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WAPO: Four people in immigration detention have died over a four-day period this month, increasing concern among advocates and some members of Congress over detention conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
WAPO: Four people in immigration detention have died over a four-day period this month, increasing concern among advocates and some members of Congress over detention conditions.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Advocates, activists, and community leaders demand immediate independent inquiry and answers related to the death of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month and transported to University Hospital on December 12th.
December 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Advocates, activists, and community leaders demand immediate independent inquiry and answers related to the death of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month and transported to University Hospital on December 12th.
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A man detained at Delaney Hall in Newark has died in ICE custody. This is an outrage. My statement on the matter is here.
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A man detained at Delaney Hall in Newark has died in ICE custody. This is an outrage. My statement on the matter is here.
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Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.
Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living
Today's added information
robertreich.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
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US ends temporary legal status for Ethiopians reut.rs/4oWr55N
US ends temporary legal status for Ethiopians
The U.S. is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Ethiopia in the United States, according to a government notice on Friday, as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
US ends temporary legal status for Ethiopians reut.rs/4oWr55N
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We've got something for EVERYONE! 🎁
A 2025 Haymarket Gift Guide!
It's that time of year again—a time of giving, of cheer, and for radicalizing your friends and family!
We have put together these selections of books to gift to every special someone in your ...
www.haymarketbooks.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We've got something for EVERYONE! 🎁
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Are you waiting to hear back from the U.S. government about an immigration application?
USCIS is putting a significant number of applications on hold and even threatening to reopen some applications it's approved in the past few years.
@daralind.bsky.social explains what you need to know.
USCIS is putting a significant number of applications on hold and even threatening to reopen some applications it's approved in the past few years.
@daralind.bsky.social explains what you need to know.
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Are you waiting to hear back from the U.S. government about an immigration application?
USCIS is putting a significant number of applications on hold and even threatening to reopen some applications it's approved in the past few years.
@daralind.bsky.social explains what you need to know.
USCIS is putting a significant number of applications on hold and even threatening to reopen some applications it's approved in the past few years.
@daralind.bsky.social explains what you need to know.
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Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
truthout.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
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The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility hinder Head Start providers' ability to serve the very communities that Congress directed them to serve.
We're in court defending this essential program.
We're in court defending this essential program.
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility hinder Head Start providers' ability to serve the very communities that Congress directed them to serve.
We're in court defending this essential program.
We're in court defending this essential program.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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STILL MISSING!!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
STILL MISSING!!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
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An evergreen connection between poetry and activism:
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
An evergreen connection between poetry and activism:
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
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NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
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In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
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"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
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In a move so heinously calculated, the Trump Admin has terminated TPS for hundreds of thousands of Haitian families the eve before Thanksgiving
TPS protects Haitians in the US from deportation + allows them to work. Families across the country are now at risk of being separated
TPS protects Haitians in the US from deportation + allows them to work. Families across the country are now at risk of being separated
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In a move so heinously calculated, the Trump Admin has terminated TPS for hundreds of thousands of Haitian families the eve before Thanksgiving
TPS protects Haitians in the US from deportation + allows them to work. Families across the country are now at risk of being separated
TPS protects Haitians in the US from deportation + allows them to work. Families across the country are now at risk of being separated
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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NEW: A federal district judge has given back the right of many immigrants to ask for release from immigration detention on bond.
Read more about this latest update here 🔽 www.nilc.org/resources/ra...
Read more about this latest update here 🔽 www.nilc.org/resources/ra...
Rapid Response Update on Bond Eligibility for Undocumented Immigrants
Read our latest legal explainer to learn how a new ICE policy attempts to expand immigration detention by limiting bond eligibility, and what this means for noncitizens under U.S. immigration law.
www.nilc.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NEW: A federal district judge has given back the right of many immigrants to ask for release from immigration detention on bond.
Read more about this latest update here 🔽 www.nilc.org/resources/ra...
Read more about this latest update here 🔽 www.nilc.org/resources/ra...
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
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Some great news for your Tuesday! A federal court has granted a nationwide class action injunction ordering the federal government to stop refusing to hear requests for release on bond to immigrants who originally entered across the border.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social New decision in this case appears to give classwide relief to people the govt now says are not amenable to bond, under the govt's bananas interpretation of everyone as arriving (for bond)* www.courtlistener.com/docket/70895...
*but not for CAA relief!
*but not for CAA relief!
Lazaro Maldonado Bautista v. Ernesto Santacruz Jr, 5:25-cv-01873 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Lazaro Maldonado Bautista v. Ernesto Santacruz Jr, 5:25-cv-01873 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Some great news for your Tuesday! A federal court has granted a nationwide class action injunction ordering the federal government to stop refusing to hear requests for release on bond to immigrants who originally entered across the border.
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The Trump administration has directed immigration officials to review the cases of refugees admitted under fmr. Pres. Biden, as part of an unprecedented effort to identify potential reasons that would disqualify them from being able to stay in the U.S., an internal federal government memo shows.
Trump administration orders review of refugees who entered under Biden, pauses their green card cases, memo shows
The Trump administration has directed a review of refugees admitted under former President Joe Biden, part of an effort to identify potential reasons that would disqualify them from being able to stay.
cbsn.ws
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Trump administration has directed immigration officials to review the cases of refugees admitted under fmr. Pres. Biden, as part of an unprecedented effort to identify potential reasons that would disqualify them from being able to stay in the U.S., an internal federal government memo shows.