Frank Deale

Professor of Law, CUNY Law School; former Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights. Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A lawyer active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by DOJ’s Voting Section. https://t.co/eJlU2JZObc

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Steve Rattner exposes a massive crisis. The personal savings rate has completely collapsed to a historic rock bottom of 2.6 percent.

The Trump administration's disastrous inflation is crushing the working class, leaving millions with zero emergency cash!

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.

Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.

[Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem]

USC part-time, adjunct and full-time non-tenure-track faculty have vote to unionize -- forming one of the largest private campus faculty unions in the U.S.

But USC is challenging the result, asking the National Labor Relations Board to review the vote.

https://t.co/5y6qUpcH1K

[Frank Deale @fdeale]

https://t.co/DgjEwgOFOW

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: Top journalist Rachel Maddow exposes a terrifying reality. If the Trump administration's DOJ can secretly lie to grand juries, they can arrest and jail absolutely anyone on the basis of nothing.

Washington is actively paving the way for mass arrests!

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Congress wants to extend U.S. military benefits to Americans serving in a foreign army.

Not Ukraine. Not NATO allies. One country.

The bill is H.R. 8445. Here's what it would give you for serving in the IDF: your U.S. employer has to hold your job. Your U.S. loans get capped at 6%. Your U.S. home can't be foreclosed.

Benefits currently reserved for Americans who serve America.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Just so we’re clear, the Israeli Consulate of NYC 100% knew that Smotrich and his band of Jewish supremacist buddies were coming to the parade yesterday. They purposely hid that from all the politicians who attended bc they knew it would cause an uproar.

Then the entire NY Zionist lobby went on a hysterical week-long lobbying campaign trying to pressure Mamdani into attending… just so they could humiliate him by having him present alongside an ICC indicted war criminal.

They knew exactly what they were doing. Good on Mamdani for digging in his heels. Eternal shame on every other NY politician who attended. You all deserve to be fully associated with war criminals considering your undying support for them.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 A STUNNING CLAIM.

According to a legal analyst, DOJ never filed a single motion opposing Trump's lawsuit before negotiating a settlement.

Not one filing contesting the case.

Not one motion asking the court to reject the claims.

In a normal lawsuit involving the federal government, government lawyers typically defend the government's position in court.

Here, critics argue that never happened.

Instead, they say DOJ moved directly into negotiations.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Lawrence Duran defrauded Medicare of $205 million.

Trump has commuted his sentence, allowing him to keep $87.5 million in stolen funds.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins's latest financial report just came out.

A staggering one-third of her money raised this quarter came directly from AIPAC.

Senator Collins is bought and paid for by Benjamin Netanyahu, and she votes accordingly.

[Frank Deale @fdeale]

New York's Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani https://t.co/42Z7Mz9v6t

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

congrats to @jaredpolis

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

الطبيب الفلسطيني عدنان البرش،

صاحب الرقم القياسي في عدد العمليات الجراحية خلال يوم واحد (أكثر من ٢٠ عملية)

عذبته اسرائيل حتى الموت في سجونها.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:

"Now that [Gaza] has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase: making the entire population permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed."

It's the prelude, says Levy, to mass expulsion.

"No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks. And without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth."

Source: https://t.co/NYY16nu06c

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.

And the wildest part?

One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.

Think about that.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Trump pardoned 77 people that stole from Medicare.

This flew under the radar. I believe Trump is selling pardons which is enough to send Trump away.

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

Today, Maurice Bishop would be 82. Leftist Prime Minister of Grenada 1979-1983. Expanded free healthcare, education, literacy, housing, built infrastructure. Strong ties to Cuba+Non-Aligned Movement. Overthrown by CIA-led coup under Reagan. Executed by firing squad at age 38.