A friend told me her flight was delayed because of ICE and I immediately went into lawyer mode thinking about how to get resources for people arrested on the plane. She meant the frozen stuff.

GEO Group, currently grifting the American taxpayer for incalculable sums of money thru Trump's mass deportation ops, gave 92% of their 2024 campaign contributions to GOP candidates. GEO's favorite (only?) Dem, just got a pardon. Friends in high places, I guess. www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...

So much fun to field questions from clients all day, which there are no answers to because this administration is making up policy on the fly.

They are still here. Someone come tag me out.

The amount of heartbreaking phone calls I need to make, with no explanation or information when processing will restart, is not small.

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Turkey swapped out for salmon this year.

There's like a dozen House Republican sponsors on the Afghan Adjustment Act. Maybe someone could go ask them how they feel about collective punishment.

Seattle in November

It didn’t even take 6 hours.

What is infuriating about this and so many other immigration policy changes was how preventable they were. If Congress hadn’t been using immigrants as a political bargaining chip for decades and actually passed something these folks wouldn’t be vulnerable to this admin.

My in-laws are here and I’ve taken two naps today and now I’m in the bathroom checking my phone. I took too much time off. Should have worked more hours.

I’m not sure a kitten was a good idea for the current moment in life I seem to have adopted the most chaotic orca cat at the shelter.

a thing about immigrants is that every single one of them is a person, a full human being, no exceptions, whether deemed by this vicious state to be "peaceful" or not smh

This litigation is probably the biggest ongoing immigration policy story that you probably don't know about

Now this looks like a job for me So everybody just follow me 'Cause we need a little controversy 'Cause it feels so empty without me

I heard there was a secret chord

Immigration lawyers remember the gov't going down a similar road in Niz-Chavez. Didn't end great for them there.

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And what legal route would that be? DHS is very consistent in criticizing people for not having chosen an option it has made unavailable to them.

We invented borders and invented immigration and then invented ways of making immigration illegal and we invented the relationship between crime and immigration. Immigration “enforcement” is literally an hysterical exercise in the pursuit of a fantasy, it is a mental disorder.

Enjoyed Blythe Robertson’s ‘American Road Trip’ book way more than Sarah Kendzior’s. Surprised it didn’t get more hype.

this is a rich (ha) text but I'm especially losing my mind at "she seeks to force residents of Seattle to pay for “free” child care and other goodies" like man, a person thought up that sentence and allowed it to leave their brain? and other people allowed it to go to print?

Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests

It’s a Landslide on repeat morning. all the versions.

Thinking about getting a bumper sticker that says, “let’s all zipper merge!”

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

Gotta scroll up on this whole fantastic 🍄🍄‍🟫 thread!

volcano afternoon

Getting back to my disassociative baking, and the starter’s still good. Rosemary sourdough 🥖.

Keep talking about Sudan.

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

Kid and friends put on a little performance in the yard for the neighborhood and raised almost $600 for our local food bank! Rock music and teens organizing, menace behavior.

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We won’t know till Monday?! Between the baseball and the mayoral election, there’s been too much drama in this town.

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Aww Fievel. Family separation made me cry back then too.

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Who wants to go in with me to buy it? We can ramp up the Book It program and bring back the buffet

Ya’ll get the feeling the cities that vote in progressive mayors this week (NYC, Seattle, Minneapolis) are the next up for Federal Agent deployment?

This is the time of year when I miss The Civil Wars.

Policy conversation?!?

I’m wildly curious about how far they’ll try to go with these ludicrous numbers. Do you think we’ll hit a 50000% increase (relative to what? the press release doesn't say) by January? What are the betting markets saying about this?

Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.

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in my stevie nicks era for the fourth decade in a row

The amount of phone calls we are getting for help with rent, grocery and medical needs has been ramping up. I work for a legal aid office, which means they’ve already tried the normal places. It gonna be a rough winter.

Release the beast!