Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Today’s ruling was a victory for free speech, but don’t expect Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to give up. We have to keep standing up to this Administration when they undermine Americans’ rights.

“At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office—an average of more than one a day,” Reuters reported in November (and today one can add others to the list, beginning with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell).

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Another popular MAGA snuff video . . . Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.

“God damn them all.”

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

I Really Think More People Need To Understand This….

How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ www.popsci.com/science/edmu...

💯❗️ This would be my first move 👇

Zohran Mamdani’s values are… ✨Jewish values ✨ We talk to our members on why they’re canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and not falling for Cuomo’s bigoted attempts to divert us away from winning the safe, affordable and fun city we all deserve.

I knew the lady in the polka dot dress was gonna become a meme as soon as I saw the video, but this is fantastic.

[just be normal, just be normal]: The Toronto Rangers!

No words

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

OMG The frogs & other characters are giving me LIFE! Been feeling down about alllll of the 💩, but getting recharged for NO KINGS 2.0 on Oct 18!

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

D.C. TODAY…

Outside Dupont north metro

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of … Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”

We have this quote as a framed picture on our wall. I think about it all the time, but especially now.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Occasional Mayor Adams corruption reminder: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

Jayzus, another crazy pants day in authoritarian Trumpville: whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/07/21/d...

Downward acceleration in America's health: www.youcanknowthings.com/what-just-ha...

Pranksters put Jeffrey Epstein-themed postcards in the gift shop at Trump Tower in New York City. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-go...

It’s almost like we’re little fruit eating guys who have been at this for millions of years….

Surely it's a total coincidence that Trump's first large-scale immigrant detention facility is in Florida, in easy commuting distance of the tomato fields around Immokalee

Hiding the identity of the inmates removes accountability, which makes it easier for a concentration camp to become a death camp.

This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.

Shabbat Shalom may we all know peace soon

The cruelty is the point: gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

@benryanwriter.bsky.social Born in Africa and living in the US as an American, of Asian descent, sure seems to qualify as "Black *or* African American" and Asian. How is this news? Did you not know about the very large number of South Asians who lived in Uganda? Or that Uganda is in Africa?

Steamrolling (not creeping) fascism: ‘Put His Name on Everything’: Why the Social Security Admin Shared Trump Propaganda www.yahoo.com/news/put-nam...