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6-Year-Old NYC Elementary School Student and Her Mom Deported The mother's 19-year-old son remains in ICE custody in New Jersey, while her distraught teenage minor is now in the care of her 21-year-old brother.

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention.

The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

There is also the ‘these are distractions from the real issues’ one!

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms - Bolts The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

if you're writing about DC losing control of its police department today, just months ago the same basic thing happened in St. Louis (and more durably): boltsmag.org/missouri-sta...

There’s a New Sheriff in Town. But Buffalo Area Jails Remain as Dangerous as Ever. - Bolts Despite federal oversight, elections, and promises of reform from a new sheriff, little has changed for people detained in Erie County jails.

NEW in Bolts: The sheriff of Buffalo, a Republican, is overseeing a deadly jail system — despite promises of change of reform, little has changed since he took over.

This year, he’s running for re-election. Unopposed. The local Dem chair has said the sheriff is “very successful.”

Very happy to share that my article "Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework" is now out #FirstView from
@apsrjournal
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Here is the link:
Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework - cup.org/452m5EH
And here is the abstract:

New perspectives on Judith Shklar - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🔴 Boğaziçi Üniversitesi mezuniyetinde “Kayyımlar gidecek biz kalacağız” pankartı açan öğrencinin yüksek lisans kabulü iptal edildi; okula girişi yasaklandı!
t24.com.tr/haber/bogazi...

This is monstrous.

New CFP from the journal Democratic Theory inviting "short and standalone research notes, called ‘dispatches from the field’, of around 3,500 words. We welcome your diagnoses, illuminations, responses, accounts, etc., regarding democracy under challenge...by the authoritarianisms around you"

A hospital in rural Nebraska has announced its closing. The CEO faults the "anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid:" www.klkntv.com/rural-southw...

Huge win for the Trump administration will remake a lot of things, and a farcical turnaround from how SCOTUS allowed courts to proceed under Biden.

Unbelievable that this is all you could come up with in the midst of this incredible crisis that we are in… we need true leadership in this moment and this is not it.

Geçmiş olsun bacamakcım! Sabır diyorum 😤

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.

We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

Bloomberg pouring $5 million to help Cuomo, with 10 days to go: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

Senator do you think we finally crossed that line that you were talking about regarding a constitutional crisis or are you going to keep on demanding answers as the regime begins to arrest and depose elected officials from your party?

Congresswoman I can assure you that this kind of disrespect and show of power does not take place even authoritarian contexts. We are beyond that point. This is fascism. Hope your colleagues in the Senate will act accordingly

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights

First know your rights, then share your rights.

Download our Know Your Rights graphic and use it as your phone screen when going to protests.

Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference (Gift Article) The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

I can’t compete with this

Political theorists! APT is once again hosting a workshop for first time book authors - draft book proposals will be reviewed by published faculty and by Angela Chnapko, acquisitions editor for Oxford University Press. Applications due July 21! Info: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...

I was appalled reading this horrific piece in the New Yorker yesterday. This thread is doing an excellent job exposing the false equivocations and mischaracterizations that shape the whole piece…

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that will cut billions of dollars from Medicaid.

Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of people across the country, including more than 15 million people with disabilities. The Senate must reject this dangerous bill.

BREAKING: The Trump administration just announced it has filed charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was demanding accountability on behalf of the people she was elected to represent.

President Trump is trying to bully people into silence. We won’t let him.

It’s just all so dark, so perverse, so sick.

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:

“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country

You have touched so many people’s lives. You are in my thoughts.