One last thing. When ICE moves people to facilities in other countries, it is 1st and foremost a human rights violation. But it is also a problem for transparency. These ICE detention stat releases don't include any details about the number of people held at CECOT on the US government's dime.

Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.

Some common English words that have an Arabic etymology: sugar (as-sukkar), orange (náranj), cotton (al-qutn), giraffe (zarafa), alcohol (al-kuḥl)

Like Mahmoud Khalil, Fabian Schmidt, a permanent resident, was detained by ICE and subjected to inhumane treatment, leading to his hospitalization. Like Khalil, the administration is seeking to force Schmidt’s surrender of his green card. No explanation of his custody by ICE has been provided

To the conservative f#¢kheads who might read this, please explain how this in any way makes America great. How sending war refugees back to a war zone fulfills the promise of the US: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

The Israeli military completely wiped out at least 1,200 Palestinian families in Gaza in its genocide, a new analysis finds, shedding more light on the staggering and permanent toll of Israel’s extermination campaign.

To the conservative f@¢kheads who voted for this guy over student debt, explain how removing borrower protections against fraud is going to help

Newsom comes from a wealthy family and was married to Kimberley Guilfoyle at a time when it was already known she was a Republican. While he is best known for being the first US mayor to officiate same-sex marriages, his constituency was always the city’s moneyed interests. (1/2)

When Medicaid receives the massive cuts Musk and Trump are promising, one hopes the lower-income Republicans who are affected are as fervent in storming the Capitol as they were on January 6th 2020

What Trump is suggesting is ethnic cleansing. Plain and simple. Not other way around it

“the square root of a goat is one”

Workplace raids have begun—none of these people were rapists or criminals. Even if you’re not a US citizen, you still have due process in this country. 3 workers in Newark were taken into custody by ICE w/out a warrant. One, a veteran, endured the humiliation of having his military docs questioned.

Considering how ICE is now operating without judicial review, how long until a US citizen is a labeled an “illegal immigrant” and subjected to deportation proceedings without due process? It just happened

German newspaper Die Zeit has a better take than most US news outlets: “An H salute is an H salute is an H salute”

Trump’s plan to classify undocumented migrants as unlawful combatants to deny them 14th-Amendment rights reflects the Israeli government’s policy of classifying Palestinian civilians, including children, as “terrorists” to justify their administrative detention

Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.

I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...

Editorial | Ben-Gvir said the quiet part out loud: Netanyahu sacrificed hostages for personal interest - Haaretz apple.news/AUBSCYGNOTFS...

So I got a notification that over 40 new people are now following me here, none of whom I am familiar with

The recent LA fires shed light on a troubling practice in California: the use of incarcerated individuals to fight wildfires. This system, which utilizes an exception in the 13th Amendment, raises serious human rights concerns. 🧵⤵️

Those voting in favor of sanctioning the ICC are appeasers of the war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Congo, Sudan, Myanmar, Palestine, … Putin is certainly rejoicing

Ciao, enfoiré 🥳🎉

The Israeli military has announced that it carried out over 1,400 air strikes on Gaza in December alone, amounting to dozens of strikes a day on average on Palestinians also suffering under famine conditions due to Israel’s enduring aid blockade.

Why student debt forgiveness is necessary

The richest man on the planet could probably solve child cancer himself using less money than he burned destroying Twitter. Instead, he used his influence to strip $190 million from the budget for pediatric cancer research. What a fucking asshole.

Former MLA presidents Judith Butler, Frieda Ekotto, Margaret Ferguson, Marianne Hirsch, Christopher Newfield, Mary Louise Pratt, Sidonie Smith, and Diana Taylor call upon the MLA to allow its members to vote on a BDS resolution lithub.com/8-former-mod...

Meanwhile, in Vietnam youtu.be/o2bgTXdrATA?...

Listening to NPR’s coverage of the no-confidence vote in France today, I am baffled by their description of La France Insoumise as far left, when our Conseil d’état has classified it as left wing. (1/2)

A week ago, I told @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social not to trust anything anything coming from Emmanuel Macron’s mouth? In this case, Macron’s assertion that France would comply with the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant, and Deif? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs published this today

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

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France 24 reports that Netanyahu has essentially declared war on his country’s own security forces youtube.com/watch?v=PYsy...