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1 week ago | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. You’re probably familiar with the case of Kilmar Abrego García. If you aren’t, you need to be: He’s the Maryland man the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported to a torture prison in El Salvador in March. It isn’t just that Abrego García has no criminal record. Since 2019 he has been legally protected from deportation under orders from a Trump-appointed immigration judge.
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jonathan M. Katz
U.S. Foreign Policy Human Rights United States Luis Alberto Castillo tried to do it the right way. According to an affidavit filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Castillo, a 29-year-old Venezuelan citizen who had been living in Colombia, arrived at the Paso del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 19.
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1 month ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Meaghan Winter |Jonathan M. Katz |Nick Serpe |Jawziya F. Zaman
How Sheriffs Undermine Democracy
An interview with Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land.
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2 months ago | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. This is part one of a two-part post. The rest will be in an issue for premium subscribers, hopefully tomorrow. Be ready for it by upgrading now!In Munich, on Valentine’s Day, Vice President JD Vance gave what wags regard as a “major speech.” It wasn’t a long speech, or a particularly surprising one for those of us who’ve been watching and understanding Trumpist turn for the last ten years or so.
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2 months ago | 
dissentmagazine.org | Jonathan M. Katz
“The Worst of the Worst”
Guantánamo represents a place beyond the reach of morality and the law, where America’s most dangerous enemies can be thrown, never to be seen again.
▪ February 4, 2025
It’s hard to shake the feeling that Donald Trump is racing through the playbook of early twentieth-century U.S. imperialism.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
The firehose is back. As during the heady days of Trump I, there are so many insane and dangerous things going on at once that it’s impossible to cover them all, which will no doubt be a theme of the next four to forty years. The gaslighting about shadow president Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at the inauguration parade has been well covered elsewhere.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
zeteo.com | Jonathan M. Katz
One of the many annoying things about Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House is having to rehash facts that should have been settled long ago. Here's one: in August 2017, after a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump claimed there were “very fine people on both sides,” praising the racists responsible for the violence. The backlash was immediate. Trump’s Republican allies distanced themselves. CEOs quit his advisory councils.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. Bari Weiss came to town last week for an event titled "Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Free Speech on College Campuses." It was built around a screening and discussion of a new short documentary on the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, which began sixty years ago this month. And, reader, it was weird.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
theracket.news | Jonathan M. Katz
Your browser does not support the audio element. Yesterday, about forty minutes into a crucial town hall, Donald J. Trump just gave up. The heat was cranked up too high inside the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center (not a new problem there apparently), and at least two people in his audience fainted. Pouring sweat, tired of answering his supplicants’ questions, he ordered his team to crank up the music.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Jonathan M. Katz
But in the end, itdoesn’t matter to the faithful. Baseless hatred of immigrants has been thedriving force of Trump’s campaigns since he coasted down the golden escalator. They are the scapegoat for every problem that MAGA world encounters, be theyreal or phantasmic: housing prices, the labor market, health problems,bureaucratic dysfunction at state and federal agencies.
