Out today: Some friends had rented the Airbnb for 3 days to celebrate a pair of birthdays. There were beers, arepas, and a birthday cake. They were planning to blow out candles and sing the following day. But first there was a massive, militarized multi-agency ICE raid.

As a someone currently on parental leave, I really like appreciate @colinallredtx.bsky.social talking about this

Extremely good news for Austin

A good lesson here: DHS agents regularly lie to community members, employers, and in court. In this case, the jury didn’t believe Gregory Bovino, the BP chief who has become a figurehead of the admin’s abuses in LA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Sentencing Project Condemns House Passage of Bills Threatening D.C.’s Autonomy and Youth. Yesterday, U.S. House of Representatives passed a set of bills that rolls back progress and poses a serious threat to the District of Columbia, endangering our communities and targeting youth.

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

TAKE ACTION: Congress is about to vote on dangerous legislation that would roll back hard-won reforms, harm youth, deepen racial disparities, and undermine democracy in the District. Urge your lawmakers to protect kids: secure.sentencingproject.org/a/take-action-protect-dc-kids

The occupation of DC isn’t about tackling serious crime. It’s a dragnet targeting immigrants and people of color, the data shows

3 different phenomena: 1) Deployment of National Guard* to city. 2) Takeover of city's local police to force cooperation. 3) Surging federal law enforcement to city for immigration arrests. LA got 1 and 3. DC got all 3. Chicago may avoid 1 but it ALREADY HAS 3. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

About that meritocracy….

Proud of my colleagues in DC standing up for what truly makes us safe. And it isn’t authoritarian take overs…

Call me old fashioned… but if you sit next to someone at a shared coffee shop table, you should not then get on a work zoom

Creating undocumented people to juice deportation numbers...

My wife is also a US Citizen who is 9 months pregnant. If ICE violently detained and shackled her sending her into premature labor, I would lose my fucking shit. To say this admin glorifies cruelty is a cliche now, but someday there must be direct accountability for these crimes.

Yes.

I see the NFL season is kicking off with the requisite class….

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

Chicago has likely "seen fewer shootings victims so far this year than any year since the mid-1960s." @jeffasher.bsky.social has some great context here on the historic declines in Chicago.

This morning, I tried to explain a what a mass shooting drill is to my four year old because his pre-K class is having one today. And now the news out of Minneapolis of children killed while sitting in their pews before school started is almost too much to bear

I'm sharing this as an example of something any community might do. Substitute 'Protecting Democracy' with anything that you care about, pull together some community groups, have some food available and call people together... I like that they have a networking time incorporated.

one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers

“Promise me this: That you will keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity and freedom. Not only for me, for everyone.”

It's pretty hard not to lose hope for this country sometimes. But this speech will ring in my ears for some time to come...

My kid's school is slated to close next year, but at least DHS has $46 billion for a painted black wall...

Couldn't agree more with today's @expressnews.com editorial. "Immigrants have been scapegoated for years, but with “disaster” funds diverted to unintended areas, whatever the goal was for Op. Lone Star has morphed into a familiar form of politics in which funds are spent with little oversight."

So many disturbing details in this piece... Texas DPS arrested a man under the Enemy Aliens Act. ICE claims he is gang member but has zero documentation and calls a reporter "insane" for asking. Cops turned their cameras off... Great reporting by @francescadnunz.bsky.social in @texasobserver.org

I have a ton of respect for Lloyd Doggett. He's one of the smartest officials I've met. He has served Austin admirably since well before I was born. AND, this piece from Texas progressive legends Ginny Agnew, Aimee Cunningham, Wendy Davis, Chuck Herring, Donna Beth McCormick, & Glen Maxey is right

The man is famously bad at casinos...

Maybe this hits harder because my 4 year old started pre-K at our neighborhood bilingual school this week. But deporting elementary school kiddos in the days before school begins seems like a special kind of sickness

El Paso County is raising taxes 14%, largely to pay for the gap left by Operation Lone Star, Governor Abbott's troubled border program. Counties left high and dry after the $14 billion boondoggle is truly criminal.... kfoxtv.com/newsletter-d...

I constantly see people making "efficiency" arguments on here and the regime DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THIS. It cares about domination, provoking fear, and crushing dissent through criminalization.

Trump’s ICE just broke the law by refusing to allow me to conduct an oversight visit of a detention facility.

A clue on how she affords a $50K watch while lording over migrants at infamous Salvadoran torture prisons?

I remember this guy being in court when the private prison industry was trying to get family detention centers licensed as childcare facilities…. Not because they wanted better facilities but because it would let them incarcerate kids for longer….

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

Masked deportation agents dressed as construction workers (and in other places as utility workers), refusing to identify themselves. This is completely lawless and must be stopped.

New ICE data show that the court order banning profiling reduced ICE arrests in LA by 66%! In other words, ICE is effectively admitting that TWO THIRDS of LA arrests were unconstitutional profiling. Did they admit this to the court? NO! They lied to the courts...

Ahem.

Septuagenarians holding on to power is not a recipe for success... cc: Travis County Democrats

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

If you have US citizenship, do not help ICE by telling ICE about your citizenship. Just refuse to talk to them. Refuse to answer their questions. Turn on your phone and run away from them. If they're wasting their time profiling you, you're saving the lives of people who ICE really wants to profile.

New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Any credible Democratic presidential nominee must make DC statehood a day one priority

Government run by racist trolls...

In order to receive Operation Lone Star grants, Texas counties had to walk Gov. Abbott's political line on a "border disaster." Then the spigots were turned on. The border industrial complex in action..

Call him on it. Make him be the petty tyrant he claims to be

We lost a great one today.Judy Greene was a friend, mentor, colleague, and coconspirator on so many projects. She was a visionary on criminal justice & immigration issues, a force of nature, and someone who believed and invested in me and whole generation of organizers. Her legacy will live on.

"I'm a citizen of GTFO"

Can AI create more jobs like this please?

This is wild. As always great reporting from @lmcgaughy.bsky.social www.kut.org/politics/202...