Breanne Justine
@breannejustine.bsky.social
She/her. Attorney. Jamerican. 🇯🇲 Afrofuturist. (Black) Immigration Law + Policy Nerd. Floral Design Fan. Here to complain and commune.
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The Wall Street Journal says there will be a splashy ICE operation in Chicago on Tuesday.
While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday
The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, the first move in President-Elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.
www.wsj.com
I hope it’s not lost in the shock and awe that starting with a city like Chicago is an exercise in anti-Blackness. They get to terrify immigrants and undermine Black city leadership at the same damn time, associating sanctuary with illegitimate Black governance
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
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Capitalists Were Never Going To Protect Your Healthcare When Your Disablement Is For Profit
When I first began my career in disability advocacy as a professional, I was bright-eyed, believing that I would be working with the most vocal supporters of DEI and who rallied behind diversity as…
crutchesandspice.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...
crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...
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i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"
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I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
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The thing about 'viewpoint diversity' is that taken to its logical extreme it means you must go out of your way to include liars and scoundrels because they too have viewpoints
I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.
I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.
I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.
October 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The thing about 'viewpoint diversity' is that taken to its logical extreme it means you must go out of your way to include liars and scoundrels because they too have viewpoints
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once you put oatmeal in a cookie you lose me
September 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
once you put oatmeal in a cookie you lose me
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Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance.
And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.
And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance.
And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.
And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.
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We in the legal profession really need to have a moment of introspection about how our commitment to "civility" above all else didn't just enable everything we're seeing now, it helped *cause* it.
Some arguments should not be met with civility. Sometimes civility only serves oppression.
Some arguments should not be met with civility. Sometimes civility only serves oppression.
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We in the legal profession really need to have a moment of introspection about how our commitment to "civility" above all else didn't just enable everything we're seeing now, it helped *cause* it.
Some arguments should not be met with civility. Sometimes civility only serves oppression.
Some arguments should not be met with civility. Sometimes civility only serves oppression.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
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Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
theintercept.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented.
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
“We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers.
theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
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July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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“WMDs in Iraq” Vibes Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
June 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
“WMDs in Iraq” Vibes Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
These people can bribe and defraud and be pardoned but I can’t get my unconscionable education debt forgiven lololol
May 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
These people can bribe and defraud and be pardoned but I can’t get my unconscionable education debt forgiven lololol
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the philosophy of a judicial originalist is very simple: instead of expressing actual beliefs in plain language, the founders were instead constructing a kind of crossword clue that, if solved, happens to always say whatever you wanted the outcome to be
May 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
the philosophy of a judicial originalist is very simple: instead of expressing actual beliefs in plain language, the founders were instead constructing a kind of crossword clue that, if solved, happens to always say whatever you wanted the outcome to be
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I can't stop thinking about it, how results don't even matter anymore to the American electorate. Just culture wars. Just vibes. Sheer irrationality. And total apathy.
May 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I can't stop thinking about it, how results don't even matter anymore to the American electorate. Just culture wars. Just vibes. Sheer irrationality. And total apathy.
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...
Disappeared In America
A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite following the legal process. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a w...
theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...
I hope this story highlights for y’all how fragile the concept of citizenship is/how thin the line between citizen and noncitizen is—when we completely demonize and terrorize the latter, the former gets more precarious
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I hope this story highlights for y’all how fragile the concept of citizenship is/how thin the line between citizen and noncitizen is—when we completely demonize and terrorize the latter, the former gets more precarious
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Several thousand people will be able to say they saw this Carolina Chocolate Drops reunite as a love letter to North Carolina and Black culture.
April 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Several thousand people will be able to say they saw this Carolina Chocolate Drops reunite as a love letter to North Carolina and Black culture.
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senior editor talked to the legendary Dr. Yvonne Chireau about being the Hoodoo consultant on Ryan Coogler's latest blockbuster, *Sinners*
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“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life
It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners.
If you don’t know her ...
religiondispatches.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
senior editor talked to the legendary Dr. Yvonne Chireau about being the Hoodoo consultant on Ryan Coogler's latest blockbuster, *Sinners*
religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...
religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...
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extremely annoyed by Bukele's constant obvious propagandizing and his whole "what if Andrew Tate was a Latin American dictator" deal
April 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
extremely annoyed by Bukele's constant obvious propagandizing and his whole "what if Andrew Tate was a Latin American dictator" deal
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I don’t think we’re going to “know your rights” our way out of this one.
April 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I don’t think we’re going to “know your rights” our way out of this one.