I highly recommend that you read @leximcmenamin.com's latest: "When the WSJ reporting came out, I knew it didn’t matter if it was true or false; the damage was already done. It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric."

“If there was a shooter...on campus, that’s basically how we’re treating ICE," one teacher said. Teachers, tenant advocates and immigration organizers are patrolling schools, organizing grocery runs, and educating families on their rights as LA braces for new ICE raids after last wk's SCOTUS ruling

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

SCOOP “I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers www.wired.com/story/right-...

Wow: Texas quietly dropped its lawsuit against Dr. Hector Granados, an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist who Ken Paxton called a "scofflaw" for allegedly violating the state's ban on providing hormones / puberty blockers to trans kids: apnews.com/article/tran...

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Kirk, who was fatally shot while on stage at a speaking event, lit a path for the future of Trumpism.

A judge in Massachusetts today issued what I think is the first judgment against the DOJ's attempt to subpoena doctors who treat trans patients. The judge quashed the subpoena the DOJ issued against Boston Children's Hospital, home to the country's first gender clinic for adolescents.

NEWS: The full Eleventh Circuit, in an 8-5 vote, held that an insurance policy excluding transgender gender-affirming surgical care does not facially violate Title VII b/c — following SCOTUS's Skrmetti reasoning — "it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic."

The great HuffPost video team made this to accompany the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA0J...

President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates. The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights. w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

Three SCOTUS stories before lunch on a Monday when the court isn't even in session perfectly encapsulates how the increasing importance of the shadow docket has completely reoriented how the court operates and what captures the public's attention.

Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern...

Shitty jobs report yet Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer boasts that "all job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans." Really sums up so much of what the administration is doing.

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Evanston has confirmed that it is deactivating its Flock ALPRs after many reports IL police were illegally sharing data with ICE and other federal agencies. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...

Out today on YouTube, we welcomed @siridahl.com onto the pod to talk about how conservative groups are using anti-porn laws and payment processors to censor the internet. Especially at risk is anything related to trans and queer people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwRG...

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Can't keep up with up Trump's anti-trans policies and how they affect state law? Yeah me neither. Lawyers for Good Government launched a new project to analyze every state law impacting trans people to help attorneys find "untapped legal leverage" to fight back. www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-bo...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Peter Thiel to give four lectures on the "biblical Antichrist." Among the "religious thinkers upon whom Peter will draw" is Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt.

D.C.-- be safe tonight.

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

The DOJ requested documents to identify patients by name, date of birth, and social security # as well as doctors’ texts and emails relating to gender-affirming care for youth under 19 according to a subpoena sent to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW: DHS has created a ICE/CBP "volunteer force" open to DOD civilian employees. In other words, it's asking DOD employees to come work for ICE for six months. I'm told the Pentagon is supporting the recruitment program. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-c...

NEW: The largest employer health benefits program for the federal government announced a last-minute policy change Friday that it would no longer cover gender-affirming care for adults next year, according to a letter issued by the Office of Personnel Management. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society. The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

New: The Trump admin excluded all mention of LGBTQ+ people in its annual human rights reports. Former State Dept workers told me this omission will make it harder for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to demonstrate fear of persecution in asylum proceedings in the US and abroad www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

New: The Trump admin excluded all mention of LGBTQ+ people in its annual human rights reports. Former State Dept workers told me this omission will make it harder for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to demonstrate fear of persecution in asylum proceedings in the US and abroad www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BREAKING: Full federal appeals court upholds Arkansas's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti, the Eighth Circuit's en banc decision reverses the trial court — and former circuit court precedent. It also goes further than Skrmetti.

In keeping with his recent trend of settling lawsuits as long as they're w/MAGA, Zuckerberg has settled an AI defamation lawsuit w/"anti-woke" activist Robbie Starbuck *and* made him an "anti-political-bias" advisor. www.theverge.com/news/757537/... If you give a mouse a cookie...

Yesterday’s raid at an LA Home Depot, dubbed “Operation Trojan Horse,” suggests that DHS may not be complying with court orders blocking indiscriminate arrests based on race, language or place of work, immigration advocates told me and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck. Wonder where they got the idea😬 Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?

NEW EPISODE! - This News is So Gay: LGBTQ+ Immigration Issues & a D.C. Memo That Only Benefits…White Men? Featuring: Gisselle Medina (@fresnoland.bsky.social), @felipedlh.bsky.social (@thenewrepublic.bsky.social) & @kalish.bsky.social (@huffpost.com) Hosted by: @kenschneck.bsky.social

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds. The government has gone into defense.

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New: Five days in immigration court. I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees. www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...

Read @msjpauly.bsky.social + @byninamartin.bsky.social for what to know on the court challenge out of Texas that, as @maryrziegler.bsky.social says, is a first step towards getting SCOTUS to weigh in on the Comstock Act + shield laws protecting abortion providers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unreal visualizations of what the ICE deportation and detention machine has looked like under Trump from @maanvisingh.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & Andrew Witherspoon www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

zero cell service and sleeping on a mountain really did wonders for my addled brain

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...