Morgan Levine

ya'll, i say this with love: don't get too doom-and-gloom, okay? Native people are still here. we. are. still. here. even after everything we've been through.

if we're still here, you will be too. 🤍 have faith.

I don’t 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 what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Save every human being.

Fight for every single person that you can.

AND it's all of us or none of us, truly. We must continue to fight back in all the ways that we can.

AND literally: Save every single person that you can.

There is no buffer time. It's now

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

"I would like to see the baby [Hunter]."

- Literally everyone who walks in the store

#iwouldliketoseethebaby #mandalorian #huntercat #indiebookstore #pflugervilletx

You use federal science every day—whether you know it or not.

Weather forecasts, food safety alerts, job reports—these are powered by federal data.

NPR just did a great piece on how deeply this science shapes our daily lives.

Most Americans continue to favor raising taxes on corporations, higher-income households Democrats are overwhelmingly supportive of raising taxes on these groups, while Republicans are more divided.

Why I stay. Because I work in the department that is making the rich folks/businesses pay their fair share. And I go after tax evaders that owe over 1 million in taxes.
I have broad support for my job. #whywestay.

Today is World Book Day! Celebrate your local bookstore today and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom. Protect the future, by protecting our right to publish and read.

The Crisis at Social Security Illustrates Elon Musk and DOGE’s Plan: Explode the Number and Severity of Improper Payments. Subscribe Over the past month I needed a break to deal with organizational issues, including getting the Notes on the Crises Manhattan office(!) set up and needed time to continue a number of investi...

NEW PIECE: I've been working for a while on a piece on social security death notices and payment finality. Just as I was finalizing it, including with a new legal memo!- it was reported that DOGE declared four MILLION people dead. Read all about the issues here

www.crisesnotes.com/the-crisis-a...

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING NONSTOP!

"Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them." www.lawdork.com/p/what-the-t...

One of the things that will happen as this administration begins to see small victories slip through their fingers is that they will try to intimidate harder and louder to get people to stop fighting back.

Hand stretches to keep the wrist healthy

Don't forget to stretch your hands and wrists fellow artists/gamers!

Making sure soldiers are bored is a deeply stupid plan.

I see a lot of people falling into the "this is pointless" trap, and I can only say it so many ways — though I suspect I will have to write something specifically about it on this front — but the bottom line is that we must expect compliance. Anything less is just making noncompliance easier.

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

As someone who knows how to read, I can tell you with certainty the Supreme Court did not say that.
 
The White House admitted it was an "administrative error" to deport Abrego Garcia and the Supreme Court called on the government to facilitate his return.

This is their argument. In court. Not just a theory.

From today at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-told...

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

8/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.

If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.

This part

🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?

If you’re at home and not on YouTube watching Lady Gaga, you’re missing the most Andrew Lloyd Webber nonsense ever beset upon Coachella and I mean that in the best way possible.

We've always promoted apprenticeship as a path to the American dream.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father deported to El Salvador because of an "administrative error," was a union sheet metal apprentice. He was building a better life and a better America.

h/t @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Historian here posting for no reason at all.

U.S. Constitution, Article II Section 4:

"The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

followup: how do we make the billionaires fight each other again

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

YouTube video by jfrela George Mason University...Killing In The Name

You're welcome.

And yes, kid 3rd from the front in the red shirt that is too into it? That is exactly how I lived my marching band life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgj...

If Kristi Noem can go down to El Salvador and take concentration camp selfies, then DOJ can figure out where Abrego Garcia is.

Just start jailing people for contempt of court until they find out.

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.