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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 5 days ago • 966 comments

US-backed Israeli forces have killed more journalists in Gaza than were killed during the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I & II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance should be forced to resign over this. Just shameful, demonstrable open lying by the vice president right out in the open.

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

Brazilians denounce inhumane immigration detention in the US: At a remote former prison in Louisiana, reports of unsanitary facilities and poor food are widespread. Experts have been calling for the facility to be closed for years because it violates human rights. @brasil.dw.com

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The government complains: "In the two months since Inauguration Day, district courts have issued more than 40 injunctions or TROs against the Executive Branch." Maybe the courts just love injunctions that much, or MAYBE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS DOING A BUNCH OF SHIT THAT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is an enforced disappearance by plainclothes officers, with masks, being put into an u marked van, against someone without any know criminal charge, presumably for exercising free speech. A lot of crimes caught on camera here by ghoulish state agents.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday USCIS began arresting people at their immigration interviews if they were out of status. Before yesterday, USCIS did not call ice unless a person had a removed order already. This is a significant escalation. These are people who are trying to get legal through the legal process.

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Do not travel to or from the United States without burner phones and laptops

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 18 days ago • 620 comments

Unnerving sentence from the BBC: "The case raises constitutional questions since, under the US system of checks and balances, government agencies are expected to comply with a federal judge's ruling."

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible reporting, including the detail that a 22-year old former Palantir intern was given access to everyone in America's social security info, including “names of spouses and dependents, work history, financial and banking information, immigration or citizenship status, and marital status."

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

It looks like DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has purged its publication library of most documents related to ICE: www.dhs.gov/publications...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

#EndFamilyDetention Again.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Belém, Belém, nunca mais eu tô de bem

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

In an immigration court bond hearing. DHS counsel just referred to the Respondent as "the Despondent"

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Authored by Stephen Miller protégé Chad Mizelle, former DHS general counsel (ok, “Senior Official Performing the Duties of the General Counsel”) during Trump’s family separation policy, and co-creator of the Muslim Ban

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 61 days ago • 95 comments

I'm quoted in @brasil.dw.com about how some clients, even w/ strong claims for immigration relief, are considering leaving to avoid the risk of lengthy ICE detention in inhumane conditions. These are people whose lives, families, businesses are here. It would be a great loss to the US if they left.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 225 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 63 days ago • 1299 comments

Thank you @kim.senate.gov!

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not legible. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

submitted 63 days ago • 47 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 66 days ago • 243 comments

“President Trump’s remarks,suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring & other Biden policies somehow caused the disaster,reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his [political or ideological]RACIST lens.” There NYT,fixed it for u www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

ICE hasn't been only "rounding up criminals." They've arrested people with no crim history and with pending applications for asylum and U visas (victims of crimes in the US). Of course everyone heard about the US citizen/military veteran. And now it will get worse because Trump is throwing a tantrum

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown of David Leonhardt writing about immigration until we can figure this thing out. Seriously though, he is a menace to the facts. Notice how he waves away COVID and the destabilizing of countries in the Western Hemisphere and goes with bIdEn DiD iT.

submitted 116 days ago • 21 comments

@amytorres.bsky.social, executive director of @njaij.bsky.social, called on Biden to use his remaining time in office to halt all detention expansion. “Without any action, this will be his legacy,” she said. “He not only turned over the keys, he built the infrastructure for them.”

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Tapajós Vivo 💙 #NaoFerrograo

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri. These warrants should push the international community to address atrocities and secure justice for all victims in Palestine and Israel.

submitted 136 days ago • 16 comments

“'What do we do when catastrophic climate chaos is a fact?' they ask. The apparent answer is 'Let it continue for the time being.'”

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

We should absolutely be urging BIden administration to go big on immigration policies/actions right now. They just authorized the use of U.S. long-range missles into Russia, so I don't want to hear about how the administration is a lame duck that needs to be cautious or deferential.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Here goes nothing...

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment