Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

if I were a security camera company linked with ICE I would simply not remind everyone of our ability to enact a high-tech dragnet

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the tiniest daily papers I worked for had a staff photographer I still can't wrap my mind around the idea that the *Washington Post* does not

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

and sent out a memo to the newsroom basically saying "welp, my work is done here!"

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

“You can’t call a U.S. citizen with no criminal history, who is a Montessori school teacher, a domestic terrorist — which is it is such a loaded word in this country,” said Marimar Martinez’s lead attorney, Christopher Parente.

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

LawHelpMN is building out a clearinghouse of resources for people who are detained or at risk of detention by ICE. It'll be continually updated as new resources come online. Available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali www.lawhelpmn.org/detained

Legally here on a work permit. Arrested when he went to renew it. Not fighting his deportation. Yet he's been in detention 29 days. No access to a lawyer. Has been given no information about his case. Family inquiries also ignored. ICE only responded when local news requested comment.

Autistic students are among those who depend on the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. During last year's layoffs, it dismissed 90% of discrimination complaints. www.autismpolicyblog.com/2026/02/gao-...

atomic bomb-levels of charisma

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

Also, it rests on an assumption that autism is bad and needs to be cured, rather than providing helpful treatments for symptoms.

UPDATE: former Washington Post Ukraine correspondent Lizzie Johnson, who was laid off yesterday in the middle of a warzone, is now looking for work, preferably in the Kyiv region. Please boost!

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

hear me out: DELAWARE

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

"Doctors nationally are describing harrowing consequences for patients who delayed seeking care or skipped it altogether, including a child who suffered a ruptured eardrum and a patient with a burst appendix." www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/i...

Phenomenal reporting on the proposed exclusions of trans folks from 504/disability protections: 19thnews.org/2026/01/disa...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the most prominent firms repping Epstein survivors identified "thousands of redaction failures on behalf of nearly 100 individual survivors." The lawyers rip DOJ's "institutional incompetence."

nail polish is still furious, by the way

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

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there are very few good ways to show up in the Epstein Files and this is one of them

This is basically why I went to law school

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson issues late-night statement, telling ICE officers to resign and ‘ask yourselves why you have gassed children.’ www.instagram.com/p/DUNC_tJlm4...

nail polish community continues to be consumed with righteous anger

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