All’s fair in love and lawfare.

Despite buckets of money, Portland homeless policies resulted in more deaths. We need more humane and effective policies. Sweeps don’t work. How many more people need to die before the politicians wake up? www.propublica.org/article/port...

When are we going to see the photo of Epstein and the Pope?

Bari Weiss is doing PR for Trump, not journalism. 60 minutes has been taken over by a propagandist. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...

Koyaanisqatsi.

This leaves attorneys having to prove that multiple countries are unsafe for their clients. Just another means of making asylum harder to obtain.

Merge or die? Merge and die? Journalists need to ask about Net tuition revenue and not just enrollments. The budget situation is probably worse than we think at both institutions. opb.org/article/2025...

If you can’t rent affordable apartments in Portland, you should get another job. Outrageous that a publicly funded agency for housing holds hundreds of vacant apartments while 1000s sleep on the street. Can’t reform this ineptitude. www.wweek.com/news/2025/12...

“In her ruling, she chided the administration for its conduct during those hearings, saying that government lawyers had at various times stonewalled her, disobeyed her direct instructions and even “affirmatively misled” her.” In short, the gov’t lied. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Close the borders to Black and Brown people. Open the borders for the rich and white South Africans. Trump’s immigration policies in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

The future of liberal arts colleges: everyone can major in AI and Health Science, no tenure, and eliminate all of the "unnecessary" majors like Latin American Studies. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ICE is using "live targeting" in and around Portland, signing warrants only after arrests, submitting false reports to justify arrests, and using Spanish language as the basis for their arrests. How many constitutional violations can ICE commit in each arrest? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

65,735 migrants are in detention as of the end of November. Under Trump I, it reached 55k, so this is a major expansion of the detention regime, but, in spite of their efforts, this is not coming close to their fantasies of rounding up 25 million immigrants.

It just keeps getting worse for immigrants . The depths of cruelty are limitless. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Until immigration judges become independent Article III judges, the politicization of immigration courts is inevitable. The latest mass firings are only the latest and most extreme example of the administration putting its thumb on the scales of justice. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Juan Orlando Hernandez, former president of Honduras, and convicted drug trafficker, is freely walking the streets of the United States as an undocumented migrant. At the same time, thousands of migrants with no criminal convictions are being snatched from their homes and put in prison.

Can’t wait for the war crimes tribunal to put Hegseth under oath.

Trump turns out to be the Narco-terrorist he claims to be against. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Northwestern caves to Trump despite overwhelming faculty rejection of any deals with him. Another sign that university leadership only represents themselves, wealthy donors, and power.

Trump and Maduro engaged in talks to exchange Venezuelan oil reserves for ceasing US military campaign against Maduro. It's not so much that Trump doesn't like "Narcoterrorists," he just wants a cut. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Pete Hegseth: "Kill Them All." Kurtz: "Exterminate All the Brutes." Same idea, different century.

CIA Contractor Shoots National Guard Troops. Fixed the headline.

The goal in Portland should not be measured in number of shelter beds, but how many people are on the street. There are more people living on the street now than a year ago. An abject failure in spite of good intentions.

First, they invent a cartel, then designate it a terrorist organization, and then use that to justify illegal murders in the Gulf of Mexico and the overthrow of Maduro. This is next-level fantasy fiction. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Fareed Zakaria on Ezra Klein podcast argues asylum seekers are the problem with migration policy. He then goes on to say that Dems need to open more legal pathways for immigrants. Asylum is a legal pathway! Klein doesn't call him out on the obvious contradiction. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Not sure what Mamdani gains by doing a dog and pony show with the dictator.

Trump calls for execution of congressional representatives for, wsit for it, reminding the military to obey the law. If he is not stopped now, it will be too late later. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Trump coin has declined over 90% since its peak. It’s a good sign that even the faithful understand that Trump’s a fraud.

You don't have to believe in Maduro's legitimacy to know that any US military attack on Venezuela will be terrible for the democratic opposition there, and a moral boil on the United States pockmarked body. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Asylum grant rates were cut in half in the last year. Just 19% of cases were granted asylum, which is historically very low. Selectively firing immigration judges seems to have an impact on outcomes. tracreports.org/reports/766/

Sign of the times.

The incredible journey of Calvin Duncan ftom Angola Prison to Lewis & Clark Law School, and now Court Clerk in New Orleans. Go Calvin! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Trump DOJ trying to silence lawyers who investigated Epstein. If this were a TV show, nobody would believe it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

The Republican Party should just rebrand as Party of Pedos. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Yesterday, people held Teach Ins/Outs at more than 20 institutions spread across the Americas, Europe, North Africa, and Oceania as part of the Global Solidarity and Resistance Network. Here is a map showing some of those events. La lucha sigue. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

IHRC-sponsored webinar on Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. Danielle Battisti, Torsten Feys, Carly Goodman, and Debbie Kang. @migrationcollab.bsky.social Moderated by Llana Barber, Wed., Nov. 12, 5 pm. cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev....

They just wrote the epitaph for Trump’s tombstone: “The dog that didn’t bark.”

Rubio paying human rights violaters to disappear migrants is a new low. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

A Guatemalan friend who lives in a suburban community around Portland just described to me that there are abandoned cars all over the place with their doors ajar. These are the eerie signs of people running from ICE or being snatched on their way to work.

In response, the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab, led by MiSC scholar @elliottyoung.bsky.social, has published the 2025 Country Conditions Bulletins for eight Latin American countries: 🇨🇺 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇻🇪 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/m...

They made a list of people to primary in the next election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

5th Circuit reasoning. Yes, guards violated the law, but no, they can’t be held accountable. Fascist creep. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Obama deported more non-criminal immigrants than criminals. Muñoz is everything that is wrong about the Dem position on immigration wrapped up in one person. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Self-inflicted wounds. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Evidence of brutal torture committed against Venezuelans sent to CECOT. DHS, Trump, and Rubio are morally and legally responsible for these abuses. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Trump is a third-rate dictator. He can’t even keep the planes running on time.

It’s long past time to make immigration judges independent adjudicators and not employees of the prosecutors, the DOJ. www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...

Jury has more common sense than the entire Justice Department. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ross Dipshit with another hot take.

125k to tell cops to act like humans is a pretty good gig. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...