Move fast and break vulnerable human beings.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated due process by deporting Venezuelan men after invoking the Alien Enemies Act. This is an important ruling for these men who were tortured, and for the rule of law.

Federal courts have unanimously rejected President Trump's unconstitutional attempt to end birthright citizenship. ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang will be defending birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.

American public collectively getting a typical FOIA response - heavy, clearly wrong redactions; entire pages blacked out; lots of already-public information (public court filings, the 100s of pages of news articles from the agency's daily email blast)

People detained at the nation’s largest ICE detention center report that officers have beaten them and used the threat of violence and criminal charges to coerce non-Mexican immigrants into crossing the border into the Mexican desert. We're demanding that the facility be shut down immediately.

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social.  The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas. 

Texas has become a major data center hub, and these projects could increase the risk of blackouts in the winter when the Texas grid is already strained.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I ate at Cava for the first time last night, and it was delicious Sadly no bonus $50,000 in my bag from the FBI

Look at all the “competitive authoritarianism” and “authoritarian playbook” cases around the world. Nearly everywhere, the “feckless opposition party that fails to meet the moment” is a major character in the story.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

Feels like Roy Cooper could run on a single issue and handily win North Carolina

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Senator David Reed, coauthor of the 1924 national origins quotas immigration act, on where the Border Patrol should be allowed to police: "they have no right to go into an interior city and pick up aliens in the street and arrest them"

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: 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.