This is what the W-appointed, former Scalia clerk, Chief Judge of Minnesota said about Lemon last week. The selective prosecution case here is going to be lit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I am quoted in this AI slop story from some outlet called The American Bazaar. Not only did I not say this vague/meaningless quote. I have never seen the ad in question nor have I ever received any communication from this so-called “reporter.”

Can't help but think of the parable of the Good Samaritan.

We profiled refugees who: Arrived in the country legally. Applied for green cards. Were arrested by ICE and detained. One refugee who was arrested found out they got their green card after being released. This is an unprecedented operation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

A bloodbath at The Washington Post. What a terrible day for journalism.

From several days ago, but one of these photos is iconic.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

This is actually my Canadian husband's main complaint with the American form of government.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

This is such an important point. That 5-year-old and his dad should never been detained in the first place! That's because they were already in the system and going through the legal process to seek asylum — and their arrest was seemingly just to juice ICE's numbers.

newest from me: sojo.net/articles/new...

Have been wondering about the legal background on this question myself.

Three of the protesters who disrupted a worships service at a church where an ICE official is a lay pastor have been arrested religionnews.com/2026/01/22/m...

My latest:

Faith-based refugee resettlement organizations are raising alarms that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is detaining lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota, in an operation one resettlement official called “shameful and unpatriotic.” sojo.net/articles/new...

My latest:

"Faith-based refugee resettlement organizations are raising alarms that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is detaining lawfully resettled refugees," reports @saraheinselen.bsky.social for @sojo.net. *lawfully resettled* let that sink in sojo.net/articles/new...

My latest:

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Some personal news: I've been granted permanent residency in Canada. 🇨🇦

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The US President once referred to legally admitting African immigrants as "taking people from shithole countries" (He now confirms this) He has now indefinitely banned *all* legal visas for 90% of African applicants. Careful analysis by @davidjbier.bsky.social —> www.cato.org/blog/new-ban...

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

The Minn Star Trib has an excellent frame-by-frame analysis of the Good homicide. A couple things (also noted elsewhere) stand out. 🧵: 1) ICE agent Ross's first shot, when he *might* have felt in danger, hit 'the bottom corner of the driver’s side windshield.' www.startribune.com/breaking-dow...

For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants

The Book of Common Prayer (1979) provides the Supplication for use "in times of war, or of national anxiety", beginning on page 154. Here is the full text 📕 🧵

My newsroom received one of these botched redaction jobs once, but it was from a small department of a small city government, not the friggin USDOJ

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable

I obviously can't know who's telling the truth here, but this is exactly why DUE PROCESS matters.

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

NEW from @bmietana.bsky.social, @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social and me: Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried. And yes, we did some digging about *that* viral church raids story that has been floating around. religionnews.com/2025/11/20/v...

"Both attorneys also said that the Trump administration is pushing high-ranking Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) officials for public support of the plan, including Hispanic pastors..."

I'm a child rape survivor, and I was NOT the "barely legal type." I was a child. I still wore hairbows! I wore a retainer on my teeth. My column today is an open letter to Megyn Kelly. christabrown.substack.com/p/dear-megyn...

Online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been getting noticeably less attention and follow-up from authorities, per NYT, as the DHS is overwhelmingly used for Stephen Miller’s immigration crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said. “We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.” #borderpatrol #charlotte #nc

trump made the prosecutor who gave epstein a pass the secretary of labor!

Timeline cleanse - aurora edition

Fascinating and well-written 2019 article on how a less successful strategy for teaching kids to read got rooted in schools. Phonics FTW

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

Worth remembering that the Christian nationalism that fueled the empires in The Great War seeded Europe's turn away from Christianity for the next century. Historically, Christian nationalism is the enemy of true faith. It is a false gospel whose fruits are known mostly in war.

I keep yelling this at my phone when I see these photos and I’m going to start yelling it here: NEVER. POINT. YOUR FIREARM. AT ANYTHING. YOU DO NOT INTEND. TO DESTROY.