Eileen Clancy 🧿

First rule of politics: Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

(Do don’t bail out Republicans.)

They were teens when a parent was deported. They still feel the pain as adults The Guardian spoke to adults now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s to reflect on the lasting impact of family separation in the US

This heartbreaking story, about the effects of family separation, was written by our very own @tinavasquez.bsky.social. We recommend that you read it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We are super underrepresented in the academe. Every new addition is worthy of celebration! 🍾🥂🎉🎉🎉

Not only am I now the first tenured Latina law prof at Tulane, I am also its first full Latina law prof.

And there will be more, I promise.

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NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

a woman in a yellow shirt is laughing with her hands on her head . ALT: a woman in a yellow shirt is laughing with her hands on her head .

NOW: 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Lindsey Graham calls for U.S. airbases and aircraft to be moved out of Spain for not supporting the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran.

In Spain today...

They're hiding their incompetence behind the valor of our men and women in uniform.

As if to question why we're at war is to question our heroes. No, it's to make sure the mission is worth their sacrifices.

Our troops will always do their job.
Republicans need to do theirs.

For the first time in my entire life, the taxi driver who picked me up (checks notes) from the law school parking lot asked if I was a professor.

I have been waiting for this day!!! 🎉

Missile debris that Iranian officials claim was recovered from the deadly strikes which hit an elementary school in southern Iran on February 28 appears to be from an American Tomahawk cruise missile, according to CNN analysis. https://cnn.it/4b2jrTE

The Unbelievable Madness of Our War With Iran Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.

Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris. trib.al/1Cwdk19

Immigrant says ICE invoked MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley during arrest Mamdou Ndoye, who was ordered released by a judge in February, says he was rearrested by ICE later that month by agents who asked him why he was “aggressive to Nick Shirley.”

New: ICE name-dropped MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley when arresting an immigrant in NYC, per court docs.

“The only thing they asked me about is why I was being aggressive to Nick Shirley…”

More @courthousenews.bsky.social

Those steroids will wreck your tendons.

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Because it's chronological almost only, you miss stuff.

Because I'm always accessing Bluesky via the web, I turn on notifications. That works for me.

Other folks really need to make lists of the key accounts they want to follow.

"Immigrants saved US government at all levels $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023 because the taxes they paid cut budget deficits by nearly one-third in real terms, a new Cato Institute study reports. Learn more from David Bier.

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Please help me share the post below. I don’t have a huge following, but this nomination is a bit under the radar and deserves more attention. His committee vote is this Thursday.

US Attorney nominee has a disturbing history of demonizing and dehumanizing trans people Phillip Williams has said parents of trans children should be drowned. He also compared efforts to support gender-affirming care to slavery and the Holocaust.

NEW: US Attorney nominee Phil Williams has a long & disturbing history of attacking trans people and their parents.

He said parents of trans children should be drowned. He also compared efforts to support gender-affirming care to slavery & the Holocaust. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/us-attorne...

Russia's deportations of Ukrainian children amount to crimes against humanity, UN inquiry finds A U.N. investigation ​found on Tuesday that Russia's deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children since Moscow's full-scale ‌invasion in 2022 amounted to crimes against humanity.

Russia's deportations of Ukrainian children amount to crimes against humanity, UN inquiry finds

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This lady would have been a good president.

Sandwich shop offering ‘seagull insurance’ due to thieving birds Co-owner says that seagulls can take food from up to 30 people a day

Sandwich shop offering ‘seagull insurance’ due to thieving birds

"The optional insurance will give diners the option of adding a £1 fee to their sandwiches, which cost around £6.75."

A rose from my balcony garden

First rose of the year.

War expands to central Beirut as Israeli strike kills Iranians in luxury hotel Israel's military says it targeted Quds Force operatives after a return to war with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, but Iran says they were diplomats.

The war expands further as Israel bombards central Beirut for the first time in this conflict.

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I feel some kind of way about people saying that we are docile cowards when we are being shot in the streets and teargassed on the regular and the response so many have is to figure out where they can go to add their bodies to the list of those willing to die to try to stop fascism from taking over.

I really don't think people understand the degree of organization that is happening in so many regular neighborhoods in America.

This is not the place to tell me that Americans aren't doing anything about this because we're docile cowards.

Americans are doing a lot about this and you just don't know because our media isn't talking about it.

It is really hard to overstate how much damage has been done to this country on a purely institutional level, and we have three more years of this shit.

The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.

Nice one! :)