Overlooked a bit: Ingrassia was admin official outside DC jail on Inauguration Day announcing release of people convicted for Jan. 6. Here he is w someone from DOGE, also involved 👇 Ingrassia has publicly called for Jan. 6 nat'l holiday - & obv privately for "eviscerating" MLK Day, Juneteenth

Christopher Wells starts for the state of Illinois: "Rebellion. Invasion. Insurrection. War. These are heavy words. The people who wrote our constitution understood the weight of these words. The people who wrote our constitution had lived these words."

The sheriff's office has been using millions of taxpayer dollars for things unrelated to the case like car washes and office renovations, then using those expenses to claim it's "too expensive" to enact court-ordered reforms. It's not the reforms that are expensive — it's the police's misconduct.

Our 2007 class action lawsuit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office engaged in widespread racially discriminatory policing practices and immigration enforcement in Arizona. Now, a new report revealed the department has deceived the public by inflating their costs of complying with the ruling.

A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kentuckians stand to lose more years off their lives due to power plant emissions than residents of almost any other state, according to a first of its kind national report released Thursday. via @kentuckylantern.com

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

BREAKING: Judge Chen has blocked the Trump administration from canceling protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians. Chen found both decisions were preordained, with baseless pretextual explanations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants. This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.

Really strong Bryson Dechambeau talking about 9/11 and the Saudi LIV Golf tour vibes

A good time to revisit this @yalelawjournal.bsky.social collection on bogus national emergencies, from Trump's first term: www.yalelawjournal.org/collection/n...

.@ProPublica and @texastribune.org sued for public records after the 2022 Uvalde shooting that killed 19 children, two teachers. After much legal wrangling three years later, the district released its records and the county following. Texas DPS continues to fight www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/u...

Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed. For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.

A massive five-day event that offers free health services across the Rio Grande Valley was abruptly cancelled last week because of cuts to the Texas Department of State Health Services’ federal funding. Over 6,600 people received check-ups, dental services, diabetes screenings and more last year.

So heartbreaking. Just unfathomable that the Texas government has neglected basic safety and well-being measures for so long. Especially given that the state has spent $11 billion on Operation Lone Star - it's found the money when it's wanted to, just not for disaster prevention... #txlege

In the last few years, Texas has been through a lot: - Feb 2021 winter storm (killed ~700) - Uvalde school shooting - Hill Country floods Each w state gov action/inaction & resource allocation at center. Need to reprioritize safety & flourishing, before tragedies happen #txlege

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

President Trump repeatedly claims he's powerless to bring back the men wrongfully deported to an infamous prison in El Salvador. We just revealed documents in court showing that the El Salvador government agrees it's the Trump administration that bears responsibility for the fate of these men.

So incredibly heartbreaking

The self-congratulation and attempts to deflect blame at the Hill Country flooding press conferences are frustratingly reminiscent of Texas’s post-Uvalde shooting press conferences #txlege

NEW: A federal appeals court has upheld a block on Texas’ extreme anti-immigrant SB4. Every court agrees: State immigration laws like this one are illegal and endanger our communities.

BREAKING: 16 Texas families have filed suit to block Texas's law requiring the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The families are represented by @aclu.org @aclutx.bsky.social @americansunited.bsky.social and @ffrf.org www.aclu.org/press-releas...

BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.

As a brutal heat wave overtakes much of the country, almost every single state lacks universal air conditioning in their prisons, where temperatures can exceed 120 degrees. This isn’t an issue of comfort or luxury — it's an issue of life or death for many incarcerated people.

The 16 year old is an English speaking Valley resident and cheerleader at her high school before she was arrested at a BP checkpoint during a family spring break roadtrip. She told legal advocates she is trying to keep it together under immense pressure like Luisa from Encanto.

The Trump administration is considering deploying the National Guard for immigration enforcement, including for “night operations” or to target unaccompanied immigrant children. This move would be unprecedented, dangerous, and put all our rights at risk.

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

We're in court across the country fighting President Trump's abuse of the Alien Enemies Act. Everyone has a right to their day in court — especially when the government is unlawfully sending people to a foreign prison known for torture.

BREAKING: Texas passed a bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. We will be suing.

Whenever I eat cherries, I think of Zachary Taylor as a cautionary tale

It’s hard to put into words just how comprehensively this bill is going to hurt public colleges and universities in Texas—especially UT.

Three years ago, Uvalde lost 19 children and 2 teachers in a horrific school shooting. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones whose lives were forever changed. We must continue to keep our children safe and fight for gun reform.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Feels relevant to the birthright citizenship argument this morning: "Miller’s plan coming into this term, said one person who has worked with him for years and remains an ally, was to overwhelm the court system in an effort to secure more powers for Trump." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The "National Defense Area" trespass arrests really are Operation Lone Star, federal edition. These kinds of arrests with lack of actual knowledge of any trespass happened in Texas' Operation Lone Star, too 👇

Loved listening to this, especially for the recounting of how an awesome @aclutx.bsky.social lawyer drove through the night to the remote Bluebonnet Detention Center and saw the buses leaving from her car in the parking lot, triggering the Alien Enemies Act filing. (That's about halfway through!)

The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return. I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:

The White House liaison for DHS (formerly for DOJ) is one of the officials in this article. His white supremacist view of immigration: "Barbarian hordes of criminal invaders" "A foreign contagion of a scale that is w/out precedent in the history of modern civilization" bsky.app/profile/khud...

Brooklyn Leonard was 14 weeks pregnant when her water broke, but her doctor wrote she could only intervene when there was “concern for maternal mortality.” It was only after visits to 3 Houston hospitals over 5 days that Leonard was able to get the care she needed. Read more: propub.li/3Zd4Vlu

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.

"Louisiana is notorious for a trifecta of compounding barriers to effectuate the rights of immigrants: conservative courts, scarce access to legal support and horrific detention conditions," write Tulane professors Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik.

A remarkable exchange, but this cuts off an important last line: “We have lawyers who don’t want to do this.” The unitary executive is a bunch of unnamed lawyers in a trench coat

Operation Lone Star migrant trespass arrest program gone federal This is playbook from Gov Abbott's arrests of migrants under Texas trespass law. In TX, to circumvent prohibition on state immigration enforcement. Here, to circumvent bar on military arrests of civilians #txlege

In late April, 1970, Texas Rangers appeared in Uvalde, pointing rifles at students who walked out of school in protest at discrimination. This #OTD thread explores the Ranger’s role in the Anglo establishment’s effort to stop this protest. /1

Bluebonnet ICE detention center requirements for attorney phone calls: "All appointments for VTC meetings or phone calls should be made 24 hours prior to the desired appointment time." www.ice.gov/detain/deten... Bluebonnet is the detention center where flight to CECOT was just halted by SCOTUS.