HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

“Despite the administration’s stated focus on countering antisemitism, it has largely ignored right-wing antisemitism.” I’m shocked… shocked, I say!” #notinourname

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Contact your GOP representative

If you're represented by a Republican, tell them it's time for Mike Johnson to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. No more excuses or delays. app.sosha.ai/s/2sR1YZ6w

“A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.” #KavanaughStop

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

Are We the Nazis Now? How do we meet this moment?

Joyce Vance: "It is already horrible enough. But we read The Diary of Anne Frank in school. Among the book’s important lessons is that where things start is not where they end up. Bad can become worse in the blink of an eye."

Terrific read.

Is Portland burning? Spoiler alert: No.

isportlandburning.com

“Successful democratic movements depend, above all, on courage. …. Every citizen has a role to play”

Prof. Delfino of LMU Loyola Law School suggests one possible solution: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As the government shutdown begins, remember that one of the biggest deficit drivers of the past 20 years are Republican tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations. The issue isn't programs that help millions of Americans, it's giveaways to the rich.

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries Stop the Republican Shutdown PT.2

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown?????

This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

A must read opinion from Judge Young today (conclusion starts p 147). Will we stand up?

YouTube video by onemillionrising Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission - July 16

Missed the first session?

You can watch it here:

So inspired listening to Ash-Lee and others tonight. Tens of thousands on this call are not alone in wanting to fight authoritarianism. Let’s learn what we each can do to make a difference. #onemillionrising

Inspired tonight and looking forward to the next trainings. #1millionrising

So grateful to all of you for sharing this information and bringing us together.

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

I just learned about this No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - here’s how to sign up! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

FTC Fights Attys Who Want State Bar Input On Ethics Worries - Law360 The Federal Trade Commission doesn't want staff attorneys to be able to seek state bar association guidance if they dispute the legality of an instruction, arguing in a fight with the FTC's union that...

Hmm. FTC doesn’t want its attorneys to check on the ethics of orders they receive.

FTC Fights Attys Who Want State Bar Input On Ethics Worries www.law360.com/legalethics/...

What fresh hell is this…

Judge Howell's opinion in the Perkins Coie case is here:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be. Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…

It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.

The government does not release such figures.

Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

“I’ve been told” is not giving me comfort in this context….

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

Thank you, this is a needed reminder today!

“All of this is framing basic due process rights as a threat to public safety, a rhetorical trick that autocrats have used throughout history to justify extrajudicial detention. No one should be falling for it here.”

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

Horrifying look at the fascism on display in the White House today as Trump and Bukele talk about building more CECOTs to imprison US citizens. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Tracking Trump's visits to his properties and other conflicts of interest - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Trump has created untold numbers of conflicts of interest by failing to divest from his business interests before taking office.

www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

“The use of the word “antisemitism” as a covering pretext for defunding education empties the concept of meaning.”
#notinmyname