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Nonilex<p>In his telling, his alma mater had devolved into a bastion of bigotry that public money should not underwrite. He said the admin could choose, if it wished, to direct its largess toward other institutions. The case, he argued, was more about money for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> than any profound matters like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>.</p><p>Judge Burroughs suggested that Harvard might very well not be such a titan of American academia if the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin’s cuts stand.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Velchik, himself a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> alumnus, scrambled on Monday to argue that the government was not seeking to decapitate Harvard. Naming a handful of luminaries who had studied at Harvard — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., President John F. Kennedy and even the actor Matt Damon — he insisted that the government was seeking to strengthen and reshape an important American institution that had lost its way.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“What I’m wrestling with is this idea that the executive branch can decide what is discriminatory or racist,” she said, and then make “these ad hoc decisions without any procedure around it.”</p><p>She also appeared dismissive of the government’s contention that a different court, one dealing with financial disputes, should be hearing the case instead of her own.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>, he said, “should have read the fine print.”</p><p>Harvard has sharply disputed the idea that it condones discrimination. Steven P. Lehotsky, a lawyer for Harvard, told Judge Burroughs on Monday that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin’s quest to punish Harvard was a “blatant, unrepentant violation of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a>.”</p><p>He added, “It’s the constitutional third rail, or it should be, for the government to insist it can engage in viewpoint discrimination.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Michael Velchik, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> lawyer at the hearing, asserted on Monday that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin had the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> to decide where it spent taxpayer money.</p><p>“The choice was that the government does not want to fund research at institutions that fail to address antisemitism to its satisfaction,” he said, arguing that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>’s rejection of the admin’s terms freed the admin to terminate any contracts with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The judge unleashed a barrage of pointed questions at the lone <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> lawyer. She demanded to know, for instance, how the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin could reasonably tie withdrawal of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> to concerns about the civil rights of Jewish people.</p><p>And she appeared bothered by the admin’s hurried approach to attacking <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>’s research funding, suggesting there were potentially “staggering” constitutional consequences if the govt could punish a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> without <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A federal judge appeared deeply skeptical on Monday of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin’s efforts to strip <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> of billions of dollars in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a>, suggesting the school might prevail in its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> battle against the admin.<br>Judge Allison D. Burroughs did not issue a ruling…, but she did seem receptive to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>’s arguments, as both the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> sought to have the case decided in their favor without a trial.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trum</span><span class="invisible">p-administration-harvard-hearing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EndICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StopICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElectionsHaveConsequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionsHaveConsequences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SaveDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JustFollowingOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustFollowingOrders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AlligatorAuschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlligatorAuschwitz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OathToDefendTheConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OathToDefendTheConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LetsGoTaco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsGoTaco</span></a></p><p>Canadians and history have lessons for the US.</p>
Musing Mouse<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heidilifeldman</span></a></span> Damn. This is just one small clip, but speaks to the treatment:</p><p>"in April at the downtown Miami jail, staff turned off a surveillance camera and a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one of their number who was coughing up blood."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>
Joanna Bryson, blathering<p>Two decades in jail waiting for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dueProcess</span></a>. You can see why people want to use AI to facilitate access to justice, but without careful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemsEngineering</span></a> it’s more likely to clog the system further. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIEthics</span></a></p><p>Mumbai train blasts: Indian court acquits all 12 accused</p><p>An Indian high court ruled that those accused in the deadly 2006 Mumbai train blasts will now walk free. They have already spent nearly two decades in the prison for the crimes.<br><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mumbai-train-blasts-indian-court-acquits-all-12-accused/a-73347121" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/mumbai-train-blasts-</span><span class="invisible">indian-court-acquits-all-12-accused/a-73347121</span></a></p>
RememberUsAlways<p>Does it matter if the very real <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epstein</span></a> birthday image is fake?</p><p>I thought fraud was part of the game since we decided it was ok to elect a guilty criminal Pedophile as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a></p><p>Let it hurt. </p><p>What are words like <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/dueprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dueprocess</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> worth to you?</p><p>What value do the words we use have,<br>without you?</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> !</p>
