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Tahir Duckett

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Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety. Policing, consent, soccer, food. He/him.

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Hell yea, man.

07.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember when Trump posted himself as Thanos?

07.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They know that many people in the US will accept the killing of civilians overseas but will draw the line at high gas prices.

06.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 1073 πŸ” 289 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0

And in my experience 90%+ of the time, women and femmes doing that labor.

05.03.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this like once a day.

05.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
went to this community organizing thing a bit ago and ended up on a variety of signal chats and like. wow. how does one keep up with all this while being employed? i’m glad there are folks who can do all that, but man. i burn all my energy just getting through the day. there is nothing left.

went to this community organizing thing a bit ago and ended up on a variety of signal chats and like. wow. how does one keep up with all this while being employed? i’m glad there are folks who can do all that, but man. i burn all my energy just getting through the day. there is nothing left.

Don't go searching for OP, leave them alone. I just think that what they uplift is important and explains why many people simply cannot engage in activism and organizing regularly. And the truth is that it's hard to figure out actual ways around this because organizing in fact a labor.

05.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 866 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 0
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%)

Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose
U.S. adult citizens
39
Party ID
Democrats
14
Independents
35
Republicans
68

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

yougov.com/en-us/articl...

03.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 4302 πŸ” 1196 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 140
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At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.

04.03.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 2149 πŸ” 452 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 44

Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.

04.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 429 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

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 oftenβ€”and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 8318 πŸ” 2491 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 107
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death β€œBrutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

04.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 1310 πŸ” 661 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 32

This is straight-line anti-commandeering doctrine (laudatory), right? Fine, an administrative warrant is *sufficient* to make an arrest but that doesn't make it sufficient to require state or local LEs hold these individuals.

03.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Americans, generally.

03.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.

03.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1370 πŸ” 537 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 15
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing β€˜reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

03.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 3522 πŸ” 1539 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 284
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214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest β€œOne First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called β€œselective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

03.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 1063 πŸ” 304 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 16

Expand the Court.

03.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

02.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 1451 πŸ” 327 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 16

I think this is helpful. Lots of folks mistaking 2-3 moments for l a long period of sustained domination and pressure from Chelsea.

I think some of it is also football. Chelsea aren't a shite side, and quite used to playing with 10. Our fans seem to lose our minds if a team doesn't roll over.

02.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trossard seems to have cooled off a bit in the last several weeks. Is it time to give Martinelli some time from the start in the Premier League or does he work best as a super sub? #arsecastextra

02.03.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

01.03.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 26028 πŸ” 4730 πŸ’¬ 575 πŸ“Œ 484

Ah, yes. Peace through war. Definitely lots of precedent for that in the middle east, you muppet.

28.02.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I know I have been on this since 2015, but this column to this day still annoys me! It wasn’t even true at the time!

28.02.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 673 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 10
Tweet from Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that President Trump will be remembered by history as the president of Peace. He is quote tweeting from the department of state's announcement that the institute of Peace was being renamed after Donald Trump.

Tweet from Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that President Trump will be remembered by history as the president of Peace. He is quote tweeting from the department of state's announcement that the institute of Peace was being renamed after Donald Trump.

Mmm hmmm.

28.02.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

26.02.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 13116 πŸ” 3033 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 49

One way we know β€˜cancel culture’ isnt real is that a guy can do a Nazi salute (twice), endorse the literal nazi party, fill our government with nazis, and train his AI bot to be β€œliteral Hitler” and liberals will still use his website every day.

12.07.2025 04:29 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's urban occupations and violent campaign of mass deportations constitute his Forever War. It has its own arms buildup, its own war profiteers, and (like after 9/11) its own metastasizing public-private bureaucracy, which is growing harder to constrain. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2069...

25.02.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 923 πŸ” 303 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 13
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Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: β€˜I’m going to have to shoot this kid.’ Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.

In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.

25.02.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 974 πŸ” 557 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 121

If you have been frustrated about the commentary on the BAFTAs, I think this is the smart, thoughtful, compassionate take you have been looking for.

24.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Am I having a stroke?

24.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 369 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 1