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Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

08.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 855    🔁 213    💬 18    📌 11

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

08.10.2025 01:53 — 👍 1871    🔁 505    💬 129    📌 18

Desperately need society to stop rewarding cruelty. To stop unleashing gratuitous, sociopathic cruelty. I think this is a phenomenon driven by the right but it’s infected all of us to one degree or another, and we need to remain cognizant of wanting not to be this way.

08.10.2025 01:58 — 👍 248    🔁 55    💬 4    📌 2

At what point does she get disbarred?

08.10.2025 00:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ICE is lying. Go figure

07.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 2225    🔁 483    💬 68    📌 12
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Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

06.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 1006    🔁 321    💬 284    📌 267

contracts professor / torts professor / constitutional law professor

07.10.2025 00:37 — 👍 238    🔁 19    💬 15    📌 37

Journalists in Portland: Try to get photos of gas canisters/munitions, either spent on ground or still carried by DHS. ONLY IF SAFE. Use long lens. Risks unknown, don’t approach.

This green smoke isn’t super common. Raised concerns in 2020. Documenting DHS munitions may help accountability later.

05.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 678    🔁 254    💬 19    📌 7
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I have no fucking idea what Ilan is even talking about here, or even whether he's tracking the litigation. The issue is whether POTUS complied with a statutory delegation of power under 10 USC 12406, to nationalize the fed guard. His lawyers aren't even arguing commander in chief power.

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05.10.2025 05:03 — 👍 600    🔁 99    💬 21    📌 2

A better world is possible

05.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 1046    🔁 217    💬 6    📌 1
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My friends recommend the classiest of places to eat.

04.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As seen in Princeton, New Jersey.

04.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 80    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 1
exigency or any other pru dent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.

exigency or any other pru dent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.

Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.

03.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 995    🔁 273    💬 14    📌 18

Who needs to worry about a private server when you can just broadcast your highly classified texts all over a hotel ballroom

04.10.2025 03:25 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

03.10.2025 02:38 — 👍 16639    🔁 7085    💬 765    📌 464
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

03.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 6492    🔁 4910    💬 795    📌 1020

This seems useful

03.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 171    🔁 68    💬 5    📌 1
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FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said on Friday.

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say reut.rs/46AfymJ

03.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 1082    🔁 483    💬 61    📌 46

my god this is so unconstitutional that it contradicts his own unconstitutional EO

03.10.2025 23:43 — 👍 1076    🔁 165    💬 34    📌 6

smart people: this is a violation of the constitution
me: the antecedent of “you” is the ice officers and cops

03.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 1777    🔁 249    💬 84    📌 7

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

03.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 21065    🔁 6398    💬 572    📌 322
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ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

04.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 7091    🔁 1871    💬 242    📌 160

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

04.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 1809    🔁 730    💬 16    📌 22
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

02.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 13570    🔁 5805    💬 372    📌 286
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‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

02.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 259    🔁 33    💬 8    📌 1

Don’t stop rubbing their noses in the teachings of Christ.

02.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 15844    🔁 4166    💬 429    📌 102

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

02.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 8375    🔁 1326    💬 248    📌 45
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."

02.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 15464    🔁 4341    💬 843    📌 246
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From this morning’s ride …

02.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

02.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 25188    🔁 8942    💬 1418    📌 428

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