Kate Huddleston

ICE conduct in Colorado "unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state The ruling is a win in federal court for ACLU, Colorado law firms who sued ICE to stop “indiscriminate” arrests and detentions

A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social. 

The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas. 

Texas data center expansion raises blackout risk during extreme winter weather Texas' supply and demand balance can become tight during winter and potentially fall into deficit as data center demand grows.

Texas has become a major data center hub, and these projects could increase the risk of blackouts in the winter when the Texas grid is already strained.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I ate at Cava for the first time last night, and it was delicious

Sadly no bonus $50,000 in my bag from the FBI

Look at all the “competitive authoritarianism” and “authoritarian playbook” cases around the world. Nearly everywhere, the “feckless opposition party that fails to meet the moment” is a major character in the story.

No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout. Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

Feels like Roy Cooper could run on a single issue and handily win North Carolina

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Senator David Reed, coauthor of the 1924 national origins quotas immigration act, on where the Border Patrol should be allowed to police: "they have no right to go into an interior city and pick up aliens in the street and arrest them"

Overlooked a bit: Ingrassia was admin official outside DC jail on Inauguration Day announcing release of people convicted for Jan. 6. Here he is w someone from DOGE, also involved 👇

Ingrassia has publicly called for Jan. 6 nat'l holiday - & obv privately for "eviscerating" MLK Day, Juneteenth

Christopher Wells starts for the state of Illinois:

"Rebellion. Invasion. Insurrection. War. These are heavy words. The people who wrote our constitution understood the weight of these words. The people who wrote our constitution had lived these words."

The sheriff's office has been using millions of taxpayer dollars for things unrelated to the case like car washes and office renovations, then using those expenses to claim it's "too expensive" to enact court-ordered reforms.

It's not the reforms that are expensive — it's the police's misconduct.

Our 2007 class action lawsuit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office engaged in widespread racially discriminatory policing practices and immigration enforcement in Arizona.

Now, a new report revealed the department has deceived the public by inflating their costs of complying with the ruling.

Judge’s order for the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3.

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Kentucky trails nation on new climate and health scorecard Kentuckians stand to lose more years off their lives due to power plant emissions than residents of almost any other state, according to a first of its kind national report released Thursday.

Kentuckians stand to lose more years off their lives due to power plant emissions than residents of almost any other state, according to a first of its kind national report released Thursday.

via @kentuckylantern.com

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

BREAKING: Judge Chen has blocked the Trump administration from canceling protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians.

Chen found both decisions were preordained, with baseless pretextual explanations.

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Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.

Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants.

This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.

Really strong Bryson Dechambeau talking about 9/11 and the Saudi LIV Golf tour vibes

Early versions of these manufactured emergencies: border wall in Trump's 1st term and state anti-immigrant measures in Texas, AZ, and FL beginning in 2021

Failures to adequately address have contributed to this moment

www.yalelawjournal.org/collection/n...

scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

A good time to revisit this @yalelawjournal.bsky.social collection on bogus national emergencies, from Trump's first term:

www.yalelawjournal.org/collection/n...

New Uvalde records: District leaders didn’t reach out to some surviving teachers, knew about broken locks The records also shed light on previous concerns about shooters’ classroom behavior. The release follows a yearslong lawsuit from news agencies.

.@ProPublica and @texastribune.org sued for public records after the 2022 Uvalde shooting that killed 19 children, two teachers. After much legal wrangling three years later, the district released its records and the county following. Texas DPS continues to fight www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/u...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed.

For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.

Rio Grande Valley’s biggest free health clinic event of the year is canceled due to federal cuts It’s the first time Operation Border Health has canceled in 26 years. More than 6,600 people received check-ups, dental services, diabetes screenings and more last year.

A massive five-day event that offers free health services across the Rio Grande Valley was abruptly cancelled last week because of cuts to the Texas Department of State Health Services’ federal funding.

Over 6,600 people received check-ups, dental services, diabetes screenings and more last year.

So heartbreaking. Just unfathomable that the Texas government has neglected basic safety and well-being measures for so long.

Especially given that the state has spent $11 billion on Operation Lone Star - it's found the money when it's wanted to, just not for disaster prevention...

#txlege

In the last few years, Texas has been through a lot:
- Feb 2021 winter storm (killed ~700)
- Uvalde school shooting
- Hill Country floods

Each w state gov action/inaction & resource allocation at center. Need to reprioritize safety & flourishing, before tragedies happen

#txlege

Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.