ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

It's that time of year!

Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship position, which is designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions. The Forrester Fellow is full-time faculty in the law school and... 1/4

Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota:

Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here.

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Juice.

Maryland Sheriffs Lead Nation in ICE Transfers Under Trump - memesita.com - Memesita Maryland Sheriffs’ ICE Collaboration: A Local Revolt Against Federal Immigration Policy? ANNAPOLIS, MD – While Maryland presents itself as a progressive haven, a quiet but significant rebellion is …

While Maryland presents itself as a progressive haven, a quiet but significant rebellion is brewing within its counties. Data reveals a surge in collaboration between local sheriffs and ICE.

www.memesita.com/maryland-she...

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Northwestern University agrees to pay $75 million as part of deal with Trump administration that restores frozen funds | CNN Northwestern University has reached a $75-million deal with the Trump administration which restores frozen federal funding and ends an antisemitism investigation, the Department of Justice announced F...

Peter Drucker, a lecturer at Frankfurt University when the Nazis took over, recalled a faculty meeting where the new Nazi boss said Jews were banned and anyone complaining would be sent to a concentration camp. A professor then asked a question: “Will there be more money for research in physiology?”

As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.

Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/

Well, this is, indeed, really fucking bad

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

An astonishing figure in this piece:

Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.

This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.

That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

We @lawfaremedia.org will hopefully publish something on this soon but fwiw the legal authority invoked is NOT the Insurrection Act — it’s 10 USC 12406, which is much more limited than an Insurrection Act invocation.

(Reporters: Chris Mirasola is the expert to talk to about this)

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

“Less noticed at the time, but arguably more prophetic, was how the mechanics of her firing trammeled yet another longtime standard in the academy, that of professors’ deciding among themselves when and if a colleague should be fired.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months.

If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.

To my knowledge, they have not done so.

Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Constitution After immigration sweeps in Kern County and a CalMatters investigation, the federal government will train California agents on when they can stop people.

After controversial sweeps in Kern County and a CalMatters investigation, the federal government will train agents on when they can stop and arrest people. (Maybe should have done this FIRST.) By the excellent Wendy Fry and Sergio Olmos.

calmatters.org/justice/2025...

The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights A CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.

The first person to alert the public that the Trump administration was preparing to send planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was a retired J.P. Morgan executive in Ohio named Tom Cartwright, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:

Global Labor Justice on X: "Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike. @asia_floorwage @johnwrogers @peterblairhenry @michelleapeluso https://t.co/ogJOmYKfdv" / X Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike. @asia_floorwage @johnwrogers @peterblairhenry @michelleapeluso https://t.co/ogJOmYKfdv

Over 1,000 garment workers are demanding @Nike give them the recognition and pay they deserve. We stand with them. #SeeUsNike. @johnwrogers @peterblairhenry @michelleapeluso
x.com/global_labor...

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

I don't mean to be flippant, but something to think about as you signal-boost and consume reports/posts:

when you see something about ICE being spotted somewhere, insert the word "cops" instead and see how it reads.

If "Cops spotted in (state)" isn't a helpful warning, "ICE" isn't either.

Sanctuary Policies and the DOJ Memo’s Empty Threat of Criminal Liability A leading expert analyzes the Justice Department threat to prosecute state and local officials in sanctuary cities.

What Just Happened: Sanctuary Policies and the DOJ Memo’s Empty Threat of Criminal Liability

by Ahilan Arulanantham (@ahilantoolong.bsky.social)

#SanctuaryCities #immigration #Federalism

Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 1

Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 2

Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 3

The just-filed complaint challenging Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship.

Filed in the D.N.H. by the national ACLU, ACLU-NH, ACLU-MA, ACLU-ME, NAACP LDF, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Asian Law Caucus.
www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...

We have to keep in mind that Trump is good at spectacle and has a tight grasp on both large-scale propaganda networks and more mainstream media organizations. He will make sure Fox News cameras are there watching flashy raids. They want people to panic and leave, even if the reality is different.

As many people have said, it is going to take time for the Trump administration to ramp up immigration enforcement. In the meantime, however, they are going to basically slap a “mass deportation” logo on the side of every regular ICE operation.

We have to keep that fact in mind.

Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, the first move in President-Elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.

The Wall Street Journal says there will be a splashy ICE operation in Chicago on Tuesday.

While the headline is lurid, the actual operation described in the piece (100-200 agents) seems not that unusual for ICE (google Operation Cross-check). Expect a PR blitz, though.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The shelter that the Super Bowl made | The Lens The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent housing. But it is several miles from the Superdome and is seen by critics ...

The shelter that the Super Bowl made

Advocates want long-term solutions for solving homelessness, versus a short-term shelter that kept homeless people out of the view of Super Bowl visitors.

by @nchrastil.bsky.social @katyreck.bsky.social
@thelensnola.bsky.social
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LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding. The Appeal contacted 38 facilities that may have air quality issues, possible evacuations, and power outages amid the LA fires.

Breaking: We contacted 38 prison & jail facilities in the LA area to ask how they’re preparing for air quality issues, possible evacuations, and power outages. Thousands of people—including hundreds of children—sit in potentially impacted facilities. theappeal.org/los-angeles-...

Graphic that says "Merry Strikemas" - today baristas are 300+ stores are walking out on ULP strike. Don't cross the picket line!

Support these picket lines today: Atlanta: 12pm EST @ 10830 Haynes Bridge Road, Alpharetta, GA Bellingham: 9am PST @ 222 36th St, Bellingham WA Boston: 9am EST @ Westford Valley Marketplace 2, 160 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA Buffalo: 12pm CST @ 933 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo NY Cheyenne: 10am MST @ 2111 Central Ave, Cheyenne WY Chicago: 12pm CST @ 5964 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL Cleveland: 10am EST @ 11302 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH Columbus: 12pm EST @ 88 East Broad St, Columbus OH Dallas: 12pm CST @ 2300 S Loop 288 Denton,TX Denver: 12pm MST @ 2700 S Colorado Blvd, Denver CO Eugene: 10am PST @ 2830 Willamette St, Eugene OR Long Island: 1pm EST @ 914 Old Country Rd, Garden City NY Los Angeles: 10am PST @ 3241 N Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA Louisville: 1pm EST @ 972 Baxter Ave, Louisville KY

Support these picket lines today: Madison: 10am CST @ 1 East Main St, Madison, WI Minneapolis: 11am CST @ 3704 Silverlake Rd NE, St. Anthony, MN NYC (Manhattan): 12pm EST @ 444 Broadway, New York NY Philadelphia: 9am EST @ 1528 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA Pittsburgh: 8am EST @ 3618 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA Portland: 12pm PST @ 720 SW Broadway, Portland, OR Richmond: 12pm EST @ 1017 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA Salt Lake City: 12pm MST @ 421 E 400 S, Salt Lake City UT San Jose: 11am PST @ 2707 McKee Rd, San Jose CA Seattle: 1pm PST @ Pike Street Roastery (1124 Pike St, Seattle WA) St. Louis: 12pm CST @ 1500 S Lindbergh Blvd, Saint Louis MO

🚨 BREAKING: today is the biggest ULP strike at Starbucks EVER! Starbucks Baristas at over THREE HUNDRED stores have walked off the job to demand Starbucks bargain a fair contract from coast-to-coast

🔥 TURN UP TO ONE OF THESE ANCHOR PICKETS AND AND SUPPORT WORKERS ON STRIKE!