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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Kavanaugh stop

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sincerely wondering: what remedies does Justice Kavanaugh believe are and should be available in federal court these days for excessive force violations by federal immigration officials?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms.

Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org

The Intercept @theintercept.com · Jul 21

“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court

ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · Jul 9

Absolute gut punch.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jul 4

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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Barry Friedman @barryfriedman1.bsky.social · Jun 30

Christy Lopez and I on why it is completely unacceptable for law enforcement, including ICE, to be masking:

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: Lawmakers are right to try to bar ICE agents from hiding their identities

Masked, unidentified strangers grabbing people off the street without explanation? This is not how policing should look in a democratic society.

www.latimes.com

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 18

Make this go viral.

AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · Jun 17

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process.

But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things.

That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Jun 17

1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.

Map showing extent of US Forest Service land planned for commercial sale, under new budget bill.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Jun 14

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday
Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name
Genie: okie dokie

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Jun 12

Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sen. Chuck Schumer: "I just saw something that sickened my stomach; the manhandling of a United States Senator. We need immediate answers to what the hell went on."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Jun 12

Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is a US Senator, one of two representing nearly 40 million people from nation's most productive, populous, and *tax paying* state, being physically roughed up by goons at behest of deranged president and out of control cabinet secretary.

HEY GOP SENATORS. You'll swallow even this?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Jun 12

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · Jun 5

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · May 24

The real problem with the Supreme Court’s expected Fed carve out is not that it lacks a principle but that the real principle isn’t articulated. The reason it will carve out the Fed is functional but it won’t say that. And its jurisprudence doesn’t leave room to ventilate the functional arg.(1/8)

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Apr 23

This is fascism. This right here. No one who says it’s not deserves a moment of your respectful consideration.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 23

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid

Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

dailyprogress.com

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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · Apr 22

This is an absolute horror show.

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Apr 22

"a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon...an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister...an increasing number of migrant children are making immigration court appearances without the assistance of attorneys, which they say will lead to more children getting deported."

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · Apr 22

There is no bottom to this barrel.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 18

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

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Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social · Apr 15

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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · Mar 27

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Mar 11

Late to this but incredibly grateful @stevevladeck.bsky.social did this explainer on the administration's terrifying, shocking conduct related to/disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...

131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case

The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.

www.stevevladeck.com

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Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social · Mar 11

Same.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · Mar 10

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

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