"Amid war, combatants use drones more frequently to fatally silence reporters; Israel was responsible for nearly 75% of the journalists killed by drones from 2023 to 2025. Turkey's attacks in Iraq and Syria account for another 10%."
The administration has weaponized the Department of Justice, which now has become a direct threat to elections. Former DOJ officials at the Brennan Center join The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss. bit.ly/4ctIZKl
Abstract Once an exclusively white enterprise, the last forty-five years have witnessed the emergence of a disproportionately Latinx immigration law enforcement workforce. This article addresses the question of why Latinxs elect to work for agencies that have systematically targeted the ethnic communities to which they belong. Where existing scholarship has often implied Latinxs may self-select into immigration law enforcement due to a lack of identification with the immigrant-experience, a dissociation with ethnic identity, and generally restrictionist immigration attitudes, this article finds little empirical evidence to support such an assumption. Analysis of interviews with sixty-one Latinx Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across Arizona, California, and Texas reveals, instead, Latinxs elect to work in immigration law enforcement in service of economic self-interest and survival, with “money,” “a good job,” and “benefits” cited as the primary motivation(s) behind applying for and accepting a job in immigration. This pattern holds irrespective of individual agents’ levels of identification with the immigrant-experience and particular attitudes toward immigration, and suggests a diversity in the demographics of immigration law enforcement agencies that extends beyond mere race and ethnicity, to include a diversity of perspective and potential for empathy.
Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Trump admin drops court appeal blocking anti-DEI effort against universities, K-12 schools share.google/q3l6ZUExryrf...
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
How joy can bring Black voters to the polls...
A new book shows that positive emotions can be a powerful political tool.
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'The court finds that the local population has been inadequately supplied and that Israel has obligation to provide humanitarian provisions. The court notes that there is no evidence that UNRWA has breached the principle of impartiality'
Indiana’s Senate president says the votes aren’t there for mid-decade congressional redistricting, but the White House suggests its headcount is different.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
I added Amherst to the tracker. We're still at less than half the institutions I had by this point last year, but thinking we might see at least one more tomorrow.
Bravo, Virginia! University of Virginia declines Trump deal for priority federal funding; five of the nine universities approached have so far said they will not sign onto the deal
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Listing to the oral arguments in the Callais case:
There is a clear response to Kavenaugh's question about VRA duration: Section 2 does not apply if there is sufficient white cross-over voting. It will no longer apply when there is no longer race-based voting patterns
Brown rejected the compact!
www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
'There is no evidence Israel's far-right has given up on its expansionist aspirations. The Israeli military is still in control of 58% of Gaza, not to mention the WB. Back in March, Israel violated the ceasefire agreement it had helped author when its aims shifted, on Trump’s clock.'
A white background with a photo of protestors with low transparency set against it, and D.C. flag imagery at the top. The text of the image reads: "Police have abused their power. Using militarized tactics on local residents, racially profiling immigrants and Latinos at work, schooll, and church, and ripping communities apart." At the bottom of the image are the organizational logos for the ACLU of D.C., National Immigration Project, CASA, Washington Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and Amica Center For Immigrant Rights.
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration on behalf of four D.C. residents for its practice of illegal arrests of immigrants in the District. Since August, federal agents in D.C. have arrested hundreds of immigrants with no warrants and no legal justification. 1/ 🧵
JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Important listen: "...What we have is an increasing international recognition of two states, including in Europe. But the U.S. is the main party here preventing it from happening - preventing it from happening by not allowing the Security Council to admit a state of Palestine and recognizing it."
"What we really have is... a hostage release deal, a ceasefire with uncertain term - and a prayer. We don't have a peace deal."
My thoughts about Trump's Gaza deal, on @npr.org
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What's Netanyahu's answer to this dramatic shift in American public attitudes toward Israel? Have allies buy TikTok and appeal to Musk to control the narrative on X. Watch:
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Sen. Slotkin says that ‘a lot of young people’ who don’t know better are coming to college campuses and hearing and repeating antisemitic narratives. This is highly misleading: Polls show Americans with college education have more favorable views Of Jews than those without. 1/2
BREAKING: @lambdalegal.org strongly criticizes the federal indictment of one of its lawyers in Alabama, calling it "an outrageous act of governmental overreach" that followed "unprecedented and abusive judicial proceedings."
"We unequivocally stand behind Carl and all of our attorneys ...."
The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country.
Funny how that works.
Maroon graphic reading "Today's Supreme Court order puts people at grave risk, allowing federal agents in Southern California to target individuals because of their race, how they speak, the jobs they work, or just being at a bus stop or the car wash when ICE agents decide to raid a place. For anyone perceived as Latino by an ICE agent, this means living in a fearful ‘papers please’ regime, with risks of violent ICE arrests and detention." This quote is attributed to Cecillia Wang, the National Legal Director of the ACLU.
Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government.
We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.
EXCLUSIVE: State Rep. James Talarico will jump into the Texas Senate race.
“Remember they keep trying to bury us but we are the seeds of our ancestors. The roots of DC, we’ve built this city brick by brick, block by block, with blood sweat and tears.” Nee Nee Taylor, Executive Director, @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and Co-Founder, @freedcproject.bsky.social
