SCOOP: In a January letter to Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL), DHS says 270 DACA recipients have been arrested from January to September 2025. In addition, 174 DACA applicants have been deported, according to ICE records. Those numbers differ from what was shared with Sen. Dick Durbin in February.

I’m sorry what? The admin has someone consulting on one of its cases whom it will not disclose to the public?

NEWS: DOJ is appealing Judge Boasberg’s February order that the people deported to CECOT under the claimed authority of the Alien Enemies Act receive the due process they have been illegally denied since March 15, 2025. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Immigrants are successfully challenging the Trump administration's mass detention policy and winning release from ICE custody—thanks to a centuries-old legal principle and constitutional right. My latest for @motherjones.com:

NEW: A judge has restored lawmakers' unfettered access to ICE detention facilities, her third ruling to block Secretary Noem's policy attempting to limit unannounced visits from members of Congress. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

(Gift link) Admin is wise to drop what would've been a big loss on appeal. But given the limited scope of the trial ct rulings (only reaching the firms attacked), it keeps the possibility of more threats above other firms' heads. The threat remains acute, as does the damage of BigLaw's response. 🧵

This actually explains a lot of the court's rulings

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The contours of a dual state are coming into view, one in which anyone targeted by Trump’s deportation and detention program has no rights that can save them. Read @pemalevy.bsky.social on how DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.

Actually, no. Buying alcohol has an age requirement, not an ID requirement. No one thinks a 70-year old has to produce ID to buy a beer.

“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”

Four journalists, including AP freelancers, were detained in Cameroon on Tuesday while reporting on migrants deported there by the Trump administration. They were released, but their devices were confiscated. w/ @maeganvaz.bsky.social + @liamjscott.bsky.social

reupping this because of its prescience www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My profile of Congressman Cory Mills is based on interviews with 18 people who have known the Florida Republican from his youth to the present day. There's stolen valor, a restraining order, a failed grenade company, sex workers, a Trump endorsement, and much much more. Here's what I found.

And Gorsuch so thoroughly refutes Thomas' take here that it's just embarrassing that Thomas decided to publish it anyway. Like, no facts will get in the way of making Trump king.

Context behind the ruling, as @pemalevy.bsky.social wrote in November during oral arguments: "A loss for Trump will, in fact, be doing him a favor. And the GOP-appointed justices—who have spent the past 10 months giving Trump virtually everything he wants—surely know this."

I cannot get over how Justice Thomas wants to just hand Trump a bunch of powers delegated to Congress by the Constitution. Originalism at its finest. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There's video of ICE doing a massive operation with Tennessee state troopers—and making horrible comments as they go along. I'm talking awful racial profiling and bad jokes like "The guacamole is never going to taste the same." So much to dig into here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This week's stories about secret deportations to "third countries" are chilling "they did not know they were being sent to Cameroon until they were handcuffed and chained on a [DHS] flight" -NYT The stories failed to explain that this illegal shit is happening b/c SCOTUS okay'd it on shadow docket

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Another nail in the coffin of the presumption of regularity

Testing Kristi Noem's transparency claim

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

A chilling episode. After the government’s case against Espinoza Martinez fell apart, they just decided to detain him anyway… apparently illegally

Unitary executive theory coming for civil service protections, making the partisan spoils system great again

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

"Stephen [Miller]’s the ideas guy. And then I’m trying to be the one who makes it happen.” Meet May Mailman, the mastermind behind Trump’s sweeping anti-trans orders. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county

Inside Donald Trump's corporate-funded war on America history www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This horrible month is almost over. But its lessons shouldn't be ignored. The Trump administration’s authoritarian project is accelerating. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This horrible month is almost over. But its lessons shouldn't be ignored. The Trump administration’s authoritarian project is accelerating. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The dual state

wooooow

"There’s no rational way to make sense of violence and havoc the Trump administration is inflicting on the Twin Cities as normal immigration enforcement; it only makes sense as punishment upon the entire population for its political preferences."

ICE is violating the Constitution in Minnesota. I tried to count the many, many ways. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hard to say how many showed up for Alex Pretti’s vigil, but easily hundreds if not thousands. After community activists and leaders spoke at the park where they gathered, everyone marched to the site of Pretti’s killing. Streets just filled with people demanding ICE out.

@samveep.bsky.social has been doing amazing reporting from MN today under insane conditions

Appear???

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad. Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS. This smoke is from tear gas:

Watching the video, I can’t but think that we have entered a new era of violent state repression today. Even compared to the horrors of the past weeks and year, this looks different.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

This is the dual state. The state ignores adverse court rulings and rounds up its targets anyway.

Below is our story about the skyrocketing number of kids detained by ICE. We cover the facility where Liam is now being held-- parents said food had worms and mold, and kids were so distressed they hit themselves in the face and wet themselves. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...