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Director of Policy for ACLU of AZ. Views are 100% my own. Maybe they'll be yours one day too. I talk AZ politics, national politics, Chicago sports, music, 90 day fiance, and the endless void.
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Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Article should have named the signatories who have not spoken out.

This is crazy because it's not how he campaigned. At all.

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

The way Michigan Republicans are behaving will kill progressivism and the Democratic party in the state. From attacking vulnerable communities to embracing Trump, it is the opposite of rallying a base. Alienating core voters to appeal to a mythical middle never works.

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

This is such collosal cope/bullshit from the media. It's not like everyone got it wrong. Many people have been predicting this for years. The plans were published on the internet!

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

The pro life party is summarily sentencing toddlers to exile

Two-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported 'with no meaningful process' reut.rs/3Gq3t8S

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

The thief of Kristi Noem’s handbag and iPhone has entered into Signal chat negotiations with Pete Hegseth about the return of Abrego Garcia as well as peace terms in Ukraine.

1. There has been a lot of attention, rightly, on the Trump administration disappearing immigrants to El Salvador But something that has gotten much less attention is the Trump administration WRONGFULLY DETAINING US CITIZENS they "suspect" are undocumented immigrants.

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

BREAKING: We and @aclum.bsky.social are joining Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after plain-clothes ICE agents unlawfully detained her because of an op-ed she wrote. This is an appalling violation of the First Amendment.

The cross-ideological anti-woke coalition should take more credit for setting the current administration's priorities.

What does this even mean? It's made up gibberish? Who are the people of Greehland in danger from besides the Trump regime?

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?

For our centrist and moderate media to be debating a so-called "abundance agenda" when college students are being disappeared again and again, is really grotesque. These are the same people who were intensely focused on cancel culture 2 years ago. Shameful.

Happy One Month Anniversary to this story.

First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime. Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide. Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

It isn't just MAGA that's nervous about these big crowds coming out for Bernie and AOC, it's also the Democratic establishment. They hate it more than anyone.

I'm simply not sure why a segment of liberals (this does not apply to Hobbes) think they can convince people the economy they are experiencing as terrible, is actually good. Persuasion doesn't work that way.

Just leak the entire thing.