Chase Madar

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew. Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

“We have been asked to call the centrist response to this presidency “moderation.” Recent events make it clear we should recognize it as appeasement.”

Excellent piece by @rauchway.bsky.social about the importance of building an enduring coalition capable of recovery and reform.

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family CHICAGO—Saying he couldn’t remember the last time an immigration raid had been so convenient, fast, or fun, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Mark Hammond reportedly scored an easy win Monday ...

“It was awesome. I was able to do the raid without leaving my home and ship my family off to an immigrant detention center all before 9 a.m.” said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Mark Hammond

“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.”

No she would not be. Bad picks for AG is a big part of how we got where we are and it's a mistake we cannot repeat

John Roberts Does Not Want You Finding Out How the Supreme Court Actually Works The six-justice conservative supermajority is taking aggressive steps to ensure that the public remains in the dark about how the Supreme Court functions.

John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements

Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?'

To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge

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This is what oligarchy looks like:

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.

Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.

Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.

Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

Here is a longer list of the charges. I have no idea what the last three mean. The fourth one a genuine and major difference in US vs French speech law.

But the ones the reporting focuses on -- the CSAM and NCII -- are not that.

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There are plenty of *real* divisions between the U.S. and EU in speech laws for hate, disinformation, etc. But *not* about this.

It takes a very talented huckster to convince the world that purveying literal child sexual abuse material makes Elon an American speech hero fighting French oppression.

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.

This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

"These practices must end now."

Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

To support a right of return for the Jewish diaspora but oppose it for Palestinians is vile hypocrisy; the moral calculus here is not complicated

Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’

Horrible own-goal from @hrw.org and a sign of the human rights industry's increasing irrelevance. The report is no doubt a work of high quality and deserves to be released without HRW's diminished imprimatur www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Good to see moderate electeds baring their incisors

Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis? A conversation with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administration’s defiance of court orders since the start of the President’s second term.

I was honored to do this Q&A with @newyorker.com's @ichotiner.bsky.social

"Stephen Miller suggested, in May, that the Administration was 'looking at' suspending habeas corpus. Now, lo and behold, what Judge Schiltz is describing is a form of effectively suspending habeas corpus."

Solidarity to the thousands of morally grounded and intelligent Alabamans who must endure being represented by this dingdong cartoon character ✊🏻

I wanna hang out a Minnesota flag at my NY abode. You people are crushing it and your new flag looks great

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.

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American citizen shot by ICE: The agent who shot me sent disgusting text messages to his Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging about how many times he shot me. I got sick to my stomach seeing how a federal law enforcement officer will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who he swerved into.

Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile amd Honduras have all had women heads of state and so will we

Woody Landscape After the Rain - 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12769

No one who really grabs me now? But I particularly dislike Harris and Shapiro as likely candidates, also Booker and Walz.

I think a majority of Dems would agree and am confident that a competitive primary (which is what Dems will have, like it or not) will sort things out nicely

I agree strongly of course, but let me point out it would actually be her third attempt

Indeed not. Thank god for competitive primaries, thank god for democracy.