I don’t know what moment Chuck Schumer is made for, but it sure as shit isn’t this one.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Yes Maduro’s kidnapping was a calculated act preceded by many unprovoked and escalating acts of war.

😅 there goes good ol' Uncle Sam 1. Dehumanize and abuse a target population (see sending Venezuelan immigrants to torture prison in El Salvador). 2. Desensitize the public to violence against them. 3. Fabricate a pretext for an illegal act of war—like hmm IDK maybe abduction of a head of state?

My 2025 highlight: winning freedom for M-Z-H-, an Afghan asylum seeker who ICE arrested w/out cause, offering shifting justifications and even attempting to coerce a confession w/out counsel. Given all the f***ery, the court ordered his immediate release. innovationlawlab.org/case/m-z-h-v...

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

“ICE is doing whatever they can to be undetected, and so anything we can do to chip away at that.”

Houston's police force and Texas Senate Bill 8 resulted in the most anti-immigrant implementation of ICE enforcement in all of the U.S. in 2025. ~5,200 community arrests and ~9,300 jail-based detentions in about 9 months is simply devastating.

1/6 | Here are five key ways a @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social mayorship can improve the lives of immigrant New Yorkers: First, make sanctuary policy enforceable. Pass Intro 214 to let residents sue the city for cooperating with ICE, and mandate written compliance protocols for every agency.

1/6 | Threading the needle here at least between @prisonculture.bsky.social and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, two people I respect and learn from. To me, the debate isn't whether voters properly understood what "mass deportation" meant. They did. Perhaps a more constructive frame here:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands, according to a Tuesday court filing. A great New Year for Kilmar and his family ! 🤩🎉💙 apnews.com/article/kilm...

1/2 Unfortunately, I have no hope that a Democratic president would abolish ICE, at least in the short term. Despite public opinion increasingly shifting against spending tax dollars on incarcerating and deporting immigrants,…

Very informative read, recommend.

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Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.

Reading isn’t about finishing as many books as possible. It’s about allowing a few of them to leave marks on how you see the world.

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Yep, not surprising Zuckerberg would abandon a political cause for the sake of his bottom line. We need to stop looking to billionaires to transform society in the first place.

“What’s happening to Diaz Morales is not isolated. Civil rights attorneys have documented at least 11 U.S. citizens detained by ICE this year alone…Several of those citizens were later accused of “interference” or “assault” only after video footage contradicted the government’s initial narrative.”

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

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“…the militarized federal onslaught is reshaping daily life in [ ] cities like Memphis, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, and turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.”

Immigration "court" is legal theater designed to disguse egregious injustices

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:

Big win for the immigrant justice movement.

The report noted that the Pentagon’s requested budget for 2026 indicates that the Defense Department plans to spend at least $5 billion for operations on the southern border alone.

it me. i'm legal expert (along with a bunch of other people who deserve that title more than i do).

Every parent should be livid.

As of Monday, Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges, essentially on suspicion of them being judges, as opposed to sure-thing compliant cogs in the mass deportation machine ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

It feels like saying no to the U.S. Gestapo’s use of your music is the least you can do as a famed musician. @Taylor Swift (and all others who have been silent in this way) take notes.

Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views

A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

The UAW is known locally for its left-leaning politics and justice-oriented members in academia and legal services. Now two of its rank-and-file members, Dalourny Nemorin and Darializa Avila Chevalier, are mounting Democratic campaigns to the party’s left. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals! www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

“by mistake”

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I'm running a marathon to support our immigrant neighbors. Can you help? bkgives.brooklyn.org/p2p/442550/j...

The International Court of Justice climate judgement was – in many ways – better than expected. Here are 11 takeaways about what ICJ judgement and what it means for the protection of the climate:

‘A shot in the arm for climate litigation’: 13 things we learned from the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change www.the-wave.net/shot-arm-cli...

“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one. There were many people who worried for me.” —Andry José Hernandez Romero

The moment has arrived! The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website. Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

"Advisory opinions are technically non-binding but are considered authoritative because they summarise existing law...They are expected to be used in future litigation and to bolster political negotiations." After a long campaign spearheaded by Pacific Islanders www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“You tried to disappear me, but I'm here in the halls, advocating for myself and actually speaking about myself,” Khalil said, noting the absence of Palestinian voices within a place so determined to dictate Palestinian fates. “So I'm here to actually defend myself and to advocate for my people…”