The Iranian-flagged cargo ship ignored “repeated warnings” because the U.S. blockade is an illegal and illegitimate act of war.

This is arguably piracy.

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

What's that?? Dems gave up exactly the right amount of votes to sink one of these AGAIN?? Such a crazy coincidence how that keeps happening.

The murder spree continues.

The death toll is now up to 178.

We've come a long way from "those who are willing to trade their liberty for security will soon end up with neither."

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

UPDATE: 36 Senators vote to block $150M of 1000-lb bombs to Israel. Another record high, after 40 voted to block bulldozers.

Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Peters, Reed, Rosen, Schumer, Warner, and Whitehouse voted with Republicans.

Grease 2 is a better movie than the original

the problem, of course, is that this ad could only be effective if the Democratic party were to commit to slashing the Pentagon budget and ramping up spending on universal benefits instead, and they have been happily doing the opposite alongside Trump

It was great to join On the Mark Podcast to talk empire + Trump.

Listen/watch: youtu.be/IX-31DYBd2c?...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.

For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.

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we love to see it!!!!!!

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The draft is on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Much gratitude to all who provided encouragement and feedback, as well as those whose important work on these topics I relied upon and made mine possible.

This WV girl is elated to share that this paper is forthcoming in West Virginia Law Review!

I explore how post-9/11 precedent paved the way for the Trump administration's abuse of the law to target cartels in international waters and to effectuate its mass deportation campaign.

Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding Our analysis reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

World War Trump

An analysis by The Intercept reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

theintercept.com/2026/03/30/t...

Folks in DE/PA/NJ/etc, if you're looking for a great conversation on human dignity in current times, come to Delaware Law School's Dignity Law Symposium - The Role of the State in Protecting Human Dignity - on Friday April 10!

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If you need a fascist paramilitary to protect you from Canada I think you might be a little bit of a scaredy cat

I guess we should expect people to get bodyslammed or shot for not putting their laptops in a separate bin now

cartoon of mueller and avenatti in super hero costumes

screenshot of mueller in a superman costume

Wolvering meme of him in bed looking at a framed photo... with Mueller in the photo

Remembering the meme's in this moment of sadness. He did nothing, accomplished less & wasted all our time, but it made a lot of centrist libs a load of podcasting money.

In the end he really was an american hero. (outside of everything he did as FBI head under Bush & Obama to Muslims and activists)

don't leave out of your Mueller obits the part where he rounded up thousands of Muslim men suspected of no wrongdoing for secret detention and abuse as FBI Director 👍

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I really hate foreign policy discourse that describes any US action as "giving the green light" to Bad Country to do Bad Thing. We don't own the traffic lights! Green lights aren't ours to give!

The war is burning through roughly $11,500 to $23,000 per second.

per second!

PER SECOND!

Really hope at least some people learn from this experience that despite opportunistic rhetoric about peace, fascism does in fact mean war.

This is an important victory after a hard fight. Congrats and thanks to @ccrjustice.org. They do such important work--please support them if you can. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

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