Important thread. 👇🏻

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Beautiful thread. Read the replies.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

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While I was in prison, I was the food procurement clerk. It was my job to work with the first cook to design the daily food menu and then make sure the men were fed on a budget of $2.60 per person per day. How I helped make the best Christmas prison meal, a thread.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.

THEY. HAVE. NO. SHAME. How do you not know this by now?

I spent last evening at a volunteer-led fundraiser for HIV NGOs around the world who have been left high and dry because of the illegal dismantling of USAID. Most of the attendees were un- or underemployed aid workers. Rounds has done nothing to prevent either. He can pound sand. Do your job.

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

Not the most important issue tonight by any stretch of the imagination, but can anyone tell me where @nicollewallace.bsky.social got the sweater she’s wearing on @msnbc.com

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Today, I am making a long overdue post, adding USAID to Courage is Contagious On March 5, USAID wrote a dissent letter. It read:

Some USAID love from Keri Russell ♥️

Note, they are looking for RIF'd employees to sign too. Take a look and consider signing.

COMING UP: The fate of hundreds of unaccompanied minor children hangs in the balance as a federal judge, Tim Kelly, weighs whether to block their summary removal from the United States. At 2 p.m. ET, Kelly will hear argument on the children’s motion to enjoin their deportation. Follow along ⬇️ 🧵

As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by. Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

This excellent article by @annabower.bsky.social documents efforts to prevent the illegal deportation of unaccompanied children to Guatemala. While the cruelty of the regime is well established, there is something so depraved about the deliberate harm inflicted on children.

This thread 👇🏻

"Dismantling the US Agency for International Development will cost more than $6 billion, including hundreds of millions needed to fight legal challenges over the shutdown and dismissal of thousands of its workers, according to a State Department draft assessment." news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.) Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

That is some moral clarity. “This is violence disguised as law.”

Friends and former USAID global public health professionals have launched an emergency campaign to support high-impact local HIV organizations with stop gap funding. Please consider supporting to directly help them continue HIV services in the near term while they plan for the future. 🧵1

ALERT: Are you the State Dept or USAID? I’m looking for info on repurposing unused USAID funds for ICE and mass deportation. Contact me on Signal at joshtpm.99 you can also reach me with encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

This seems... not great.

Taking a step back to remind us of the broader impact of the shut-down in Foreign AID. 🧵1

16 hours and 24 minutes and counting. It has been riveting. @booker.senate.gov's moral clarity is inspiring.

This story is WILD. Any of us regular folks wouldn’t have a job after an incident like this. And rightfully so.

Brad Schimel, MAGA Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin: * supports 1849 abortion ban * as AG, left 6,000 rape kits untested * said he was “honored” to be named in Planned Parenthood v Brad Schimel * said female Justices were “too driven by emotion” in abortion case … bad for Wisconsin women.

There’s nothing bad that could happen here. Nothing at all.

A thing we were able to confirm for this story: Catholic Relief Services — the single largest recipient of USAID funds in recent years — was not, in fact, invited to this meeting.

First, that’s just gross. Second, her premise is that those being fired are not showing up. I don’t know anyone who has lost their job because they weren’t doing it. They desperately want to be able to do their jobs!

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes **for work that’s been done.** One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is quite an extraordinary letter from Republican and independent state legislators to the federal counterparts.

U.S. Terminates Fundind Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... "People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

We will be paying the cost of ending these programs for decades, if not generations.