Described as worse than prison, the conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in CA are inhumane. With the lives of detainees at stake, KVP has joined Prison Law Office, the ACLU, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in filing a class action: www.keker.com/news/news-it...

In an Unusual Twist, the Prosecution of a Gaza Protester Puts Israel on Trial www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

Southwest Rapid Response posted a video story of Josue, a Chicago HS senior from Gage Park, whose mom was taken in sept while she sold tamales. She is currently in ICE detention in Michigan. This is a GoFundMe to support him and his mom.

Must-read @skpineda.bsky.social on how a U-turn in federal housing policy is about to make it much harder for Chicago and other cities to fight homelessness:

Still thinking about the fact that Obama appointed Summers to the National Economic Council AFTER the latter had to step down as Harvard president for being an outspoken misogynist. Like, that wasn’t disqualifying.

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have dismissed all charges against two Chicagoans, including a woman shot by federal agents, who were accused of ramming a vehicle driven by Border Patrol agents on Oct. 4, court records show. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social: news.wttw.com/2025/10/05/2...

This news came out just before feds decided to dismiss charges: More texts uncovered from Border Patrol agent who bragged about ‘shooting skills’ after wounding woman in Brighton Park. Gift link: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/m...

As @people.com reported yesterday, more than 30,000 children in just one North Carolina district alone skipped class on Monday due to immigration raids: people.com/more-than-30...

"Children at my son's Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently abducted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month."

Just vile: "About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals... The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside. They attempted to grab others."

The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24

How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine theintercept.com/2025/11/19/c...

in this week's make it make sense, a weekly news roundup from the @chicagoreader.com: 1/ 🪖 border patrol chief greg bovino and his gang of masked brutes skipped town (for now)—but that doesn't mean federal agents are done disappearing chicagoans.

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

“It is a grim prospect indeed — and an extraordinary amount of bullshit work — to have to try to prove the value of intellectual education and research within the logic of a management consultant’s report.” theintercept.com/2025/11/17/u...

Both of my parents (who exclusively attended segregated schools) are only a few years older than Ruby Bridges. Economists could do much better work on segregation if they took the time to understand what it was and what it did to people who are still here.

DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.

This interview w/ Ring's pro-police surveillance CEO is deceptive in a number of ways. He seems to suggest police can *only* get footage if you agree to share it, but makes no mention of what happens if police present a warrant straight to Ring.

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

In retrospect this interview is a bit hilarious www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same. The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”

the dem establishment attempting to purge every pro palestine politician from the party while the actual voter base is now majority pro-palestine is going to wreck party unity and cohesion if we let them keep doing this.

Greg Bovino may have moved on to Charlotte, but federal immigration agents maintain a presence in the Chicago area. Northwest Side Rapid Response has confirmed agents detained at least one person around 9:45 this morning off Kedzie and Wabansia.

author's pitch: how Eleanor Bumpurs became "more than my neighbor carceral-history.ghost.io/authors-pitc...

NEW EP josh poe and tara raghuveer join us to discuss why the rent is so damn high and why organizing tenants is a necessary piece of the solution

I have always said that naturalization will not protect immigrants from the Trump administration. Just like a Green Card, it merely adds one more administrative hurdle to the process of expulsion, delaying rather than preventing the inevitable. This is particularly the case for dual citizens!

Prediction: CAIR will sue; they will be supported by free speech groups across the political spectrum; they will win; Texans will pay their legal fees; Abbott will be remembered as a free-speech charlatan and a bigot. gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...

Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh). Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times." The fuck kind of country are we living in?

Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...

A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t... We’re still going! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social #ConnectingGaza

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a U.S. permanent resident from South Korea, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being detained for months. asamnews.com/2025/11/17/w...

the democratic establishment's only vision for the future is the past

This is why I write so critically and frequently about Ezra Klein (and Matt Yglesias). Democrats are led by the centrist blogosphere, yet for the last year they’ve claimed progressives control the DNC to excuse their failure. Klein, Yglesias, Chait, etc ushered in GOP fascism and refuse… 1/4

Keep in mind that Labor took power because the Tories/Conservatives fucked up so bad under successive prime ministers (including the lady who was outlasted by lettuce and then went hardcore far-right anti-woke) and they're essentially blowing a 3-1 lead because of centrism.

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

It makes the non-issue of the occupations, ethnic pogroms, etc in national dem leadership all the more interesting, doesn’t it

hate to be a skipping record but i don't think a meaningful opposition party would lose to these people in an election

A report by the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social demonstrates how federal government support to higher-income homeowners through tax breaks exceeds $300 billion annually—which is more than triple the amount of housing assistance and subsidies provided for low-income renters. https://ow.ly/eNnU50XrUSq

This is utter madness. We have a *Labour* government that thinks it's a good idea to brief that they are inspired by Trump's immigration policies.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

FWIW, Florida’s new “History of Communism” curriculum is very similar to how the fascist-adjacent right wingers of the 1950s and 60s talked about the place of communism in America. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Too bad Tim Kaine didn't know about the SNAP suit before SCOTUS, which he almost certainly would have lost. It's hard to learn about such things in the Senate, apparently.