Mark E. Steiner
@markesteiner.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Lincoln and Citizenship; An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln. Volunteer attorney for BakerRipley, Catholic Charities, and Houston Volunteer Lawyers. Retired law teacher.
East End, Houston
East End, Houston
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In Oregon, one SEIU local raised nearly $20k for a worker, Maria, after her car windows were smashed and she was thrown to the ground by immigration agents before they saw her US passport and left her without medical attention
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Standing up for our workers’: US unions raise thousands for victims of ICE crackdown
Labor unions are fundraising and providing mutual aid for workers affected by ICE surges in Minnesota and across US
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
In Oregon, one SEIU local raised nearly $20k for a worker, Maria, after her car windows were smashed and she was thrown to the ground by immigration agents before they saw her US passport and left her without medical attention
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Just a reminder as Bondi spreads administration bullshit about threats to immigration agents:
Last year was the second safest year for ICE and BP agents in history, despite a massive ramp up in agression, violence, and abuse by agents themselves.
www.cato.org/blog/2025-wa...
Last year was the second safest year for ICE and BP agents in history, despite a massive ramp up in agression, violence, and abuse by agents themselves.
www.cato.org/blog/2025-wa...
2025 Was the 2nd Safest Year for Border Patrol and ICE Agents
Being a Border Patrol or ICE agent earns many insults, but words aren’t violence. Neither are they dangerous jobs.
www.cato.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Just a reminder as Bondi spreads administration bullshit about threats to immigration agents:
Last year was the second safest year for ICE and BP agents in history, despite a massive ramp up in agression, violence, and abuse by agents themselves.
www.cato.org/blog/2025-wa...
Last year was the second safest year for ICE and BP agents in history, despite a massive ramp up in agression, violence, and abuse by agents themselves.
www.cato.org/blog/2025-wa...
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Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
February 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
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TB and Covid active in a troubled El Paso immigrant tent camp where 3 people have died over a 6 week period ( including one ruled a homicide) & following a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention center. Reach out if you have info on Dilley/ East Montana
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
TB and Covid active in a troubled El Paso immigrant tent camp where 3 people have died over a 6 week period ( including one ruled a homicide) & following a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention center. Reach out if you have info on Dilley/ East Montana
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
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On Trump's orders, the National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM
On Trump's orders, the National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
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An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:
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Kafkaesque barely begins to describe the situation of the people DHS illegally deported without due process.
Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.
Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.
New filing: "J.G.G. v. TRUMP (Boasberg: Alien Enemies Act)"
Doc #239: Response to Order of the Court
Download PDF | View Full Case
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Doc #239: Response to Order of the Court
Download PDF | View Full Case
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February 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Kafkaesque barely begins to describe the situation of the people DHS illegally deported without due process.
Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.
Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
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Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:
Thanks to @govpritzker.illinois.gov for setting up the Illinois Accountability Commission to document the abuses of Trump and Stephen Miller's invasions of cities. And thanks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social for this detailed testimony about CBP's history and culture: drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6...
IAC-Statement.Graff.Jan312026.pdf
drive.google.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:
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The Trump regime has declared the American people to be their enemy. They know the creation of a dictatorship requires unreasonable uses of force. That's why they tear-gassed a crowd, including children, in Portland today.
Anti-ICE protest draws massive crowd at South Portland facility, feds deploy tear gas
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the ICE building, leading federal officers to launch pepper balls and tear gas at them.
www.oregonlive.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The Trump regime has declared the American people to be their enemy. They know the creation of a dictatorship requires unreasonable uses of force. That's why they tear-gassed a crowd, including children, in Portland today.
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I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
February 1, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
January 30, 2026 at 3:44 AM
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
Five jobs I've had:
Chemical mixer operator
Bookstore clerk
Shipping and receiving clerk
Construction laborer
Documentary edition editor
Chemical mixer operator
Bookstore clerk
Shipping and receiving clerk
Construction laborer
Documentary edition editor
Five jobs I've had:
Warehouseman
Bowling alley pinsetter mechanic
Short-order cook
Academic affairs administrator/director of faculty development
Overnight shift at a convenience store
Warehouseman
Bowling alley pinsetter mechanic
Short-order cook
Academic affairs administrator/director of faculty development
Overnight shift at a convenience store
Five jobs I’ve had:
Frozade pushcart in Central Park
Burger King
Beefsteak Charlie’s salad bar boy
Pharmaceutical warehouse shipper
Usher at outdoor music venue Reebok Riverstage
Frozade pushcart in Central Park
Burger King
Beefsteak Charlie’s salad bar boy
Pharmaceutical warehouse shipper
Usher at outdoor music venue Reebok Riverstage
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Five jobs I've had:
Chemical mixer operator
Bookstore clerk
Shipping and receiving clerk
Construction laborer
Documentary edition editor
Chemical mixer operator
Bookstore clerk
Shipping and receiving clerk
Construction laborer
Documentary edition editor
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You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.
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According to the Times, Glass's symphony is based on Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address.
In that speech, the 28yo Lincoln warned of the threats to American democracy both from above - the rise of an American Caesar - and from below - the mob.
In that speech, the 28yo Lincoln warned of the threats to American democracy both from above - the rise of an American Caesar - and from below - the mob.
Philip Glass Withdraws From Kennedy Center, as Its Symphony Vows to Play On
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
According to the Times, Glass's symphony is based on Lincoln's 1838 Lyceum Address.
In that speech, the 28yo Lincoln warned of the threats to American democracy both from above - the rise of an American Caesar - and from below - the mob.
In that speech, the 28yo Lincoln warned of the threats to American democracy both from above - the rise of an American Caesar - and from below - the mob.
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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?
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really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots
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Trump and his team have taken the same reality-bending approach that he took to the 2020 election to the violence in Minneapolis in evident hopes of persuading his political base, at least, that the protesters were responsible for their own deaths. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Trump and his team have taken the same reality-bending approach that he took to the 2020 election to the violence in Minneapolis in evident hopes of persuading his political base, at least, that the protesters were responsible for their own deaths. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...