A client told me that their face was scanned on the jetway by ICE as they boarded a domestic flight last week, and that the whole was told they had to comply or they couldn’t board. If only our leaders had listened to the demands for data protection and tech regulation over the last two decades.

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

The party of law and order literally just wrote themselves a memo that says they don't have to follow the 4th Amendment. That's right, ICE intends to perform illegal search and seizures without a warrant. Add that to the list with "we had to beat up the police on Jan 6 to defend our democracy".

At a time when international order is under stress and alliances are buckling, in part due to its own actions, this irresponsible administration delivers yet another blow to our diplomatic preparedness. (Chart courtesy of @afsaorg.bsky.social)

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.

A Manhattan federal judge will consider a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from freezing over $10 billion in federal childcare and family assistance funds to five Democratic-led states over alleged fraud concerns. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

Did you know that there's a lawsuit underway challenging the legality of Trump's ballroom? Great writeup of yesterday's hearing here, including this highlight: “The ‘77 Gerald Ford swimming pool? You compare that to tearing down and building a new East Wing? Come on. Be serious,” the judge said.

I've been writing about this nonstop. www.lawdork.com/p/noem-says-...

In case you haven't noticed, Homeland Security lies about everything. A federal judge in Chicago caught Greg Bovino in lies. Just yesterday, the White House faked a photo of a Minnesota protester to make it look like she was crying when she wasn't. Don't believe their lies about the 5-year-old boy.

In case it wasn't already clear: Rubio, Noem, & Trump want to punish these students for their free speech. They're all for free speech until someone disagrees with their views. But that's not how our 1st Amendment works. The courts must stand up to this miscarriage of justice.

Robots to watch your kids. Sounds like his kind of parenting.

Orban wasn’t happy about this.

This Jack Smith hearing is already infuriating. The GOP are such feckless, horrible, malignant, enabling fascists.

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Donald Trump’s interest don’t go any further than Donald Trump. He’s a small man with a small mind. He thinks of himself and no one else. That’s not the kind of person anyone should want in public service. Donald Trump neither cares about the public or knows the meaning and value of service.

Anders Vistisen, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Denmark, to Donald Trump on his threats to steal Greenland: ”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Can you imagine if RESISTERS carried deer urine (which is very potent and available online) in squirty water bottles (which can shoot pretty dang far) and squirted it into the air intake of ICE vehicles right under the windshield wipers? Man that would be crazy...

Mental health deterioration under Trump? Relatable. (This is, of course, horrific.)

Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

Check the tariff shelf. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yes!

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

up is down, black is white, being snatched off the streets and disappeared by masked goons isn’t an unreasonable search and seizure according to the esteemed brett kavanaugh

the constitution has many flaws but addressing our current circumstances is not among them; the framers were in fact quite concerned about this kind of thing and were clear that it should not happen here what they did not and could not guard against is the people in charge ignoring their plain text

If you just say "Abolish ICE" you are saying there will not be accountability for the crimes committed by ICE. The ICE agents will then be rehired by other agencies. Want to prevent future agents from doing what ICE is now? Then demand this: PROSECUTE ICE!!

Jennifer Welch nails it: “Republicans have convinced people that needing help makes you lazy, when the real parasites in this country are the billionaires.” Decades of propaganda so workers fight each other while the wealth gets vacuumed upward.

Some not-great news in Wisconsin: Judge Lisa Neubauer, a liberal on the Court of Appeals, isn't running for re-election. Two candidates were running to replace her: far-right Anthony LoCoco and moderate-liberal Christine Hansen. Today, Hansen was kicked off the ballot for a filing problem.

Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“freedom is taken by those bold enough to claim it”

so like.... that's just pollution then

Jesus

This month, your rightwing uncle demands 1) Turn away refugees 2) Tax cuts for the richest 3) Be cruel to trans ppl 4) Defend the Confederate flag 5) More prisons 6) More executions 7) More guns 8) No healthcare for "illegals" 9) Hate anything "woke" 10) Keep Christ in Christmas

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Is this one of the greatest scenes in movie history? I think so — that’s why “It’s a Wonderful Life” is my all-time favorite.

This has been one of my biggest worries for awhile. Given their propensity to lie about basic facts and the courts’ invention of absurd deference, immunity, and remedial doctrines, it is not clear we could stop a cynical illegal push to indiscriminately deport citizens.

making it easier for Illinois residents to sue immigration agents if they believe their rights were violated. The Justice Department sued the governor and attorney general in an effort to strike the law down. States should have the authority to enforce their own laws.

While Bari Weiss scrambled to remove the video from YouTube, the Canadian bootleg I posted on Substack last night is still there.

The Guardian wrote about the existence of this letter in 2023. 2/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

It is wild to think that Epstein's last thoughts were lamenting how unfair it was that he was in jail while Trump was in the White House after committing the same offenses.

Remember when Republicans pretended to care about men in women’s bathrooms? Well, in September, masked male ICE agents in tactical gear broke into the women’s bathroom of a workplace. Yet, their warrant only allowed them to go into the building and seize documents. trib.al/TGYeGGo

NEW: Alina Habba has finally stepped down as New Jersey’s lead federal prosecutor after a three-month court challenge found her appointment without Senate confirmation illegal.

Alina Habba was first ruled to be playacting as US Attorney on August 21 (though she had already been playacting at that point since July 1). So taxpayers have paid for Alina to pretend she's US Attorney for 109 days.

Style guide: Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN. She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.