For all intents and purposes, the most powerful person in the federal government is Stephen Miller, not the President.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

So glad people are paying attention to the grant-and-deport regime

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

my own family bringing up “well we did things the right way” rhetoric about immigration today is so insane. you have me drunkenly explaining why immigration law is fucked up and somehow i’m the crazy one??

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7. This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.

Exactly right. ICE routinely brings people back after mistakes. Even still, today! But with him, it was the CECOT deportation flights. It was their defiance of Judge Boasberg. And when his removal threatened to blow up their narrative, they turned the full weight of the federal government on him.

WOW! After months of the Trump administration saying that he would never be allowed back into the country — they brought him back. Then after months saying he would never be let free — he's back home. He still faces very serious criminal charges, and ICE may still move to arrest and deport him.

White people aren't well. Period.

on one hand there’s “urgent case we can’t take bc capacity & also your hearing is TOMORROW” but on the other there’s “consult who HAS to be in person, doesn’t show up, & then missed calls” who will inevitably be upset when I tell them hey you gotta wait for another consult now bc of the backlog

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls

🚨DHS asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction restricting the ability of ICE and Border Patrol to stop and question people based on factors such as speaking Spanish, being Latino, doing day labor, or being in certain areas. Hard not to read this as a request for a license to racially profile.

Moshannon is a Hell hole law.temple.edu/csj/2024/09/... And now packed to gills. Support!

NEW: @rns.org has tracked at least 10 incidents of apparent federal agents conducting immigration enforcement activity on church grounds or in the immediate area, with incidents spread across five states and Puerto Rico. “This is domestic terror,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

roberts has been waiting 45 years for this at least, he’s not gonna balk at the chance to administer the coup de grace to even the slightest appearance of multi-racial democracy

every day I gotta remind myself that I choose to do immigration work…I did this to myself 😔

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

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This is not the act of a legitimate government.

Nobody captured love, loss, and the fight for belonging more powerfully than Andrea Gibson did. Their words gave voice to the unseen and hope to the unheard. Colorado is better because of their words. Our hearts are with their loved ones and all mourning this profound loss.

Today’s press conference shows why I said the below.

One reason for this is that the Florida Highway Patrol is doing the stuff Border Patrol is doing in LA. The Washington Examiner's immigration reporter did a ride-along with them and, well, basically described what are quite obviously extremely pretextual stops for immigration enforcement purposes.

In any normal presidential administration, this is the kind of action that would lead to Congressional hearings and even raise the specter of impeachment; a Cabinet Secretary telling members of Congress their laws simply do not apply to her. Yet this will barely make the news.

laying awake at night bc I just remembered my supervisor bringing up that usps sells dnd stamps and I should buy some to encourage me to go to the post office and file things if I can’t find a blue box

I fear I can never work for a private firm bc I am categorically incapable of emailing or texting like a grow human being to my coworkers

$45 billion for ethnic cleansing

NEW: A federal court in NYC just ruled that Secretary Noem's decision to "partially vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' decision to extend TPS for Haiti was unlawful. This would restore the original expiration date of February 3, 2026, and potentially overrule Noem's recent decision to terminate it.

What's going to pay for ICE expansion? Taxes on Californians, New Yorkers, Washingtonians and other people who mostly want the exact opposite of what this iteration of the federal government is doing. It's your money, and it's going to pay for a police state.

If you live in a blue metro area or a blue state more generally, the message coming out of the GOP is pretty clear: We're not trying to live with you or come to a common agreement about how to live; we're going to extract YOUR resources to pay ourselves and shape the country to our tastes.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

The Court had no problem with nationwide injunctions from District judges when, say, the Biden administration used its explicit statutory authority to "waive or modify" student loan payments, but when Trump wants to nullify the explicit text of the Fourteenth Amendment the practice must end

BREAKING: CASA plaintiffs file an amended complaint challenging Trump's EO to end birthright citizenship, seeking class certification and a TRO, following today's Supreme Court decision.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

the weekly friday legal news drop remains…garbage

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

Congressional Democrats today signaled stern and defiant concern with President Trump’s exercise of military force, causing a twenty minute delay in their vote to confirm the President’s nominee for Secretary of Blowing Shit Up

read 4 books in the past 2 weeks……..I think i’ve been stressing my case reviews

We have secret prisons in our own city buildings. Honestly: if MOCs can’t get in here, they certainly aren’t gonna be able to get into facilities in Libya or wherever the admin makes deals to send people. Truly scary.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Says 3rd time in immigration court recently—not a stunt but using his power to protect. The ICE arrest precipitated the confrontation. “During previous appearances, Mr. Lander sat quietly during hearings and escorted a few families that seemed at risk of arrest” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

16 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on crypto, Alex Padilla was shoved to the ground and handcuffed by the Trump administration, and then Democrats participated in *another vote*. "They will continue to stern-letter us into fascism," a former staffer said. prospect.org/politics/202...