Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation. It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.

Update: A former (as of recently) judge and his wife have been arrested in New Mexico, also on charges that they aided immigrants, though circumstances are very different. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement. abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...

Clarification: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, as per a letter from the National PREA Resource Center exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org.

Scoop: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, according to a letter from the Center, exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...

UDPATE: At Mahdawi's hearing this morning, the judge granted a 90-day extension of the TRO while they wait for the government to respond. They'll return to court next week to argue for his release

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

You know what else is up by a huge percentage? Illegal but state-sanctioned assault, battery, kidnappings, forced imprisonment, torture, and violations of due process.

Democrats and universities paved the way for Trump's deportations. Now, local prosecutors are threatening students and faculty members with decades in prison for speaking out against genocide.

As the Trump admin fights to deport students who support Palestinians, dozens more face extreme charges in local courts. In just five jurisdictions, prosecutors have filed 187 charges against 66 protesters—including alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.

“At the time the list was released, Braveboy said that untrustworthy officers risk ‘the integrity of cases brought to the justice system.’ And yet, the United States Department of Justice is basing the extraordinary rendition of a Maryland resident solely on the credibility of just such an officer.”

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

excuse me "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse" that’s more of a timeline than a euphemism

An Israeli colleague of detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi pushes back on Sec. Rubio’s antisemitism claim. Our latest report shows how a Palestinian student committed to peace became an ICE target. Read @akelalacy.bsky.social full story: interc.pt/3RjDoL6

After being told by the Supreme Court to bring Abrego Garcia home, and that it was illegal to send him and others to a foreign gulag without due process, the Trump administration this weekend sent 10 more people to the Salvadoran gulag without process.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

MORE NEWS: Mahdawi's lawyers filed a habeas petition this morning challenging his arrest and detention under the same INA provision used to deport Mahmoud Khalil. More TK

The New Yorker has an investigative piece about people dying of malnutrition and dehydration in jails. I appreciate the author for not sugarcoating it: "hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Not even the state could find evidence against Ozturk. They disappeared her regardless.

thanks PPD, finally got my FOIA request back

A shameful act by this Chicago prosecutor, done to protect a Chicago police/Guantanamo Bay torturer and keep someone locked up whom he likely tortured into making a false confession.

The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.” The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Ms. Miller wrote in an email. She added in a separate message, “This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature.”

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

even if he's released on Friday he will have spent a month in arguably the worst jail in the US over an allegation for which the government has not even submitted its paperwork.

"One ASU student remains in detention, and has been locked up for about 10 days." azluminaria.org/2025/04/08/a...

UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

The secret police misconduct file known as the G file could be coming to a town near you, whether you want it or not.

There's so much going on right now that it's hard to know where to focus, but please take a moment to read this @mikehalltexas.bsky.social story about an 18-year-old Venezuelan who was in Texas legally who ICE seized, and who is now in a Salvadoran megaprison. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

"Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, has said it is not aware of any prisoners having ever been released from the complex. Inmates, who are not allowed visitors, are kept in overcrowded cells that are lit around the clock, and they are let out for thirty minutes a day."

This is an endemic problem, by the way. Geo Group and CoreCivic regularly deny folks in detention their meds. I witnessed this practiced systematically at Krome for the 5 years I used to visit and communicate with guys there

The police at Florida Atlantic University are the first in the nation to partner with ICE. That means they can interrogate and detain students they suspect of being undocumented. Here’s our @nbcmiami.com report. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

"I was sitting with my family and suddenly a missile targeted us. ... Innocent women and children were killed. Separated heads and different body parts were everywhere. It is something beyond logic and beyond imagination."

The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows.

One of the most prolific and notorious rapists in American history may have operated unchecked because of police corruption. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social reports on the case of Sean Williams.

ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan

It's unclear who the students are or why their visas were revoked, but they face deportation under Trump's crackdown on student speech via @jwashing.bsky.social/@azluminaria.bsky.social

if you really want to have babies you can't, if you don't want to have babies you have to have babies, love this government

🎥 NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Trump and Germany Are Using the Same Playbook to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Activism @jeremyscahill.com interviews a leading German lawyer fighting his country’s criminalization of pro-Palestine speech www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-dona...

WashPo [Apr 3] -- Lovely profile of 18-yr old VA athlete Eliza Munshi , who has never been through a male puberty & wanted to use her last HS year playing sports. Banned from girls' track, she now competes on the boys' team. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Elon Musk by himself spent more in Wisconsin’s election this spring than the total spending in any judicial race in U.S. history prior to 2023. boltsmag.org/wiscons...

Breaking news from @elizabethweill.bsky.social: Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced plans this morning to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. theappeal.org/pam-bondi-lu...

Some good news—A federal judge ruled on Monday that Alabama cannot prosecute people for obtaining abortions in another state where the procedure is legal. (Yes they were trying to do that) theappeal.org/alabama-cant...