The kindest, funniest, most incredible human being on the planet proposed to me under the Northern Lights this week πππ
The kindest, funniest, most incredible human being on the planet proposed to me under the Northern Lights this week πππ
Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation.
It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.
Update: A former (as of recently) judge and his wife have been arrested in New Mexico, also on charges that they aided immigrants, though circumstances are very different. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
The FBI has *ARRESTED* a sitting judge in Milwaukee, over allegations it obstructed immigration enforcement.
abcnews.go.com/US/judge-han...
Clarification: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, as per a letter from the
National PREA Resource Center exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org.
Scoop: DOJ has terminated all funding for the PREA Resource Center and its activities, including support for all audit functions, effective immediately, according to a letter from the Center, exclusively obtained by @theappeal.org. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...
UDPATE: At Mahdawi's hearing this morning, the judge granted a 90-day extension of the TRO while they wait for the government to respond. They'll return to court next week to argue for his release
the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that theyβre snatching students off campuses and deporting themβwhile radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing.
my latest
Reading is a great skill, you should try it out on the article youβre responding to!
You know what else is up by a huge percentage? Illegal but state-sanctioned assault, battery, kidnappings, forced imprisonment, torture, and violations of due process.
Democrats and universities paved the way for Trump's deportations. Now, local prosecutors are threatening students and faculty members with decades in prison for speaking out against genocide.
As the Trump admin fights to deport students who support Palestinians, dozens more face extreme charges in local courts.
In just five jurisdictions, prosecutors have filed 187 charges against 66 protestersβincluding alleged hate crimes on cops, mob action, and attempted ethnic intimidation.
βAt the time the list was released, Braveboy said that untrustworthy officers risk βthe integrity of cases brought to the justice system.β And yet, the United States Department of Justice is basing the extraordinary rendition of a Maryland resident solely on the credibility of just such an officer.β
This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all!
www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
excuse me
"To reach legion-level before the apocalypse"
thatβs more of a timeline than a euphemism
An Israeli colleague of detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi pushes back on Sec. Rubioβs antisemitism claim.
Our latest report shows how a Palestinian student committed to peace became an ICE target.
Read @akelalacy.bsky.social full story: interc.pt/3RjDoL6
After being told by the Supreme Court to bring Abrego Garcia home, and that it was illegal to send him and others to a foreign gulag without due process, the Trump administration this weekend sent 10 more people to the Salvadoran gulag without process.
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.
MORE NEWS: Mahdawi's lawyers filed a habeas petition this morning challenging his arrest and detention under the same INA provision used to deport Mahmoud Khalil. More TK
The New Yorker has an investigative piece about people dying of malnutrition and dehydration in jails.
I appreciate the author for not sugarcoating it: "hard to describe as anything other than a pattern of widespread torture of people with mental-health issues" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Not even the state could find evidence against Ozturk. They disappeared her regardless.
thanks PPD, finally got my FOIA request back
A shameful act by this Chicago prosecutor, done to protect a Chicago police/Guantanamo Bay torturer and keep someone locked up whom he likely tortured into making a false confession.
The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to βadministrative error.β
The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal recordsβmaking them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.
One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.