Jeremy Bierbach

Fascinating thing about the Dutch obsession with asylum is that the Netherlands is running a unique experiment with two groups: non-European refugees, who are cooped up in abysmal conditions, excluded from everything and blamed for social disruption, petty crime and inciting far-right hooliganism …

Republicans Go All In on Anti-Trans Messaging More than half of GOP ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina's Senate race.

More than half of Republican ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials say they plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina’s Senate race.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Voormalig UvA-docent Laurens Buijs betuigt spijt in de rechtbank. ‘Het klopt, het is allemaal uit mijn pen gekomen’ Online intimidatie: De lijst van collega’s, journalisten en artsen die het tussen 2024 en begin 2025 moesten ontgelden door de bedreigingen van Buijs is lang. Dinsdag stond de oud-docent terecht voor ...

Het is voor velen, ook voor Buijs zelf, intens verdrietig hoe dit gelopen is.

De politici en media die Buijs' geestesziekte voor "cultuuroorlog aan de UvA" aanzagen, het universiteitsbestuur dat er n zware onderzoekscommissie aan wijdde - hebben die nu iets geleerd?

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Studentenabonnement Volkskrant Een Volkskrant-abonnement afsluiten als Student? Voor Studenten is het Abonnement geheel Gratis zolang je Studeert.

Ben je of ken je een mbo-, hbo- of wo-student tussen de 16- en 25 jaar: let op: studenten krijgen een gratis abonnement op de Volkskrant of Trouw, Het Parool, AD, Brabants Dagblad, ED, Tubantia, BN DeStem, PZC, De Stentor, De Gelderlander. Spread the word!

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They don’t see themselves as enforcing immigration laws. They see themselves as deciding who gets to be American

Ze staat op plek 24 van de kieslijst van @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social en zat gisteren naast @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl toen hij in een Amsterdams café werd bedreigd door een groepje extreemrechtse mannen. Dit schreef @fatihyaabdi.bsky.social op Instagram over die gebeurtenis:

Deze beeldtaal is buitengewoon schadelijk. Ze wekt de indruk dat Nederland van alle kanten wordt bestookt door migranten, versterkt de obsessie met migratie als hét probleem van onze tijd en legitimeert daarmee de zogenaamde ‘anti-immigratieprotesten’.

"Dutch nationality plan is a desperate act of political bravado" - DutchNews.nl In any democratic society, immigration law is an outlier. Normally, the people directly affected by laws should have a say in how they are made. But immigration and naturalisation laws are different, ...

I got to vent my opinion in DutchNews on the caretaker Dutch cabinet’s nationality law proposal. I could have devoted just as many words to the appalling lack of quality English-language news coverage of Dutch politics and of Dutch-language news coverage of proposals affecting ordinary migrants.

‘Ik ben geen populist’, zegt VVD-leider Dilan Yesilgöz Dilan Yesilgöz | lijsttrekker VVD: Ze staat onder zware druk, door dalende peilingen en openlijke kritiek vanuit haar eigen partij. Toch houdt Dilan Yesilgöz vast aan haar inhoudelijke koers, hoewel z...

Het zou zo maar kunnen dat dit interview van @lamyae.bsky.social en Pim van den Dool het laatste zetje geeft aan een enorme verkiezingsnederlaag van de @vvdonline.bsky.social.
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We komen echt nooit meer uit de wurggreep waar NLse media sinds de aanslag op Fortuyn in zitten, om vooral niet links over te komen en niet beschuldigd te worden van het “demoniseren” van rechts.
Deze 23-jarige overcompensatie richting zelfs de kleinste rechtse partijen gaat echt nooit meer weg.

Plans to further reduce EU standards for expulsion of non-EU citizens, via @statewatch.bsky.social

Adrie is een van de beste dokters die ik ooit heb gehad—ik baalde ervan toen ik niet meer in het centrum van Amsterdam woonde en naar een nieuwe huisarts moest. In bepaalde opzichten was hij ook inspirerend voor mijn praktijk als advocaat, de manier waarop hij onverbloemd en goudeerlijk advies gaf ❤️

We slaapwandelen naar het eind van de democratie zoals we die kennen

We slaapwandelen naar het eind van de democratie zoals we die kennen

‘Dat de VVD nog altijd geen afstand neemt van Wilders’ asielplannen, evident extreem-rechts geweld niet subiet veroordeelt, krankzinnige Trump-moties over ‘antifa’ steunt en nu uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers in Oeganda wil lozen, heeft ieder laatste restje vertrouwen ondermijnd.’

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.

Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.

Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

Yarvin convinced a bunch of credulous tech billionaires that they needed to back an extreme, dumb, & wildly unpopular politics to “save western civilization.” We’re now getting that politics on steroids, and now he’s all “oh no, these policies are unpopular, must flee the country to save ourselves.”

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

It was huge!

And yes these means nuking the filibuster.

10 min in: 💣 filibuster
12 in: expand Court
15 in: confirm slate of Justices w/o hearings
20 in: expand House, John Lewis Act
22 in: DC statehood
25 in: strip Trump hires of civil service protections.
30 in: break up DHS

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119 How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that various limits on our remedial power independently require us to reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. •It is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied "administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159 F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue" because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to "consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary, without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S. Code. The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for further consideration consistent with this decision.

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Watching this, with that observation in mind, is a seriously uncanny way to begin the spooky season 👻👠

The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast.

Part one:

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Part two:

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I think there is wisdom in this approach. If the Court overturns birthright citizenship, it is Writing On the Wall in the biblical Feast of Belshazzar sense.

You can't remove due process from *anyone*

Not foreigners, not drug dealers, not anyone.

💡 Als je dan toch al in gesprek gaat met vertegenwoordigers van extreemrechtse partijen, doe het dan zo als Frank Hendrickx & Sara Berkeljon in de @volkskrant.nl vandaag...

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Fascisme staat ook in het woordenboek.

The doctor touches John Searle’s carotid, feeling for a pulse and looking at her watch.

Searle opens one eye and whispers weakly, “Please… just get it over with and say it.”

The doctor sighs and says, “I now pronounce you dead.”

“Murderer” Searle whispers as he expires.