Retired Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law (Institutional Affiliation for Identification Purposes Only). CURRENTLY SHADOW BANNED HERE.
If you voted for abortion bans, mass deportations, the betrayal of our alliance, intelligence and security assets, suppression of books and ideas, by a christo-fascist white-nationalist, misogynist, transphobic government, because milk is too expensive, you are a fucking moron.
🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. https://t.co/ehhCCzys1D
Americans haven’t forgotten the abuses committed by Trump’s immigration agents, but Republicans are still trying to push through funding for immigration enforcement without any accountability for ICE. We need real changes before ICE gets another dollar.
CBS didn’t air some particularly troubling rants, which depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. Read the entire transcript in full here: https://t.co/2Q8FnXKan5
The EPA's independent science arm did groundbreaking research to save lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change etc etc
In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled
Of 1500 scientists, only 124 remain
https://t.co/05bluCvI2c
Her university:
-Gave free rein to an investigation based entirely on national origin
-Punished her for being investigated
-Used police to force her from her workplace
We're seeing this playbook in VA, with the Fired Six and others. We can fight back. https://t.co/HBK1GMWXSP
BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS
The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." https://t.co/iUKd8NPl4A
#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “…former Secretary…Kristi Noem, according to the WSJ, has been REFUSING to leave the waterfront home reserved for the Coast Guard Commandant which she TOOK OVER for herself. She’s refusing to leave it reportedly even though she hasn’t been DHS Secretary for weeks now, since she was fired last month.”🤦♀️
Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence
Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else https://t.co/LFo7jyh03o
(2/10) In 2022, SpaceX gave the Pentagon an ultimatum: pay roughly $400 million a year for Starlink service in Ukraine—crucial infrastructure the country's military was relying on for battlefield communication—or it would be cut off.
Colin Kahl, then Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy, called Elon Musk and pleaded with for more time. Officials told me lives hung in the balance. But they had to be deferential. "Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue," Kahl told me. A Pentagon official described the dynamic more bluntly: "We are living off his good graces. That sucks."
ICE detain mother after victim of hit and run—that killed her 10 year old daughter.
Agents arrested her despite qualifying for a U Visa—as a victim of a crime who cooperates with police.
Locked up over 3 months now with 2 broken legs—denied medication prescribed after surgery.
Laura Ramirez immigrated legally from Colombia to Nashville, Tennessee—via the official CBP One mobile app for processing asylum claims.
She has been separated from her youngest daughter—who was also injured in the hit and run car crash but survived.
Now locked up 680 miles away from surviving 5 year old daughter at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. #DemsUnited
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear Chatrie v. US, the biggest digital privacy case in years. It concerns "geofence warrants" and whether law enforcement can compel tech companies to hand over users' records to build leads and suspect lists. Cato filed an amicus brief.