Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)

Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)

@doothirty.bsky.social

Assistant Professor and Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic @UIC Law ♐️🇵🇭 Obsessed with everything veterans law related. Made in the Bay Area. Assembled in Chicago. Shipped to Syracuse. Returned to Chicago.

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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

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41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

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BREAKING NEWS: Pentagon IG says of Hegseth's use of Signal, "The information could have imperiled American troops." If Hegseth values our troops as much as he says he does, he should resign and allow someone more experienced to lead the Department of Defense.

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This explains so much of what we are seeing.

ProPublica@propublica.org

After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE. By @keribla.bsky.social

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Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.

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I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

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Most people never begin. They tell themselves the timing isn’t right. That the space is too crowded. That their voice won’t matter. But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started. You don’t have to be one of them. Begin today. your future self will thank you.

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“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech hero by firing a bunch of people for saying mean things about him” is the kind of thing Tom Lehrer could have done roper justice to.

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A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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This is so wildly inadequate. If taken at face value, it‘s a claim that Article II empowers the President to kill people whenever wherever in the world because “U.S. interests“ as defined by him. I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social

As expected the War Powers report justifies the attack in the Caribbean solely on the basis of the President's authority under Article II of the Constitution as "Commander in Chief and Chief Executive." 2/n

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This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

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Well everyone, we now just got clearance on some more lines so we're doing open rank searches for 1. business/corporate law, 2. commercial law, and 3. torts! Please share this with anyone you think might be interested!

Maybell Romero@maybell.bsky.social

Corporate and business law people: Come work with me! We're especially taking a look at laterals this year.

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1. Checkpoint for what? 2. I doubt that a constitutional answer can be given to that question 3. Even if it’s constitutional, this is totally unnecessary, a means of punishing a community for daring to stand up for itself and deterring other jurisdictions from doing the same

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

ICE and MPD have set up a checkpoint at 17 and Benning NE, by the Ross.

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Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

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Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."

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BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's abortion ban from 1849. This is a win for abortion rights.

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AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

Michael Jay McClure@mjmimages.bsky.social

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 109 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

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🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published our in-depth analysis of the immigration enforcement provisions of the reconciliation bill. Want to know what funding ICE and CBP get, and for what purposes? We've got you covered! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...