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Attorney @ ACLU of Virginia All views my own
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WPRI 12
4 days ago
#BREAKING
: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by
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RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 1 month ago
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
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Emily Norton
about 1 month ago
ICE arrested a 13 year old Mass boy and sent him 500 miles away alone to Virginia. 13 years old. Trump and his enablers are sadistic monsters.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/metro/everett-13-year-old-arrested-by-ice/
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf
about 2 months ago
The Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision is a travesty unsuited for a constitutional democracy Exhibit No. <I've lost count> Mr. or Ms. Anonymous's threat to a district court judge
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emptywheel
about 2 months ago
Judge Young describes how DHS pulled people from actual NatSec jobs to look thru all students Canary targeted, just like people have been pulled to arrest grannies & review Epstein files (though notes "The Court takes no position as to the Public Officials’ prioritization of HSI’s resources")
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Andrew L. Seidel
about 2 months ago
This is dumb on so many levels. But perhaps the stupidest aspect is the denial of climate change, which actually cripples our military readiness. From where to build bases, to where to expect conflict (esp. re potable water and mass migration), to our military's reliance on oil to function. Moronic.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
2 months ago
Appalling, appalling video. I genuinely think the NYPD should investigate for assault. There was no call at all for level of violence. She perhaps brushed him with her hands but she was not posing a threat at all.
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Leah Litman
2 months ago
I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.
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Barack Obama
2 months ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Radley Balko
3 months ago
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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Steven Mazie
3 months ago
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
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People being picked up by ICE in DC are reportedly being held in massively overcrowded rooms in an ICE office in Northern Virginia for days on end with little food (one bean burrito a day) and no access to counsel or basic hygiene.
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Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days
"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/virginia-ice-office-one-meal-day-inhumane-conditions-rcna227976
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.
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G Elliott Morris
4 months ago
fighting gerrymanders can seem hopeless, but there is a solution. big moment right now for people to see districting and the two-party system as inherently linked, and a relic of our archaic electoral rules. congress has the power to ban partisan gerrymandering and establish multi-member districts.
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Kyle Cheney
4 months ago
JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having “forfeited” their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines
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Radley Balko
4 months ago
It's easy to lose perspective on how bizarre and dangerous this moment is. But man, "current president posts AI-generated video of himself grinning as he orders his predecessor hauled off to prison" is some fascist, dystopian shit.
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Walter Olson
4 months ago
In Lackey v. Stinnie,
#SCOTUS
made it harder for civil rights plaintiffs to recover fees as prevailing parties. But Congress can and should change underlying law, argues Cato's Thomas Berry, to designate a party "prevailing" if it wins a preliminary injunction before a case becomes moot.
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Congress Should Restore the Proper Incentives for Public-Interest Litigation
The Supreme Court weakened the incentive to bring public-interest litigation, but Congress can easily solve that problem.
https://www.cato.org/blog/congress-should-restore-proper-incentives-public-interest-litigation
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 months ago
If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, investigating Bove for criminal obstruction of justice as relates to the court orders in the J.G.G. case should be a priority. Statute of limitations is five years.
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Brian Goldstone
4 months ago
This is unreal: Houston just made it illegal "for any person to sit or lie down on a sidewalk or on a blanket, stool, or any other object placed upon a sidewalk." Being unhoused in public is now a criminal offense.
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Thor Benson
4 months ago
Trump loves selling shit to his fans. He should put out an "If I Did It" book about Epstein
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Anne Applebaum
4 months ago
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social
, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34UoPtkCxvKSW-rp40Qt1-Q&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Great analysis by
@shawnweneta.bsky.social
showing how AG Miyares is attempting once again to mislead the public about a phenomenally successful policy to expand earned sentence credits in Virginia.
open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
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Guest Commentary: Virginia’s “Top Cop” is Peddling False Crime Statistics
By Shawn Weneta, the Legislative Liaison to the General Assembly for The Humanization Project
https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiapoliticalnewsletter/p/guest-commentary-virginias-top-cop?r=dyvi0&utm_medium=ios
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Will Bunch
4 months ago
The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
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Nick Fleisher
4 months ago
Extremely bad university governance changes coming in Texas
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 months ago
At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine. One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
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James Martin, SJ
5 months ago
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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Taniel
5 months ago
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
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Jamal Greene
5 months ago
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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William Dalrymple
5 months ago
Anyone wishing to learn more about the background of Zohran Mamdani, the brilliant new progressive Democrat Mayor of New York, can listen to his father Mahmood talk about his family's migrations @EmpirePodUK
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
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Asha Rangappa
5 months ago
The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
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ACLU
5 months ago
After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.
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Mehdi Hasan
5 months ago
I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.
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ACLU
6 months ago
BREAKING: A federal court ruled there's no legitimate basis for Mahmoud Khalil's continued detention, and that it's unconstitutional for the Trump administration to use vague foreign policy grounds to deport people. This is a win for free speech. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is released.
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Kye
6 months ago
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Stephen Gutowski
6 months ago
Why are we doing any of this? Seems like big tech is inventing a new kind of nuclear weapon for no reason at all.
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Radley Balko
6 months ago
The guy who gave Musk a pass on his Nazi salute wants the Trump administration to “put a stop to” any criticism of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
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Radley Balko
6 months ago
Rubio's administration is currently incarcerating people for op-eds and constitutionally-protected protest. They've sent people to a foreign gulag for having tattoos. If rest of the world applied this rule, Rubio would be barred from traveling outside the US for violating US speech protections.
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Announcement of a Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans - United States Department of State
Free speech is among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans. This right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world. Â Even as we take acti...
https://www.state.gov/announcement-of-a-visa-restriction-policy-targeting-foreign-nationals-who-censor-americans/
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Jamal Greene
6 months ago
I had not seen this WSJ article from earlier this week. The 1st Amendment violation admitted in the last paragraph of this passage would be too obvious to use on a law school exam.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Daniel Goldman
6 months ago
Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.
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Zack Beauchamp
6 months ago
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
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Is there a universe in which she and her office did not strongly suspect this letter was forged, e.g. by the man currently awaiting trial for assaulting and robbing the person accused of sending it?
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Kye
6 months ago
MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.
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Mark Joseph Stern
6 months ago
This is some classic Clarence Thomas B.S. He reiterates his belief that kids have no First Amendment rights at school—but says the court should extend free speech rights to a kid who wants to wear anti-LGBTQ shirts in the classroom. You can't have it both ways!
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Popehat of Serious Proportion
6 months ago
It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.
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PBS News
6 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: In their first broadcast interview since his release from ICE detention, Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri and his wife, Mapheze Saleh, spoke to
@lbarronlopez.bsky.social
about Khan Suri's release after nearly two months in a detention facility in Texas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4X...
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WATCH: Georgetown scholar says he was 'chained, shackled' in ICE detention
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4XHwknP_s
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Nick Judin
6 months ago
Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime, nor accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua. What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was, to the best of his knowledge, a single document: Form I-751.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/
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Greg Sargent
6 months ago
Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:
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Gillian Branstetter
6 months ago
This idea from Vance that Trump gives a shit about the conditions in US prisons is hideously perverse and farcical. Trump publicly fetishizes prisons. Not only is he committed to expanding our prison population but he has proudly and knowingly made conditions worse for some of the most vulnerable
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Jamal Greene
6 months ago
I can't disagree with
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