In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.

We are all Americans. This attack on our children and families’ constitutional rights won't stand.

Update: Motion to dismiss denied today, the lawsuit can move forward! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: A judge will allow a lawsuit to go forward in part that accuses Elon Musk of unconstitutionally exercising executive power during his time in the Trump admin last year (yes that's right, *more* DOGE court action today) www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Ruling: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

We're in court today challenging ICE and CBP's racial profiling and warrantless arrests, which have been sowing fear and chaos in Minnesota communities. Federal agents are bound by the Constitution, and we will hold them accountable for their lawless actions.

The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...

ICYMI: @justsecurity.org created a searchable database of statements from Minnesota residents subjected by DHS agents to suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests without probable cause. The declarations are from our @aclu.org Hussen v. Noem lawsuit. www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne...

Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Tracking Alleged Constitutional Violations in Court A searchable bank of plaintiffs’ sworn statements of what happened to them. www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... #RacialProfiling #ICE

Lesson of tonight's #txlege election: Book banning is unpopular At Patriot Mobile, Leigh Wambsganss was behind push to take over Southlake, Keller, Grapevine, & Mansfield ISD school bds - leading to book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies, & censorship of curriculum on race www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It is illegal for ICE to detain U.S. citizens, full stop. We’re in court reminding the Trump administration of our fundamental rights to due process and to live free from racial profiling.

Today we remember the Porvenir massacre and the lives that were lost. Read more here: refusingtoforget.org/porvenir-mas...

From April 2025: "Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting Greenland as a site for a so-called freedom city with minimal corporate regulation" One "advocates for building a city in part because its harsh environment could provide a test site for colonizing Mars" www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“The message that it sends is that the people impacted by racial discrimination and harassment don’t matter,” said Paige Duggins-Clay, an attorney with a Texas nonprofit (IDRA) that has worked with families who’ve filed racial harassment complaints with OCR.

Masked federal agents are ignoring people's basic constitutional rights in Minnesota. We're taking the Trump administration to court to put a stop to it.

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

*stopping without reasonable suspicion, detaining without probable cause, and engaging in racial profiling

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...”

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.