Mel, as always, it is a joy to work with such a brilliant, brave, and impassioned co-author and friend!🥰

New book 🚨: Lights and Shadows: The Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court, eds Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo & Fabio Ferraz de Almeida. Incl. chapter by @profkmm.bsky.social, Valerie Oosterveld & me on the forced marriage findings in the Ongwen case. brill.com/display/titl...

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Militarized federal agents patrolling the streets doesn't make anyone safer.

People should never have to fear being brutalized by their government for protesting.

TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE HOLY LAND'S DARK MESSIAH As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Absolutely brilliant and imperative, Fionnuala!

Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from A federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained detained in another African county, Djibouti.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries they aren’t from — including Libya and South Sudan — without giving them time to contest the deportation.

By @eleanorbpaynter.net‬ @uoregon.bsky.social‬:

The ghoulish response of Trump and the GOP Insults and mockery fly after the horrific shootings.

Trump has opted to respond to weekend’s horrific political violence by insulting Gov. Tim Walz.

Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

This is a shocking video. I've texted @padilla.senate.gov to let him know that we support him and will speak out against this injustice.

There is no excuse for this.

Holy shit. This is @padilla.senate.gov

They just forcibly arrested a U.S. Senator.

And this "man" calls himself Catholic...what a disgrace. I hope the new Pope weighs in again on this VICE president's so-called "Christian" worldview.

Musk and his gang rather disrupt than save lives.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich Let’s set the record straight: Trump is not a “successful businessman.” He is, objectively, a business failure.

Trump's mishandling of the economy during his first 100 days shouldn't surprise anyone. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. Watch. https://youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=tmQLdtdCWpVAWW-r

Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.

Legal challenges to President Trump’s El Salvador deportations have focused on due process, writes @conor64.bsky.social. Less attention has been paid to another constitutional protection: the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”

This motherfucker straight up admitted that he rigged the election. Plain English.

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

US and El Salvador celebrate their refusal to return man wrongly deported to "gulag" Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and US President Donald Trump called a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador a “terrorist.” They say they cannot bring him back.

The two men shook hands over the unjustified, indefinite imprisonment of people convicted of nothing.

“We have bad ones, too. I’m all for it,” Trump said of sending US citizens to El Salvador.

Trump Administration Non-Adherence to Court Orders | Revolving Door Project Tracking the Trump administration's non-adherence to court orders after his illegal funding freeze was blocked by federal judges.

The Trump administration defied two courts orders: they won't let the AP back into the White House, and they're refusing to give updates on their plans to return the man they wrongly deported. These keep stacking up.

Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s Failures Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.

‘Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.’ www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Holy shit. This is the funniest political ad I’ve ever seen.

The Republican House Caucus wants it taken down. You know what to do.

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff