Legal responses to immigration arrests, Texas National Guard being dispatched to Chicago, and other matters.
09.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@texmisc.bsky.social
Older guy trying to figure out how to resist most effectively as a Blue Dot in a very poor red sea. Retired librarian, music lover (Especially blues folk, and Texas outlaw country). On here I mostly post about immigration issues and threats to SS
Legal responses to immigration arrests, Texas National Guard being dispatched to Chicago, and other matters.
09.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Further update on Ian Robert's. He appears to have a chechered past, and have been in the US after his latest visa had expired.
09.10.2025 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
"... You ain't no iron, you ain't no solid rock... "
youtu.be/VQva5wKSfzM?...
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Again and again we see federal judges standing up for the rule of law, and again and again these positive moments are undermined by the suspicion that SCOTUS will undercut them.
03.10.2025 23:06 — 👍 530 🔁 119 💬 13 📌 1This is information from the currently frozen website of DHS. Treat the accuracy of what they say based on their statements in the past. I am posting it here in the spirit of full transparency.
04.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well trained forces know not to do this. What are the requirements for joining ICE? Where is their Academy for training? What is their procedure for responding to complaints?
04.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this is criminal
#FuckIce #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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is
THIS
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SIEGE
they're
referring to
in the
WHITE HOUSE
?
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
A Border Patrol Goon who deported thousands of undocumented immigrants was discovered to be undocumented himself.
02.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 3882 🔁 1577 💬 399 📌 218Such high standards they have!
03.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Much like Trump himself, ICE doesn't seem to understand basic copyright - you can't just use other people's works without getting permission - whether it's a Neil Young song or a Pokemon character
03.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From the Declaration of Independence: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
The Pope delivers a searing criticism of Trump's war on immigrants, suggesting the issue is at least as important in Catholic doctrinal terms as abortion, and perhaps more. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
01.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 54 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 3It would be better for Canadians (and others) not to travel to the United States at all.
01.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 219 🔁 79 💬 12 📌 8A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.
The marchers held flowers. 💐
No more genocide in my name.
"Both Trump and Netanyahu made clear that they were not offering Hamas a choice in the matter. If the group refused, Trump told reporters, “Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas."
A tragedy or an horror? A Black man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi.
30.09.2025 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
27.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 5597 🔁 1590 💬 86 📌 68Careless, inept, and incompetent. Basically, if you are a person of color, you are a target.
29.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1🧊 Holding an Autistic child hostage to coerce parents out might be the most disgusting thing yet.
26.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 935 🔁 545 💬 121 📌 78Howt carry theirtt can you prove you are a citizen? Most people don't carry their birth certificate or passport with them every day. Maybe we should. But there is no evidence ICE will even ask for it.
26.09.2025 22:28 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0State Rep Justin Pearson, City Council, and Mayor oppose Trump and Gov. Lee's plan to send 13 federal and state agencies to invade Memphis
26.09.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First of hey illegally deport citizens, then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protesters. This isn’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
You are exactly correct #JasmineCrockett - it HAS got to be stopped 💯
When America's fought Facists
Hiltler started out in nineteen hundred and thirty two(x2)
When he started out, he took the homes from the Jews
We're gonna tear Hitler down(x3) someday.
We're gonna bring him to the ground(x3) someday.