USAJusticeWatch<p>“The family of an 82-year-old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chilean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chilean</span></a> national…detained by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> after he misplaced his green card... …on June 20…he &amp; his wife visited the Philadelphia immigration office to replace his lost <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greencard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greencard</span></a>… officers handcuffed him &amp; took him away without explanation... His family was left scrambling…for…information on Leon’s whereabouts… this week, his family…learned…[he was sent]…to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guatemala</span></a>.” | Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-deported-grandpa-green-card-b2792290.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/ice-deported-grandpa-green-card-b2792290.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnforcedDisappearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnforcedDisappearance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThirdCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdCountry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EndICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StopICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElectionsHaveConsequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionsHaveConsequences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SaveDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JustFollowingOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustFollowingOrders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AlligatorAuschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlligatorAuschwitz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OathToDefendTheConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OathToDefendTheConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LetsGoTaco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsGoTaco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StephenColbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StephenColbert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Paramount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paramount</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>“We’ve⚡️been in touch with Hernández Romero’s legal team &amp; they’ve confirmed he’s back in VE. We’re grateful he’s alive &amp; are engaged with both the St Dept &amp; his team.”<br />-Rep Garcia</p><p>“Maduro has indicated: the men will not be immediately detained. </p><p>This story: a major PR talking pt for his govt. They’re saying: they “rescued” the men in CECOT, so for now they’ll all have PR on their side. After the Trump admin imprisoned him in SLV w/o <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dueprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dueprocess</span></a> -case: quietly dismissed.”<br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>⚡️Welcome news: “The Trump admin says it has arranged with the Maduro regime to be able to bring back any of the deported Venezuelans for legal proceedings if ordered by a court.”<br />-K Cheney<br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Courts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rights</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a><br /><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26016544/harper.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">s3.documentcloud.org/documents</span><span class="invisible">/26016544/harper.pdf</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://nerdist.com/article/cbs-cancel-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nerdist.com/article/cbs-cancel</span><span class="invisible">-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/</span></a><br>CBS Cancels LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT After He Skewered Paramount’s ‘Big Fat Bribe’<br>by Michael Walsh</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Paramount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paramount</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Colbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colbert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StephenColbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StephenColbert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EndICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StopICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopICE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ElectionsHaveConsequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionsHaveConsequences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SaveDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JustFollowingOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustFollowingOrders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AlligatorAuschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlligatorAuschwitz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OathToDefendTheConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OathToDefendTheConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LetsGoTaco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LetsGoTaco</span></a></p>
RedwoodSec<p>I wish society showed the same concern about masked federal agents and due process beyond just ICE. Agencies like the FBI and U.S. Marshals have long operated in masks and conducted street-level arrests without much scrutiny. There’s a troubling pattern of selective outrage when it comes to civil rights violations. What about the countless Americans in overcrowded, violent prisons—places that often neglect rehabilitation entirely and arguably make people worse? <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dueprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dueprocess</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaskUp</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>&quot;IMPORTANT CONTEXT for todays&#39; news that the men are being released as part of a US-Venezuela prisoner swap.</p><p>🚨We used INNOCENT PEOPLE as pawns. It is a huge black eye on the US, a stain that will take a long time for us to ever wipe away.&quot;<br />-A Reichlin-Melnick</p><p>Articles on the possible &quot;prisoner exchange&quot; between the US, El Salvador, and Venezuela:<br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/el-salvador-to-send-detained-venezuelans-to-caracas-in-prison-swap-for-americans-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">straitstimes.com/world/el-salv</span><span class="invisible">ador-to-send-detained-venezuelans-to-caracas-in-prison-swap-for-americans-sources-say</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-send-detained-venezuelans-caracas-prison-swap-americans-sources-say-2025-07-18/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/americas/el-</span><span class="invisible">salvador-send-detained-venezuelans-caracas-prison-swap-americans-sources-say-2025-07-18/</span></a></p>
The USA Potato<p><strong>Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal</strong></p> <p>“We pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else,” said one immigrant rights advocate.</p> <p><a href="https://murica.website/2025/07/dozens-disappeared-on-el-salvador-deportation-trips-flight-logs-reveal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">murica.website/2025/07/dozens-</span><span class="invisible">disappeared-on-el-salvador-deportation-trips-flight-logs-reveal/</span></a></p>
kriykat<p>American Authoritarianism<br><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/18/american-authoritarianism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consortiumnews.com/2025/07/18/</span><span class="invisible">american-authoritarianism/</span></a><br>Torture, rotating judges and prosecutors and incarceration for a generation without charges or trial are all hallmarks of an authoritarian government, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a&amp;#8230;<br><a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TheBush43Administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBush43Administration</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.s. <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.s.SupremeCourrt <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/AndrewP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewP</span></a>.Napolitano <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Gitmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gitmo</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/GuantanamoBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuantanamoBay</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/KhalidSheikhMohammed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KhalidSheikhMohammed</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/LloydAustin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LloydAustin</span></a></p>