Court, in Strong Words, Presses White House to Play Active Role in Freeing Maryland Man Regardless of whether the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, is a member of MS-13, the appeals court wrote, he is entitled to due process.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” Judge Wilkinson wrote. “This should be shocking to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans hold dear.”

“We have an unjust situation here, the Trump administration is lying about Abrego Garcia,” Mr. Van Hollen said.
He called out President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Vice President JD Vance by name, saying that their that Mr. Abrego Garcia had been charged with a crime were inaccurate.

Opinion | Harvard’s Strength and How Far We’ve Fallen So Quickly The thrill over its response to the Trump administration is a measure of how low, and how fast, our expectations have fallen.

A few words abiut Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

#books #authors #booksky #writing #marketing #writingcommunity #bookchallenge #bookreview #bookpodcast #writer #resist #poetrymonth

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

BREAKING: The Supreme Court says the government must facilitate the RETURN of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Trump White House Won’t Respond to Some Journalists Who Display Their Pronouns Some Trump administration officials have declined to answer questions from several journalists on the basis of their email signatures.

Seriously? The level of petty dismissal is an act of cruelty

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Keep the protests going. To quote Patti Smith, “The people have the power to wrestle the world from fools.” #handsoff

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

We’re building a #PeoplesMovement.

Today, over 3 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy.

And history shows that when just 3.5% of the population engages in sustained, peaceful resistance—transformative change is inevitable.

#50501movement #HandsOff #April5

Awesome sign. So much of Jewish and Christian scripture commands that we love and care for the foreigners among us #compassion, not deportation. End the cruelty.

Huge #handsoff protest in downtown Chicago today. Protest for justice and equality makes America great. Protest is patriotic! 🇺🇸

Saturday’s ‘Hands Off!’ Anti-Trump Protests Try to Reach the Newly Alarmed The rallies on Saturday are being held all over the country and emphasize cuts to health care, Social Security and education.

Today to the streets! #protestispatriotic #transrights #dumptrump

A Video From Tufts Captures the Fear and Aggression in Trump’s Crackdown The tactics on display in the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk were not new — plainclothes officers, faces obscured — but as ICE actions ramp up, scrutiny may increase.

Vanessa Cárdenas, of the immigrant advocacy group America’s Voice, said the images of masked immigration agents resembled the authoritarian governments that so many immigrants fled to come to the United States.

“I just can’t believe this is something our country is doing now,” she said.

Illinois returns nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to state's first federally recognized tribe — WBEZ Chicago The land in southern Dekalb County once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives.

Illinois returns nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to state's first federally recognized tribe - The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation #landback

Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.

It’s no secret that The Felon reserves special fury for the justice system because it oversaw his entirely legitimate prosecution for what the government charged were the crimes of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election

Judge Blocks Policy That Would Expel Transgender Troops The order allows soldiers to keep serving in the military under rules established by the Biden administration.

The judge said “the Defense Department’s conclusions were “totally, grossly misleading,” because they “cherry-picked one part, and misrepresented even that.” The evidence presented was so thin, she said, that the Defense Department might have well cited the latest Beyoncé album.

Mic 🎤 drop

Four years ago, a horrific act of violence took the lives of eight people—including six Asian American women—in the Atlanta spa shootings.
 
No one should live in fear of being targeted because of who they are.
 
Hate has no place here.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order (Gift Article) Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

#ProudBlue #Demvoice1

We are now fully in a crisis mode as the felon is defying lawful court orders

What will the courts do?

Are you concerned?

Gift article - read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

In which I try to put it all together.
The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...

Of course. Another example of how misguided Musk is…

“Governmentwide, a disproportionate number of the roughly 75,000 federal workers who have taken the buyouts so far are those whose skills are in demand in the private sector and will be hard to replace.”

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” M Gessen

With Deportations to El Salvador, Trump May Have Defied a Judge’s Order “Oopsie … Too late,” El Salvador’s president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.

…the events on Saturday and Sunday were the “start of true constitutional crisis.”

Seriously home baked bread every weekend is a balm in this crazy time politically - shout out to my teacher Chad Robertson of Tartine Bread. Get his cookbook and start baking

Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that his country had taken in more than 200 prisoners whom the U.S. has accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

It is a constitutional crisis when the executive branch ignores the ruling of the judicial branch of government. We are at a point of no return…

Opinion | ‘It Is Facing a Campaign of Annihilation’: Three Columnists on Trump’s War Against Academia What went wrong for higher education?

Gessen: Universities are intentional communities united by values such as intellectual curiosity and freedom and respect for a plurality of opinions…the cultural opposite of Trumpism…affirming these values could point the way forward, and not just for universities.

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

A must read from one of the voices for America at it best, @agawande.bsky.social — his take on the gutting of USAID: “It’s shameful and evil.”

‘Don’t Fight the Stupidity’ and Other Relevant Bonhoeffer Advice Lessons from Bonhoeffer's essay on Christian life under authoritarianism.

Here is some grounding and actionable theological wisdom for the resistance

Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.

This is the beginning of the end of free speech and the right to protest. This arrest of Mr. Khalil cannot stand. @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov what are you doing to fight back?