Under Biden we limited no-knocks for all feds to cases where necessary to protect physical safety. Breonna Taylor’s horrific killing had exposed the danger. No knocks frankly can be risky for cops too
DOJ rescinded our policy
Think about what this’ll mean with ICE kicking down doors across America
The federal district court in Minnesota released a list of 210 court orders ICE has violated in 143 cases in just the last month.
From Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, GW Bush appointee and Scalia clerk: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...
Anthropic will outlast this administration
when the next president wants AI that won’t spy on every American or automate the kill chain, they’ll know where to go
All of this comes down to the companies’ refusal to bow down to Trump. Same story, every day.
My favorite skater
This administration obviously has no red lines but thank God the American people still do
They are going to lose the culture war they’re waging
Best halftime show ever
Call it what it is: censorship and erasure. And cowardice among university administrators.
Students: pick a college that isn’t taking its marching orders from culture-war politicians
Revealing statement from Todd Blanche: “To the extent it needs to involve lawyers at the Civil Rights Division…”? In any credible investigation of a matter this salient, the prosecutors would be involved from the beginning. They would be driving it.
DHS internal investigations will have zero credibility after Noem asserted Alex Pretti was "brandishing" a gun and "attacked" officers -- allegations contradicted by the video we've all seen.
State investigators need to do this job.
Information and analysis are critical, but we also need guidance on what to do about the Trump Admin’s violence and anti-democratic abuses.
This roadmap from @sifill.bsky.social helps.
Today, again, we watched a cover-up unfold in real time.
This is their playbook: don’t investigate, label the victim a domestic terrorist, claim self-defense, insist things happened that we can see with our own eyes did not.
But it’s weakness, not strength. They know how damning the truth is.
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
The Senate should not vote to keep funding this rampage. We are not powerless. We do not need to accept this.
Sharing a new report I published — “When Machines Discriminate” — about using disparate impact law to prevent biased AI, with @civilrightsorg.bsky.social. I also dissect the errors and misrepresentations in Trump’s legal assaults on disparate impact doctrine. civilrights.org/disparate-im...
Honestly this is the kind of thing we’d open criminal and systemic civil investigations of, back when DOJ protected people’s constitutional rights
Why would we fund this?
MPR News: ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ Liam Conejo Ramos, a student at Valley View Elementary, whom school officials and a lawyer for the Ramos family say was detained with his parent by federal agents on Tuesday.
ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as “bait.”
An innocent child.
America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right in front of our eyes.
Things you don’t do when trying to uncover the truth:
Freeze out the state BCA
Refuse to open a civil rights investigation
Instead treat it as an assault on the agent
Call the victim a domestic terrorist
Investigate her grieving widow
Investigate the neighbors for monitoring ICE, their 1st Am right
The Department we knew is no more. Trump treats DOJ attorneys as his political enforcers. His political appointees are all too willing. Good men and women in the career ranks will continue to leave.
Don't miss Judge Rao's concurrence, joined by Judge Katsas. They say actually, DC probably has no standing to sue the federal government based on "sovereignty-based injuries" in the first place because we here in DC simply have no sovereignty. Even Trump's DOJ didn't make this argument.
Yesterday's ruling allowing Trump to deploy National Guard troops - including from other states - should provoke an outcry for DC statehood
DC's status as a congressionally created district is the core of the panel's reasoning
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
FWIW, I disagree with plenty of what you write, agree with some of it, and appreciate that you post here.
The more we can get explained views and open exchange, the better.
13,000 words in DOJ’s filing
0 of them are “DEI”
11 months after Trump blamed “DEI” for the crash on national television, this 209-page DOJ filing says… nothing of the sort
@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
Tish James' vindictive prosecution claim just got even stronger
Also, the legal arguments for preemption referenced in the EO (Commerce Clause, 1st Am) are exceedingly weak.
This is ultimately about harassing and bullying states into submission. But no state should sacrifice its people in response to this document.
Two holidays celebrating Black liberation and equality, in fact…
Other countries that treat a ruler’s birthday as a national holiday:
Japan (Emperor Naruhito)
Thailand (King Vajiralongkorn)
Netherlands (King Willem-Alexander)
Tuvalu (King Charles III)
See a pattern?
