The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.
25.07.2025 00:20 โ ๐ 1945 ๐ 812 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 14
โHistoricโ ruling on climate change by World Court: What to expect
The ICJ is set to decide the future course of climate accountability in a landmark legal case brought by Vanuatu.
This historic decision could pave the way for climate reparations and human rights protections that are long overdue, as well as build a stronger case for big polluters to pay up for the damage they have caused!
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
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When youโre a star, the Supreme Court lets you do it
SCOTUS is enabling Trump's assault on American institutions
New, from me: until recently the big question was โwhat happens when Trump defies the courts?โ
The answer, as it turns out, is that SCOTUS will support him.
The new question is what are the consequences for American democracy and governance?๐งต
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-youre...
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Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling
Courtโs decision expected to be used in future litigation and to support political negotiations by vulnerable states
๐จBREAKING๐จ ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governmentsโ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis ๐
23.07.2025 15:54 โ ๐ 1700 ๐ 650 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 52
Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers
Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers
This study โoffers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers.โ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (h/t @greggdcaruso.bsky.social) #philosophy #PhilSky
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Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trumpโs Favor, but Doesnโt Say Why
All the conventional wisdom about a constitutional crisis only coming when Trump flat out defies SCOTUS rulings ignores the obvious fact that this Court is a constitutional crisis in itself. Weโve been in full blown CC since it sided in Trump v USA against the USA:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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โEven God Cannot Hear Us Hereโ: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Womenโs Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rรผmeysa รztรผrk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facilityโand the generous and compassionate women she met.
Rรผmeysa รztรผrk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed.
For the first time since her release, Rรผmeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.
17.07.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 716 ๐ 267 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 12
The Supreme Court said it was unlawful for the Biden administration to forgive student loans because it lacked congressional authority but has no problem with the Trump administration gutting the entire Department of Education without congressional approval. This is a lawless court.
14.07.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 2369 ๐ 661 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 18
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
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I donโt think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make whatโs happening now look like childโs play. And people are disappearing.
03.07.2025 18:58 โ ๐ 97877 ๐ 38105 ๐ฌ 4501 ๐ 2684
Amy Coney Barrett Is Not The Centrist You Were Looking For.
A conservative supermajority so keen to gobble more power for itself, might be giving Trump the tools to override it.
Itโs worth it to listen to the @slate.comโs Amicus SCOTUS year-end Review, hosting by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @mjsdc.bsky.social.
Featuring @stevevladeck.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net & me. Itโs sobering & chilling. But at least weโre together figuring it out!
slate.com/podcasts/ami...
02.07.2025 14:33 โ ๐ 184 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2
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163. A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy
The Supreme Court closed the balance of the October 2024 Term with both actions and opinions that bespeak a new vision of how it exercises powerโone that is as dangerous as it will be unpredictable.
โBy doing nothing to push back against attacks on lower courts], and by behaving in a way that gives the appearance of justices more interested in rationalizing their votes than in reconciling their jurisprudence, #SCOTUS is ultimately weakening the federal judiciary at the worst possible moment.โ:
30.06.2025 12:33 โ ๐ 722 ๐ 252 ๐ฌ 34 ๐ 12
SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trumpโs Lawlessness | Crooked Media
And ... it's out. Our episode on SCOTUS's latest complicity with Trump's lawlessness @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social : crooked.com/podcast/scot...
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Alligator Alcatraz immigrant prison camp is Florida's sadistic 'one-stop shop' for mass deportation
Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday with Gov. DeSantis and DHS Sec. Noem.
My latest: Alligator Alcatraz, Floridaโs immigrant concentration camp, has its grand opening today after being built in one week. Trump, DeSantis and Noem will be there to celebrate their collaboration.
I wrote about this fulfillment of a Republican wet dreamโcomplete with tacky merch:
01.07.2025 12:34 โ ๐ 666 ๐ 225 ๐ฌ 81 ๐ 71
Opinion | The U.S. Cannot Solve All the Worldโs Problems
โForeign aid has changed nothing.โ โThese are not our problems.โ โThe system is dysfunctional.โ โThe countries we aid are corrupt.โ โOther countries arenโt doing enough.โ
I have heard all these arguments too. @nickkristof.bsky.social succinctly answers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
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RFK Jr. says US wonโt donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
25.06.2025 13:59 โ ๐ 6709 ๐ 3291 ๐ฌ 394 ๐ 405
DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
DOJ plan to prioritize revoking citizenship includes
Cases a US Attorney refers "or in connection with pending criminal charges if those charges do not fit within one of the other priorities"
"Any other cases referred to the Civil Division that the Division determines to be sufficiently important"
30.06.2025 12:24 โ ๐ 369 ๐ 233 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 39
"A New Kind of Judicial Supremacy"
Excellent post from Vladeck connecting changes in emergency relief to how the Court understands and exercises its supremacy.
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
30.06.2025 11:45 โ ๐ 353 ๐ 104 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 5
162. What Does the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Portend?
Friday's ruling in Trump v. CASA will fundamentally alter the relationship between federal courts and other government institutions. How much depends upon three questions the decision left unanswered.
Via "One First," my longer take on #SCOTUS's ruling in the birthright citizenship cases.
TL;DR: The short-term significance may well be blunted by the answers to two procedural Qs the Court didn't address. It's the broader implication (the death of the legal process school) that's especially grim:
27.06.2025 23:03 โ ๐ 988 ๐ 336 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 16
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the courtโs decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she canโt go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
27.06.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 5646 ๐ 2445 ๐ฌ 141 ๐ 154
โWith fear for our democracy, I dissent.โ
โIn sadness, I dissent.โ
โWith deep disillusionment, I dissent.โ
Whatโs next?
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
27.06.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 19678 ๐ 6291 ๐ฌ 441 ๐ 486
The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any
other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only
if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival.
Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort. With
the stroke of a pen, the President has made a โsolemn mockeryโ of our Constitution. Peters, 5 Cranch, at 136. Rather
than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.
From Sotomayor's dissent, which she's now reading from the bench:
"The President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
27.06.2025 14:15 โ ๐ 2539 ๐ 697 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 27
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