Sigh, terrible that I don't even need sourcing, I know this quote so well. The cite for this is in the alt but you can also learn about it's context here.
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She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.
But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
Trump fought with Pope Francis before. He’s finding Pope Leo XIV to be a tougher foil. www.vox.com/politics/485...
Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.
Chicago White Sox pope hats giveaway
In the running for greatest giveaway of all time
Cover of Anna Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship with a US flag and a man behind the flag as if the stripes are bars
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Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.
I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process.
Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.
Black and white spotted dog wearing a cone of shame laying on a gray blanket on a gray couch looking sad
It’s the worst! That’s a great idea for the hotspots - I’ll try the compress. We’d been wiping down her feet when she comes in and that helps a little bit but not much.
Poor puppy! The cone is the worst. I swear that our girl cries real tears when she sees it. It’s allergy season and she’s already had to wear it after chewing her paw pads to bits
Thank you! Her name is Cookie. She’s the goodest girl. Arlo and Lily are so precious!
Cute black and white spotted dog, staring pensively at something off in the distance
Cute black and white spotted dog wearing a taco
Adorable black and white spotted dog sitting on a yellow chaise, begging for biscuits
This girl bounded into our lives full of fleas, allergies, and endless energy. Nine months, hundreds of miles, and untold pounds of biscuits later, I’m still not sure who rescued whom…
Spotted black and white dog sitting on bright yellow chaise. Has adorable puppy eyes asking for a biscuit.
Another brave rescue girl who is very good and would like more biscuits, please:
An immigration attorney got the text messages from two USCIS asylum adjudicators who are also married. This is wild. (From Banias Law on Twitter.)
“Make good use of the power given to you, and remember that whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me.”
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Y'know, it wouldn't kill Pope Leo to set himself upon Bluesky.
"’Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power,’ including the ‘the power to start or end a war,’ said the meditations read aloud for Leo's first Way of the Cross as pope.” www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
A picture of a cat. It says, “4 years ago lived in a bush and hunted my own meals. Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own house, & a personal chef. Follow me for more financial advice.”
Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.
Murderous neglect. Don’t forget the immigrant who died from an untreated tooth infection
Front of the Brandenburg Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 215 Broadway in Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States. Wikimedia Commons
Ten scholars revisit Jon Butler’s 2004 Journal of American History article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” evaluating how it inspired historians to embed religion in “mainstream” modern U.S. history, and its legacy amidst historiographical trends.
This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.
13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
WATCH: Cato's David Bier talks immigration realities on the Chris Hayes podcast. @davidjbier.bsky.social @cato.org
Asst. Professor Carolina Valdivia talks about her book "Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability" (University of California Press, Feb. '26) as part of UC Irvine's Program for Research on International Migration Speaker Series. More info: https://ow.ly/ekXT50Yvul1
Grady Judd endorsing immigration reform and calling for the Trump admin to pull back on deportation is seismic. He is a strong Trump and DeSantis ally who has been a hardliner on immigration for years.
“Pope Leo XIV called out depictions of war that transform it ‘into a video game,’ days after a series of White House social media posts spliced footage of real bomb strikes with clips from popular gaming titles.” www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...
fighting the institutional adoption of ai is slow and difficult. but as individuals, we can still largely opt out, at least from direct use. i sincerely believe that those who do so will find solidarity in creativity, imagination, and humanity. in intelligence.
Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.
A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
