Patrick G. Eddington

An entire nightmare brought to you by Trump, Miller, & Noem.

President Trump's push to send migrants without criminal records to El Salvadoran prison camps to be beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted reflects his commitment to Make America Great Again

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Scientific fraud through paper mills and targeted journals is already occurring at scale. It is organized, orchestrated, and rapidly growing, far outpacing legitimate science
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Opinion | This Attack on a Federal Judge Is Preposterous

The Bondi DOJ's complaint misrepresents Judge Boasberg's comments and misapplies the relevant law and rules. "Worse, it is a dangerous escalation in a mounting list of assaults by the current administration on the legitimacy of the federal courts." [Nancy Gertner and @stevevladeck.bsky.social]

These young people know constitutional rights violations when they see them & how to respond to them very publicly. Too bad federal House and Senate members--who actually took an oath to defend those very rights--are either actively cheering such violations or simply whining about them fecklessly.

Another excellent piece by my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social on the institutional incentives prosecutors have to engage in de facto witness bribery, thus trashing anything resembling "justice under law."

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“One of These Nights” hits #1 today in 1975 — the Eagles’ 2nd chart-topper.

“We were getting more .. into R&B,”
said Frey, “and we wanted to make something with a real ‘get-down’ feel to it. Don came up with the title, and we built everything around that mood — sexy, dangerous, a little eerie.”

And this is how you stop this kind of garbage in its tracks.

It's a real problem when politicians don't understand policy.

I've lost track of the number of times I've watched the first two films in the series. He's just epic. #Taken

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‘Hot Wasps’ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina

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Family of Virginia Giuffre re: Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer

"It's w/ horror & outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker G. Maxwell has received.. Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children.. she should never be shown any leniency"

one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response

That law enforcement carveout was in HIPAA when it got signed into law, but yeah, the overall data privacy environment pretty much blows.

And this is a sure fire way to end this and every other form of lawlessness this regime is engaged in:

BREAKING: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration's use of summary deportation for those who had previously been paroled into the U.S. — and warns the tactics used by the administration are beginning to resemble the countries these people fled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

The 14th Amendment says otherwise, but the regime doesn't care because the regime believes that what it says, not what the courts rule, is the law. Chilling piece by @mjsdc.bsky.social

Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

Read @jenvictor.bsky.social on the events at at GMU. misofact.substack.com/p/authoritar...

Patrick Eddington: How to 'tyranny-proof' America The former CIA analyst and Cato scholar discusses Palantir, Trump's new national database, and the sordid history of federal law enforcement on 'Just Asking Questions'.

Recently, I had a great, wide ranging conversation with @zachweissmueller.bsky.social about surveillance company Palantir, the threats to our rights and the Republic, and the lessons I try impart in my latest book about the history of surveillance & political repression. Check it out:

ICE 'Task Force' Agreements Expand to Galveston, Beaumont As Immigration and Customs Enforcement rolls out necessary training, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office joins a growing list of Texas law enforcement agencies deputizing officers to serve as…

"Nearly 1.5 million Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as immigration agents."

"These agreements currently cover around 30 Texas law enforcement agencies."
#Texas #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Patrick Eddington: How to 'tyranny-proof' America The former CIA analyst and Cato scholar discusses Palantir, Trump's new national database, and the sordid history of federal law enforcement on 'Just Asking Questions'.

Recently, I had a great, wide ranging conversation with @zachweissmueller.bsky.social about surveillance company Palantir, the threats to our rights and the Republic, and the lessons I try impart in my latest book about the history of surveillance & political repression. Check it out:

"We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these
tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting." – @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

When he backs it up actual photos of a soldier with a plate carrier and long rifle toting US corpo pizza into Gaza’s genocide zone because it’s the only way to get food in there… I’m lost for words genuinely.

This is simply wrong on the facts. Whatever America’s problems might be, we have had, until this year, an extremely strong interest group system. Some might argue TOO strong in many cases! The frustration is that now, at the hour we need it most, many sections of it are simply caving.

Congress has not appropriated the substantial funds this would require nor does this have the legally required approval of the Commission of Fine Arts (which must approve architectural changes to the White House among other properties).

And they are willingly doing his bidding. Sickening, disgusting, cowardly, barbaric, unconstitutional...somehow words just don't really capture the horror of it all.

My wife just sent me this one. Even the Nazi-style armband is rendered in historically accurate colors. Just perfection. 💯

Why ICE Is Spying on U.S. Citizens’ Medical Data ICE’s misuse of medical claims data not only threatens undocumented migrants but also, by eroding trust in the public health system, endangers all Americans.

Meant to flag this earlier: my joint piece with Dr. Jeffrey Singer on how #ICE access to medical and insurance claims databases could be used not just against migrants, but the rest of us as well...along with the chilling effect on those avoiding medical care for fear of arrest:

Dem obsession with dead peodphile #Epstein deepens. Meanwhile, the reporters at @propublica.org continue to focus on real harms being done to real people in real time. Oh, and the implications of these lawless goons getting away with it.

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One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many of them went to the U.S. At the time, America was the most compelling destination for scientific talent in the world. It would remain so until earlier this year.

An incredibly depressing sentence.

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