Jon Feinberg

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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

great job everyone

Pretty lousy to see a lying, anti-democracy, xenophobic demagogue on a podium celebrating internationalism and athletic success.

Well said by Zane Memeger, a former prosecutor and current executive director of @innocencepa.bsky.social. share.inquirer.com/7zrQdK

ICE shooting victim in Maine was a 26-year-old man from Colombia with work authorization and a Social Security Number, likely an asylum applicant. It'll be interesting to see how he came to be on ICE's radar.

We wouldn’t have to worry about ICE killing the “wrong person” if ICE would just stop killing people altogether.

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

how dare trump come for fútbol

Trump has done such a massive disservice to the US football team and American fans with his intervention. He's essentially politicised the team through tainting them with his corruption. The rest of the world is now rooting for Belgium tonight for political reasons. That's not how sport should be.

Every soccer match should be followed by appeals of each foul. That is the only way soccer can become more like appellate litigation, which I understand to be the goal of all.

When you're too corrupt even for Sepp Blatter, that is presumably time for a reassessment.

Another example of “Trump ruins everything he touches.” There’s no good outcome for USMNT now. If Balogun doesn’t play, Trump and MAGA will lash out, threaten his citizenship. If he plays and they lose, the world will celebrate. If they win, accused of cheating forever. No good outcome.

Trump did a corruption to make sure Balogun was eligible to play, but his administration is simultaneously doing everything it can to strip his citizenship. What a fucking country.

FREE BALOGUN (but not like that).

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Concise and comprehensive indictment of our criminal legal system. Powerful stuff by @willbunch.bsky.social (as usual). www.inquirer.com/opinion/prai...

This really isn’t hard

I love this one. This was the one that made me realize these were going to work. A minute isn’t much time and I worried it was too little. But this one does more in a minute than I could do in a whole semester.

Not a new observation, I know, but: moving the World Cup TV rights from ESPN to Fox has done real damage to soccer in this country.

I am so excited to watch the best soccer players in the world compete for the next 6 weeks. But, man, this is gross. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

An Iraqi soccer player was detained for hours when he arrived here for the World Cup. A Somali referee was outright denied entry. Iran's team is not allowed to stay in the U.S. The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together. Instead, Trump is using it as an excuse to be racist and cruel.

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

"No person — citizen or immigrant — should be subjected to unlawful violence without accountability," said NPAP President @jonfeinberg.bsky.social People harmed by excessive force, unlawful detention & other forms of violence by DHS are entitled to damages, and we are here to help them.

Here's a website where you can search google and see results sans ai summary, in case that's useful in your life. udm14.com Not sure "let me udm14 that" will verbify as easily as "let me google that" but who knows... maybe "ooo-dum." h/t @edonavot.bsky.social

Glad I could speak with @latimes.com about the key remedy for ICE and CBP misconduct: the Federal Tort Claims Act. If you've heard there's "nothing" you can do to hold federal officers accountable, that's wrong. This articles does a great job explaining the process. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I have no words. Actually I do. Just not today. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.

Convenient to remember that time in 2021 when every Senate Republican was OUTRAGED at the idea of providing compensation equal to .0045% of this total to moms and babies subjected to life-altering trauma when they were separated at the border. www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/u...

This is mass political violence. “More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”

"We're going to deport the worst of the worst" was always a lie. Heartbreaking piece by @jeffgammage.bsky.social. share.inquirer.com/lsNWaE

It’s depressing how things that were seen as KKK-level racism when I was in college are mundane government policies and Supreme Court decisions today.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Statue of limitations has not expired on this tweet.

Re-reading SCOTUS's 2023 decision in Counterman, in which the Court held that state must prove that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence. Must be more than mere hyperbole, but that speaker seriously intends violence.

You can see this new indictment of James Comey as an outrage, which it is, or rather a patently illegitimate abuse of power. I see it as more evidence of his crashing out & collapse, more direct & absurd lashing out while he's unable or lacks the mental wherewithal to right his own political ship.

I cannot express how terrible it is that a licensed attorney put their name on this, to say nothing of one at DOJ.

New from me: How a Quattrone Center criminologist got ChatGPT to falsely confess to a crime. theintercept.com/2026/04/23/c...

"Using Maine law, the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to hold federal agents accountable for the wrongful detention of a civil engineer in Portland during the large-scale operation in January." mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/14/p...

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