How civil rights law was turned against civil rights (specifically for punishing criticism of Israel) www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Precisely why @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social is calling on Gov. Healey to cancel its 287g with ICE. bsky.app/profile/conc...

Today, we release a letter calling on @massgovernor.bsky.social to support our immigrant communities: 1. Declare sanctuary state 2. Cancel 287g agreement with ICE 3. End voluntary cooperation with ICE 4. Support PROTECT & Dignity Not Deportations Acts www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/healey-ice-out

Jewish MA residents: Please sign our letter to Gov. Healey demanding she end all cooperation with ICE--particularly the 287g agreement with the Dept. of Corrections. All other blue states have terminated their 287g's. Text: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mary Beth Tinker wrote essay ⬇️ for anniversary. She says: Decades ago students needed the freedom to protest the Vietnam war. Today, students need the freedom to demand a ceasefire in Gaza (for safety of all) & the end of U.S. aid for genocide.⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tinker-...

#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

The ACLU's brief for the plaintiffs in the birthright citizenship case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Kris Collins, Gerry Neuman and @rosenbloom.bsky.social just filed this excellent brief in the birthright citizenship case, on the very strong statutory basis for declaring the Trump E.O. to be unlawful. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Now that asylum/protection at the US-Mexico border is gone (illegal but true), and now that suffering abuse inside the US is probable, only 627 child/family migrants entered Border Patrol custody in January—the fewest for which we have records (since October 2011).

On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.

Yesterday, we filed this amicus brief in Trump v Barbara: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It's an updated/expanded version of the brief we filed last spring in the circuit courts. Summary below. TL;DR: birthright citizenship is guaranteed by BOTH the Constitution AND federal statute.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Every American needs to watch this:

Read this whole thread and support journalism that matters.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

quite seriously: AUSAs are going to start filing briefs written with ChatGPT and the sanctions situation is going to be like nothing we’ve ever seen

Incredible testimony at Surprise, AZ city council meeting, to go along with the “Be a neighbor, not a Nazi” signs that people were holding.i don’t know who this person is, but they really nailed it.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

The attorney working for DOJ who asked to be held in contempt so she could get some sleep and said "this job sucks" was assigned **88** federal cases in less than a month, per a court docket search. www.fox9.com/news/federal...

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

Some excellent lessons here for right here, right now jacobin.com/2026/02/arge...

Someone sent this link around a while back: Resistance Lawyering by Daniel Farbman :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Liam has been on my mind constantly the past 2 weeks. This picture was seared into my brain; it is evidence of the total lack of humanity within this administration. Many thanks to @danilawaart.bsky.social for allowing me to recreate this beautiful work as crop art. #cropart #iceout #jamesbaldwin

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

"‘Reminds me of Anne Frank’: Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms"

On January 31, activists with Rise and Resist held a demonstration at Trump Tower in Manhattan. For nearly two hours, members of RAR read aloud the names of people killed by ICE and spoke with the public about defending democracy through community action. @riseandresist.bsky.social

"Mind you, this is in a part of Tarrant County where no Democrat has won a state Senate seat since 1978." www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Key quote from the judge's order releasing Liam Ramos & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On general strikes 🧊 lithub.com/kim-kelly-on... @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Excellent advice, no paywall

🥰 #chicago #protests

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...