According to documents WIRED obtained via a public record request, the LDWF signed a memorandum of agreement with ICE in May, which gives the wildlife agency the authority to detain people suspected of immigration violations and to transfer them into ICE custody. www.wired.com/story/story/...

W/holding funds from blue states in exchange for turning over SNAP immigration data is in line w/ and facilitative of the fed. "public charge" rule change penalizing immigrants for receiving life-sustaining state aid, where being a "public charge" is a criterion for detention/deportation. Awful.

Concerning SCOTUS is likely to hold for the Gov't in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi. Fed. crts. of appeals would defer to the Board of Immig. Appeals' (BIA) factual persecution determination rather than conduct de novo review. This puts a high bar to prove you have credible fear at the point of BIA review.

Until now, many people did not appreciate that immigration judges (IJs) are *not* Article III judges. IJs serve at the discretion of the U.S. Atty Gen as administrative judges w/in the DOJ. Immigration law has (in part) always been xenophobically, by design, at the whim of the Exec. branch.

You know it's going to be a good @strictscrutiny.bsky.social on Chiles v. Salazar (First Am. challenge of a CO law restricting 'conversion therapy' as 'professional conduct') when it starts with "but all of that, of course, assumes that the law is real, and that the Court honors and observes it."

This was never a dignifying "alternative to detention" (ATD). Dehumanizing in its own right against the individual, ankle monitors also allow the state to surveil broader immigrant communities by tracing who you come into contact with, creating networks of individuals for detention + deportation.

Evidence of this Admin's highly alarming push to criminalize *lawful* immigration court observation + know-your-rights projects as "domestic terrorism," outside 1A protection. A surveillance tactic (community mapping + infiltration) taken directly from the post-9/11 targeting of Muslim communities.

A friendly reminder that Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed school shooting survivors, including @davidhogg.bsky.social, at the Capitol, maliciously naming the school shooting a "false flag" and the students "crisis actors." Stop harassing us survivors. It is violent, disabling, and re-traumatizing. 🕊️

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

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...

we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings

Great piece highlighting the eugenic (and dysgenic) atrocities overlooked in bioethics scholarship. "Unlike many other research scandals, Willowbrook is discussed . . . usually in summary form, . . . whitewash[ing] its true horrors." @carlelliott.bsky.social www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

Confident Zohran will fully dismantle Eric Adams' unjust and dignity-denying involuntary commitment policy (“The Compassionate Interventions Act”) that vests authority in a web of city actors (NYPD, soc. workers, clinicians, etc.) to target mentally disabled persons + those living w/ substance use.

"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamaphobia and win an election." -- Zohran Mamdani 👏

This is a huge win from today that shouldn't fly under the radar. Talking to folks back home (PA), they were worried voters were overlooking the urgency of keeping the PA SC's 5-2 Dem majority.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

Evidence neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law. The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.

“Some of them said they’re scared because they don’t want their own family members to be taken away.”

Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).

For @prismreports.org, I wrote about Adelanto, the notorious ICE processing center where disabled immigrants are being abused and neglected. prismreports.org/2025/10/21/d...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

In our latest, @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people the care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Alaska Native organizations and other groups are requesting a presidential disaster declaration and the aid that comes with it – via @AlaskaBeacon

Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. There were signs. "As originally understood, the Constitution does not afford students a right to free speech in public schools." (Thomas, J., concurring separately to dismantle Tinker). Morse v. Frederick (2007).

HAPPENING NOW.

Entrenched in 1A doctrine today. How far far astray we've come from Tinker (1969) & Papish (1973). "Students in public schools do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." (White, J.).

Meanwhile, this Admin is reinstating regressive policies revoking asylum protection for DV/GBV survivors, deeming them "private matters" outside the state's purview. See Matter of S-S-F-M- resurrecting then-AG Sessions’ 2018 Matter of A-B- (holding DV survivors should "generally" be denied asylum).

If you have seen a pregnant, postpartum, or lactating woman in immigration custody, please let the Women's Refugee Commission know by submitting a report through the Detention Pregnancy Tracker. detentionpregnancytracker.com

Technically legal since the Alien Registration Act of 1940 ("Smith Act"), a xenophobic wartime policy targeting Japanese Americans carrying criminal and civil penalties (fines + imprisonment), with multiple instances of enforcement now. The legal basis for immigration raids was already there.

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions. Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

You don't believe neoliberalism undergirds US refugee law? The BIA:"Not all threats of fines, wage reduction, or loss of employment . . . will suffice to indicate that submission to an abortion was 'forced' within the meaning of the [INA]." TLDR: coercive pop. control needs a severe economic cost.

Imarah’s case shows how disability, poverty, and race converge under punishment. Instead of care, the system imposes incarceration, debt, and criminal records—treating unmet needs as crimes rather than addressing root causes.

"ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

Veena Das' work ought to be mandatory reading for lawyers/advocates working with trauma, PTSD, cPTSD survivors of political violence, particularly when it comes to lawyers (mis)perceiving themselves as 'neutral' entities that don't affect the fields they operate in.

*One paragraph* w/ little reasoning and a thoughtful 7-page dissent. Justice Kagan's frustration w/ the emergency docket's lack of principled process: "[W]e have had to consider this application on a short fuse . . . with scant briefing, no oral argument, and no opportunity to deliberate."

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress. I’ll post the link when it’s up.

Not enough lawyers understand cPTSD, which is a huge problem for how we treat each other in advocacy settings + how we engage with and serve our clients, centering human experiences with political violence + trauma first, above any legal "tools" (eg, non-universal rights frameworks) + "strategies."

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Our next session is underway with a powerful conversation moderated by Roxanne Szal with Paul Butler, Carl Hart, Marc Howard, Vida Johnson, and Ji Seon Song.

TOMORROW. DC + allies nationwide. One voice, one demand. Together, we #FreeDC. Join us: freedcproject.org/event-list/w...

"Anton Black was a Black man [with] severe bipolar disorder. .... But officers at the scene of his death claimed he exhibited “superhuman strength” to justify their use of extreme violence against him." Thoughtful article on excited delirium. @racheljkincaid.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/exc...

Puar's work on debility does not miss.

Wildland firefighters were stunned when ICE raided an active wildfire response in Washington state, arresting two firefighters and sidelining crews for hours. Wildfire veterans say the operation was nearly unprecedented, a breach in protocol that federal agents don’t disrupt emergency responders.