Martha McNeill

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

“This is how liberty dies.”

Chilling stuff.

But very pleased to see this in the Inquirer, which was the family newspaper growing up!

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I asked the Library of Congress about this today. One of its spokespeople said it's the result of a coding error and should be resolved soon.

What Do We Owe Andry? Our country sent this young man and hundreds of others to a foreign gulag to be tortured and sexually assaulted.

NEW: "The question is not just should he be apologized to and compensated for being a victim of this national shame, but how, and by whom?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-do-we...

None of the people in this video go up to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and say, "I voted for you because you are with the Democratic Socialists of America!" They just like the guy and what he stands for.

Anyone who claims that Trump's trade wars are brilliant deal-making needs to reckon with the fact that he has no idea what his own objectives are.
How do you negotiate with someone who doesn't know what he wants?

Republican Senator Thom Tillis explains how the Republican rhetoric around medicaid is "fundamentally untrue".

🧵 1/9 The FDA, under RFK, has now quietly removed a warning against Chlorine Dioxide (bleach as an alt treatment for disease) from FDA site. Bleachers push bleach enemas for autistic kids. wired.com/story/chlorine… Bleachers are Ready for RFK Jr. to Make Their Dreams Come True.

Important story: not just because of the fact high level Republicans in government lied to the public to justify an illegal deportation, but because it shows how politicization of the civil service is making it functionally impossible for them to demand integrity and the rule of law.

ICE has detained at least six people, including the foreman, working on the building I live in. This shit is disgusting, terrifying, and only getting worse.

I suspect that the SDNY prosecutors had hoped it would end up otherwise, so it's not as designed by them.

House District Enrollment: New York (14 - 26) (now w/high-res PDFs!) Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...

Check here: (ACA, BHP & Expansion slices): acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...

At least he's has been convicted on the prostitution-related charges. The jury acquitted on the trafficking and racketeering charges because the government failed to make its case, esp w/ Combs attys skillfully undermining the jury's confidence in the prosecution.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Exactly. Same.

Susan Crawford is not yet serving as a Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin, so did not directly affect this decision. She is scheduled to be sworn in on August 1, 2025.

Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX Document 211 Filed 07/02/25 Page 2 of 5 3. The proposed Amended Complaint details the Government's defiance of court orders after this Court granted preliminary injunctive relief. The Amended Complaint includes allegations that the Government made decisions to defy judicial mandates. These allegations are new to the Complaint, but have been cited in various filings in this Court as the case has developed. They are directly relevant to Plaintiffs' constitutional claims and outstanding requests for declaratory and prospective injunctive relief. 4. Plaintiffs also seek to incorporate evidence that emerged in a June 2025 whistleblower disclosure from former DOJ official Erez Reuveni, who was previously counsel for the Government in this case. The new allegations include government officials internally acknowledging that Abrego Garcia's removal was an "administrative error" while simultaneously working to prevent his return and to make post-hoc justifications. These revelations provide evidence of deliberate misconduct that was unavailable when the original Complaint was filed and directly support Plaintiffs' claims. 5. The proposed Amended Complaint also Includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT, as well as developments regarding his return to the United States and the Government's stated plan to remove him again. These allegations identify the severe harm actually suffered and the threat of repeated unlawful removal that supports Plaintiffs' request for prospective injunctive relief. The inclusion of these facts, which could not have been pleaded at the time of the original filing, is essential to present a complete picture of the violations and ensure adequate relief. 6. Plaintiffs also propose to clarify that the relief sought includes restoring the status quo ante, which requires (among other things) the Government to return Abrego Garcia to 2

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland.

Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

Watched this brilliant but harrowing and heart breaking documentary. None of the world leaders have done enough to stop this genocide and the UK government would rather go after some rappers than denounce actual war criminals.

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I joined over 100 @housedemocrats on the House floor to demand an amendment to the Big Ugly Tax Scam to protect Medicaid and SNAP. Republicans shamelessly rejected it.

I'll keep using every available tool out there to put a stop to this cruel bill.

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Suddenly, Green Shoots of Dem Optimism About the Senate Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has given the opposition party some modest, new hope about the upper chamber.

Suddenly, Green Shoots of Dem Optimism About the Senate
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

NOTICE: We are currently failing the "Should We Give the Wannabe Dictator a Secret Police" test.

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

THE SATURDAY ESSAY The Improbable Rise of Zohran Mamdani The presumptive Democratic nominee for New York mayor emerged from a world of privilege with radical politics and charm to spare.

Has the Wall Street Journal called disappearing people and building camps in swamps radical? Turning back the clock on medical research? Cutting off foreign aid, killing children? Turning the Oval Office into a bribe depository? Telling polluters to have at it? Any of that deemed radical?

Republicans: Death to America

"That view is now accepted by a great many Americans . . ."

It is the law. Same-sex marriage is legal in the United States. It's not a "view" that is "accepted" by many people. It is a description of legal reality in the US (for now).

All of this, every bit of it, traces back to the failure of the U.S. government to invest in public education for decades and expecting overworked and underpaid educators to make up the difference.