you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.
The practical upshot of this, if true, is that it allows the Trump administration to claim they have achieved regime change, call it a day, and go home if the campaign fails to produce other desired results (i.e. abandoning nuclear program, democratic regime change).
There's a real danger that members of Congress and the American public tune out this killing spree at sea as mere background noise.
Don't normalize or become inured to this deeply abnormal and lawless premeditated killing.
The administration has asserted a license to kill outside the law.
Thrilled that my article, Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding, is forthcoming in the Stan. L. Rev. @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses Black Conventions held during Reconstruction and how these conventions are critical to a proper understanding of the 13, 14, & 15th Amdts.
Tonight at Law Dork: A new DHS memo lays out an aggressive anti-refugee policy. www.lawdork.com/p/exclusive-...
It is imperative that those who are elected to the next Congress understand that one of their principal jobs will be to reassert the prerogatives of the House of Representatives as the Article I branch of the U.S. government.
No Money for Murder. No Funding for Fascism. No Payouts for Pedophiles.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
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Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.
A crucial point bc, as Cedric Robinson reminds us, “the first attack is an attack on culture.”
Culture is the “common sense“ language through which power is mediated. It is the weakest point in fascist systems & disproportionately facilitates their collapse.
“the migrant has no rights the white man is bound to respect”
AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
A while back, I wrote about the deprofessionalization of the FBI. Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social study how authoritarians build loyal security forces. They pointed to a sense of impunity being a key factor. That is what we are seeing now.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
In Va we’re protecting access to our courts, schools & rule of law.
Collaboration with ICE is antithetical to all.
HB1441 stops ICE from absorbing Va law enforcement
HB650/SB351 protect our institutions
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
if you're not willing to engage in serious political and institutional reform, you're not willing to engage in reform.
This is really good! This is what journalism is! I wish many media institutions would apply this same logic to their coverage of Gaza and the loss of hundreds of their colleagues there who were trying to do real journalism too! More of this!!
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:
Feds make ‘unauthorized' use of license plate reader in Mountain View
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/f...
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."
“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.
