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Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.

Find it here: www.icemap.dev.

Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Texas man fatally shot by federal immigration agent, records show A U.S. citizen was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer during a late-night traffic stop nearly a year ago in a Texas beach town crowded with young people celebrating spring break.

Newly released records show a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security.

UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.

"'UT is reversing roughly fifty years of intellectual progress and innovation. If the goal is to make sure UT is no longer a global leader in higher education this is a great move.'”
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

Did Lisa Marchiano Invent “Transgender Social Contagion” and “No Transition Before Age 25”? Since 2017, I have been one of the most vocal critics of the hypothesis that transgender identities are now spreading among children via…

...also worth mentioning that "skepticaltherapist" who first proposed of "transgender social contagion" turned out to be Lisa Marchiano, now a prominent anti-trans activist (advisor to SEGM, Genspect, & the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association): juliaserano.medium.com/did-lisa-mar...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis

...now, 10 years later, there are over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis – I link to all of them in this recent essay (no paywall):
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

screenshot from the linked-to timeline that reads: February 20, 2016: Insofar as I can tell, the first ever claim that "social contagion" is turning kids transgender. It occurs as a comment on the 4thwavenow.com "About" page, posted on February 20, 2016 at 5:27pm, under the handle "skepticaltherapist." Shortly thereafter, 4thwavenow.com turned this comment into its own post, called... February 29, 2016: 4thwavenow.com publishes "Tumblr snags another girl, but her therapist-mom knows a thing or two about social contagion." As noted in the previous entry, this is skepticaltherapist's earlier comment, posted along with a brief intro from the folks at 4thwavenow. There are several potentially noteworthy things about it, and the comments that follow it: o It begins by referencing a Star Trek TNG episode in which the crew becomes addicted to an alien video game, then makes the following analogy: "The alien mind control device made its way into my home about two years ago when my then eleven-year-old daughter begged me for a Tumblr account since her friends all had one." o In the piece, skepticaltherapist describes herself as a psychotherapist, later adding, "As a therapist, I mostly work with adults."

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

This is a fascinating thread on careful strategic judgecraft.

I rant and rave a lot here that we keep taking too seriously Harvard dudes who keep getting it so wrong.

When I say instead we should pay more attention to the ones who’ve been proven accurate again and again, I’m talking about Leah.

(Not only her. But absolutely her.)

Leah is one of the most, perhaps the most articulate and clear voice on the Court's shambling corruption

Under a proposed rule the Trump administration submitted for comment today, ALL initial requests for work authorization filed by applicants for asylum would be indefinitely suspended for "an extended period, possibly many years."

Very sad to see my PhD institution on this list. To give up on diversity when PhDs remain so unrepresentative of the country’s demographics makes academia less successful and less impactful. A poor decision for all of these schools with serious negative downstream affects.

Talking honestly about gender, mental health, and violence - The Boston Globe Shutting down the conversation around incidents like the recent Rhode Island shooting does no one any good — especially not the transgender community.

“Anti-trans sentiment is the read meat du jour for conservatives, just like anti-Trump sentiment is red meat du jour for progressives.”
This kind of framing is so problematic. Bigoted scapegoating of vulnerable groups is NOT “just like” objecting to that bigotry in fact, it’s completely different.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

While DHS hasn't released any updates on agent numbers or arrests, anecdotal reports show ICE shifting its activities from the Twin Cities to the state's suburbs and small towns.

No devil at this crossroads: the moral case for using AI to help close the access to justice gap — Suffolk LIT Lab I arrive at this conclusion with my eyes open: it is morally wrong to withhold carefully tested AI tools from unrepresented litigants when the alternative is ChatGPT or nothing at all. In this essay, ...

Lab co-director @qsteenhuis.bsky.social makes the case that it is morally wrong to withhold carefully tested AI tools from unrepresented litigants when the alternative is ChatGPT or nothing at all.

Voluntary and mutually agreed language has never gotten us anywhere.

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The opacity continues to boggle me. We still have no information on the source of funding (state-owned or private banks), and we don't know what checks remain in place for these transactions. Have to wonder about the long-term impacts of shaping industrial policy through foreign investment deals.

YouTube now up for viewing: www.youtube.com/live/27ThnZs...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

once again, the Trump presidency feels like a hypothetical scenario designed to drive Marxist theorists of the state insane.

The American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of Capture In countries facing democratic backsliding, attention often centers on state capture of the press. Recent U.S. media failures, however, demand a wider lens. Authoritarian encroachment here rests on…

"Highly concentrated media systems are structurally vulnerable to authoritarian capture… Autocrats needn’t take over newsrooms at gunpoint; instead, they can count on friendly oligarchs to police the media for them."

Bang on, @victorpickard.bsky.social. This is a threat we'll face long after Trump.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

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ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed.

ICE officials knew that use of force complaints were rising but decided to ignore it; ICE officials also knew that its distinction between administrative and judicial warrants was, well, not strong at all, www.politico.com/news/2026/02....

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Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rules The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced prison labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah…

This is a great, and I think fairly obvious decision. Work is not voluntary if you get tortured if you refuse to work! Even under Kozminski, locking someone alone in a room and not letting them leave is clearly coercion.

Also big win for AG candidate David Seligman

Transformative work of the day, I could do this all day edition