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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

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The Trump administration is targeting people complying with the law, not dangerous gang members. Exhibit #13,430

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I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 229 comments

Natalie Phelps, a mother of two with stage 4 cancer, can’t start life-saving treatment because of NIH staff cuts orchestrated by Russell Vought and the Trump admin. She was supposed to get a cutting-edge immunotherapy trial that uses her own cells to fight cancer—but now she’s facing deadly delays.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 22 days ago • 263 comments

when is the last time you wrote an article about the cognitive abilities of Donald Trump who is: 1) the current president 2) the oldest president ever elected 3) constantly posting insane conspiracy theories and threatening celebrities

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 25 days ago • 1940 comments

It is truly amazing how little scrutiny Stephen Miller gets—not because he’s an architect of Trumpism; that gives him too much credit. But because he is openly the most bigoted and malicious person there and he behaves and sounds like a petulant child.

submitted 24 days ago • 81 comments

Look at this video: a huge crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

submitted 41 days ago • 38 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 42 days ago • 1330 comments

There are not words for this evil

submitted 45 days ago • 33 comments

Well, this is horrifying.

submitted 45 days ago • 72 comments

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 47 days ago • 100 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 49 days ago • 250 comments

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

submitted 49 days ago • 154 comments

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 49 days ago • 43 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 49 days ago • 755 comments

IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process. They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost.

submitted 63 days ago • 111 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 64 days ago • 154 comments

Nobody should have been sent there, period. Not the ones with no record, not the ones with a record. Nobody.

submitted 64 days ago • 34 comments

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

submitted 64 days ago • 251 comments

If they're nabbing tourists out of Peace Arch Park for being on the wrong side of the line in what is generally regarded as an international area then we should close Peace Arch Park

submitted 66 days ago • 29 comments

I don't understand how any member of Congress can look at today and still believe they'd get some terrible backlash and lack of support from introducing an impeachment resolution, or even saying the word. Stop worrying about the nattering pundits who speak for nobody but themselves. Just do it.

submitted 65 days ago • 259 comments

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

submitted 65 days ago • 1189 comments

For people who aren't in big cities or people who are in red states, these rallies and other actions can be lifesavers. If you think they don't matter, try viewing them from a different perspective.

submitted 65 days ago • 191 comments

What we're seeing at #handsoff protests nationwide today and what we saw at the ballot box on Tuesday are not unrelated. The public is furious. It will not be silenced. And those who side with Trump and Musk—or refuse to fight back—will be swept out of office.

submitted 65 days ago • 196 comments

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

submitted 65 days ago • 685 comments

Leah and I closed out the DC rally with 100k there, hopped on a bike, got some McDonalds fries, and are now headed back home to the kids. Feeling so lifted. Millions came out today. Feel good - today was historic. Fascists want us to feel alone. Well, so much for that. We will win. ❤️💪♥️

submitted 65 days ago • 130 comments

This is the just the beginning

submitted 65 days ago • 83 comments

This is just the beginning

submitted 65 days ago • 115 comments

This is so, so, so dangerous. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 66 days ago • 25 comments

1,187 Hands Off! protests across EVERY state this Saturday. 117 in CA. 61 in NY. 55 in MI 51 in OH. 42 in TX 17 in MT. 14 in AK 5 in HI! And in Ottawa. Guadalajara. Amsterdam. Berlin. London. Lisbon. Lyon. Saturday is gonna be historic. Are you showing up? What's your sign gonna say?

submitted 67 days ago • 111 comments

It has been two weeks since a Georgia woman was arrested for her miscarriage, and not one major national outlet has covered the story

submitted 68 days ago • 252 comments

My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽

submitted 68 days ago • 398 comments

One heartening thing I've seen lately is multiple really smart, community-driven friends across the country seriously considering a run for office in upcoming cycles. You should consider it, too. Check out @runforsomething.net for resources and information on how to get started 👇

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 68 days ago • 952 comments

The Trump tariffs hit Antarctic islands inhabited by zero humans and many penguins: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 68 days ago • 60 comments

the radical left monster in question

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It’s Trans Day of Visibility. Our trans friends, families and neighbors deserve safety, love and respect. Fighting for democracy means fighting for their rights and standing against the MAGA onslaught against trans people. We see you and we love you.

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

What RFK has done just this week to NOT support vaccines: -fired FDA's top vaccine scientist -buried CDC's measles forecast -shut down agency that runs the NATIONAL VACCINE PROGRAM (OIDP) -Hired anti-vaxxer to probe phony autism/vax links -Made Texas kids sick with his vitamin A measles 'cure'

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Jesus fucking Christ this is evil. They’re threatening to put students in a gulag for social media posts

submitted 73 days ago • 23 comments

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

submitted 73 days ago • 144 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 73 days ago • 178 comments

REGULATE CLASSROOM DISCUSSION?

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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 74 days ago • 3024 comments