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The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about Sigbovik
@boarders.bsky.social · last yr.A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about House of Leaves
It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last yr.If ICE were acting entirely within the law and maintaining good conditions in all its facilities, they would not be turning Congresspeople away. But they clearly aren't. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/n...
There's a new Adventuring Academy out now on Dropout with guest Erika Ishii! Join Erika and Brennan for discussions about tabletop romance, wet beans, Elvish poetry, and so much more! #AdventuringAcademy
it is so so good and I wish there could be more
The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · last yr.Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return. I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:
WATCH: Van Hollen meeting with Vice President of El Salvador
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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I was curious where exactly this text came from, and it seems to be available at www.congress.gov/118/plaws/pu... ("Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47)")
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.Members of Congress were also there, but were not arrested. One reason why? It's literally illegal for DHS to bar any member of Congress from entering an immigration detention facility for the purposes of conducting oversight.
And that's it. "All rise" as judge leaves the bench. In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand. She hugs her attorney, smiling.
🚨BREAKING: Yesterday, in a huge victory for due process, a federal judge ordered a Venezuelan couple immediately released after finding that government could not provide the evidence required to designate them as alien enemies. 🧵 (cc: @dcmigrantmutualaid.org & Amnesty USA)
Despite repeated outreach from @nipnlg.bsky.social attorneys ICE refused to let the parents speak to each other or mom speak to her attorney. We filed a late-night habeas petition ICE was fully aware of, but they deported them anyway.
Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social · last yr.Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process. He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
for the last time, people, this is to conform to human *intuitions* about arrays. If your array has 0 elements fahrenheit, i.e. -32 elements celsius, that's a clear sign of a memory error. If it has 100F, i.e. 68, that feels like kind of a lot of elements.
JF Bastien@jfbastien.com · last yr.Array indices start at 0 in C, but start at 32 in F.
We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
Never again is now, friends. Don't look away. We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch. Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities? If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
NEW: The Trump administration has now filed its status report on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It says that he is alive and being held in CECOT pursuant to the “domestic authority of El Salvador”
NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return
The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody
in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _
→ 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States:
Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El
Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there
at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included").
Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to
ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States.
Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight.
Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States.
B.
Expedited Discovery
Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery:
The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously
prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreigurxct4ymfhlb6ahhoqjmmhac2bojn5dmuttqzsastc6bua6ihku)
Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday. What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: DOJ files a response, nearly 50 minutes past the deadline, saying they are "unable to provide" any of the information Judge Xinis ordered. "Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court. That is the reality."
This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
cbsnews.com
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
The fact that #SCOTUS hasn't yet ruled in Abrego Garcia isn't proof of *how* the justices are going to rule. But the longer it takes, the more it suggests that there isn't a majority of the Court who views this dispute with the same *urgency* that so many of us do. And that's a problem unto itself.
Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case.
The thing that is currently fueling my creativity is Affinity Photo and the fact I don't have to pay a monthly fee to use it
A man gets wrongfully deported, to a Salvadoran supermax prison, in direct violation of a binding federal protective order. And Roberts' response is a one-sentence administrative stay with zero explanation. The guy who made Trump king is letting him act like a king. Our country is f*cked.
24A949 Admin Stay and CFR
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