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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1924 comments

“Democrats seem to be waiting for Trump, Musk, and MAGA to naturally become unpopular, instead of working overtime to make them unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a unified, aggressive, and creative opposition in this country.” Read more from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social. 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8249 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 1416 comments

They’re planning on deporting Americans now?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

There is no such thing as a humane mass deportation. There will be concentration camps, separations, assaults, sexual assaults, child molestation, human trafficking & deaths that this administration, Border Patrol, ICE & CBP will attempt to hide.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is embarrassing. Schumer needs to go NOW.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Are there protests planned? Is anything happening???

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 21 days ago • 926 comments

The present moment will require courage from everyone who opposes fascism. I’m writing this post to remind myself too. It’s going to be a long four years.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Damn straight it did. And we’re not going to stop.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Are there already 30,000 beds at Guantánamo?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 30 days ago • 4413 comments

The terrorization of immigrant communities is not “noise.” I’m so angry I could scream!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Clinical Prof. @nicolehallett.bsky.social appeared on @abc7chicago.bsky.social to discuss ICE raids.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

“There’s a very clear principal in the constitution that the federal government cannot force states and local governments to help enforce federal law, and this has been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court over and over again,” Clinical Prof. @nicolehallett.bsky.social told @fox32chicago.bsky.social.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

If only we could be sure that the Supreme Court will agree.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Can we come back from the brink? I always thought it was possible but now I’m not sure.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

How on EARTH can clergy demand that anyone else take risks if they're too busy engaged in CYA How dare you If you had a nice quiet first Trump administration, how nice for you Be willing to put your shit on the line for others now, kids IT IS YOUR JOB.

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

This will result in kids staying home from school and people avoiding getting life-saving medical care. It's punitive and cruel and will lead to harm that will reverberate throughout immigrant communities. That, in fact, is the point.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Inevitable and essential

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine how rank-and-file immigration judges, who don’t have job security, are feeling after this purge at the top.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Family waiting to cross border learns their CBP One appointment is canceled www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

What to expect from Trump's Day 1 immigration agenda: 1) cancel the CHNV parole processes which have channeled 30,000 people/month into legal channels 2) ban scheduling appointments for lawful entry from Mexico using the CBPOne app

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/15/d...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

the Laken Riley Act is a destructive, anti-immigrant bill, fueled by and fueling xenophobia, along with grotesque fictions about defending white womanhood. it's also legal chaos. my piece:

submitted 39 days ago • 62 comments

The Laken Riley Act would completely upend immigration enforcement, give vast power to conservative states like Texas, and do nothing to protect women like Laken Riley. Any Democrat who supports it should be primaried.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Re: Laken Riley Act, I want to flag a bizarre scenario the law would create through its shoddy draftsmanship. Under the law, a person with TPS who originally entered illegally who is arrested for theft would be required to be indefinitely detained by ICE, even though they might not be removable.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Muñoz and Sherry want Democrats to move to the right on immigration, but they don’t actually explain who they would deport or how they would do it without adopting the cruel inhumane policies that Trump did.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

It will be more dangerous to resist this time around. People at all levels of government are already obeying in advance. But the people who will bear the brunt of the government's cruelty need us more than ever. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

When kids start getting arrested at elementary schools, I guess people will be forced to decide whether “mass deportation” was worth registering a protest over the price of eggs.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments