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Y’all, no matter what you think about immigration and its rules, this cannot be the way If you have studied any history at all — this cannot be the way It dehumanizes the people who disappear, it dehumanizes the officers involved, and it dehumanizes Americans www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Important update about local impacts of funding cuts. Depressing but compelling... Thanks to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and his team for putting this together. scienceimpacts.org

Today, seven Job Corps students, on behalf of a nationwide class, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor over the Trump administration’s decision to close Job Corps centers across the country and shut down the Job Corps program. Read more: www.splcenter.org/pr...

Yesterday a federal judge in New York heard arguments in a case challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Job Corps program. The judge extended his order to pause the closure to next Wednesday, which means Job Corps is safe—for the next week.

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

A federal judge in Massachusetts granted class status to trans people in the passport gender marker change case and extended the prelim. injunction to the class. Trans people will be able to update their gender markers on their passports immediately. ecf.mad.uscourts.gov/doc1/0951130...

An absolutely riveting piece by @guitarwatson.bsky.social. “I have only two words,” he said. “Never again.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-ho...

This photo. ICE is a gang.

These ICE goons are completely out of control. Arresting US Citizens, elected officials, and terrorizing our communities. Comptroller Lander was simply asking for the warrant.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Our best-case scenario right now is a worst-case scenario at almost any other time in American history.