The drumbeats of war are getting louder with each passing hour. I fear that soon they will drown out everything else.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

A reminder: if you are involved in serious activism or organizing that could draw the attention of law enforcement, don't post details about it here. Don't post details about your co-organizers here. Don't share info about anything sensitive with people you don't know and trust (for years).

This is the new Trump admin strategy. Read the whole thread to fully understand what's going on. 👇👇

Mr. Guan, whose asylum claim is one of the most obviously meritorious I've ever seen, may fall victim to the Trump administration's latest effort to "pretermit" hundreds of thousands of asylum claims without ever giving them a hearing. Learn more here.

Υπήρχε διαδικασία αυτοφώρου για τον Φραπέ, αλλά δεν τον έβρισκαν παρόλο που τον είδαν δεκάδες άνθρωποι σε κεντρικό σημείο της Αθήνας να πίνει καφέ. Τώρα που έληξε το αυτόφωρο, μπήκε και σαν κύριος στο καράβι για Κρήτη. Είμαστε εντάξει;

Judges Rao/Katsas have iced Judge Boasberg's contempt hearings until at least the New Year. And they want to know whether he has the power to investigate contempt at all or must refer it to DOJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For when you need it. Behold the grace and dignity of the canine species. (Photo by yours truly)

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Υπάρχουν και τετοιες φάτνες 😔😔

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Please circulate widely (even if the present case gets handled, there are likely to be a bunch more)

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

My experience: a packed theater opening night, all of us wondering whether the movie was going to be ok, great, a hot mess. The lights go down, pitch black screen, we hear a woman [Galadriel] speaking Sindarin. Then the LOTR title screen comes up and the entire crowd screamed and cheered. We knew!

BREAKING: A federal court in D.C. has blocked ICE’s unlawful policy of automatically detaining unaccompanied immigrant teens once they turn 18 – and from re-detaining those teens for no reason. This ruling means youth can stay in safe, supportive settings – not adult jails.

BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday. The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

"To begin, this inquiry is not some academic exercise. Approximately 137 men were spirited out of this country without a hearing and placed in a high-security prison in El Salvador, where many suffered abuse and possible torture, despite this Court’s order that they should not be disembarked."

Every day that Abrego Garcia is out of the clutches of those vultures is a win for him, and for us.

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia left a check-in at Baltimore ICE this AM without being detained, his lawyer said, after claim by feds last night that they fixed as a 'scrivener's error 'an immigration judge's failure to order Abrego deported in 2019. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MORE: Xinis has *granted* the emergency order storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:

After being released from custody yesterday, Abrego Garcia has been ordered to report to ICE at 8am today, his lawyers say in an emergency overnight court filing trying to prevent him re-detained. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...

OΠΚΕ παρών!», φώναξε μετά τη λήξη της ακροαματικής διαδικασίας ο ένας εκ των έξι κατηγορουμένων αστυνομικών για τον βασανισμό του Βασίλη Μάγγου

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

My first read of this case is that it's a COMPLEX decision. Bad stuff: - Order releasing 442 people is blocked. - Limits courts ability to block illegal ICE conduct. Good stuff: - Consent decree survives and individual releases can be sought - Government loses a big mandatory detention argument

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

Judge Paula Xinis on the government’s conduct in the Abrego Garcia litigation: “Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”

Υπόψιν: Σήμερα είναι να δικαστούν οι αστυνομικοί για τον βασανισμό του Βασίλειου Μάγγου.

As sympathy for immigrants erodes around the world, European nations agreed Wednesday to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since World War II.

Exclusive: DHS signed a contract worth nearly $140 million to purchase six Boeing 737 planes for deportations. ICE has long relied on charter planes to carry out deportation flights, but the agency has broader plans, two officials said.

I do not understand what the US government (military at least) is doing. Except that people seem to be trying to start a war with Venezuela. And I don't understand why they are doing that either, or on what authority; I suppose we will find out that this too was at the whim of the commander in chief

NEW: Following last week’s arguments, Judge Charles Breyer orders an end to Trump’s federalization and deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. The order is stayed until noon PT Monday (Dec. 15). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Great thread on the petty and stupid cruelty of the Trump admin, which makes their own lives more difficult for no reasons other than to hit vague goals of putting people into removal proceedings.

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Opinion PDF: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Chief Judge Denise Casper (D. Mass) grants Rümeysa Öztürk's preliminary injunction to adjust her SEVIS record in the government database so that she can do normal graduate student work like teach.

NEW: Emil Bove — former DOJ official turned Third Circuit judge — files declaration in ongoing contempt inquiry by Judge Boasberg re: Alien Enemies Act planes. Bove says he isn’t authorized to disclose privileged information.

I know that legal hypotheticals are just that, but my jaw was on the floor with this exchange...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

“The surveillance extended to activist discussions about immigration authorities’ presence near an elementary school and recapped demonstrations inside the New Orleans City Council chambers and elsewhere.”

#Γρηγοροπουλος #6Δεκεμβρη ΕΛ.ΑΣ., εμπόδισε την είσοδο στα Εξάρχεια με... χημικά και ξύλο. 6-12-25

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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

New: Facing a criminal contempt of court probe, Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and two senior Trump admin. lawyers offered bare bones accounts of their roles in a decision not to turn around planes of Venezuelan migrants in March after a judge’s directive www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very detailed hearing coverage for Öztürk's case. TL;DR: no decision from the bench today. 👇👇