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Ravioli again for Thanksgiving 2025. Homemade, handmade, with homemade sauce.

Federal judge orders ICE agents in Colorado to follow law, stop ‘pattern’ of illegal arrests trib.al/PT1xLFK

This is pure evil. Even for this administration. Imagine fleeing persecution, leaving everything and everyone you know, beginning a new life from scratch. Then, when you finally think you are safe, learn you are forced to relive the nightmare all over again for no legitimate reason

Refugees already endure 14+ months of rigorous vetting before entering the U.S. Why punish people who followed every rule? Re-interviewing 200,000 Biden-era refugees isn’t about security. This is Political theater.

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

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...

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I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held. This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration today proposed to end a 2022 public charge policy that had given immigrants certainty about how this centuries old wealth test will apply to them. It appears they are replacing it with chaos and only allowing 30 days for public comment

DHS is diverting money appropriated to fighting terrorism and child trafficking to deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Not to get too philosophical here but nullification has at least 3 possibilities: -jury denies that the action merits the legally mandated consequence -jury denies that the specific law itself is morally valid -jury denies the case law interpretation of what qualifies as the crime

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

Remember the New York woman who gave ICE two middle fingers while wearing a polka dot dress? The New York Immigration Coalition is auctioning off her iconic dress to support immigrants in need. Comme des Garcons! Please RT!

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This game is wild

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

Awful news: employers are about to have to reluctantly fire 10s of thousands of workers going into the holidays for no good reason. Trump 2.0's record for intentionally doing as much harm as possible to our economy as quickly as possible remains undefeated www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

I am literally “Uncle Mario” to two kids I am not related to (children of friends from high school)

USDA is legally required to use the contingency funds on SNAP benefits for November. In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history. The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.

NYT pushed its “Dems must go moderate” take again yesterday. In a new piece out today, @adambonica.bsky.social shows even more clearly why the data don’t support it. It also shows what a skilled empiricist and teacher Adam is. Very proud of my pal’s public work. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

i think i am pretty good at tiktok style vertical video. i speak extemporaneously and coherently in a way that flows quite naturally. you might even say i am “authentic.” this is 100% the product of constant practice. you have to *work* at translating your feeling and belief into a message.

NEW: Chaos erupted in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon as dozens of masked federal agents targeting street vendors on Canal Street were met with droves of spontaneous counter- protesters. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

Not a critique of Emily at all, but this is a bad infographic!! Confusing to read (why this flow chart??), and gives the impression that gutting the VRA would benefit Dems when gutting the VRA would benefit Republicans (numbers should be red, not blue)

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

If your political strategy rests on ignoring what Trump is doing to immigrants & refugees, then you are not only morally off but you’re also leaving tens of millions of votes on the table.

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

“Agents who should be investigating financial fraud and public corruption aren’t doing that work." Seems like this would be a positive to Trump and friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

D.C. used to limit police collaboration with immigration enforcement. This video investigation from @bellingcat.com and @evidentmedia.org shows how much that's changed. 51st.news/dc-police-wo...

The Trump-appointed federal judge “told Justice Department attorney Sarah Welch that he was ‘struck’ by the Justice Department’s briefing, which had conceded its representation that the removals were at family members’ request was false.”

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Jerry Nadler has had immigrants’ backs his whole career. His office in Congress has been working hard on positive immigration legislation for decades. I’m sad to see him go but I can’t help but feel glad he is able to leave in good health and with time to enjoy retirement.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

I am not a sports fan - though I am the former head of policy at ICE - but I don't see how watching a match could be worth: - being abducted on the street by a masked man or armed solider - detained indefinitely without access to counsel - deported to Uganda or South Sudan Do you? #FIFAworldcup

I understand the U.S. is about to host the #FIFAWorldCup and shortly thereafter, the Summer Olympics. If you are a non-U.S. citizen, you would be INSANE to come here to watch sports. America is not safe for tourists.

The political juggernaut that elected Ds and institutions alike cower in front of

“There is no humane way to detain families.” — Neha Desai, NCYL Children in family detention face trauma, malnourishment & medical problems — some held for months. Neha spoke with @washingtonpost.com on the urgent need to end the govt’s detention of families. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is Lou Bega erasure

an interesting statistical deep dive: jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-...

Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Yesterday a judge ordered ICE to improve conditions in holding cells at ICE's field office in NYC. It's a good decision, yet many of the responses here are along the lines of "none of this matters" or "they'll just ignore this." Those responses are wrong. Here's a quick thread on why.

Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do you remember the horrific abduction in Worcester, MA where protestors clashed with ICE as they ripped a woman away from her family? The horror continues. The woman’s 13 and 17 year old daughters were placed in foster care. They are now both missing. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

Important new lawsuit! Today 12 members of Congress filed a lawsuit seeking to force ICE to follow the law and allow them to enter detention centers for the purposes of conducting oversight.

At a time when ICE is detaining more people than ever before in history – and reports of mistreatment, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions are growing – real-time oversight has never been more important. This admin cannot hide from Congress or the American people. We will make sure of it in court.