Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.
He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.
Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.
It's a disgrace.
Todd Lyons led a secret police force for Trump where masked agents attacked our own American streets, violated Constitutional rights, and shot our own citizens.
We’ll hold you accountable too.
A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal for a story on the president's ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.
BREAKING NEWS: a federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to turn over all their evidence on Renee Good’s murder.
JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight.
Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat.
This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2.
Why it matters:
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5/ anymore (only ~18% of Americans got one, this past season, though some of that low uptake was undoubtedly due to access issues), but covid "continues to cause tens of thousands of deaths each year, including an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 among adults aged 50 to 64."
And with the success of...
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
Judge rules Trump order eliminating NPR, PBS funding unconstitutional
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BREAKING A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and PBS was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment.
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Absolutely love this
This extraordinary illustration, titled Wild World, is a hand-drawn global map created by artist and cartographer Anton thomas. Instead of political borders and city names, the map highlights wildlife, placing animals in their native habitats across every continent and ocean
Dogs became man's best friend far earlier than thought, scientists find.
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Exclusive: A top deputy to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged that the Justice Department did not have evidence of misconduct by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in its investigation of the Federal Reserve over the cost of its building renovations.
The hexagonal storm is in the centre of the image; a superposed image of Earth, approximately to scale, is at the upper right. Earth's notional shadow (to scale) is at upper left.
There's a giant hexagonal storm at the north pole of Saturn.
It's 29,000 km across.
So here's Earth for scale.
BREAKING:
Pentagon press policy ruled unconstitutional in case brought by N.Y. Times
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:25-cv-887-RCL KARI LAKE, et al., Defendants. PATSY WIDAKUSWARA, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 1:25-cv-1015-RCL KARI LAKE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Before the Court are cross-motions for partial summary judgment on the Administrative Procedure Act claims raised by the plaintiffs in the above-captioned cases. The plaintiffs challenge the defendants' actions in March 2025 to dramatically downsize the United States Agency for Global Media and its subsidiary, Voice of America, as violating Sections 706(1) and (2) of the APA. After clearing a series of threshold hurdles, the Court ultimately concludes that the plaintiffs prevail on all aspects of their APA claims except for certain contractors' requests for reinstatement. Accordingly, each parties' motion will be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART as set forth in an accompanying order.
that all actions taken pursuant to the defendants' decision to reduce USAGM to the "statutory minimum," as set forth in the Statutory Minimum Memorandum are VACATED and SET ASIDE, including the March 18 Statutory Minimum Memorandum, the March 15 placement of 1,042 employees on administrative leave, the suspension of broadcasting operations, and the 1 Case 1:25-cv-01015-RCL Document 222 Filed 03/17/26 Page 2 of 2 termination of non-contractor staff, and that no later than March 23, 2026, all employees placed on administrative leave pursuant to the defendants' March 2025 directive shall return to work; and it is further ORDERED
BREAKING: Judge Royce Lamberth rules that the Trump admin impermissibly halted Voice of America and related broadcasting and impermissibly placed associated employees on administrative leave, orders return to work by March 23.
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This reminds me of that line I saw someone say once (which rang true) that something that makes Trump uniquely able to connect with low-information voters is that he is a low-information voter.
I want a democratic Iran. And I won’t shed a tear for the Ayatollah’s death.
But my first concern will always be the national security of the United States.
Trump is putting our troops and all Americans in danger without any real reason he can explain.
NEW: A federal appeals court swiftly rejected the Trump administration’s request to delay next steps in the fight over tariff refunds for importers after the US Supreme Court struck down the president’s signature economic policy
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It is both outrageous and very representative of this administration and the entire conservative movement that women are responsible for men’s crimes, and that women who challenge men must be made to suffer in perpetuity.
"The Court will not allow federal authorities to use a new and erroneous statutory interpretation to terrorize refugees who immigrated to this country under the promise that they would be welcomed and allowed to live in peace, far from the persecution they fled." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.
In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.
Taxation without representation.
NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
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The NYT just confirmed the missing Epstein files and is treating this like a blockbuster story:
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JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.
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Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.
These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.
Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
n its place they are promoting a pseudo-history which brings to mind Orwell’s description of “a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique controls not only the future but the past.” This is no less than a Potemkin-like historical vision where you must accept a façade of unbroken righteousness and loyalty – while any who look behind will be punished. A less aggressive, but still deeply serious, questioning of the right to challenge narratives or even bring new perspectives to how we see history is now found through much of the world. State-led revisionism is seen in attempts to reopen old issues, reinvigorate the idea of national enemies and to define national identity through allegiance to a particular understanding of the past. In other contexts, we are seeing attempts to caricature and undermine scholarship which is conducted in good faith by labelling it reactionary, or woke, or any number of other labels. The dismissive use of these labels is intended to stifle debate not empower it. This goes to the very core of democratic values. For me democracy requires far more than just holding elections – it requires the rule of law, active respect for diverse opinions, protection of the ability to raise questions and a rejection of the idea that to be part of the polity you must conform to a set narrative. Further, I believe that the strongest democracies, and the most sustainable societies, are those which embrace the importance of diversity and complexity. Without the humanities this is impossible, and history has a fundamental role to play.
On the assault on scholarship and the defence of the humanities for democratic values.
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👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
