The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about Sigbovik

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

There's a new Adventuring Academy out now on Dropout with guest Erika Ishii! Join Erika and Brennan for discussions about tabletop romance, wet beans, Elvish poetry, and so much more!

#AdventuringAcademy

it is so so good and I wish there could be more

Scavengers Reign (2023)

The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen WATCH: Van Hollen meeting with Vice President of El Salvador

The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return.

I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:

PJM Interconnection - Wikipedia

huh "we don't have to worry much about this running out in the short term and also it doesn't pollute the way gas and oil do" which naively I want to call "renewable(ish)" is maybe more accurately covered by the term "Non-carbon-emitting sources" is used on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJM_Int...

Interesting! They're not considering nuclear to be renewable, I take it?

I was curious where exactly this text came from, and it seems to be available at www.congress.gov/118/plaws/pu... ("Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47)")

And that's it.

"All rise" as judge leaves the bench.

In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand.

She hugs her attorney, smiling.

🚨BREAKING: Yesterday, in a huge victory for due process, a federal judge ordered a Venezuelan couple immediately released after finding that government could not provide the evidence required to designate them as alien enemies. 🧵

(cc: @dcmigrantmutualaid.org & Amnesty USA)

Despite repeated outreach from @nipnlg.bsky.social attorneys ICE refused to let the parents speak to each other or mom speak to her attorney. We filed a late-night habeas petition ICE was fully aware of, but they deported them anyway.

it is worth celebrating! it's a great tool. Especially `git bisect run`.

for the last time, people, this is to conform to human *intuitions* about arrays. If your array has 0 elements fahrenheit, i.e. -32 elements celsius, that's a clear sign of a memory error. If it has 100F, i.e. 68, that feels like kind of a lot of elements.

Acting like they wont equally just ignore an arcane statute as opposed to a SCOTUS order is willfully ignorant.

A statute is actually just a piece of paper, and as such cannot force anything at all to happen, let alone force powerful people to do something they dont want to do

Very cool, what happens when the administration says "nah?" Y'all don't get it. Until there's actual consequences for these people NOTHING will happen. NO laws will help us unless they're backed with force of some kind.

The Judciary has no enforcement arm, the DOD, DOJ, and Federal Marshall service works for and takes orders from The Executive. The Court can't force The Executive to do anything at all. It's time we start using the correct language.

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law.

We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders.

To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance.

Defeatism is a form of surrender.

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

hell yeah
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE GNOMES IN THE MINE

I did this.

Never again is now, friends.

Don't look away.

We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch.

Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities?

If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

fuck

NEW: The Trump administration has now filed its status report on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It says that he is alive and being held in CECOT pursuant to the “domestic authority of El Salvador”

A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _ → 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States: Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included"). Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States. Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight. Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States. B. Expedited Discovery Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery: The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.

NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday.

What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

38. Once they finally took me to the medical center, the nurse took my temperature. She said "you need to take that thing off your head" and took off my hejab without asking my permission. I told her you can't take off my hejab and she said this is for your health. After a few minutes I put my hejab back on. But they did nothing to treat my asthma and gave me a few ibuprofen. 39. I had a third asthma attack at the Louisiana facility. Again, this happened in the cell and other woman knocked on the window to get the attention of the officers. I was told that the nurse would come to the cell to see me. She took me outside for a short bit and told me that it was all in my mind. She finally took me to the medical center but I was not treated for my difficulty breathing. The nurse left the room and didn't answer my questions 40.I had a fourth asthma attack on Wednesday March gth around noon. I used my inhaler and waited for it to pass. I was in pain and very scared but I didn't ask to go to the medical center because I don't feel that they address my medical needs. 41. I don't feel safe at the medical center because of my prior experiences there. They complain when I go there and speak to me in an insulting and condescending manner. They also write information in my medical records that is not accurate. The doctor and nurses there are rude and uncaring.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule.

But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.