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NEWS: Senate Parliamentarian says GOP scheme to limit federal court preliminary injunctions by requiring plaintiffs challenging government actions to post large bonds cannot be part of reconciliation bill. A victory for Democrats, rule of law and the courts and a defeat for Trump and the GOP.

submitted 3 hours ago • 131 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

submitted 3 hours ago • 304 comments

The NYC Bar Association says ICE agents wearing masks "appears to be an effort to evade accountability, and to decrease transparency in response to increasing allegations of government overreach, abuse of power, and violations of constitutional rights." Statement www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

submitted 3 days ago • 250 comments

Tomorrow City of Miami will consider signing on to a contract establishing police-ICE collaboration. The city is under no legal obligation to do so. Show up at 8am to tell commissioners to vote no on this contract.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is the military carrying out law enforcement, I'm sorry, there's no other way to interpret it.

submitted 7 days ago • 139 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 7 days ago • 677 comments

The news isn’t being clear about this but to people hearing about these Minnesota shootings: Melissa Hortman is the Dem leader in the Minnesota House and was Speaker of the House 2019-2025. She’s probably the most influential state-level Democrat barring the governor.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

submitted 8 days ago • 1169 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 8 days ago • 2249 comments

This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all." He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota. www.instagram.com/reel/DKzbcQe...

submitted 9 days ago • 203 comments

We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

submitted 9 days ago • 644 comments

Another human being died in a for-profit detention center in Georgia just days ago. ICE's press release does little to honor the dignity of life but insists on spending a long paragraph further criminalizing him in death as they did in life. www.ice.gov/news/release...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

What happened here is an example of the Trump administration “de-documenting” people. His workers all had work permits; it seems they were Nicaraguans who entered through CHNV parole. But the Trump admin stripped them of their status then rounded them up, making even his supporter mad.

submitted 10 days ago • 151 comments

All the more reason to call your representatives - CALL CONGRESS (202) 224-3121

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Why accountability matters: “Civilians have impersonated ICE agents while committing robbery (Pennsylvania), kidnappings (Florida, South Carolina), sexual assault (North Carolina) and other forms of public intimidation (Washington state, California). Opinion”

submitted 10 days ago • 140 comments

As ICE morale tanks, look forward to hearing from leakers and whistleblowers. Sure, some guys on the ground probably stoked to be doing this. But some have got to be tired of the pressure and BS coming down from on high.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

WOW! Trump and Hegseth ordered the military to screen attendees for his Fort Bragg rally to exclude any soldier who might disagree with Trump's politics, as well as anyone who was overweight — because Hegseth/Trump didn't want them seen in the crowd by the cameras. Outrageous!

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

Things are getting violent in LA, but it’s not because of the protesters.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

I’m hearing rumors that thousands of people are calling the ICE tip line to report little green men and other aliens from outer space. That’s not why ICE set up this number, so you should absolutely NOT call that tip line to report those types of aliens. 👽 I repeat—do NOT call the below number! ☎️

submitted 11 days ago • 691 comments

We endorse these demands put out by @latenantsunion.bsky.social: 1. ICE OUT OF LA 2. DROP ALL CHARGES 3. FREE THEM ALL 4. IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR WORKING CLASS ANGELENOS 5. A BUDGET FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT THE WEALTHY

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Abolish ICE

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @pressley.house.gov this is insanity. ICE has no right to ram into vehicles of American citizens and hold them at gunpoint. ICE is not getting passed the gestapo accusations as they continue to break the law in an effort to kidnap people off our streets.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 11 days ago • 2311 comments

According to ABC News

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention. Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

There's a real attentional trap that all protest movements face and have faced for a long time. If you pull off protests that are polite and civil, even if large, they will struggle to get coverage. Reporters will dismiss them as not newsworthy.

submitted 12 days ago • 295 comments

One square mile of Los Angeles‘s 500+ square miles has been designated as a curfew zone, because of the federal buildings now protected by federal forces. A few blocks in downtown. This is not sufficient to make an insurrection given the institutions that reside within that border. Donald FAILED.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

submitted 11 days ago • 194 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 11 days ago • 1464 comments

Threats to use surveillance to punish people exercising their First Amendment rights are fundamentally antidemocratic and raise serious constitutional concerns. We will not let law enforcement intimidate us into silence.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

submitted 12 days ago • 325 comments

Trump is wasting $134 million of taxpayer money to send troops to Los Angeles. For that exact same amount, we’re building 1,600 new affordable homes in the Seattle area. Stop wasting money on political stunts and start investing in the things our communities need.

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 544 comments

Holy shit. The Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense just testified that the cost of National Guard deployment is $134 MILLION. $134 MILLION to protect a few square blocks & it’s not even working. Every taxpayer should be outraged this is what they’re spending money on.

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

WTF? Trump is now threatening the American people. He warned protesters to stay away from his birthday/military parade in D.C. this Saturday, claiming anyone who shows up to protest “hates our country” and will be met with “very heavy force.” This is authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

submitted 12 days ago • 551 comments

The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 12 days ago • 465 comments

This is why we’re out in the streets - you cannot defend the actions of people who would lie to kidnap 1st graders. Any human being with a conscience is going to take that personally.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

submitted 12 days ago • 220 comments

JUST IN: 700 Marines deployed to L.A. from 29 Palms. If Trump can override California, he can override any state. So ask yourself: who’s next? And what happens when people stop backing down? This isn’t crowd control — it’s occupation.

submitted 13 days ago • 400 comments

if you don't like ICE now, you won't like ICE with an addition $80 BILLION in funding! 10,000 MORE ICE Officers. $45 BILLION just for building massive private concentration camps to house immigrants.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"The scene... turned violent AFTER federal immigration authorities used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on people protesting…" Seems to be a convenient fact many of my Republican colleagues are leaving out in their statements of support for "law and order."

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Exactly.

submitted 13 days ago • 1066 comments