Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/lawyer_detained_border

Leaving prices the same and adding "tariff surcharges" like they're Ticketmaster checkout charges is a good idea in order to help educate our ill-informed electorate imo.

Judge: What to do w/the govt saying we can't do this before Tues?

Plaintiff's counsel says govt has't provided factual basis for why they can't provide info/comply w/order before that

Judge: What I'm contemplating is very quick briefing order and order of compliance. Govt, she says, just so we're clear: There are no business hours in this court. And if we need to I'm going to require daily status updates on what if anything the govt is doing or not doing.

#law #immigration #Trump #judiciary

UPDATE:

Via Josh Kovensky:

Judge Xinis gives DOJ until 11:30 AM to file the declaration.

"The Defendants’ suggestion that they need time to meaningfully review a four-page Order that
reaffirms this basic principle blinks at reality."

IOW: Judge Xinis gives the government until *11:30 a.m.* to give status report on Abrego Garcia. Hearing remains at 1 p.m.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.57.0_1.pdf

@AlliFlowers @GottaLaff MAGAs *should* love that-- they didn't want us to be the "world's police" anymore, right?

Would love to see the mental gymnastics routine they'd have to go through to "parse" that one for public consumption if Greenland/Denmark did that.

@GottaLaff @McWabbit @AlliFlowers
If you’re going that far, make voting compulsory for everyone over 18.
Fine people who don’t.

@AlliFlowers @GottaLaff I’d say time for the US military to do a Turkish style coup and issue new elections without GOP shenanigans and automatic voter registration for all.

Social Security under #DOGE and #Musk Reclassifies Alive Immigrants - brought in under Biden - as Dead to end SS IDs, thus terminating their banking and credit to Push Them to ‘Self Deport’ and Leave USA.

https://time.com/7276631/social-security-immigrants-trump-work-eligibility-benefits-services-self-deport/

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

What’s happening right now is more than just bad policy or political infighting
—it’s a full-on assault on the principles that this country was founded upon,
and a threat to our very democracy itself.

The Trump administration claims to be “for the people”
while doing everything they can to consolidate power,
undermine the rule of law,
corrupt social norms,
and serve the interests of the wealthy elite.
https://johnwilder2.substack.com/p/silence-is-complicity-im-done-staying?r=5gsdby&triedRedirect=true

Lawyers and law firms: your moment to shine is now! Rush to the aid of individuals Trump is illegally and immorally targeting.

Or be the next Paul Weiss or Skadden.

Donald Trump is A CRIMINAL.

#ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

‪Kyle Griffin‬ ‪@kylegriffin1.bsky.social‬
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has introduced legislation that would prohibit awarding government contracts and grants to companies owned by special government employees — taking direct aim at Elon Musk.

By the numbers

16 scheduled Teams calls today. Mostly positive.
27 international students with revoked visas at my university today. Intensely negative.
Going for a mental health walk. Because the scale of the mess is not quantifiable.

Here is an article from a few months ago that fully describes the SAVE Act which, on top of being stupidly named, is a Republican bill that the goal of is to make it harder to vote.

Thankfully there is still a filibuster in the Senate. I’d call your Democratic Senators and tell them to use it. If you have a Republican Senator, you should call them, too, because this is a nonsense bill.

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens - Center for American Progress
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

🚨🚨🚨 #SCOTUS declined on Thurs to block a judge's order requiring #Trump's #administration to facilitate the return to the UnitedStates a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to #ElSalvador.

US District Judge Paula Xinis on April 4 issued an order that the administration return #KilmarAbregoGarcia, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man & his family challenging the legality of his #deportation.

#immigration #law #DueProcess
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/

Breaking News: #SCOTUS overturning case #24A949 Trump’s DHS wrongfully imprisoned innocent man. Ordering Trump admin to get him out of CECOT prison in El Salvador Now!

@Leah

2/2 Hate is hate. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Republicans, Democrats... everyone is worse off for it. Are we going to end it? No. But that doesn’t give us permission to throw our hands up and accept it, make excuses, or discount it. It’s exactly the opposite. We must talk about it, write about it, learn about it, and call it out. This is a time for all of us, Jews and allies, to be extra courageous.
Now that we’ve acknowledged the elephants, let’s not let them plunder the table. If we do, we’ll never get to the Four Questions, and besides, the matzah ball soup will get cold. Seders end with the phrase “Next Year in Jerusalem.” We may be going out on a limb here, but we’re guessing that most of us won’t be in Jerusalem next year. We’ll probably be sitting right here. But we can’t take that for granted. We’ve already learned the bitter lesson that true hate is never little, it is never unimportant, and it should never, ever be ignored.