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Isabela Dias
4 days ago
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.
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I’m sorry what? The admin has someone consulting on one of its cases whom it will not disclose to the public?
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Chris Geidner
4 days ago
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.
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Kyle Cheney
6 days ago
'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."
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Ari Berman
6 days ago
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
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Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights
A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/samuel-alito-opinion-new-york-voting-rights-act-supreme-court/
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Isabela Dias
6 days ago
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
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24,403 lawsuits and counting: How habeas corpus became the front line of immigration defense
"We have to kick the door down."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/immigration-enforcement-22800-lawsuits-and-counting-habeas-corpus-the-frontline-of-immigration-defense/
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Kyle Cheney
7 days ago
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.
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Deborah Pearlstein
7 days ago
(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. đź§µ
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-administration-to-drop-defense-of-law-firm-sanctions-cb839c39?st=LYhGo7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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This actually explains a lot of the court's rulings
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Kyle Cheney
8 days ago
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.
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Kyle Cheney
9 days ago
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
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Mother Jones
10 days ago
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
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on how DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.
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How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags
DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-refugee-immigant-ice-detention/
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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.
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Teri G
16 days ago
“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.”
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Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw-minnesota-ice-war
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Scott Nover
17 days ago
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/
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4 journalists detained in Cameroon reporting on Trump’s deportations
Lawyers say Trump is sending migrants to Cameroon who originated elsewhere. AP freelancers, among others, were detained while reporting on the deportees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/19/cameroon-deportations-journalists-detained/
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
17 days ago
reupping this because of its prescience
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On tariffs, the Supreme Court must choose between the president and their plutocratic patrons
This case is all about power and loyalty.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/donald-trump-tariffs-supreme-court/
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Noah Lanard
17 days ago
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.
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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.
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Mother Jones
17 days ago
Context behind the ruling, as
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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."
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On tariffs, the Supreme Court's GOP justices appear ready to save Trump from himself
The administration's economic recklessness threatens Republicans' grip on power.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/tariffs-supreme-court-donald-trump/
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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.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariff regime
The justices hand a rare rebuke to a president they've enabled.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/donald-trump-tariff-loss-supreme-court/
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Samantha Michaels
18 days ago
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:
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Tennessee said yes to ICE—and turned into a deportation state
How the feds worked with state troopers to terrorize Nashville’s immigrants.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/immigrant-ice-raid-nashville-tennessee-highway-patrol-state-police-287g-republicans/
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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
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Jess Calarco
19 days ago
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.
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Another nail in the coffin of the presumption of regularity
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Mother Jones
28 days ago
Testing Kristi Noem's transparency claim
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Testing Kristi Noem's transparency claim
We're suing CBP and ICE for their footage.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/testing-kristi-noems-transparency-claim/
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ProPublica
28 days ago
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. 🧵
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Mike Hixenbaugh
30 days ago
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.
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912
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A chilling episode. After the government’s case against Espinoza Martinez fell apart, they just decided to detain him anyway… apparently illegally
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Unitary executive theory coming for civil service protections, making the partisan spoils system great again
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nitasha tiku
about 1 month ago
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's
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. 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
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"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.
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Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-anti-trans-may-mailman-sports-ban-womens-bill-of-rights-terf/
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Mother Jones
about 1 month ago
Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county
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Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county
Trump wants control "over the voting in at least 15 places.” He could start in Fulton County, Georgia.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trumps-fbi-raid-could-lead-to-a-takeover-of-elections-fulton-county-georgia
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Inside Donald Trump's corporate-funded war on America history
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Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/america-freedom-task-force-250-trump-anniversary-history-smithsonian-kennedy-center/
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Joaquin Castro
about 1 month ago
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.
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This horrible month is almost over. But its lessons shouldn't be ignored. The Trump administration’s authoritarian project is accelerating.
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January was a warning of where Trump will go next
The administration's authoritarian project is accelerating.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/january-2026-bad-month-trump/
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This horrible month is almost over. But its lessons shouldn't be ignored. The Trump administration’s authoritarian project is accelerating.
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January was a warning of where Trump will go next
The administration's authoritarian project is accelerating.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/january-2026-bad-month-trump/
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 1 month ago
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.
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The dual state
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AkivaMCohen
about 1 month ago
wooooow
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Seth D. Michaels
about 1 month ago
"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."
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ICE is violating the Constitution in Minnesota. I tried to count the many, many ways.
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Five constitutional amendments Trump is ignoring in Minnesota
Let us count the ways your rights have been violated.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/constitutional-violations-minnesota-ice/
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sam
about 1 month ago
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.
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Clara Jeffery
about 1 month ago
@samveep.bsky.social
has been doing amazing reporting from MN today under insane conditions
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Appear???
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Jen Bendery
about 1 month ago
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:
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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.
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
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.
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This is the dual state. The state ignores adverse court rulings and rounds up its targets anyway.
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Shannon Heffernan
about 2 months ago
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...
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ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/children-immigration-detention-dilley-ice
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