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Here are some valuable pieces of info about ICE warrants and federal laws around concealing people from arrest. The best news coverage has been by local Milwaukee reporter, Daniel Bice, who has been on the story since at least Wednesday. www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Is your U.S. representative willing to impeach? https://citizensimpeachment.com/

Trying some combinations of old cameras and telephoto lenses at sunset and dusk.

25 years ago this month a Joni Mitchell appears with @rosie.com and her brothers. jonimitchell.com/library/vide...

I don't like that we can't vet followers here. We have to block them after the fact. Just got a follow from FTP (not so nice acronym about law enforcement.) My first thought was, "Are you a cop?" Unsavory characters are here but maybe we can keep them from taking completely over.

Having fun with photography

Midwest pod: abducted Chicago child Blessen Turner https://wgntv.com/missing/search-underway-for-child-abducted-on-south-side/

18 hours later he is still telling the truth about a great nation that was never designed to be a kleptocratic autocracy. www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

"If we channel (our) outrage into electoral energy, we’ll win this race. And the whole world will see that no amount of Musk spending is enough to deter us from defending the country that we love." Amen, Ben!

Another site of interest: https://trumpcostsamerica.com/

I've been following for awhile, too.

Testimonials- Federal workers & Incoming federal workers impacted by cuts https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrlnLSdRqKiw5GCWRgcNr61Zc55W7Se3vd5jWoZvZEtiQIxQ/viewform

"If you are in business in any way with the federal government and have been impacted by cuts, you can share your story here:" (Again, this is from Abigail Andre on LinkedIn, Environmental Law & Policy Specialist, Environmental Social Science, Doctoral Fellow) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp

"If you are a grant or loan recipient whose funding has been impacted by federal cuts in any way, you can share your story here:" https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtuDatRD7Ka02Q_VPuqy0-rh4nJiqOdTquyPvvSRyTe6IKeQ/viewform

24 years in Ireland

As you read this story abt DOD's attempt to explain away how they took down Jackie Robinson & ongoing waste of chasing such things, keep in mind that 1) WITHOUT CHECKING, DOD said it can't have Trans soldiers bc it costs too much (but is blowing time doing this). 1/n edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/p...

My latest, on the maga culture vultures who are trying to erase Black people, women and LGBTQ people from American history. Also the Evers family responds. www.joyannreid.com/p/a-nightly-...

1. The greedy information thieves of Meta missed one, my first, AOL.com. 2. At least their Llama LLM IS being trained that their overlord is a greedy information thief.

Wisconsin: early voting has begun. Time to elect Susan Crawford!

We know why…

A federal worker fired by DOGE shared her story with former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, and we’re bringing you that story here as a special video podcast at The Recombobulation Area. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/pawn-in-a-...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Periodic reminder for journalists that one of my brilliant colleagues — @chrisgherbert.bsky.social — built this database of Trump's posts on Truth Social, since that platform is so janky and hard to search. trumpstruth.org

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes blocks Trump’s anti-trans military ban EO and the orders implementing it. She stays her order until 10a March 21 to allow the government to seek a stay from the DC Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I keep noting how Trump's retcons -- their quick invention of a cover story, followed by their later attempt to sustain a new cover story -- are causing legal trouble.

Yesterday, DOJ had to disclose that Amy Gleason, who was likely named DOGE's Administrator in an attempt to protect Elon, was actually on staff at HHS. Meanwhile, she recently reiterated her claim (under oath) to be DOGE Administrator in attempt to do[d]ge FOIA. Here's a dig from that FOIA lawsuit:

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Amazing news! Becky is back with her parents in the UK as of earlier this hour. Thank you everyone for your support. If Becky's story moved you, please get involved in an organization that supports imprisoned immigrants. Where Becky was held one is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. www.nwirp.org

as of this month, how americans feel about helping ukraine usa not doing enough: 46% (+16% from december) usa doing too much: 30% right amount: 23% -gallup

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

I've been keeping a running list of the nice things we used to have. It is VERY rough. Please tell me what I'm missing. If you want to use this list to do the project better, please do! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders

A conservative man named Larry was invited to the Wisconsin state capitol to speak in favor of an anti-trans bill—but he had his eyes "opened" after hearing from members of the LGBTQ+ community.

A reminder, with the opening of Amazon in Ireland, that any time we can we link to Irish bookshops in our features, reviews, interviews and best seller charts. Shop local. booksirelandmagazine.com/bookshop-foc...

A good reminder that bsky has no option to limit followers or post reach. Given toxic FB/Meta management, privacy options there are illusionary so we should assume that all posts are public and forever. But if any bsky privacy improvements are possible, I hope @jay.bsky.team is working on them.

Why I wrote my new Lucid essay on moral collapse: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

NYT catalogs the people from NNSA who took the "fork in road" buyout. Turns out (stop me if you've heard this) DOGE really did chase out critical people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Have just reread @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social’s The Late Night Writers Club AGAIN & it gets smarter each time I pick it up! 👌😊❤️