This is exactly right

The non-unitary executive.

My analysis in @justsecurity.org on Trump's asserted license to kill. 2/n www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

The Trump Admin has conducted 21 unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean & East Pacific—killing 83 people—without giving Americans a full explanation. I’m leading my colleagues in demanding the declassification & public release of documents justifying these airstrikes.

The DHS blamed immigrants for a number of problems known to be caused by outside economic factors.

A police death squad in El Salvador murdered at least 97 people. One of them claims they killed many of their victims on behalf of a sitting mayor. Almost all remain free and have kept their badges. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/el-faro-w...

Pleased to speak with the Hill about possible US military action in Venezuela. Needless to say, something is profoundly broken with our constitutional order if decisions about attacking another country depend on the whims of one man. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Very useful resource here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o... They followed the rules

Americans don't approve of this murder according to polls

NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show. Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would. From me for @prospect.org: prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

www.propublica.org/article/chic... Never charged with a crime! Wasteful, harmful political theater

The Venezuelans the United States government sent to El Salvador were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. Read the new report by @hrw and @Cristosal: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Take this for what it is; an acknowledgment by the White House that they are not focusing on people with criminal records.

Death Squads on the rise again in El Salvador beta.elfaro.net/en/exclusive...

Read more: www.citizen.org/news/migrant...

Trade and migration are deeply connected. The USMCA must stop fueling displacement and start prioritizing sound immigration policy, human rights, and labor protections. Along with prominent migrant justice groups, we outline how in new comments to USTR.

The shutdown will hit 35 days tomorrow — a new U.S. record — as Congress stays deadlocked and SNAP benefits and air travel are already feeling the strain.

ICE Capades: The Roundup open.substack.com/pub/piratewi...

As the government shutdown continues into its fourth week with no end in sight, it’s looking like this could become one of America’s longest funding lapses, posing more risks for the economy.

“’I heard screaming,’ said a court observer who was present on the day Cocha’s husband, Luis, was detained. Their three children, 7, 13, and 15, clung to him as he was swarmed by agents in the hallway. No one explained to Cocha what was happening or where her husband was going.”

Maria Greeley is a U.S. citizen who was detained by ICE and told her passport “isn’t real” and that she “doesn’t look like” her last name. What do they think an American should look like? This racial profiling happens every day under Trump’s lawless regime. It’s un-American.

CNBC: Is importing beef from Argentina a possibility? BROOKE ROLLINS: Yes, the president has said he's in discussions with Argentina. It will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue.

Portland Oregon: Last night ICE shot pepper spray on the protesters. Trump is importing urban violence to your once peaceful neighborhood.

Great story by my friend John Washington who interviewed Rosalina Tuyuc, who is one of the greatest advocates for finding the disappeared in Guatemala and a wonderful person. And funny story, I lived next to the San Juan Comalapa cemetery for two years. My black cat, Paxil, was the cemetery cat.

It’s now been a month since we learned Trump’s team shut down an investigation into Tom Homan taking a $50K bribe — and we haven't seen an ounce of transparency or accountability. Where did Tom stash the cash? What is he hiding? Americans deserve to know.

"Indigenous and peasant communities defending water and life are criminalised, without access to justice or redress. From Argentina, we reaffirm the urgency of a UN #BindingTreaty that puts an end to this architecture of impunity." - Giuliana Alderete, Tierra Nativa / FoE Argentina

Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million. Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.

Mike Johnson has said he won’t block a floor vote to release the Epstein files.

John Thune has cast doubt on the hearing for the Trump nominee who sent racist texts. Paul Ingrassia doesn’t appear to have the votes to advance out of the Senate panel he’s set to address Thursday.

Mass deportation is family separation. Different name, same cruelty. https://cnn.it/3JhRagH

National Lawyers Guild, the org on the top left? When Joseph McCarthy finally got “have you no shame”d, the person he was targeting at that hearing had been a volunteer for them. So let’s just say they’ve been in the crosshairs for many decades.

Extrajudicial killings are illegal under both domestic and international law. We filed a FOIA request demanding information on the legal justifications President Trump is using to conduct deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

“From seeing what ICE is doing to protesters outside in the broad daylight in front of cameras, it terrifies me for what must be going on inside that facility,” Reverend Quincy Worthington of Highland Park Presbyterian Church tells NPR: www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

Without evidence

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

More extrajudicial murders by the Trump Administration off the coast of Venezuela, killing 6 people

Sharing an excellent Q&A from Obama-era former ICE director John Sandweg about the ways in which operations today are totally unprecedented for the agency and the ways in which some times are unchanged — and how in his view, the admin is leaning into the aggression. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“America’s Voice highlighted some 15 cases of citizens who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), some violently, despite having identification,” writes Maribel Hastings: www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

I posted about this on X, and Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS spokesperson, QTed me to say the kid was actually a hardened criminal arrested with a knife and a gun. So far she has provided no evidence of this. I share this to give DHS's response, and for the possibility she is telling the truth.

After years of advocacy and growing awareness of Columbus’s human rights abuses, some states and cities switched to celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, we are witnessing the backlash to that modicum of change. Full post on my substack now:

Kind of like the Dallas ICE shooting

Two - Sacco and Vanzetti