In 1945, we termed it De-Nazification. And unless you were a rocket scientist, you went behind some barbed wire until you were sorted. Not sure there are many rocket scientists employed at ICE.

Immune to Boredom@immunetoboredom.bsky.social · 9h ago

Would it be overreaction if, on Jan 21, 2029, every single employee of ICE/CBP/HSI (whatever the fuck alphabet soup) were to be rounded up and sent to Gitmo until we can sort out the innocents (ha!) from the monsters? I mean every employee, from Homan/Markwayne down to the guy who mops the floors.

A Schrodingermander.

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 2d ago

If I'm not mistaken, this (unlawful) injunction would prevent Missouri from having *any* House election in November, b/c there are now two injunctions--one prohibiting the use of the "2025" map and the other prohibiting the use of all other maps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:

“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...

boltsmag.org

Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

New: The 10th Circuit has proposed a rule requiring lawyers to certify that any court filings prepared with the assistance of generative AI have been reviewed by humans for accuracy. If adopted, it would be a first of its kind rule in the federal appeals courts. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US appeals court rule would require lawyers to certify AI-prepared filings

A federal appeals court in Denver on Friday proposed requiring lawyers to certify that any court filings prepared with the assistance of generative AI have been reviewed by humans for accuracy.

reuters.com

Yes, the people who could afford frequent trips to events at the Kennedy Center are very upset. Some are finally feeling personally affected by the 2nd Trump administration. Maybe they will be inspired to help stop this from happening again.

Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Go look on reddit threads for DC. Or VA. Or Md. Go see. It is person after person commenting their experience, their sweet memories of this place. What it meant to them, the joy it brought. The experience of art. Music. Beauty. The very things that make life worth anything at all.

Holy First World Problems, Batman!

Four Legs Good@4legsrgood.bsky.social · 7d ago

It might help folks to know peeps in DC are mobilizing human shields to try to protect the Kennedy Center.

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How the midterms could be stolen - a warning. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...

January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress

judgeluttig327269.substack.com

the part where the Admin argues the states brought any expense on themselves by not preparing for the new rules - when they got the previous challenge dismissed on standing grounds bc the states had no burdens until the rules were in place - is where i start screaming and running off into the sun

Rick Hasen@rickhasen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Professors Foley, Karlan, Laycock and I File Scholars Amicus Brief in USPS Case before SCOTUS. The Balance of the Equities and Public Interest Favors Delaying Any USPS Rollout until After 2026 to Avoid Disenfranchising Millions of Elderly, Disabled, & Other Voters electionlawblog.org/2026/profess...

What would help is showing them we did something to seriously reduce the odds of someone like Trump gaining power again. That means upgrades to our dilapidated form of democracy.

Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸@latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you agree? #Pinks #USDemocracy

Trump is breaking ground on his 250-foot vanity arch before he even has final approval, all while a veterans’ lawsuit to stop it is still pending in court. Construction 20 hours a day, for years, at the gates of Arlington where we have buried our nation’s heroes. Absolutely disgraceful.

BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

Remedies Abandoned

The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...

hrw.org

RT @Orioles:

Rough week. If @thegodshow.com were to take every person who was famous in the 1980s by September 1, would it be worth it and who would you miss most?

From now until January I am on clerk watch — the Clerk of the House is responsible for compiling the list of House members for the 120th Congress from certified results, and thus wields a great deal of power in these election-denying times. We need McCumber to stay. clerk.house.gov/About#Overvi...

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

[Exit Queen.]

President Donald Trump and RFK Jr. talked a ton about autism during his second presidency (more than his first presidency). But all the while, they have slashed offices that protects autistic students' rights and research on autism. www.cbsnews.com/news/autism-...

Trump puts autistic kids in the spotlight and cuts agencies built to protect them

Researchers and disability rights advocates warn that the dismantling of the Education Department and its erosions of civil rights oversight risk widening the disparities autistic children face.

cbsnews.com

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

thelancet.com

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

… BUT: most of its “reporters” are in The Philippines! They watch our civic meetings on Zoom and then write up articles. They claim they can’t afford to pay local, American journalists who live in this community to do the reporting 🤷‍♂️😳🫠 (2/2)

In other words, "Go get your checkbook, Flock."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on Flock cameras: "You have pros and cons. It's being studied right now. We'll have an answer sort of as to our views on it over the next couple weeks"

I did this back on Xitter back in COVID days and saved screenshots when I left. It's got worse since.

Mike McIntosh@mikemcintosh.bsky.social · last mo.

Would any publisher accept a novel from even the most famous author that reads like like the story of Trump since 2015?

This research paper in The Lancet - the UK’s oldest and most respected medical journal - estimates that Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID will cause over 14,000,000 avoidable deaths by 2030. Fourteen. Million. Deaths.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

thelancet.com

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

The Gulf autocrats bribed the wrong guy. Actually, their mistake was thinking a corrupt, ignorant US president was in their interest.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

(WSJ) - Persian Gulf energy producers are concluding that Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz will become permanent, disrupting their oil and gas exports and global energy supplies indefinitely. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The complaint also directly challenges the government's account of officer injuries, the filing says. "The most serious injury to any officer was a broken finger. The most common injury was 'pain.' No officers died as a result of injuries from J6," it says.

LiberalBatch@liberallady.bsky.social · 2mo ago

J6ers demand $1 million each over government 'trap' to create 'appearance of a riot' www.rawstory.com/j6er-psy-op-... What a crock of💩I want to file a civil suit against the J6ers for the Trauma and anxiety they caused me that day watching them beat our officers with our American Flag!

They only care about things that personally affected them. Serious harms suffered by other people are less important to them than minor inconveniences they had to endure.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To make my point clear: Abusing more than a thousand girls and women is something Republicans want to cover up, while mask guidance from the fog of the worst or the worst pandemic of the century is a crime they will pursue to the grave.