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We joined a coalition demanding ICE release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, saying it's "part of a broader erosion of democratic norms and human rights... in which immigration authorities are increasingly being used to chill free expression and 1st Amendment rights." www.freepress.net/download/pre...
Iowa leaders attended the dignified transfer of fallen soldiers in Dover, Delaware on March 7. From left: Representative Zach Nunn, Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn (adjutant general of the Iowa National Guard), Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Governor Kim Reynolds, Senator Joni Ernst, General Randy George (chief of staff of the U.S. Army), Senator Chuck Grassley, Representative Ashley Hinson, Representative Randy Feenstra (photo released by Senator Chuck Grassley’s office)
This photo (released by Grassley's office) has generated a lot of negative comments because the Iowa pols were smiling.
Also notable: Grassley has been in the Senate so long that Randy George, whom he nominated for West Point in the 1980s, is now a general serving as the US Army chief of staff.
News from SCOTUS' order list:
Dissenting from his colleagues, Justice Neil Gorsuch on Monday renewed a call to expand criminal defendants’ rights to jury trials when facing additional time for supervised release violations. @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/gorsuch-beat...
IEEPA tariff update: CBP says it has over 50 million refunds to issue and no good way to do it
Feds note that the only analogous circumstance in history took years and required new regulatory procedures
House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case
In case everyone forgot, the WH's lawyer told SCOTUS last year that Congress can't delegate its power to declare war to the president
My statement on President Trump’s wide-ranging strikes in Iran.
You can just say things.
Elrond thinking with his hand on his chin
when the parlay doesn't come through and you're going to have to leave or turn Rivendell into Dollywood for Hobbits
The latest escalation in the ongoing conflict between blue cities and the Trump admin over immigration enforcement: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston instructed local law enforcement to “step in to detain that [federal] officer and remove them from the situation” in cases of excessive force.
With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.
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The partial government shutdown is on track to end later today after the House passed a funding deal President Donald Trump negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends of the political spectrum. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Elon Musk's xAI tore down every guardrail stopping it from making a sexbot & CSAM generator:
“You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION. You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS [&] always a little horny”
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @faizsays.bsky.social @nitasha.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Our initial analysis is up.
The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.
He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
The Timberwolves-Warriors game in Minneapolis has been postponed by the NBA, sources tell ESPN, in wake of a man shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in the city. It's the second shooting there in a week, third this month, involving a federal officer.
Are federal agents trained to mag dump into body that's already collapsed on the ground after being shot?
My weapons training was all in the military where this would be murder and court martials for the shooters and likely his entire chain of command.
Another horrific ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Man wrestled to the ground by federal agents, then shot multiple times.
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@startribune.com is there: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
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Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work:
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More reporting from student journalists at Roosevelt High School. By Thora Anderson: “Hundreds of students no longer feel safe coming to school in the current environment. Junior Addie Flewelling says she chose to partake in this walkout “to show up for the students who can’t actually go to school.”
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored.
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BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
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