unless they are at all violent, in which case, "MASS RIOTING").

So, US media has been blind to the fact that there have been *more than ten thousand* protest events in the US this year.

The West Bank.

All the while David Hogg gets pushed out of the DNC for advocating primary challenges.

FYI: Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety. "Oversight of the immigration functions of the Department of Homeland Security" is literally the definition of his jurisdiction.

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:

"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

This thread. The immigrant crime rate is statistically lower than the native crime rate. Full stop. The panic is all confirmation bais and motivated reasoning. Even more so with the conspiracy about illegal voting.

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing?

BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial

BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir

BESSENT: Job growth is solid

BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

Armed January 6 insurrectionists caused property damage estimated at $30 million in addition to seriously injuring 140 police officers with issues ranging from gouged eyes, traumatic brain injuries, broken ribs, amputated fingers, and more.

My parents are well acquainted with military parades from their time in the Soviet Union. I asked my mother what she thought of Trump having one on his birthday. She replied "at least the communists did it on national holidays to pretend it was for us."

nice takedown: "Schuringa’s book does little to unmask hidden agendas. Instead, it’s ... spiked with potted biographies of analytic philosophers that emphasize (where possible) class privilege and private schooling. Social forces lying beneath the surface rarely emerge."

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

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Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous.
prospect.org/justice/crie...

thank you for being there when i presented the paper idea😘

here's the thread that might be getting him sent to CECOT btw xcancel.com/dieworkwear/...

Is Blood Thicker Than Water(-and-Earth)? Partisanship Geography in Imperial China and the Limits of Quantitative History (Forthcoming in American Political Science Review)

I have a paper forthcoming in American Political Science Review, contesting Wang Yuhua's previous APSR paper on the causal mechanism of partisan support for Wang Anshi's reform. Read the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....