A photo I took in 2018 when people living in Trump-branded buildings voted to take his name off. Feel like there’s more of this to come.

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

PITTSBURGH — Trump’s racist ice goons repeatedly punch a man in the face on camera www.instagram.com/reel/DSb2rPX...

If they punished white men after shootings or DUI or DV or racist assaults… But no, it’s collective punishment for immigrants and other minorities. There will be so, so much damage to undo once we get these folks out.

DHS doesn't administer the Diversity Visa program. She might as well say she's directing USCIS to pause patent examinations.

Butlerian jihad was number 1 on my list of things I keep seeing here, didn't know what it was, but wasn't quite motivated enough to find out about. (I also assumed it was something to do with Judith Butler)

The transition from yelling fake news to fake documents is seamless of course; a white supremacist regime is attempting to make us all inauthentic unless they say otherwise.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Secret deals with Eswatini and other governments show how the U.S. is quietly creating a “a legal black hole” for immigrants, reports Nick Alexandra for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

you know who you are

"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card

ICE detain pregnant woman who gives birth in custody—take her baby away after just 2½ days. Kept separated from her baby for 35 days now—even after all charges against her were dropped. She is willing to do anything to be reunited with her baby—even if that means self deporting back to Mexico.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Parents of trans kids in the US: It’s not available to most of you, unfortunately, but if you have a roadmap open to your family to a better country, it’s probably time to pack up and go. Even if this bill doesn’t pass the Senate, the moral panic is just too hot and relentless in the US, sadly.

everything is so fucking stupid

The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.

this is a DERANGED system

As Greg Bovino returns to Chicago, this story looks at children detained by ICE, including one 5-year-old swept up in Operation Midway Blitz earlier this year. “We didn’t eat anything for days. They didn’t even give us water to drink,” the mother said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.

The richest man in the world bragging about starving people to death sounds like a plot from an over-the-top dystopian movie but that's what happened

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Amen. I'll never understand the hate some people feel toward the absolute best thing about our country. It is supposed to be an ever-evolving hodgepodge of cultures and experiences all wrapped up under a shared vision of freedom and equality. And mfs out there mad about that!

These two are my favorites: Friends! Countrymen! We descend from immigrants and revolutionaries! Friends! Countrymen! Opposition to the machinations of tyranny stares you in the face (Again!)

What could possibly go wrong?

I’ll be answering your questions live on Reddit this Wednesday at 3 PM CT. Join me in r/iAMA — hope to see you there. 👋

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

This is how it's done.

MAGA is a far greater threat to "social cohesion" and "social trust" than immigrants are, as I try to argue in this piece

Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller. Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose. Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.

This is what’s so frustrating about U.S. gun laws. Last I checked, almost 90% of Americans support the most basic safeguards like universal background checks. But we know something like that, however humble, will never become law because we don’t live in a democracy.

doing video also feels particularly Problematic for those of us with gender dysphoria many of us were I think drawn to the Internet in the first place because it was a space where we could exist and socialize without being ceaselessly visually perceived (and thus gendered)

All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.

I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.

I'd like to speak to an expert who could help explain the implications of classifying fentanyl as a WMD. Drop your recommendations or reach out.

State Dept. source speculated to me in March that the purpose of making fentanyl a WMD "is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada" and "deporting drug users who are not citizens."

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

How is this a real cat? 😍

The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.

On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...