
Wells Dixon
@jwellsdixon
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Constitutional law / national security law / #Guantanamo / ice hockey / my personal views.
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Joined November 2013
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Where has all the leadership gone?  If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?  The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the
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I see critical speech may now be regarded as hate speech Isn't it odd that 'Strongmen' hate being criticised so much Ordinary strong men ( and women ) are not frightened of criticism But that's because they have self confidence, and don't need to be praised all the time
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At stake in the president's decision to summarily execute alleged cartel members in the Caribbean is whether he can murder people outside of war with impunity. From me & colleagues @jwrchappell @priyanica @jwellsdixon @deviatar:
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If allowed to go unchecked, the Caribbean strikes could encourage additional unlawful executions by the United States and other leaders.
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Remembering the lives lost and the heroes who emerged on September 11, 2001. We will never forget 9/11 because to remember is an act of fidelity to life and freedom. 🇺🇸
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Guantánamo must be closed permanently. Read the full statement below. (7/7)
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Plea deals that result in life sentences for 9/11 defendants are the only path to justice – and the only way to close GuantánamoSeptember 11, 2025, New York – On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the Cent
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We will always remember the loved ones we lost on September 11th, 2001, but we will never use that day as a justification for violence. https://t.co/vA9mFCr78p
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September 11, 2025Dear Friends and Supporters of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows,With the approach of next year’s 25th anniversary of the deaths of our loved ones in the terrorist...
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What is going on with Acela 2259 to Washington? Already over an hour late and hasn’t even made it to Stamford yet. Hardly living up to “NextGen.” @AmtrakNECAlerts
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Hardly the way for @realDonaldTrump to win the Nobel Peace Prize 🤷🏼‍♂️ https://t.co/6Pw1miuWWT
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JD “I don’t give a shit” Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the “highest and best use of the military.” Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??
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"Shout-out to everyone who had 'Stupider Gulf of Tonkin for Venezuela' on their bingo cards​," quipped skeptical observer @AthertonKD.
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"Shout-out to everyone who had Stupider Gulf of Tonkin for Venezuela on their bingo cards," quipped one skeptical observer.
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Between exposing them to criminal liability for this publicity stunt and using them to police Los Angeles and pick up trash in Washington DC, the Trump administration should take better care of our troops. https://t.co/rmXTzx0fVM
nytimes.com
The defense secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.
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BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. https://t.co/0Staxrvxxu
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Here's former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia -- probably the single most popular justice among the American Right in the last 5 decades -- explaining why burning the American flag is vital free speech under the 1st Am, and why banning it is clearly unconstitutional.
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If America was being bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did, and many innocent Americans and American children were being killed and traumatically injured, and we begged for mercy, but the rest of the world said, “Americans voted for their
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William J. Burns spent three and a half decades as a career diplomat. Now the former director of the CIA and deputy secretary of state has watched as the Trump administration has discarded his colleagues. “This is not about reform,” he writes. “It is about retribution.”
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Nothing says restoring the warrior ethos like sending the military to prosecute local misdemeanor offenses. https://t.co/DagQlD74f6
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Members of the Judge Advocate General Corps are set to join the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
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“Bluntly: Making healthy cognitive choices is hard. In a culture saturated with more accessible and engrossing forms of entertainment, long-form literacy may soon become the domain of elite subcultures.”—Mary Harrington https://t.co/MSJF8bAw5q
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That’s bad news for our democracies.
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Read banned, censored, or other “problematic” books. https://t.co/Wg9KjcSJpU
nytimes.com
Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable across the United States.
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Beinart: The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that is responsible for those children starving to death. Jennings: No blood for the hands of Hamas. Beinart: One of my closest friends was blown up by hamas. I have probably a lot more experience with
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