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“I want to focus my effort and work while I hold office,” he [ Senator Jon Ossoff] said, “on the suffering and abuse of people who have no voice.” Jon Ossoff Ossoff's Office politi.co/4da1txv via POLITICO

Preservation of Territorial Integrity – A Substantive Rule under UNCLOS? dlvr.it/T5thT7

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

The Age of Trump is not 'just' a great political crisis, it is a test of America's national character and morality. My new Salon with insights from Tom Nichols Tom Nichols Charlie Sykes Brynn Tannehill Michael Ian Black

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Closer shot of these roses

Justice Department Launches Updated Voting Rights and Elections Website

New and Updated Voting Rights Resources for Voters and Election Officials Released

🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

Nota Bene

If only there had been people in the UK who knew stuff (let's call them 'experts') and who could have warned their fellow citizens how this would all go sideways

Excellent!

Many, many congrats!!!

And thank you for your great work! The students will be reading your work in my PhD seminar in the fall!

Yes!!!!!

Proud of my dad for standing up against the tide of fear and capitulation that threatens our democracy.

It was a painful decision to resign from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, but necessary. I hope more people around the country will follow Liz Cheney's example and speak out about the threat to our democracy. Time to step up.
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“Drowning out speakers and disrupting exercises in politics, regardless of its cause or the target, is wrong on principle.”

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'By overwhelming people with the sheer volume and vulgarity of his antics, Trump and his team are trying to burn out the part of our brains that can discern truth from fiction, right from wrong, good from evil.' Tom Nichols theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Never in American history has any person, let alone a President of the United States, leveled such threatening attacks against the federal and state courts and federal and state judicial officers of the kind the former president has leveled continually now for years.

This is how democracy gets dismantled, piece by piece

The passivity that @judgeluttig describes here is what makes me think we could lose our democracy by default.

The Government Accountability Office is launching a probe of the policies and practices of DOJ law enforcement task forces at the request of Sen. Jon Ossoff, following NBC News reporting on the lack of accountability for federal task force officers. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f…