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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

the other escalator was working--why not take that one???

I’ll be honest I don’t understand the people out there saying to themselves, “I’ll speak up when the time is right, just not yet.”

I am so sorry to hear this.

This is an extraordinary collection of former federal and state judges.

5 minutes would be my guess!

A lawyer for Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman asked a rural superintendent, “What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?” before concluding, “There’s a need for retail workers, for people who know how to flip a pizza crust.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Have you seen this man? In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.

In any other administration, the head of FEMA going AWOL would be an utter scandal. As has become the usual, Trump is skating by.

“It is unprecedented for the leader of FEMA to be absent from the public response to a disaster that has killed over 100 Americans,” @samlmontano.bsky.social told me.

who are the "rejectees" and where were their articles ultimately placed? Inquiring minds want to know.

A photo of a man sitting with two young children on a motorcycle.

Photo of Albert Primoschitz Gonzalez and his young son. His son's hand is resting on Albert's leg.

This is a story about the unlawful rendition and disappearance of Albert Primoschitz Gonzalez to CECOT, a hellish gulag in El Salvador. PLEASE READ AND SHARE.
A (long) thread.

Agree 100%!

Consider it highlighted!

Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Jenga piece that could topple the American Experiment | Will Bunch The Trump regime lies about a Salvadoran laborer and dad because the truth of his humanity could unravel its dream of autocracy.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is everything right now

For the Trump regime, their ability to disappear the humanity of one Maryland dad is central toward a project of establishing American dictatorship

It's why we must fight for Kilmar's freedom...and our own. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Jenga piece that could topple the American Experiment | Will Bunch The Trump regime lies about a Salvadoran laborer and dad because the truth of his humanity could unravel their dream of autocracy.

The Trump regime keeps upping its Big Lie about wrongly deported Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia because their entire dictatorial enterprise hinges on proving their ability to crush this one human

Until Kilmar is free, no one in America is free. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?∗ And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8.

Judge Wilkinson: "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

*72 hours

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

Woman says she was detained by Houston police and turned over to ICE after her car caught fire Houston police detained Guadalupe Perdomo after her car caught fire, causing fears of deportation despite her ongoing visa process.

Something to keep in mind that we all learned from the history of Nazi Germany: This cop did not have to turn her over to ICE. A pilot does not have to fly a plane to El Salvador. An attorney does not have to sign off to Trump's lies. These people are making a choice to do evil.

Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t.

The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

The inside of the nutshell summed up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

That’s so good to hear!

On left:

New Solicitor General Sauer tells US Supreme Court shouldn't have to return Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador because he's "a verified member of MS-13."

On right:

Fourth Circuit explains DOJ presented no evidence below of MS-13 membership and abandoned claim he's a danger.

Principal Jaime Cook describes one of the third graders in her northern New York school as particularly rambunctious. In a phone call with me Saturday evening, she says this particular student loves to sing and loves to dance. But last week this child was handcuffed and taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with other family members—two of whom are high school-aged kids. While they all remain jailed in Texas, classmates leave cards on the student’s desk and hang a welcome home banner they hope will be seen.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

Yay Ellie!

Try that in a small town ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.

New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.

Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:

Yes!!!