Neal Katyal son of immigrants went to SCOTUS won & overturned tariffs, Alysa Liu, daughter of an immigrant, went Olympics & won gold. Winners representing a fraction of the myriad contributions to American society made every damn day by immigrants. Diversity is our strength USA.

Absolutely shameful to warehouse people for immigrating.

Is it fair to say that the Trump regime is actually dumber than President Camacho's government in Idiocracy? Camacho, after all, ultimately empowers a smart guy (Luke Wilson) to actually solve society's problems. Ain't no Luke Wilson among the grifters and sycophants that surround Trump these days.

A key life lesson is that you should not piss off librarians...

I cannot even begin to adequately use English properly to express my disdain for these ignorant dirtbags who want to take away women's rights to vote. But I'll point out if *anyone* is being "emotional" these days, let's point to the King Without Clothes & his band of sycophant lackeys.

<Spits out beverage>

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

The other thing I can't stand about AI is how its boosters act like they've suddenly been given some prophetic vision. Because they asked Claude to write an Excel function for them. Yeah man, you have not done something hard, that's the entire point. You Googled, you're not Moses

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

I really want the new CadiF1 team to do well this year, but that livery is tres meh.

The US deficit is approaching ww2 levels as a percent of GDP. Because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that GOP voted for. We are spending more on INTEREST than on anything else including the military. This is a time bomb, and the GOP is responsible. Fiscal conservative my ass

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

🚨BREAKING: The White House Thursday refused to rule out the presence of immigration enforcement at voting locations this November, a response that follows extremist rhetoric about placing federal forces at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wow, this is a tremendous loss for getting (somewhat objective) factual information about other countries.

Look, if they do this, it's bad. But also, the math doesn't entire math for me. Cook County alone has ~3,000 voting precincts, and some must have multiple polling stations. There are ~4,000 armed ICE agents in US. More CBP (who are lumped in w this, prob). But even if we get to 20,000 armed ppl?

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Some great posts in this thread (with graphs!) to show what an utter dumpster fire that OBBB has been--and how effective it has been as a means to siphon even more wealth to the .001%'ers.

Is she trying to overturn Heller on her own?!!?

I nearly did a spit-take while eating my lunch for that second item.

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

Never mind jobs you had, tell me classes you took at college: 1.) Canadian History 2.) Scottish Furniture History (seminar) 3.) Michigan Geology 4.) Dinosaurs and Other Failures 5.) Medieval Tuscan Painting

I may have totally lost it on seeing this again today. 💔💔💔

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

"But if people in Minneapolis can be treated this way then Americans *anywhere* can be treated this way. Your world only looks free because the regime has not yet sent its agents to your door." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

I truly hope she’s wrong, but the Democrats would be foolish not to take her warnings seriously & should find ways to take preventive action so that this doesn’t happen.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard. This policy is a horror: newrepublic.com/article/2056...

This is some absolute BS--and not a surprise, alas.

What in the fossil fuel f— is this?

🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭 How these heartless jerks do this to adults who are here & just living their lives is hard enough to understand, but a child going to kindergarten?!?! Absolute monsters. A Nuremberg trial isn’t good enough for ICE.

contrarian.substack.com/p/14-ways-th... riveting and horrifying

Womp-womp!

Oof, that’s definitely a position you never want to be in as an attorney.

It’s human trafficking, with the profits going to the prison-industrial complex who have T’s ears.

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

Every new DOJ investigation sounds like something hollered by Walter Sobchak

ICE recently poached prison guards to fill out its ranks, and if you know anything about the kind of folks who often work as a prison guards, well….

Stephen Miller and Trump want conflict and crisis to unleash the Insurrection Act. It's necessary for martial law, which is the end game. Everyone who says that is impossible isn't paying attention.

NEW: Police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even ICE—can follow the location of your smart phone without a warrant. Yet, we know little about how this software has been used. via @texasobserver.org + @pulitzercenter.org www.texasobserver.org/texas-police...

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Do you realize how much of a loser you have to be to have a worker in a factory that was founded by a Nazi sympathizer call you a ‘pedophile protector’?

I’ve mentioned in class visits in the past about LexisNexis’ role in using driving data to help set individual auto insurance rates (and the related consumers’ litigation), but think a line about their work for ICE would be of interest to many of our students / faculty.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Violence, death and chaos. That is all Trump and the Republican Party have given us. Nobody's life is better (except perhaps a few stray billionaires), innocent lives have been lost, families have been destroyed, America's reputation is in tatters. And it hasn't been a full year yet.