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Happily retired journalist, ex-Newsweek and The American Lawyer. Now I cook and bake, talk to grandchildren, read, and try to find new ways to be useful. Love working with students on their essays.

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I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal. I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

26.09.2025 23:21 — 👍 6378    🔁 2708    💬 426    📌 140

@kristygreenberg.bsky.social helpful reminder about Boasberg’s order. Is there a procedure to lift an administrative stay?

02.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

01.06.2025 13:54 — 👍 23731    🔁 7406    💬 703    📌 431
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Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

01.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 25793    🔁 6670    💬 755    📌 326
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I’ve never seen a dissent like this (on SCOTUS stripping away the asylum parole of nearly 500K human beings on the emergency docket) utexas.app.box.com/s/fkvbpqvf8w...

30.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 4871    🔁 1539    💬 210    📌 84
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A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

26.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 10945    🔁 3311    💬 817    📌 247
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In the sad era of Trump, this is now news.

19.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Supreme Court said you didn’t prove they are criminals. #DueProcess

17.05.2025 00:36 — 👍 503    🔁 91    💬 24    📌 10
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Great question

17.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 22112    🔁 5567    💬 1160    📌 386
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

30.04.2025 18:13 — 👍 29184    🔁 8634    💬 633    📌 354

Chief Justice John Roberts is about to learn the great lesson from Joe Louis: You can run but you can't hide.

17.04.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the markets fell, Trump putted The stock markets have lost more than $6 trillion in value since Trump imposed sweeping tariffs last week. But on Sunday the president won — at golf.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

07.04.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks. I admire your expertise, even own one of your books. I’d be happier if you could quote one person by name. It’s getting late to be confronted with trust-me-on-this assertions.

06.04.2025 22:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@rickperlstein.bsky.social “Many think…” what’s your evidence?

06.04.2025 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I'm here in Mount Kisco, NY to tell Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the GOP

HANDS OFF AMERICA

Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities

But make no mistake

It is the smaller rallies

The local rallies

That will be the backbone of this movement

05.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 4260    🔁 1112    💬 123    📌 59
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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

05.04.2025 20:44 — 👍 78688    🔁 17712    💬 1384    📌 1382
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The Choices Lawyers Make How they have shaped and will determine the outcome of Trump's attack on law firms

Given their legal shoddiness, the BigLaw orders "are fairly clearly an exercise in abusing the legal process to inflict harm on administration enemies and warning others not to cross this president. The goal is to achieve the immediate effects, before the courts can finally resolve the issues."

28.03.2025 19:02 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Worth reading this thread. The federal judge is very unhappy with the drek the government is presenting.

28.03.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be like WilmerHale. And good for Paul Clement.

28.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 382    🔁 79    💬 11    📌 6
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🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨

28.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 24766    🔁 5050    💬 360    📌 255
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

(ProPublica) - Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records.

@jeisinger.bsky.social

26.03.2025 11:12 — 👍 1445    🔁 699    💬 62    📌 65

She was my Criminal Procedure Professor years ago. She is incredible, and her thought-provoking questions literally changed the way I thought about the world. Bravo @maryannefranks.bsky.social

26.03.2025 00:59 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump signs executive order against law firm Jenner & Block WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that takes action against the law firm Jenner & Block, for what a White House official described as the company's acti...

Trump signed an executive order punishing the Jenner & Block law firm, which employed Andrew Weissmann before and after his work on the Mueller Report.
Trump is telling law firms he’ll ruin them if they don’t submit.
He wants to bring down our justice system.
Because that's what dictators do.

25.03.2025 20:32 — 👍 303    🔁 152    💬 36    📌 16

When they say they want to kick out immigrants to protect "good American jobs," this is what they meant

25.03.2025 20:33 — 👍 656    🔁 275    💬 50    📌 9

Just to be clear, the administration is refusing to give information about the timing of flights of detained migrants at the same time the president does not appear to have a problem with his secretary of defense disclosing plans of attack on a bumbling Signal thread. We need a scorecard.

25.03.2025 20:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@schumer.senate.gov c’mon Chuck.

25.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I should be seeing web ads already running on this kind of thing. Cheap, easy to make web ads. Put them on streaming platforms.

You know who is running ads? Trump's operations. I see them constantly.

25.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 187    🔁 48    💬 7    📌 5
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Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our nation is beginning to abandon our veterans. Who voted for that? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

22.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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USDA cancels $500M in food deliveries, leaving food banks scrambling The Trump administration’s latest move, which follows $1 billion in cuts to food aid programs, puts more pressure on groups trying to feed hungry Americans.

Our rich country cuts back on aid to the hungry. Who voted for this?
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

21.03.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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