Cecilia Muñoz

BREAKING: Trump-Noem DHS admits to wrongfully arresting 261 DACA recipients, 86 of whom were deported, since Trump’s second term started, per disclosure to Congress.

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

This. Not only really important, but an excellent use of illustration, IMHO.

Julie Morita: My parents were interned in camps for Japanese Americans. We are repeating that national sin. Reflecting on the interment of Japanese Americans and what is happening today challenges us to see how fragile our civil liberties are.

So moved by this
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Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year.

Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

In Pursuit | Substack A national project to debrief the America experiment at 250 years. In Pursuit is a non-partisan, not-for-profit initiative of More Perfect. Click to read In Pursuit, a Substack publication with thou...

G.W. Bush on George Washington:

"Few qualities have inspired me more than Washington’s humility. I have studied the corrupting nature of power, and how retaining power for power’s sake has infected politics for generations."

Happy Presidents Day
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Piliated woodpecker on a large tulip poplar trunk with lush greenery around

Sorry for your loss.

I don’t think I have words to describe how moving that halftime show was….

From one natural-born US citizen to another, have a great Benito Bowl!

Why haven’t American elites stood up for Minnesota? | Daniel Altschuler If US elites can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy

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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

First day since the massive layoffs at #WashingtonPost, and the impact is already devastatingly visible.

ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up.

Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

And just like that, it’s out of the news. Go look at every major news outlet this morning and tell me if you see this story.

The most staggering corruption in U.S. history and poof.

I can’t find it in news or opinion in any.

Maybe we should check which email server they used for the bribe.

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

“We'll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

We'll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis”
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SO grateful for these rays of light....

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huge win here by @aclu.org. Similar to a court order we and our partners obtained recently in Chicago in a similar case.

It's important not just because of the order itself, but because it creates a forum for accountability for federal officers who violate it who can now be held in contempt.

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Much as I enjoyed #Deathbylightning, I found it aggravating that the writers had characters swearing the way we do now, with lots of F-bombs, which is not how even foul-mouthed politicians spoke in that era. Ruined the effect of otherwise good writing and great acting. @mike-makowsky.bluesky.social

How to stop ICE’s brutality and impunity Minnesota — and all states — must close the legal loophole that protects the shooter from accountability

Renee Good was a 37-year old mother of a small child whose mom is not coming home tonight because an ICE agent shot and killed her.

Enough. States need to pass new laws now to hold federal officials accountable and Congress must act to rein in ICE. We explain www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-sto...

Federal health officials slash recommended childhood vaccinations under Trump’s directive The number of recommended childhood shots drops from 17 to 11.

2. On the day when it was revealed that a record number of children died from #flu last year, in the midst of a flu season that's shaping up to be a real doozy, #HHS announced it will no longer recommend flu vaccine for all children.
You read that correctly.
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Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem

Think about it: He means roughly a quarter of all children in the US who has immigrant parents (of all statuses) and is of course grossly insulting the tens of millions of us who are no longer children, but very much still the children of immigrants.
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Screenshot with this text highlighted: "We need to build a movement that aligns immigrant organizing with worker organizing—that's the way to conduct a conversation about the economic impact and build a policy agenda that maximizes its benefits to the sectors of our economy that too often get overlooked, or get cynically pitted against each other by political forces that don't actually care about what happens to them."

Ignoring violations against immigrant workers drives down standards for all workers. #Bestof2025

@ceciliamunoz.bsky.social's essay argues that without a clear, just immigration vision, exploitation flourishes—and the whole workforce pays the price.

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Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

The antidote to lawlessness is the law Anti-legalism, Charlotte, and why the Constitution is winning

Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino and his masked raiders have now left not one, but *two* American cities they sought to terrorize. Their lawlessness was simply no match for the public's commitment to the Constitution. @raders.bsky.social lays out lessons from Charlotte and Chicago.