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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 8

In light of today’s SCOTUS decision, every person of color with an accent in the US should probably carry proof of citizenship with them at all times - while working and everywhere they go. If you don’t want to be in a detention facility awaiting a friend or relative to bring it.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · Sep 2

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 21

I graduated from high school in 1999 and if someone asked me to remember basically any individual event, I would be hard-pressed to do so, especially at the level of detail Dion seems to recall it.

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 21

Even if he has good intentions, he may have accidentally created a false memory. I notice in the episode, for instance, that Rabia raises whether he said anything about Ramadan and he says "oh yeah, he did." Is that a real memory, or one that was suggested by Rabia?

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 21

I am trying to think about what Adnan's detractors will say, and I have a couple of questions. First, why did Dion reach out after 25 years? It seems a little strange. And did Dion remember the details about the day independently, or did Rabia read him the note first?

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 19

We’ve made Venezuela look like a beacon for human rights. Shameful.

Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · Jul 19

One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple. Is anyone going to stop it?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Jul 18

(AXIOS) - The director of Israel's Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/07/18/i...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · Jul 18

"I see how evil this country is, really — all I see is evil. And it’s sad that I’m part of it.”

— Angie Gonzalez, whose husband was rendered to CECOT

CECOT Family Members Rejoice and Worry as Relatives Finally Leave El Salvador

Once Angie Gonzalez started to hear rumors that her husband might finally...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

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.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · Jul 3

"an immigrant prison network, overseen by Trump-loyal paramilitaries, with no resources for due process, will be very hard to dislodge, and could easily be turned against the citizenry. This is Stephen Miller’s wet dream and it will stain the whole country"

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sixteen thoughts this putrid dogshit. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

16 Thoughts On The Republican Budget Atrocity

The pain needs to be in front of them, not behind them

www.offmessage.net

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 3

This would be illegal and unconstitutional.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · Jul 3

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

Step and fetch @fetchstep.bsky.social · Jul 3

The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again

Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 3

This almost certainly means that the other 200 Venezuelans illegally sent to El Salvador are experiencing similar torture.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Jul 3

there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT

reposting with alt text and linking to the filing
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screenshot of the 120th and 121st paragraphs in

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, “Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn’t leave.” Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.

121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 1

It is not just about immigrants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jul 1

I don’t think people understand how long it will take for us to pull back from the creation of a police state. It could be generations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jun 30

Do you really think these people will be satisfied after they manage to kick out millions of undocumented immigrants, close our borders, and end legal immigration? This is an ideological project. White nationalism doesn't care about immigration status. It's about purity and dominance.

Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jun 29

If there is a coup in this country, it won’t be the military with guns in the streets, it will be DHS.

Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jun 29

Do you want to know how democracy dies? By handing ICE what it needs to kill it.

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jun 29

If the Big Ugly Bill passes, it will precipitate the creation of a police state. ICE will become the largest law enforcement agency in the country. ICE will have vast resources to pursue its terror campaign and build concentration camps.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jun 27

Reading about these latest SCOTUS rulings really has me thinking that everyone should have worked much harder to prevent Trump from being elected.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 27

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

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Nicole Hallett @nicolehallett.bsky.social · Jun 27

This exactly. This decision means no relief in a broad swath of immigration cases.

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · Jun 27

Really important to remember that in immigration policy, because of a prior Supreme Court decision, class wide relief is actually NOT allowed against certain types of policies involving immigration enforcement

That case was Aleman Gonzalez

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...

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