Hannah

This is excellent. Something about the story felt off when I first read it, but this cleanly distills my vague concerns and identifies a whole bunch more red flags that I didn’t catch because this isn’t an area I keep close tabs on. Critical voices with subject matter expertise are so important.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights Law demanding IDs match ‘sex at birth’ also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings

The state’s interest issuing IDs is to have an accaurate way to ensure a person is who they purport to be. Mandating licenses that inaccurately reflect a person’s appearance and public presentment undermines the state’s interest because of a bare desire to harm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

my god, my god, my god, he was something

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

In America, we can't eradicate racism with law or policy. But we can make racism shameful again. Doing so is ultimately a political and cultural act, and it must be a conscious one. And it is an important part to restore some semblance of our liberal democracy.

/fin

Some personal news

Jeanine Pirro tried to jail six Democratic Congress members for accurately stating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

She will forever be a person who has done that and must always be viewed through that prism.

I think Justified might teeter on the edge? still thinking this one through though.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

If you're getting militant about keeping out "snitches" and making space for people to get out their feelings by setting things on fire, reconsider who you're really doing this for.

As a professional matter, I'm obligated to take the position that setting dumpsters on fire is not protected by the First Amendment and you do not have the right to do so. As a personal fucking matter, I take the position that arson is against the law for a good fucking reason.

My younger sister was mugged by a couple of protestors who called her a snitch and stole her phone because she was covering the Ferguson protests in Berkeley as a student journalist for the Daily Cal. She quit journalism for good that year.

I try not to hold people's bad takes against them forever after a heated discourse cycle but this one is getting particularly bad

increasingly feeling like I need a "defended setting dumpsters on fire as activism" labeler for when some of these people go back to posting normally again

I was in high school at the time and desperately wanted to be part of a Cool Protest Scene, right up until someone organized one locally and I was cured of my desire by the words "Occupy Palo Alto"

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

--and doesn't spend days with no idea what's happened or even what state he’s in, only realizing something is wrong when he never comes home from work. That is a *tremendous* amount of good you have done for that one person.

What I am saying is that what "usually" happens is irrelevant to the person whose neighbor tells them, "Your husband was just arrested but he isn't hurt, if you have an immigration attorney you should contact them right now and tell them he's probably at this facility--"

If you are present at one arrest where you’re able to get the person’s name and help their loved ones find out what’s happened as soon as possible, that’s not ‘doing very little.’ No one should be obligated to put their lives at risk, but the people doing it absolutely matter.

“because you have saved my life, I will temporarily stop deliberately preventing you from exercising your Sixth Amendment rights” is really something else

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.

Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

Ok. Simple thing for each other. We're here for each other. Nothing else matters. If we hold that, we'll probably be OK.

To clarify why DHS is wrong - the standard for an arrest is the same as the standard for a warrant, probable cause. Reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, a lower standard, is what is used to justify a brief detainment for the purposes of determining if criminal activity is occurring.

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

Another day, another impeachable offense.

Also, that Natanson "has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda" makes pretty clear that this is not about national security.

This is literally what the 4th amendment was written to protect against. There are lots of things that are up for discussion and debate about how one interprets the 4th amendment. This isn't one of them.