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@seattlelitigator.bsky.social

Lawyer, reader, pro-democracy, anti-fascism, tea, wine and bourbon enthusiast.

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Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. "They wouldn't tell her why she was being detained. She didn't understand it at all," Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said.
The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents' house and called her father.

Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. "They wouldn't tell her why she was being detained. She didn't understand it at all," Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said. The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents' house and called her father.

Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...

29.11.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5
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The DHS account continues to show the Trump regime’s true colors

28.11.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 791    πŸ” 296    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 12

Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.

28.11.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2695    πŸ” 622    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 25

Trump: I will kill the drug cartels

Also Trump: Pardoning a powerful drug trafficker

28.11.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 6
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Offering the survivors of a missile strike no quarter and then ordering a second strike to finish them off puts Hegseth in deep, deep water. He gave an illegal order. This is either murder or a war crime. It doesn't matter what your title is, Secretary of Defense, or Fox Talk Show Host. It's murder.

28.11.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 873    πŸ” 417    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 30
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Pure, uncut Nazism.

28.11.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3084    πŸ” 998    πŸ’¬ 358    πŸ“Œ 103
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Prison Food Is a Growing Billion-Dollar Industry. Many Meals Are Inedible. As private food providers' contracts grow, the meager and moldy portions behind bars have forced some people to eat toothpaste and toilet paper.

It’s not just that prison meals are bland and unappetizing β€” though they often are.

In lawsuits and news reports, kitchen workers at prisons in Arizona, Oregon, and elsewhere reported seeing boxes of food that were served to prisoners marked: β€œnot for human consumption.”

26.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10

To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.

27.11.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 657    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?

28.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3964    πŸ” 695    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 16
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

27.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 22566    πŸ” 7306    πŸ’¬ 537    πŸ“Œ 267
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

26.11.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13741    πŸ” 4316    πŸ’¬ 416    πŸ“Œ 245
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DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order Read more here.

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

27.11.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17488    πŸ” 7312    πŸ’¬ 887    πŸ“Œ 410

It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.

26.11.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15505    πŸ” 4307    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 137

If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.

26.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 16293    πŸ” 4090    πŸ’¬ 663    πŸ“Œ 160
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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

26.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7551    πŸ” 2649    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 96
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Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

26.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3207    πŸ” 2085    πŸ’¬ 417    πŸ“Œ 269
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🀑

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

26.11.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8511    πŸ” 4347    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 256
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a woman is sitting at a podium giving a speech and saying do your job . ALT: a woman is sitting at a podium giving a speech and saying do your job .

We need a new, strong Senate Minority Leader. My choiceπŸ‘‡

25.11.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9761    πŸ” 1325    πŸ’¬ 459    πŸ“Œ 97
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> @samsteindc.bsky.social

25.11.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 14937    πŸ” 4350    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 175

every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity

25.11.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5134    πŸ” 678    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 18
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Well, the case against James Comey was effectively dismissed WITH PREJUDICE because it can't be brought again.

Pam Bondi allowed the statute of limitations to run while her illegitimate prosecutor was wasting everyone's time.

You would think an Assistant Attorney General at DOJ would know this.

24.11.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4513    πŸ” 779    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 30
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

25.11.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13294    πŸ” 6346    πŸ’¬ 470    πŸ“Œ 512
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Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

25.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3620    πŸ” 1685    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 237
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25.11.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12604    πŸ” 4253    πŸ’¬ 708    πŸ“Œ 249
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Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

24.11.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11920    πŸ” 3423    πŸ’¬ 546    πŸ“Œ 254

Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to β€œright-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.

24.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15573    πŸ” 5423    πŸ’¬ 592    πŸ“Œ 256

Bro it’s a goddamn miracle we survived 2025 (I mean, there is still time) so in 2026 it should be FUCK IT, WE BALL.

25.11.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2114    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 10
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ICE video shows officers planned to β€˜smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

"Court video showed ICE agents, who allegedly had a 12-pack of Modelo in their car...

"β€œThis is great,” an officer said as they started following Martinez. β€œThis is fun,” another replied.

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

24.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4878    πŸ” 2365    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 116
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Basketball and Haida culture woven with battle for Indigenous sovereignty in new documentary | CBC News Film director Nang Ḵ’uulas Patrick Shannon’s debut feature documentary Saints and Warriors has been a slam-dunk success on the film festival circuit this year. He spoke to CBC's Daybreak North about ...

Basketball and Haida culture woven with battle for Indigenous sovereignty in new documentary #BritishColumbia

All Native Basketball Tournament's political roots are explored in Patrick Shannon's documentary

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

24.11.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone β€” period.

25.11.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 18267    πŸ” 7766    πŸ’¬ 449    πŸ“Œ 370

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