Amy Peterson

Nashville Noticias staffer Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE in South Nashville on Wednesday morning. There was no warrant for her arrest. Her attorneys have filed an emergency petition in federal court seeking a writ of habeas corpus, or an immediate review of whether or not her detention is legal. Rodríguez, who was in the car with her husband — a U.S. citizen — has been following all the legal steps to citizenship. In her job, Rodríguez has reported several stories that hold ICE accountable, and it’s unclear whether her detention was retaliation. As of Thursday afternoon, she was in Alabama en route to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.

Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...

HBO needs to make a show about Frances Perkins

I was on a jury for three weeks (a case about moving dirt around incorrectly) and now we have a jurors group chat and are planning a reunion. Sometimes America is beautiful

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now.

Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

my tax dollars 🤮

It’s very In the Heights already

Thus, rather than require such adjudications, the Department is changing its regulations to provide the Board more flexibility in reviewing appeals. Instead, for appeals taken from decisions issued after this IF becomes effective, as explained in Section IV.A of this preamble, the default will be summary dismissal unless a majority of current Board members vote to consider the appeal on the merits. And such dismissals will occur quickly—within 15 days of filing the appeal—allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge decision.

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

This is who runs this account

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Days since

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.

When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

Canada, Denmark, U.S. Lutheran bishops issue joint statement supporting Greenlandic people

Also check out this joint statement of US, Canadian, and Danish Lutheran churches. Fun fact, over 90% of the Greenlandic people belong to the Lutheran church.

www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor

Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes

Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day

Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors. I want to do what I want to do.

It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.

*our* church

Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.

www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

it's a great day to call your representatives and remind them that U.S. citizens are being detained, assaulted, and denied basic rights at the hands of ICE. Americans like Wilmer Chavarria, Andrea Velez, George Retes, Javier Ramirez, and Dayanne Figueroa have been brutalized by their country--ours.

Just reread my Christmas Day sermons from the last two years and they were both pretty great. Yet here I go again

regarding “trump derangement syndrome”

I don’t always love the way we name new things, but I seriously love that we’re calling AI generated videos slop.

Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship Witnesses say one man was detained while doing yard work while his wife and child were inside.

ICE raids a Charlotte church and arrests a member whose child was inside www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

See Ya at the Pole kids, assemble!

OMG

Religious leaders' request to give Communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied again Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the vil...

“Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass and emailed and hand-delivered a second letter on Thursday. The request was denied,” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Technology is not neutral

Praying for Jamaica and Cuba.

There’s epistemic humility, and then there’s weaponized ignorance and incompetence.