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Jon Feinberg

@jonfeinberg.bsky.social

Full time Philly civil rights & law enforcement accountability (lawyer at krlawphila.com || board president of @npapjustice.bsky.social), part time running and soccer.

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if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

28.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 4883    🔁 1606    💬 15    📌 47

The perfect example: The Democrat pols (like Pa.'s Shapiro, Fetterman) out there opposing warehouse concentration camps because of water and sewage issues and not because THEY ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS

27.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 221    🔁 52    💬 15    📌 4

The "Other Authorities" section of the TOA is fantastic. "Hey, check out all of these things that WE wrote."

26.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Came here to post exactly this. And I don't think either of us is joking.

25.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I saw that headline and decided to get up from my desk and go for a walk.

20.02.2026 22:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
How Autocrats Use Courts to Destroy Democracy
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny How Autocrats Use Courts to Destroy Democracy

It's a great result in the tariffs case, but let's get ahead of the "SCOTUS is great now!" takes that we're bound to hear. This interview on "autocratic legalism" is a helpful explainer.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOp-...

20.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, and also a killer podcast host.

20.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Left, my story about how the right wing ex-Honduran president was given special treatment after he was pardoned for drug trafficking - and had his ICE detainer dropped.

Right, a story about a man who spent 43 yrs in prison for a wrongful conviction & was deported once his convicted was overturned

20.02.2026 14:16 — 👍 478    🔁 206    💬 5    📌 5

I'm skeptical about Bivens. BUT every trans person incarcerated in the BOP should file an FTCA admin claim -- straightforward medical malpractice for violation of the community standard of care.

20.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

18.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 1964    🔁 855    💬 35    📌 30

Video of Jesse Jackson crying at the Grant Park celebration on election night 2008 is a core memory of that time period for me.

17.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

16.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 5894    🔁 1864    💬 81    📌 136

Would it be better for people to say “this was a bad policy at the time and we knew it, but we thought we had to do it to keep power/to ward off even worse policy/etc.”?

(I personally would find it refreshing.)

15.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 44    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

13.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 2140    🔁 655    💬 19    📌 11
It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to
plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14
At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of
success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

13.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 3596    🔁 1115    💬 25    📌 63
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

13.02.2026 00:00 — 👍 8138    🔁 2979    💬 125    📌 131

Trump admin loves this guy & helping to position him to take Charlie Kirk’s place as youth role model.

Effing “Breeding Gulags.”
I guess Fuentes includes all menopausal or post menopausal women as “the bad ones”
As I’ve worked since I was 14, I’m not terribly excited by a second career in mining.

12.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 36    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

12.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 19636    🔁 7846    💬 217    📌 294
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

11.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 13569    🔁 4818    💬 244    📌 276

This is a government that WANTS to hurt people.

12.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

These people are cartoon villains. No subtlety at all. May as well have top hats and twirly mustaches.

11.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about t

The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.

Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

11.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 2246    🔁 1148    💬 64    📌 78

This training was an inspiration. So grateful for the work @npapjustice.bsky.social is doing in Minneapolis and around the country.

11.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you to @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social for continuing to tell the story about our investigation into Chaofeng Ge's preventable death in ICE custody at Moshannon Valley.

11.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The most fascinating aspect of this story is that a judge recused because of an *inadvertent* conversation between a spouse and an interested party. Post Jan 6 SCOTUS watchers take note.

09.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tyson...FFS

Yes, it would be great if everyone could eat unprocessed foods...rich people can, poor people largely cannot

I am really tired of this BS where people are taken advantage of (or sell out) by/to Trump or RFK Jr.

09.02.2026 01:37 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

god i just feel republicans getting so angry and it’s giving me strength

09.02.2026 01:21 — 👍 308    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 1

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

08.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 9925    🔁 3993    💬 170    📌 89

A simple proposal for federal judges frustrated that Trump Regime isn’t freeing people in response to habeas corpus orders:

Order that DHS bring each individual to court for their habeas hearing. If the judge grants habeas, the petitioner walks out free.

Bonus: huge pre-hearing burden on feds.

08.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 211    🔁 61    💬 2    📌 2