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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

“Pope Leo Is a Tool of Our Enemies”: Homan Leads MAGA Attacks as Hayworth, Others Pile On It’s the latest MAGA attack on Pope Leo’s pro-immigrant stance. Disgraced border chief Tom Homan — caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava takeout bag — led the charge against Leo and the bishops.

The U.S. bishops defended migrant families. Tom Homan snapped. Nan Hayworth called Pope Leo a “tool of our enemies.” Tim Burchett accused the church of getting rich off of sex trafficking.

Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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this really is a big story

Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm' WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before the Georgetown roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz told RNS he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE.

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Trump Grants Refugee Status To Former SS Guards WASHINGTON—Condemning what he described as the disturbing and unjust treatment of the group, President Donald Trump granted refugee status this week to former SS guards. “The discrimination these people are facing is absolutely sick—they’re literally hunting them down,” said Trump, who greeted the small group of centenarians on the tarmac at Dulles International Airport and […]

“The discrimination these people are facing is absolutely sick—they’re literally hunting them down,” said Trump
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Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Long overdue. Rümeysa, I look forward to welcoming you home to Somerville.

Listen to this segment. They *entrapped* Mayor Baraka and someone explicitly told ICE to arrest him, an American citizen standing on public ground, in front of sitting members of Congress who tried to stop it. This was already very bad and is now holy shit bad.

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.

I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

Federal judge orders release of detained Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student, has been held in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana since late March.

A federal judge ordered the government to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper criticizing the war in Gaza.

The new Pope crushing JD Vance on February 13, 2025: https://x.com/drprevost/status/1889907998753173882 Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration

Bro, imagine being JD Vance right now. You've pretended to be Catholic for the last several years for political again... and then you end up giving the Pope the kiss of death and then you end up specifically hated by the new Pope.

Trump and Duffy need to stop whining and do their jobs.

For the record:

Secretary Buttigieg hired thousands of air traffic controllers and asked Congress to fund 2,000 more in 2025.

During Trump's first term, the number of air traffic controllers decreased EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

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Upon consideration of plaintiff Perkins Coie LLP’s Motion for Summary Judgment and Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief, ECF No. 182; the government’s Renewed Motion to Dismiss and for Expedited Judgment, ECF No. 183; the memoranda, declarations, and exhibits submitted in support and opposition; the arguments in support and opposition presented at the motions hearing held on April 23, 2025, and the entire record herein, it is hereby: (1) ORDERED that plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief, ECF No. 182, is GRANTED; it is further (2) ORDERED that the government’s Renewed Motion to Dismiss and for Expedited Judgment, ECF No. 183, is DENIED; it is further (3) DECLARED that Executive Order 14230, 90 Fed. Reg. 11781 (Mar. 11, 2025), issued by the President on March 6, 2025, entitled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” is unlawful because it violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is therefore null and void; it is further

Beryl Howell has thrown out the entirety of the Trump EO targeting Perkins Coie, including any security clearance restrictions tied to the EO.

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A post by the despicable Attorney General Pam Bondi which includes a truly unhinged and made-up statistic. It says: Today is Fentanyl Awareness day. In President Trump's first 100 days we've seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 Million lives. Note that 119 million would be 35% of the US population.

Were it not for the heroic efforts of Trump in his first 100 days, 1 in 3 Americans would be dead.

Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations - emptywheel As Trump experiences one after another humiliating failed negotiation, he will have a psychological and political need to find some other way to look strong.

Reup: As "Art of the Deal" guy faces humiliating setbacks in several negotiations, he's going to have to do something to make up for the psychological and political damage of being a loser.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/m...

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn