Break time. Back in a while.

we are in a very hard position trying to work w/ AR on Dad’s behalf rn

~$5000 TRIP TO AR FROM EAST COAST TO GET DISABLED DAD - URGENT! Artist. Of course the "official" assistance has been denied. Any combo ppl x $ = $5000 will do a lot if not all of it. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

folks, we desperately need donations for me to be able to go get Dad from Arkansas—- it’s been more than a month since we moved—- despite my best efforts the pre-established medical transport is being denied even though it has precedent w/ letter from care team—— please anything helps, even reposts

Over 13 months since the Eaton Fire but many of the houses in the community still haven't been repaired. Matt's got his tools now & just needs ~$700 in materials so he can start helping with those repairs. Any combo ppl x $$ = $700 is good. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

I’ve been through a year filled with so many horrible disasters everywhere. Only $700 to go! 59 weeks I’ve been asking. During this time of upheaval, Olympics, Superb Owls, if you can help or SHARE I’d really appreciate it. I know we can reach 100%! Let’s close this down asap gofund.me/f8a35d6d4

$100 RN URGENT TO GET FOOD FOR THE FAMILY TOMORROW. Then $400 by next Thurs for the rest of Feb food, meds, hygiene, & dr appts. Disabled caregiver for disabled household. 10 ppl $10 each today is good. Then 40 ppl $10 each next week is too. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

Good morning and TY for today's thread! 300/800 month - STALLED 100/200 weekly 100 more NEEDED TODAY for groceries/needs that need to be taken care of TOMORROW! We are trying our best, but WE NEED HELP NOW. dravenheart.carrd.co bsky.app/profile/drav...

$100 RN URGENT SO THEY CAN GET FOOD FOR THE FAMILY TOMORROW. Then $400 by next Thurs for the rest of Feb food, meds, hygiene, & dr appts. Disabled caregiver for disabled household. 10 ppl $10 each today is good. Then 40 ppl $10 each next week. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

THURSDAY! 300/800 month - STALLED 100/200 weekly 100 more NEEDED TODAY for groceries/needs that need to be taken care of TOMORROW! We are trying our best, but WE NEED HELP NOW! Anything helps keep my family safe. 💜 dravenheart.carrd.co #mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026 💞💸

bsky.app/profile/ries... friend needs help ASAP

~$200 TO GO BILLS & OVERDRAFT URGENT! Check out their work on Ko-fi. 20 ppl $10 each keeps them safe. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

@qichin.bsky.social @astralaurum.bsky.social @athenaatlas.bsky.social @tinytuberclips.bsky.social appreciate getting word out for my bud here!

My friend @venebunvt.bsky.social is roughly -$83 in the negatives! He needs about $200 to cover that and future bills! ko-fi.com/venebunsters #mutualaid #maboost #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026 💕💸

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I wish I was made of money...

Just $300 more and this family will be halfway to goal! spot.fund/k7g9nj4sc

What this lawyer is describing is an abomination. It is evil. It is fascism, it is Nazi behavior, it is Klan behavior. It is genocide. And every Dem politician not putting themselves in the way of this death machine has blood on their hands. GOP are irredeemable. Dems have no excuse.

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances. If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources. 30/end?

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens. 29/

Like I said when I started, I don’t know what to expect from posting this here. Maybe in hopes it galvanizes 1 of my ~5 followers. But at the very least, thank you if you read all the way through. We must not look away. 28/

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations. And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so. 26/

I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished. A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care. A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored. 25/

A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-... 24/

4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death. An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds. 23/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

2. Non-potable water. Clients have reported becoming ill from chemical-tasting water. Some developed rashes. 3. Deplorable accommodations. A client sick with the flu was forced to sleep on a frigid concrete floor. In Camp East Montana, fetid water leaches through the roof and soaks the beds. /22

And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment. 1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours. 21/

I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them. A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved. 3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions. 20/

And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined. When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug. 19/

So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/

See ICE wants these cases in Texas, where Trump-infected courts are more tolerant of their antics, more biased against non-citizens, more willing to let DHS fill up concentration camps. (Not all Texas judges, for sure. Plenty are bravely faithful to the rule of law. ICE is playing the numbers) 17/

Meanwhile, DHS shows its contempt for the judiciary in a different way. In dozens, likely now thousands, of cases, DHS openly defies court orders. Minnesota courts enter orders forbidding ICE from moving noncitizens who’ve filed habeas petitions out of Minnesota. They move them anyway. 16/

Yet asst. U.S. attorneys—AUSA used to be an esteemed title—continue to make this frivolous argument over and over in bald-faced arguments in case after case. They’ve been told no many thousands of times. They admit (remarkably) in their filings that they know their arguments are meritless. 15/

And the canon that instructs us to draw understanding of a statute’s meaning from its title. The list goes on. The government’s argument for why it is entitled to strip residents of their due process rights and lock them away indefinitely is easily the most frivolous argument I’ve ever seen. 14/

It violates other canons too. The government’s reading renders an entire act of Congress—the GOP-championed Laken Riley Act—superfluous. So it violates the canon against superfluity. It violates the ejusdem canon, which says similar language in similar statutes has the same meaning. 13/

The first is that a statute’s plain language controls. The regime’s interpretation violates that canon. So it is legally invalid. 12/

Trump’s DHS says everyone who is not a citizen or LPR is “arriving”… even if they arrived two or three decades ago. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know that makes no sense. But lawyers interpret statutes according to a hierarchy of agreed-upon “canons of construction.” 11/

That’s for a really simple, really good reason. To justify detaining noncitizens indefinitely and without due process, the Trump regime has adopted a tortured reading of immigration laws. See, there is a law that provides for mandatory detention of “arriving aliens.” 10/

Judges have mostly rejected the government’s attempt to detain anyone who is black or brown. As of early January (the last time anyone had time to count) 300 judges in 1000s of decisions rejected the government’s arguments. Less than a dozen permit it. 9/ www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help. My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life. 8/

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

I work for a Minneapolis-based firm. MPLS was and is under attack by the federal government. Hundreds of people are being snatched off the streets. Undocumented immigrants, DACA recipients, asylees, asylum seekers, refugees, lawful permanent residents, citizens. 6/

15 years ago when I went to law school, 12 years ago when I began practicing… hell, a month ago, I wanted nothing to do with immigration law. On January 14, however, what I wanted stopped mattering. 5/

(And let me note that immigration law FAVORS such horrific outcomes. Asylum is very hard to win. Immigration “court” isn’t a real court. It’s a kangaroo court where DHS is judge, jury, and executioner. You have no right to counsel. And the law tilts against non-citizens all conceivable ways.) 4/

The same rationale applied to immigration law. Immigration outcomes are life and death. People can be uprooted from the life they built (for some who arrive as children, the only life they know). They can be sent back to deadly situations in countries they fled fearing for their life. 3/

A month ago, I knew almost zero about immigration law. I hadn’t dealt with it since clerking >10 years ago. I had no interest in immigration law. I knew even before law school I didn’t want to go into criminal law. I didn’t want power or responsibility over someone’s freedom or their life. 2/