Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative

I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it! (I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)

While our lawmakers consider a total abortion ban on Tuesday, Nov. 18, supporters of reproductive justice will gather on the State House lawn. Join us?

less punditry and much more organizing.

I won’t be satisfied until every item in my house can be subpoenaed by the police through a third party cloud provider.

Feels like she's saying lower courts should disregard those cases then

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.

Yes, this period has confirmed that just as trickle-down economics is BS, there is no such thing as trickle-down democracy.

This is basic rule of law stuff: judges need to explain their decisions so the same standards are applied across the board, and lower courts are closer to the facts and should be respected. Stunning that this needs to be explained to SCOTUS, but it shows how far the Court has strayed.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Proud to file this case today with our mighty team at @aclu.org's National Prison Project, @aclufl.bsky.social and @aijustice.bsky.social!

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for detaining immigrants at the notorious new Everglades detention center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," in inhumane conditions without access to legal counsel.

SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law

The Fourth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits have all held (in contexts other than medical care) that discrim against trans people gets heightened scrutiny. Skrmetti leaves those circuit precedents intact.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth can remain in effect. This is devastating for trans people and our families but doesn’t end our work against President Trump’s attacks on trans people and our health care.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

"Once the door is open to military forces targeting some of the population, that door is very hard to close. When the rule of law becomes the rule of force, no one will be safe." @danmcfadden.bsky.social

I think that's just how cops are and we're more likely to hear about it when it happens to a reporter

BREAKING: We're going to court to defend pregnant people's right nationwide to get lifesaving abortion care when they're facing a medical emergency.

Here’s the thing: line officers at DHS routinely lie about stuff like this. Some studies suggest manufactured statements occur in 15-20% of cases, sometimes higher. Border Patrol is the worst offender but ICE does it too. Read this John Washington piece from 2019. theintercept.com/2019/08/11/b...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.

NYC! We brought back Meet Your Mayor just in time before the June primary. The mayoral candidates told us where they stand on big issues. Who is the top match for you? Take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to find out: buff.ly/1FJjfrXhttps...

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Columbia should be protecting its students, not calling the country's largest police force on them. Students should not have to fear police violence for voicing their beliefs.

Thousands of transgender troops who have served our nation honorably will soon be purged from the military because of their identity. It is shameful that the Supreme Court’s majority won’t even explain why it greenlit this mass act of unconstitutional discrimination. slate.com/news-and-pol...

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

Overjoyed by this news, and so proud of my colleagues for working round the clock to make this happen—and continuing to push until all are free

It’s been a busy 100 days for the ACLU — more than 100 legal actions filed since President Trump took office — and we're not slowing down. We play the long game, and we’re ready to defend our civil liberties against the administration’s attacks all four years. Join us at aclu.org/the-first-100-days

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

Tonight is the 1st night of #Passover. We dip parsley (Karpas) in salt water to recognize the spring time. Salt water symbolizes the tears and sweat of enslavement. As we hold Seders, remember the farm workers who are out in the fields harvesting the food we’re eating. #WeFeedYou

Look up your local immigrant justice group. Sign up for their newsletters. DO WHAT THEIR NEWSLETTERS TELL YOU TO DO. Join their membership. Donate to their budget.

DOJ position is UNCONSCIONABLE , the court finds.

“You can’t be a trusted health partner when you are withholding information from people.” Friends, it’s been almost 3 years, but we can FINALLY help our patients access ALL legal options again. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

*best paid* being the relevant part.

Reading through the chatlogs, I realized sadly that I am the JD Vance in my group chats. Confused, weirdly emotional, can't follow the conversation, derails everything at the last min. www.businessinsider.com/signal-group...

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

It’s going fast. Lawyers have to move in unity - law firms, civil rights, law schools, tax lawyers, prosecutors, criminal defense, family law, civil law, immigration. Stand together. Fight for our integrity and our profession.

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Whatever we offer, they’ll demand more, because what they actually want is to vanquish every institution—the media, the courts, the bar, the universities—that could serve as a check on their power. “There is no appeasing these forces” is right. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I’m asking people to ask themselves “do I KNOW this is an unprecedented thing to do to immigrants, or does it just cross a line for me?” Typical isn’t the same as justified; it’s generally good not to treat things (eg ICE arresting people and detaining/deporting them) as unusual when they’re not.

What happened to Mahmoud Khalil is an egregious attack on his First Amendment rights, and it’s a dangerous warning to the rest of us. Join us tonight at 8 PM ET for an emergency Know Your Protest Rights training. RSVP now.