āWhere you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy.ā ~ Thurgood Marshall Public ed advocate, retired educator, global citizen attitude, crunchy liberal, atheist, pretty sweary.
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BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ā¬ļø storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Are you a parent of a K-12 student? Have you noticed them using AI for schoolwork? We want to hear from you for an upcoming story: https://bit.ly/45UXG4g
Ugh, here comes the military invasion. Again.
What is Trumpās announcement? Wrong answers only.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwoodās Handmaidās Tale used to come to power.
22 year old man whose previous experience is a grocer. The header of counter terrorism. MAGA is Affirmative Action for Mediocre White Men
now try to unsee it
BREAKING Belgium to recognise Palestine at UN General Assembly, says foreign minister
And donāt miss my follow up piece, which contains additional reporting on Giulianiās role. Among other consequences of the 2024 election, one is that weāll probably never learn the truth about the nature & extent of his involvement in the Coffee County breach. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
This is great news! bsky.app/profile/pres...
UPDATE: House Oversight is convening a private roundtable with survivors of Epsteinās abuse. This is a testament to our pressure. I look forward to hearing from survivors & won't stop pushing for a full, public hearing so their stories are documented in the Congressional Record.
Repeating this because people are misreading it again: This is a report from *the attorneys for the migrant children*ānot DOJ! bsky.app/profile/anna...
Something that has been missing from the Trump administrationās review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
"It's not genocide." - people committing genocide
the NH police account makes it sounds like the domestic violence call was totally separate from guilianiās crash, which occurred on the other side of the highway? www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
Giuliani played a key role in attempt to overturn Trumpās loss in the 2020 election by promoting false claims of fraud.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. āI donāt know what to say at this point,ā he said. āI canāt defend what Israel is doing.ā www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Not all workers get today off! While you enjoy your holiday, many agricultural workers are hard at work planting, harvesting, and packaging the food we eat every day. Today lest honor those workers and thank them for their amazing work. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trumpās effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Are we in the upside down?
For today's "One First," I wrote about Friday's circuit-court rulings in the tariffs and Venezuelan TPS cases, and the procedural reasons why they're likely to be just the first of a slew of cases about the *merits* of Trump policies that #SCOTUS will have to address during the October 2025 Term:
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
It would make me happier if it was Putinās balls.
Easily one of my top five albums of all time. Mine developed a skip on Tell Me Why and the undamaged version sounds weird to me.
Lots of people with questions about this The government said there were 76 putative class members (children) loaded on planes yesterday But the putative class covered by the judgeās order isnāt limited to kids that were loaded on planes for imminent deportation Thatās why the ~600 estimate
The US Holocaust Museum is planning to "upgrade" its exhibit on the US response to Nazi Germany, and staff are concerned the Trump administration wants to downplay the extent to which the Immigration Act of 1924 doomed more European Jews to die. abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
Thanks goodness they have RFK Jr. on hand to monitor any potential imbalance in his bodily humors
Trump and RFK Jr make both my yellow and black bile unbalanced.
Go take a nap, have a drink, sit in the sun with a good book, cavort in the woods with small creatures, dance naked around a fireā¦ you deserve all of that today. Thank you for staying with this extraordinary story and keeping us updated!
It doesnāt exist.
Judge Sooknanan definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual childās life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Today, Judge Sooknanan held an emergency hearing in a lawsuit filed to challenge the Trump administration's removal of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. Read @annabower.bsky.social's live blog from the hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
*It IS nationalism
Thatās why we need to keep doing it.
Unpopular opinion: I do not believe Trump is on his death bed. I do believe he is having physical ailments right now, partially because he eats like crap and doesn't exercise, and partially because he is nearly 80 years old. Should the press push harder? Yes. Without question.
Yeah it is!
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francisā policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
Their Stans are that stupid and thatās all that matters to them.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
Do any of the nice Bluesky people have recs for good books on the Kingdom of Hawaii and the US takeover? It is something I want to learn more about.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
A California court denied Republicansā petition asking it to stop state officials from putting Gov. Gavin Newsomās redistricting measure on the ballot. The decision appears to clear the way for the governorās plan to appear on the November ballot.
Thatās the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth IIās coffin from 2022. Cāmon man.
I lived a year in Italy, two years in Germany, and two years in the Netherlands. Almost never saw a flag on anything except government buildings anywhere in Europe. Itās not nationalism not patriotism.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. Iād love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at itā¦ itās so frivolous itād be laughable if it werenāt so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
A conundrum easily solved by reading the article you commented on.
UPDATE: In its latest status report, DOJ says that three of the five migrant children discussed in his previous status report have now been returned to ORR custody. Drew Ensign says that he'll file another status report tomorrow when the two remaining children are in ORR custody.
The US State Department has instructed its diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders, whether they live in the West Bank, Gaza, or overseas, according to a cable seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/4n6T0iJ
Can we send pizza to Sooknananās office for her hardworking staff?
UPDATE: DOJ says that all but 4 of the unaccompanied migrant children have been returned to ORR custody. Transfer of the remaining four children is expected at approximately 11:00 p.m.
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
JUST IN: Judge who blocked the transfer of about 600 Guatemalan minors from US to Guatemala Sunday is keeping a very tight leash on the government. Echoes of Alien Enemies Act litigation simply deafening here. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Protestors have been projecting the innocent victims illegally kidnapped and detained by ICE on the side of the Los Angeles Detention Facility!! Los Angeles has a spirit Trump canāt crush. Los Angeles will crush him instead!!
That delft tile is amazing.
Once again, Anna Bower proves herself to be the hardest working journalist/editor/JD ever. Thank you!
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
Generation Jones - roughly born between 1955 & 1965. The boomers have a huge age gap in their generational span. The oldest (born in the mid 1940s) could be the parents of the youngest.
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. Weāve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
Perfection.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights as their attorneys said authorities were violating U.S. laws and sending vulnerable kids into potential peril. https://to.pbs.org/3HZi4cA
ā.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.ā @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Q: Would you welcome federal resources going into a part of South Carolina with a high crime rate? Nancy Mace: I hear that DC is safer than it's ever beenā¦I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago
It is unconscionable for baby formula to be sitting at the border of Gaza as newborns & infants die of starvation. Secretary Rubio must heed our calls to pressure Israel to surge humanitarian aid including ready to feed formula to families in Gaza. Lives depend on it.
Hi. Iām the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
Even by the fictional entry qualifications of that fictional place, he aināt gettin in.
UPDATE: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, says that "all of the class members that were on planes today have been deplaned and are in the process of being returned to ORR custody." He add that he didn't file by 4 p.m. because he wasn't aware of the court's order setting that deadline.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnāt file the report in time ā and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
If you prefer to read this thread on our site, hereās the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#CollectiveCourage: Hundreds of economists from across the country have signed an open letter calling on Congress to uphold Federal Reserve independence. If youāre an economist, you can still sign on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGrUv-_CoeulsLZDt_lyNTPbm9wYCAfiTLm7KMiwgzA/edit?tab=t.0
Iām not pleased when my partner grunts every time he contacts the ball.
I have an issue with people making assumptions about strangersā motivations.
Crybaby
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantisā crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
Iām absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Love his trolling - donāt like his *gestures broadly*
