"They called us 'internal adversaries.'" Dozens of current and former agents share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during President Trump's harsh crackdown on illegal immigration. nyti.ms/4teRwGK
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline.
A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
Romans 12:21 CEB
[21] Don’t be defeated by evil, but defeat evil with good.
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We have to push back against living in a violent dictatorship. This event in Silver Spring is one way to do it.
Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
Trump administration orders review of Biden-era refugees
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
We also had another high school shooting in Denver. The suspect is a white 16 year old boy who was radicalized online and promoted anti semitic and white nationalist nonsense.
coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...
Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”
They bend the knee without even being asked.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
LIVE: New ICE Detention Numbers Explained
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
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Two refugee families - one from South Africa, the other from Myanmar. Two very different experiences under Trump.
@silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
JUST IN: Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.
"Under the Trump rules, migrant children have stayed in shelters an average of 217 days before being released last month to family members, according to new data from the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement." APNEWS.COM
NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: In the days before the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case became a nationwide story, DHS and DOJ officials clashed over how to handle the case, with DHS officials strategizing about how to keep him there and about ways to smear him in the press.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
Lot's of folks asking "what can we do?" We have Good Trouble assignments each day on the Daily Beans podcast. You can join your local Indivisible chapter. You can run for something. There are tons of elections to help with between now and 2026. Head to mobilize.us for ideas. 2/
arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.
LATEST: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting responds to Trump's executive order that aims to cut funding to NPR and PBS:
"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority."
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, who died this day in 1380.
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
"Love transforms you into what you love"
Sigh. I’m a broken record, but our research suggests that DHS intentionally employs enforced disappearance (incommunicado & unregistered detention) as a tactic to facilitate deportations and hamper lawyers’ ability to intervene to enforce their clients ‘s rights: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
"I would argue tattoos, gang allegations and other proxies have allowed law enforcement to engage in policing that seems race-neutral on its surface but ultimately race-based in practice. Body art becomes a socially acceptable pretext for ethnic and racial profiling." -@bronxdefender.bsky.social
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
