“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?

The thing is: if you study what I study, this makes complete sense. Many eugenicists of the early 20th C. wanted the “right” people to have more babies! Limit or prohibit contraception to ensure more of the “right” babies, and use targeted sterilizations to ensure fewer of the “wrong” babies.

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.

@nytimes.com utterly failing to understand DC community and local modes of subversiveness + resistance. From the ground: false. NYT: “…[T]he nation’s capital can seem to lack an authentic residential and cultural identity. Transient populations come and go with alternating administrations.”

Lawyers using this tool, take note: futurism.com/openai-scann...

FEMA has put more than 30 staffers on leave after they signed a letter warning that the Trump administration was setting up the country for another disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. The administration has gutted FEMA, and Trump has said he plans to eliminate it entirely.

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

From US Dep't of Agriculture v. Moreno (1973) - "[A] purpose to discriminate against hippies cannot, in and of itself ... justify" the challenged law

Forcing bar-takers to work through an exam while denying life-saving care to a fellow classmate on the ground is disgusting and beyond unethical. This is not legal "tenacity." It's egregiously training lawyers to deny people's humanity in the practice of law. abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...

AJT v Osseo holds that all ADA & 504 claims get the same standard of proof regardless of context. I write about a similar issue in my forthcoming Georgetown LJ article. Courts improperly apply a higher ed-specific deference to schools’ fundamental alteration defenses. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Two pieces on the travesty happening in CA (which could certainly be worse, and become worse, but is ... deeply alarming) @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federa... @joshtpm.bsky.social: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

So, the takeaway is that habitual offender laws did not emerge from the tough on crime era in the late 1900s, but instead from the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. The Howard Law Journal published my research on this last month.

The Trump administration on Monday announced the opening of two investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review after reports of alleged race-based discrimination at that prestigious legal journal.

Osagie K. Obasogie's HLR piece on "excited delirium" + policing is a must read, showing how "this 'disease' . . . deflects attention away from questions about the reasonableness of the force used and toward evaluating the decedents’ mental health." harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

"There is no sound basis for applying different intent requirements," Nicole Reaves, a Justice Department attorney, told the court. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Trump has deported children who are U.S. citizens to Honduras, including a four year old receiving cancer treatment. www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/u...

The Blatt-Gorsuch exchange in AJT v. Osseo oral arguments is truly worth a listen. Yikes. www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

Fantastic talk by @lawandlitprof.bsky.social on Eugenics and Medical Experimentation in the carceral state! 🔥

With dystopic levels of health data centralization & surveillance, I find it interesting how much trust society has in HIPAA to cover 3rd party data collection & sharing. HIPAA has been socially mythologized as this miracle privacy law that it is not, which has worked in the govt's/big tech's favor.