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(1/3) As Trump continues his assault on asylum seekers (based on a number of lies and legal distortions) this Slate article @jedshug and I wrote remains relevant, so here it is again: slate.com/news-and-polit…
(2/3) And this one: slate.com/news-and-polit…
(3/3) On a more personal note, I volunteered this summer as a lawyer in a detention center offering legal assistance to asylum seekers.

I tweeted my experiences here:
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Hi, George. Thanks for commenting. And welcome to my twitter feed.

All the facts I listed came directly from documents Mueller filed with the court. Most are from a doc you signed under penalty of perjury!

Let’s march through the facts, as given in the docs, shall we?
1/ The first bunch of facts will come from this document: justice.gov/file/1007346/d…

Which you signed under penalty of perjury.
2/ Here’s the part where you admit that you learned that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”

You also acknowledged that WHEN you received this information, you were an advisor to the Trump campaign.
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(Thread) What's in the Mueller docs?

@ggreenwald wants to know if anyone can answer a few questions, like if Mueller indicted any Americans for crimes in the 2016 election or for criminally conspiring with Russians.

🙋‍♀️I can answer your questions, Glenn!
1/ Mueller’s mandate wasn't to indict Americans.

His mandate was to find “links and/or coordination” between the Russian government and Trump campaign people. See⤵️

Let's keep the goalposts where they belong. OK?
2/ So we are looking in the Mueller docs for “links and/or coordination” between Trump campaign folks and the Russian government.

Papadopoulos, Trump campaign advisor, pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with Russians during the campaign. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4776…
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Q: Can Trump declare a national emergency and then build his wall?

A: Of course not.

The real question is how to deal with Trump's very effective “flood the zone with shit" ploy.👇

Look what happens when Trump says things like that.
1/Legal scholars like Lawrence Lessig theguardian.com/commentisfree/…, Yale Law prof. Bruce Ackerman nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi… & @steve_vladeck have to spend time explaining what’s wrong with Trump’s ridiculous idea.
2/ Lawyers love to dissect these kinds of questions. Discussing hypotheticals is what we do!

Invariably a reporter will quote a lawyer who says something like: “it’s maybe not totally out of the realm of possibility.”
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

People will panic, even though . . .
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1/ If I may have a moment of your time...

I just wrapped up a five-part series of columns, reflections on a divided America in the age of Trump. I enjoyed writing them immensely. They're not the kind of columns that tend to grab attention online, more kind of essay-ish thingies.
2/ I tweeted links to them as they ran, but I'm going to put all five in this thread, in case anyone cares to read through them as a compiled series. I don't know if they offer any great revelations about anything, and some bits are just kind of silly.
3/ But I like them, and as with most writers, it takes a lot for me to say I like something I wrote.

Anyway, enough preamble. Here's Part 1:

chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/h…
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More context for our horrific treatment of children at the border: childhood trauma can lead to an average decrease in life expectancy of 20 years [1].

Five months: 700 separations [2]
[1] bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/…
[2] texasmonthly.com/news/inside-te…
Then in six weeks, ~2,000 separations
nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/…
From the @nytimes: "‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala"
nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/…
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🌿Wednesday Eve🌿

Mueller has Paulie Walnuts by the you know whats. Will he flip?

ORLY? Putin & Trump chat regularly via Trumps unsecured phone. #SS7🤗

FB gave data access to Chinese Co’s under CI invest’n

Germany wants US Amb expelled.

G7 throws shade on Trump re now G6 + 1
🌿Wednesday Eve2🌿

‘It Was A Mistake, I Swear To God!🙄Says Giuliani as he admits Trump dictated Don Jr. Stmt re ‘Adoption mtg’

Macron to Bibi: Jerusalem embassy move led to death & not peace.

The US has not ratified the U.N. Conv’n on the Rights of the Child—the only nation.
🌿Wednesday Eve3🌿

Former European leaders under Mueller’s scrutiny for lobby work they did for Manafort.

Mueller is scrutinizing Trump’s ties to Israel

McCabe requested immunity for testimony.

Lieu & Rice petition for ethics investigation of Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow.
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1/OK, a quick thread about Aaron Schlossberg, the scumbag who threatened to call ICE on people for speaking in Spanish: news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
2/Schlossberg has rightfully sparked an outcry and backlash. He deserves what he's getting.

But I haven't yet seen people articulate exactly WHY Schlossberg was so outrageous, when so many seemingly similar incidents go unpunished and forgotten.

I will try to articulate.
3/This is a big country. There are 315 million people. That means there are going to be plenty of assholes.

There are plenty of instances of assholes yelling at Hispanic people for speaking Spanish: sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-co…

But Schlossberg is different.
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When @JZarif says, "#Iran never raced towards a bomb, nor will it race towards a bomb," rest assured it is the exact opposite.
We will realize how Tehran sought nuclear arms for decades. For a country sitting on an ocean of oil & gas, a "peaceful" nuclear program is meaningless.
A very telling cartoon about #NorthKorea & #Iran, as Pyongyang signals indications to set aside its nuclear weapons/ballistic missile program. This is leaving Tehran as now sole target of the international community's soon-to-come pressures.
For those who describe #Iran's FM @JZarif as a "moderate" or "reformist"

"We will exit the NPT. / We will launch advanced enrichment," he says in response to Trump's May 12th #IranDeal deadline.
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#Trump was not elected president because he did not win the electoral vote via @RealTimBlack #TimBlackShow #Resist
#Trump used the same trick as George W did in Florida. By removing voters of color in 28 states, Trump supposedly won the electoral college.
#Trump is not our legitimate president, rather he's the Commander-in-Thief! via @RealTimBlack #TimBlackShow #Resist
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