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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
Reposted by Allison M
“Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.”
Live updates: Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule
Two federal judges ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, during the government shutdown.
apnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.”
Reposted by Allison M
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
Reposted by Allison M
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
Reposted by Allison M
We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch.
The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.
The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.
Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch.
The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.
The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.
Reposted by Allison M
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
Absolutely amazing exhibit. So glad it will still be shown this year!
The Baltimore Museum of Art is exhibiting Amy Sherald’s American Sublime show after Sherald pulled it from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery due to attempted censorship. I saw this in NYC; it’s fantastic. [artbma.org]
September 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Absolutely amazing exhibit. So glad it will still be shown this year!
Reposted by Allison M
"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).
July 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"The Constitution, of course, grants Congress no express power to strip people of their citizenship, whether, in the exercise of the implied power to regulate foreign affairs or in the exercise of any specifically granted power." - Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967).
Reposted by Allison M
This week, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s reporting on the floods in Kerr County has been so purposeful and so deeply empathetic. It was personal. This first person account is so, so horrific and so beautifully written.
You’ll cry very hard.
(CW: Child death.)
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
You’ll cry very hard.
(CW: Child death.)
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
www.texasmonthly.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This week, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s reporting on the floods in Kerr County has been so purposeful and so deeply empathetic. It was personal. This first person account is so, so horrific and so beautifully written.
You’ll cry very hard.
(CW: Child death.)
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
You’ll cry very hard.
(CW: Child death.)
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
For those wanting to help the Texas hill country recover ❤️
The Community Foundation
of the Texas Hill Country
www.communityfoundation.net
July 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For those wanting to help the Texas hill country recover ❤️
Reposted by Allison M
Sending strength and prayers to all those affected by the floods. Growing up, so many friends went to Mystic, Heart of the Hills, and so other camps in the Hill Country this is close to home. Ways to support:
Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
July 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sending strength and prayers to all those affected by the floods. Growing up, so many friends went to Mystic, Heart of the Hills, and so other camps in the Hill Country this is close to home. Ways to support:
Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Kerr County Flood Relief Fund: cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
Reposted by Allison M
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Reposted by Allison M
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
Reposted by Allison M
Read more from @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janessag...
A Quiet Betrayal: The Largest Public Lands Sell-Off in Modern History
There is no shortage of chaos emanating from Washington these days.
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Read more from @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janessag...
Reposted by Allison M
California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed.
"I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary."
Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
"I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary."
Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed.
"I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary."
Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
"I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary."
Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
Reposted by Allison M
"The fact that this brief is backed by organizations as ideologically diverse as Cato and the Brennan Center is a testament to the egregious nature of Trump's invocation of the [Alien Enemies Act]" — @ilyasomin.bsky.social
Our Fifth Circuit Alien Enemies Act Amicus Brief
Today, in the Fifth Circuit case of W.M.M. v. Trump, we submitted an amicus brief opposing the Trump Administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act
reason.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"The fact that this brief is backed by organizations as ideologically diverse as Cato and the Brennan Center is a testament to the egregious nature of Trump's invocation of the [Alien Enemies Act]" — @ilyasomin.bsky.social
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An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to enforce its immigration parole grant terminations for around 500,000 people during litigation. Jackson writes a strong dissent, joined by — and only by — Sotomayor.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A1079
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY v. SVITLANA DOE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[May 30, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 15, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10495, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE JACKSON, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR joins, dissenting from the grant of the application for a stay.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigment2ucq3yytchmiy6qn72suqlzpil32lejkccf5cqhbubt5wvq@jpeg)
May 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.
Reposted by Allison M
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
Reposted by Allison M
Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social
kfor.com/news/local/w...
kfor.com/news/local/w...
April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social
kfor.com/news/local/w...
kfor.com/news/local/w...
“That child will be ordered deported from this country — that could all happen without that child ever speaking with an attorney and given the opportunity to obtain representation. The cruelty is really apparent to all of us out here in the field.” gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
gothamist.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“That child will be ordered deported from this country — that could all happen without that child ever speaking with an attorney and given the opportunity to obtain representation. The cruelty is really apparent to all of us out here in the field.” gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
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The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.
Trump attacks on law firms begin to chill pro bono work on causes he doesn't like
The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.
Reposted by Allison M
Former Skadden associate: The Administration cannot pick and choose who gets representation. It cannot use executive power to scare lawyers out of advocacy.
“I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”
“I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”
April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Former Skadden associate: The Administration cannot pick and choose who gets representation. It cannot use executive power to scare lawyers out of advocacy.
“I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”
“I will not allow my fear to manifest as silence. I choose courage.”
Reposted by Allison M
Thousands of New Yorkers work — then go home to shelters. They can’t afford apartments, despite some earning $50,000 or more.
They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters
Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thousands of New Yorkers work — then go home to shelters. They can’t afford apartments, despite some earning $50,000 or more.