#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 @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

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.

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...

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

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")

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.

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.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

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.

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.

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."

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.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

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.

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 gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trump loves selling shit to his fans. He should put out an "If I Did It" book about Epstein

"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...

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...

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

Extremely bad university governance changes coming in Texas www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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."

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.

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

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.

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...

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

After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

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.

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.

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.

Why are we doing any of this? Seems like big tech is inventing a new kind of nuclear weapon for no reason at all.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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?

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.

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...

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.

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...

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-...

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:

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

I can't disagree with @jameeljaffer.bsky.social here. To paraphrase Justice Black in the Pentagon Papers case, "Every moment's continuance of [this detention] amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment."