Jonathan Platt

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

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Trump wants to make sure it’s as easy as possible for his friend Putin to bomb apartment buildings and kill children. He’s not just the worst president in history, he’s the most evil person to ever serve at the highest level of government. Vote out his weak Republican enablers.

Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.

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"After years of engaging in systematic torture rationalized by pretextual legal arguments, the United States has systematically failed—or refused—to hold torturers accountable or provide remedies to the victims," writes @nkorpett.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/9-11...

ICYMI: I talked with Mohamed Barry, a longtime resident of Indiana, about what it was like to be taken from his family and expelled to a country he’s never been to on a hellish, 26-hour flight. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

Sarah McBride on her message to trans youth: "You matter and you're not alone, and there are a lot of people, not just here, but around the country who see you, who love you, and who are fighting every single day to make sure that all of us are treated with dignity and respect."

Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people

Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.

Preach! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Vote BINFACE! To trash the right wing.

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Dogs can't experience TM confusion: "Barkful also alleges that even dogs can recognize Barkful’s packaging. This does not help Barkful’s attempt to establish secondary meaning, as a dog is unlikely to regard the trade dress as identifying 'the source of the product rather than the product itself.'"

"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6

Per Financial Times, while in Beijing, Trump proposed to Xi the idea that US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I am getting a lot of questions about whether Trump's threats alone are illegal. The answer is yes. 1. First, Additional Protocol I states “Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” (also DOD LOW Manual §5.2.2) 1/

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

It’s Long Covid Awareness Day (which I think should be the Ides of March, for reasons that will become clear.) Some of you have heard this before. But I wanted to share my Long Covid story, because I think you should hear it. On my birthday in November 2022, I woke up with Covid.

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Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Transformative work of the day, I could do this all day edition

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

"Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday." www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...