I'm so proud of the work that NLADA does every day to support public defenders, legal aid, and community advocates in fulfilling the promise of Equal Justice Under Law, particularly as the communities we serve face new and growing threats. Please consider donating to NLADA this #GivingTuesday:

It's hard to believe I've been at @nlada.bsky.social for eight years and counting! I'm proud of the work that we do to support legal aid and public defense across the country, and I hope you'll join our efforts by donating to NLADA this #GivingTuesday.

"things happen"; sometimes people are just randomly dismembered with bone saws. especially journalists who ask me mean questions.

President Trump does not have the authority to sidestep Congress in order to silence local governments and non-profit orgs that do work he doesn’t like. Public servants serve the people, not politics. We're in court to protect the bipartisan promise of public service loan forgiveness.

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Our Friday programming is underway at the 2025 @nlada.bsky.social Annual Conference! #NLADA25

Public Service Loan Forgiveness isn't a game piece—it's a tool that countless Americans rely on to make education more affordable, but Trump is changing the rules to target organizations that don't align with his partisan political agenda.

Most likely don’t have this on the Election Day radar, but felony disenfranchisement is on the ballot next week in Virginia, an unusually harsh state for denying voting rights to people with criminal records. Major reform may be coming there, and Tuesday is pivotal. Here’s what you need to know:

Thank you to everyone who came out to NLADA's Hill Day! We brought more than 40 advocates to House and Senate offices to discuss the importance of federal healthcare, housing, and education programs for communities served by legal aid & public defense, and the harms of the federal shutdown. #NLADA25

Millions of individuals depend on programs such as #SNAP, #Medicaid, #housing support, and more — and a lack of funding for those programs dramatically increases the need for free legal services.

Day 1 of #NLADA25 is currently underway! This morning, members of our staff joined conference attendees to visit Capitol Hill, where they met with staffers to speak about the government #shutdown and its effects on everyday working people in our country.

The first full day of the @nlada.bsky.social Annual Conference is underway! It's always a jolt of energy to reconnect with NLADA's national network of equal justice advocates. #NLADA25

The final day of @cjinnovation.bsky.social & @jlusa.org's Municipal Courts and the Promise of Community Justice conference is underway! We begin with a presentation by Prof. Alexandra Natapoff (@harvard.edu Law). There are over 7,500 municipal courts across the country which collect $2B/yr.

Thrilled to be at @cjinnovation.bsky.social & @jlusa.org's conference on Municipal Courts and the Promise of Community Justice in Newark, NJ! Looking forward to discussions today and tomorrow about improving court systems to be more receptive and responsive to impacted community needs.

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects. In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Thank you to @macfound.org and @cjinnovation.bsky.social for an excellent SJC Racial Equity Cohort Steering Committee learning retreat in Philadelphia! Great to visit Why Not Prosper and see their outstanding work. Community reentry organizations like WNP deserve much broader support. #RethinkJails

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Thank you to everyone who attended the @nlada.bsky.social Exemplar Awards Gala, donated to NLADA, and/or bid in the social justice art auction last night! Truly inspiring to hear awardees Natalie Epps, Michael Figgins, and Ben Weinberg discuss their paths to distinction in equal justice work.

The @nlada.bsky.social Exemplar Awards Gala is tomorrow night! You can support our work for public defense, civil legal aid, and impacted communities by buying a ticket to the Gala, donating to NLADA, or bidding in our art auction. See more info at www.nlada.org/gala2025

Chicago has the highest number of lead water service lines in the nation. WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News analyzed city data that allows Chicago’s residents to see where the problem is most acute — and how it intersects with poverty and race. trib.al/n4TkzEu

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

I think there's a core problem with the idea that anyone - **especially straight men** - feels entitled to "debate" the existence and rights of trans people.

Frost: On one end, we have the big ugly law. And then on the other, we have the federal government occupying our cities.. It's not two different things. It's the same damn thing. These aren't things that distract from one another. This is the thing to enable the other thing,

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

Doomsday for SEPTA is bad news for everyone: defector.com/doomsday-for...

In southern Illinois, outside the small town of Breese, billboard advertisement for the far right violent extremists group the Proud Boys (there are at least seven Proud Boys chapters in the state).

US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

Morning Briefing: The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is planning to hold events in Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee, and FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to 'halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism.'

NLADA is focusing this year's Annual Conference programming on three topic areas: - Rule of Law & Due Process - Gov't Programs & Funding - Expanding the Narrative If you have a session proposal for one or more of these focus areas, submit it by this Monday 8/11! More details at the link below.

Now more than ever, NLADA is calling on everybody to join the fight and tell Congress to #JustFundIt. NLADA Legal Director @mjmrozinski.bsky.social explains how you can help ensure that millions of people don't lose essential services like Medicaid, SNAP benefits, and housing assistance.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

This this piece of the Johnson admin plan, which represents a massive proof of concept for a theory in his campaign (give kids jobs & money and they will chill out) is looking like a massive success and exactly what we needed from a mayor after 2020 Social programs fix social issues, not police.

New Mexico CJA attorneys refusing to work for free as the federal judicary announces it ran out of money to pay defense attorneys... "This places at risk the fundamental right of a person facing criminal charges to effective counsel" Reports @austiejfish.bsky.social @sourcenm.com

I am fucking FUMING — but goddamn, I am so proud of this kid for having the wherewithal, the guts, and for refusing to delete the footage when threatened. He was arrested and charged for the footage alone

Cowards. Shame on @uchicagomedicine.bsky.social.

"We believe that exposure is violence prevention, and we need to invest in prevention. Downtown belongs to everyone," ahmal Cole, CEO of nonprofit My Block, My Hood, My City, said.

Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are inflicting pain on Illinois families. No matter what happens, we can't let this silence us — keep speaking out and staying loud. I'll be right there fighting alongside you.