ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

reading the news every single morning

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

[arraignment]: your honor my client is being charged with … [checks notes] performing an unlawful exorcism. And well, uhh, you know what they say … possession is 9/10ths of the law

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

could see it honestly

He’s destroying a democracy and you’re helping destroy an entire people off the face of the earth. Please tell me what is the difference and which is more important.

POLITICS HAS NO PLACE AT NFL GAMES!!!!

better things are possible!!!!

Students, staff, and faculty on campuses around the world who have been demanding their schools boycott + divest from Israel are not only explicitly in the right according to international law, but are actually articulating the basic legal responsibility + requirement of all corporate entities.

A smattering of UN human rights experts have published joint allegations against the US government for disappearing people to El Salvador. These only become public 60 days after transmission, so that’s we’re only seeing this just now. spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

on the off chance that you see this, are an NYC voter, and haven't yet voted, go vote for Zohran and don't rank Cuomo!!!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Party

“No one has died because of USAID [cuts].” – Marco Rubio, a month ago

Just the most insidious and brazen violation of non-refoulement I’ve seen from the U.S. yet

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton

My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics. I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Robert, for the 6-3 court, holds that the law is not subject to heightened scrutiny under equal protection and passes rational basis review. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The assault on Brad Lander is about the one millionth example of why abolishing ICE is not just a good slogan, but a crucial part of tearing down fascism in this country—and any politician who tries to duck that reality isn't worth your time. Me in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

To be clear: Protest organizers intentionally selected military veterans as safety volunteers, one spotted an armed protester (which is legal in Utah) and shot him, and ended up shooting/killing another protester + now the volunteer veteran is free, while the armed protester is booked for murder.

Pre- + during covid: -cut 20k of 73k hospital beds -cut $400 mlln from Medicaid -“personally blocked vaccine distribution to Citi Field, where [de Blasio] planned to open a mass vaccination site" -"withheld daily data from the city” -ordered death rate cover up www.currentaffairs.org/news/andrew-...

if only, oh, every single person of conscience had warned us of this trajectory since 2003

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

IRGC channels reporting at least six explosions hitting Tehran over the past hour.

BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's unlawful asylum shutdown policy, with partners at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social, @haitianbridge.bsky.social, @immcouncil.org, @democracyforward.org, and @ccrjustice.org. Our joint statement: cgrs.uclawsf.edu/news/asylum-...

In a big win, a federal judge granted Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a preliminary injunction, after concluding that he would continue to suffer irreparable harm if he remains detained.

strawberry moon went so hard me and the cabbie both got out the taxi took take photos 😂😂

The idea of sending soldiers into the streets seems to absolutely thrill him - which always reminds me of this

Not excited at the third case being taken up at ALL. It comes out of a series of legal victories over the past few years which have found that private prison companies are violating trafficking laws by forcing ICE detainees to work for $1/day through threats. GEO Group wants those lawsuits stopped.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

All of us today #avfc

This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

Dems can’t keep skirting around this. They have to say these people are fascists and want to end this country. It doesn’t matter if they’re worried some voters will think they’re hysterical or whatever. We’re at the rubicon

The 16-year-old was dragged away and arrested by Worcester PD because she kicked the car ICE was holding her mother in as her mom was taken away. The day earlier, ICE had taken her dad as well.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Judge and Prosecutor and Scrivener and Processor all have the same boss in the same branch of government, who could have seen something like this coming 🙄

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

I have a new article out today on Trump's immigration policies 100 days in and will really appreciate if everyone can hang in there while I post about it for the next week+ We put a lot into it so I hope it will be helpful: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...