Well worth the read. Punishing analysis of the damage Trump has done to the world order and a preview of the realignment and violence likely to follow.
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The Trump regime’s escalation in Minneapolis is by design.
The shortest path to an authoritarian regime was always Trump’s mass deportation campaign. It requires authoritarian infrastructure.
And it provokes a response that they then portray as “insurrection”- a pretext for seizing more power.
What time do you get in?
As Professor Vladeck notes, a court order is NOT required for Trump to pay SNAP benefits. He could do just - do it.
I hope someday we will talk about the harm open-ended administrative stays have caused to the immediate needs of Americans. It’s enabled much of the damage this Admin has caused, and we know our courts can do better.
A helpful explainer on the administrative stay issued by Justice Jackson on SNAP.
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This PA voter just voted to retain our Supreme Court judges. Every race and choice matters now more than ever. Go vote!
"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites"
Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.
Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
DC friends, if anyone wants some kazoos to go and play the Imperial March obnoxiously at the fascists wandering your streets, holler at me. I gotchu.
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
Going to say it again:
In diplomacy it is sometimes necessary to hold your nose and meet with people accused of war crimes.
That ain’t this.
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
“Children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death."
“Severe malnutrition is spreading among children faster than aid can reach them, and the world is watching it happen."
UNICEF: bit.ly/46wIUTv
Proud to have played a small part in this.
The Trump Admin didn’t submit the report required by the #ElieWieselAct. So former USG officials wrote one. Congress must hold the Administration accountable for not following the law & the #atrocities that will occur. Read the report t.ly/APShadowReport.
The Trump Administration ignored Congress & didn’t submit the report required by the #ElieWieselAct. So former USG officials wrote one. Congress must hold the Administration accountable for not following the law & the #atrocities that will undoubtedly occur. Read the report t.ly/APShadowReport.
A gruesome bookend to the post-Cold War period.
Images of skeletal children spurred the administration of George H. W. Bush to deploy troops to Somalia to allow aid delivery.
Now the US government is aiding and abetting the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza by enabling Israel’s military campaign.
I cannot overemphasize how rare it is for both a) a grand jury to return no true bill and b) a reporter to get around grand jury secrecy rules to confirm it
so when you…
• force this tech on most everyone
• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist
• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody
…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
Inspired by federal workers and their families fighting the Trump-Musk madness. Solidarity is the watch word of our time as we defend against Trump’s assault on facts, science, diplomacy and the professional civil service.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. ICE agents who commit crimes are not immune. And local prosecutors should act accordingly.
Brave and important warning by a group of Israeli scholars regarding "the plan to concentrate the population of Gaza in a so-called 'humanitarian city'":
"If implemented, the plan would constitute a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and . . . could amount to the crime of genocide."
🫠🫠🫠
"Not every slide into illiberalism ends in genocide. But every genocide starts with a slide into illiberalism. And we won’t arrest this slide by pretending it can’t possibly happen here."
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"Undocumented immigrants stripped of their property and rendered stateless.
The volk railing against “parasites” while maintaining that they like “good illegal immigrants.”
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