Suzanne Sataline

#NoKings signs #NYC.

Astonishing that this #NYstate AG report on #Cuomo as governor is rarely discussed. As with all political scandals, the problem lies not just in allegations, but the willingness to investigate, address by staff. ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

Cuomo Super PAC Got $2.7 Million From Donors With Business Before the City The contributions, which are legal, effectively run around strict limits on what entities on the “doing business” list can give to his formal campaign.

#NYCmayor race shows how a local super PAC can dodge spending limits. Great @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/09/c...

Judge Orders Georgetown Academic Released From Immigration Detention

Non-news flash: “The First Amendment extends to noncitizens and doesn’t distinguish between citizens and noncitizens,” Judge Giles said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Massachusetts after being released on bail Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate from Tufts University who was detained by ICE​, returned to Massachusetts after a judge ordered her release.

"I have faith in the American system of justice," Ozturk said. God bless you because that faith is being tested. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

What is the route in NYC please?

When citizens accept the revoked rights of “others”—minorities, “radicals,” migrants, outcasts— know that citizens will eventually be targeted.

You’re a stupendous writer. Most people would’ve focused on the prior restraint doctrine, but you lifted this to a higher moral shame.

The terms used in these executive orders and directives are so loose as to mean almost anything. Culture generally doesn’t mean government policy. Where in the world is criticism of culture grounds for rejection or deportation? The US alone?

Enhanced anything from the US govt tends toward the awful.

Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Please note that I have a negative attitude about denying US residents, visitors and visa holders their constitutionally protected legal rights to free speech. Not sure it’s hostile but check back.

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What evidence did DOJ etc rely on to make this accusation? Was Khalil part of a group that engaged in speech/acts/support or did he act as an individual? If he supported, why was there no earlier allegation? Reporters, please clarify.

It seems #MahmoudKhalil has been arrested not on a public order warrant but for speech that somehow supports a terrorist organization. What is the case law that defines such support? Might his arrest encourage the DOJ to prosecute a new realm of odious or unpopular political views?

#Kennedy mentioned personal responsibility of someone who smokes for 20 years and questioned if that person should have a guarantee to health care, given the costs it imposes on others. He’s talking about denials to a lot of seniors.

Update from Sarah Kliff

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01... Many poor and rural Americans (and Trump voters) smoke nicotine. Does #Kennedy support denying elderly smokers Medicare?

Update from Ellen Barry

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Because in part American insurers pay for meds but sharply limit psychological visits. #KennedyNomination

The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Patients with Cancer in the United States: A Review Since 2014, American states have had the option to expand their Medicaid programs as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by former President Barack H. Obama in 2010. Emerg...

Medicaid is not strictly for the poor. 100K+cancer patients are enrolled. Medicaid expansion improved health, including survival rates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Opinion | Losing Everything to Fire Changed How I Lived I realized I could live more simply, as I’d always wished to do.

Hope in grief, “they may discover in time what I have found: that our lives are determined less by what happens to us than by what we make of what happens to us.” Stupendous Pico Iyer
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In @Stereobway sequel, Grover grows up and *doesn’t* sue the man who writes a play about his first great success. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

County: No evidence of August claim that Haitians took geese at Springfield park Clark County officials said Wednesday morning that they cannot substantiate a new claim alleging Haitian immigrants were killing and/or eating wildlife.

Here’s how a pic of 1 man with a goose became a #Facebook rumor then #GOP fever dream of migrants chowing Lucky and Kitty, thanks to lying candidates and #Musk. Pulitzer in debunking crap goes to #Springfield News-Sun. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/county-...

Using law as a weapon let Beijing claim that HK courts are still fair as certain critics were blocked from ballots, ejected from office, hounded by petty admin and criminal charges. www.chinafile.com/contributors...

Beijing Is Weakening Hong Kong’s Rule of Law. How Far Will It Go? “The American Chamber of Commerce has urged Hong Kong’s next government to reach out to international businesses still ‘unclear’ about what opportunities the city can offer under the one country, two

Cheung showed HK became a “dual state”, abiding by common law to ensure prosperity, and heaped bureaucracy onto democracy parties, activists. Thus, authoritarians maintain rule of law, as they undermine it for some. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

Many of Cheung’s papers online. His eventual dissertation shows how govts don’t need constitution changes or new laws, but bury critics w/ procedures + rules. Think registration rejections, new election forms, permits process, inquiries, etc. osf.io/preprints/la...

Queen’s professor Alvin Y.H. Cheung sounded alarm about China’s threat to Hong Kong An expert on authoritarianism and the rule of law, he warned prophetically that Beijing’s frequent legal encroachments in the former British colony made its democratic prospects dim

@ayhcheung.com was an academic and citizen of #HongKong who noted amid 2014 Umbrella Mvt - yrs before #NSL - how his hometown weaponized bureaucracy and law to attack critics and rivals.
His obituary in @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Every action mentioned in this testimony from #JimmyLai’s trial was done months *before* the HK security law. (Buying ads, meetings, calls for sanctions.)In other words, they were all legal. hongkongfp.com/2024/03/21/g...

The only difference is that the room isn’t red.

PSA: indy Russian media needs your eyeballs. meduza.io/en Also bringing news from inside the Iron firewall here. www.facebook.com/meduzaenglis...

PSA: independent news about Russia needs your eyeballs. Meduza.io/en m.facebook.com/profile.php/...

This was enlightening the second time too. Good to be reminded that social media is like being restricted to one stack at the library.