I was at bankruptcy court for three hours yesterday and listened to more of the hearing online after that. The lawyers for my current landlord and the presumptive buyer were SO mad about organized tenants so I personally think every rent-stabilized building should form a union :)

🚨NEWS: Senate Dems are reportedly offering ICE funding increases in exchange for body cams and de-escalation training for agents. Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored. Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

All of the years that folks supported stop and frisk has also led to this moment.

I said the AAUP case was a sideshow & a joke when Young issued his west wing audition script of an opinion last year. Also today: an appeals court held the most prominent victim of the policy challenged in AAUP has to rot in ICE jail for years before asserting constitutional rights. And earlier...

This decision from the 3d Circuit is a travesty for Mahmoud and his family. If it sticks (which there are ways to challenge and delay), it will lead to ICE re-detaining him. And they may try to re-detain him now, even though that'd be illegal. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70611... But more broadly:

Real bad if true (and I’m inclined to think it is based on what we already know about the tech they use)

This is one of the only accurate tweets I've found about this. Betar is not "shutting down." The settlement doesn't require that, and Betar is denying it. Optimistically the settlement means Betar can't do stuff in NY (because all of its activities are illegal harassment) or they have to pay $50k.

People should read this book: lsupress.org/978080717730...

I reshared @siembranc.bsky.social's excellent toolkit "How We Dealt with Border Patrol" in NC just this morning in my newsletter before this horrible killing. It's worth people reading and then acting on: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

We learned today about another ICE murder—Luis Nunez Caceres, killed by ICE's cages: detentionkills.substack.com/p/the-ice-de... ICE's cages killed 32 (known) people in 2025 (www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...) & they're shooting people at ever increasing rates: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

I can’t stop thinking about the victim’s partner sitting right next to her while it happened. Nobody should ever have to live through that. It’s just unfathomable.

Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying. They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.

ohhh the democrats swear now, that'll teach the fascist white supremacist mass murderers

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

You have to take their money. Period.

I think many are not fully reckoning with the fact that the US government is repeatedly flexing an unlimited authority to murder political opponents (in the streets, at sea, in ICE cages, in foreign countries) at will, then make up whatever facially obviously fake explanation they want.

DHS is murdering people for legal observing, murdering people for protesting, murdering people for trying to get away from them. They're murdering people through torture in ICE cages. They're murdering people by sending them to their deaths. DHS is a murder machine.

Folks remember that Tricia McLaughlin was caught lying about: The LaMonica McIver incident The Marimar Martinez shooting The Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez shooting Virtually everything about Kilmar Abrego Virtually every other use of force incident

In LA, ICE shot a man that they claimed was trying to run them over and are now indicting him. It's a pattern of victim-blaming to justify the use of excessive force.

Just as they are claiming in Minneapolis, ICE said in their previous fatal shooting that the person they killed tried to run them over. Video showed that was simply not true. Media has a responsibility to provide this context when sharing DHS statements. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Given news that ICE shot and killed an observer in Minneapolis, here is a pattern we've seen before: *DHS say officers were under threat. This justifies to use deadly force. *Subsequent reporting shows such claims simply don't hold up. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Also what they did to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park. He didn't make it.

Or this earlier in November. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm truly sorry to hear about this ICE killing. I want to remind people about what they did to Marimar Martinez in Chicago. She fortunately survived being shot multiple times. news.wttw.com/2025/11/20/f.... -

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The widespread de-sensitization to mass death on display is deeply troubling

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

If you are focusing on: - grievances against Maduro - management practices of the Venezuelan oil industry - ”narco-trafficking” - or, yes, congressional authorization Then you are collaborating. The US is asserting the power to kidnap heads of state on a whim. This is now a war of aggression.

Right now, Exxon is at SCOTUS demanding a green light to pillage Cuba's national coffers (www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...) as "compensation" for Castro seizing the oil refineries in 1960. Cuba seized the oil assets when Exxon (then Standard Oil) refused to refine oil to help Eisenhower invade.

In the past 24 hours, Rubio and Trump have threatened to kidnap, kill, or coup President Sheinbaum of Mexico, President Petro of Colombia, and President Diaz-Canel of Cuba. This is deadly serious.

The democrats are fully and enthusiastically complicit in this. Craven, unspeakably evil pathetic little monsters.

Not feckless. Collaborators.

Reminder that Trump 1 indicted Maduro in 2020 (hence, "superseding"), swarmed Venezuela with US navy ships, & almost invaded then: www.usnews.com/news/world/a... Reminder that this was the pretext Bush 1 gave for invading Panama and ultimately kidnapping and prosecuting Noriega (see screenshot).

In 2020, I made a long thread on The Other Site on how Trump appeared to be following the Panama/Noriega playbook of using drug trafficking as a pretext to begin preparing for an invasion of Venezuela. Tragically that has been proven correct.

uh holy SHIT?

If you’re confused about Trump’s claim that the US bombed a facility in Venezuela last week, I wrote this tick-tock of the past few days:

They are $55,000 away from their goal. If they don't reach it by the end of the month, then they cannot open in the New Year.

I’m a monthly donor. Please join me. They are volunteers. They do necessary work. We can get there. They need our help.

Rubio is using the same essentially unprecedented authority here that was used to target Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, and others. Which means this “censorship” purge could include targeting permanent residents.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

This is a region-wide plunder campaign. People don’t realize that the solicitor general’s office is currently arguing to the Supreme Court that it’s a major US foreign policy interest for the Court to side with Exxon in its bid to plunder Cuba for nationalizing the oil refineries in 1960.

People need to stop fantasizing that local cops are going to arrest ICE agents. Under no circumstance will that become a practice.

Report on ICE agents entering NYC shelters (without warrants, as almost goes without saying, not that warrants would make it okay) in open violation of NYC policy. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

Great piece connecting some of the dots on how the administration is using (and misusing) a massive network of data to increase immigration enforcement. The constant expansion of the surveillance state puts all of our privacy and safety is at risk.

Passing this on from folks who are not on Bluesky: If you're in NYC, Bluestockings is having a final closing sale. Come celebrate and grieve the closing of the store, and the sunset of Bluestockings Cooperative. Books, appliances, merchandise, furniture-- everything is going. Masks are required!

Columbia's Task Force on Antisemitism has dropped its final report. They're advocating what seems to be affirmative action for Zionist scholarship (resonant with "viewpoint diversity" push for e.g. pro-racism scholarship from anti-higher ed activists) www.columbia.edu/content/repo...