Matt Cameron

Yep, cohosting twice a week for two yrs now--here's our current lineup

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Not that it really matters since she thinks she is, but she is not

Agreed for sure, I just don't want to act like it is inevitable or give Dems a pass in advance for not doing everything possible to stop it

If Markwayne Mullin wasn’t a senator he would be an ICE agent so this makes a lot of sense from a “what should a dumb middle aged guy on heavy doses of steroids do for a living” perspective.

yeah not really for me to comment on but that piece above has a really good perspective on him from a fellow Cherokee

(this is not to say that he should or will be confirmed)

(it is both very funny and very stupid that she is instead being fired for confirming that Trump directed the content of the campaign, including the part where she thanked him for "closing the border")

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

just a reminder that there is actually a very good reason that Noem should have already been fired over the $220 million ad campaign which she made the mistake of telling everyone Trump approved, but whatever works i guess

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

ICED

Markwayne Mullin is for Trump – and Indian Country - High Country News The Cherokee congressman, who is hard-right and white-passing, may not seem like an Indigenous lawmaker, but he’s no anomaly.

good news is that 250 years later we're going to let a Native American decide who gets to be American, bad news is that it's this guy

www.hcn.org/issues/51-21...

I read NO GOING BACK for OA background research when Noem was nominated and I have never taken fewer notes on a book in my life. But "hard decisions are not that hard" has really stuck with me, and I have thought about it nearly every time I have heard her speak. Let it be her career's epitaph

I'll have much more to say about this sometime soon, but the fact that this person put the sentence "hard decisions are not that hard" in writing and published it in a book should have been instantly disqualifying, even more than dog murder or lying about meeting the world's weirdest dictator

"Hard decisions are really not that hard."

--Kristi Noem, "NO GOING BACK: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward" (2024)

--also everyone involved in firing Kristi Noem, probably

I am fully diagnosed and at least occasionally medicated but I know what you mean, it feels like the whole world is designed to induce it now

Thanks! Really appreciated the chance to stop in to one of my favorite law shows. Since you already have great taste in podcasts I hope you'll give Opening Arguments a listen sometime

I had an ALT on here but the screenshot is from my Substack account, reflecting 14 published pieces & 64 drafts. (This is actually down from 75 earlier this evening.) Working now on getting at least one of these into posting shapee

screenshot from my Deport Nation Substack account showing 14 published pieces and 64 drafts

does anyone else do this or is my ADHD really just *that* bad

As I wrote in @thebaffler.com a year later, King's willful cruelty presaged Trump's family separation policy

"A country that would not only rip children from the arms of their parents, but then intentionally orphan and exile them just to “send a message,” risks not only losing them, but itself."

This is or probably should be an extinction-level vote total for that particular rhetoric within the D caucus.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Our client Leo Garcia Venegas and two other victims of DHS’s lawlessness got to introduce themselves to Secretary Noem today.

The room fell silent when they stood.

There’s no basis for claim about gold fringe on the US flag A cryptic video claimed that gold fringe attached to the American flag signifies that citizens have lost the liberties g

not that you need Politifact for this one but this is a sovcit classic

www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

de facto government

the DOJ attorney just realized that the flag in the courtroom has a GOLD FRINGE, it's all over now

A photo of the exterior of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building

I'm here at the federal courthouse in St. Paul for the clown car contempt hearing ordered by Judge Jeffrey Bryan over the federal government's conduct in 28 separate habeas cases. He ordered the government to show cause over failure to comply with orders requiring the accounting for of property

as regular @openargs.bsky.social listeners know, I try to stay realistic about American fascism and I'm never here to say that things are okay or that courts will save us. But legal doomerism is the worst kind, and I loved the reasons for hope they brought out in both interviews here

@fivefourpod.bsky.social been waiting to see @mattcameron.bsky.social on the show! Looking forward to listening to it

Immigration Law in 2026: Fighting the Cruelty Machine

Thanks to @aywarhiannon.bsky.social & @fleerultra.bsky.social rultra.bsky.social for having me on @fivefourpod.bsky.social to talk about the practical hope of knowing where in immigration law we can win, where we are winning, & how we will win

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