Sven Koprek

This is not something we can reform. It has to be abolished and everyone involved needs to be held accountable.

An Argument Against Voting for the “Electable” Guy In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent shares his thoughts on the Texas primaries. Plus, a terrible Supreme Court decision and a bad play by Major League Baseball.

In this week’s newsletter, I look forward to “Beto O’Rourke 2” while also explaining why SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to send an immigrant back to a hitman.
I also complain about the modernization of baseball because I’m old.

Another member of the chat, William Bejerano — who tried to start a pro-life group at Miami Dade College — was the primary user of the n-word in the group. At one point, he posted a block of text calling for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, who he referred to using the n-word, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting people. Bejerano hung up the phone when reached by the Herald.

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as "whores," used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler's politics.

Byron Donald: “The conservative movement has always been steeped in respect for other people, respect for religious liberty, respect for economic liberty.”

The conservative movement:

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Now they "just" have to get rid of fptp to get proper representation. I fear the next election will be mere coin-flipping between disaster (Reform) and a proper government

We're the Villains Now On Monday, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth held a pro-war pep rally touting America's ability to make war great again.

We. Are. Evil.

We are a global scourge but the world won’t do anything to stop us

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Insider trading for war crimes is nasty work. Looking forward to Murphy's legislation

Call me a filthy commie but I feel like the best way to "support our troops" is NOT sending them to kill and die in imperialist wars for corporate profit.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

Picture of a pretty big and pretty scary bird that is (luckily) extinct these days

What about that one? It's a reconstruction of a so-called Terrorbird in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna

Remember, these guys fired all the people who actually know what they're doing because "DEI" and then hired the absolute dumbest people imaginable because of "meritocracy" and... then they do stuff like leaving comments enabled in their "this is how we concentration camp" PDF.

I'd say there might be two possible reasons:
They share his beliefs or they know they will look good vs him because he's not the brightest

There is no difference - NONE WHATSOEVER - between Fuckabee's attitude towards Israel's neighbors and the US settlers' attitude towards Indigenous nations and their land.

They're EXACTLY the same thing.

The U.S. military says it carried out strikes on three boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 11 people and again providing no evidence of alleged drug smuggling.

This brings the total number of strikes on boats in waters near Latin America to 42, resulting in at least 145 deaths.

If Andrew can go to jail, so can Elon (and Donnie)

What is happening to trans people in the United States is the beginning of a genocide.

The right is driving it, but the center is enabling it, and the left is in denial about it.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Nice, a flock of Billys. (or is it rather "pack of Billys")

President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ... Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

Who's that Eric Adams he's speaking of? Hasn't he already relocated to Istanbul?

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.

They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.

I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

"When ICE's ordinary operations require protection from law rather than obedience to it, abolition is not a radical slogan but a natural conclusion."

Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:

Testilying.

Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.

Käsespätzle - Wikipedia

As you wrote "world". Here's one from Southern Germany:
Käsespätzle
(if you like mac&cheese you will love Käsespätzle)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4...

Israel denies Gazan child access to cancer care despite Israeli hospital's willingness to treat him The court decision noted that the child's doctors in Ramallah had been in contact with Tel Hashomer Hospital, whose practitioners expressed willingness to treat the child.

But it's not apartheid amirite?

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself The Gospel of JD

"Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Gospel of JD"
snyder.substack.com/p/hate-thy-n...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”

This should be THE story everyday.