Jonathan Hall

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

This is horrific.

@citizencohn.bsky.social talks to @agawande.bsky.social about the real consequences of Trump cutting USAID funding.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

“You Have Arrived in Hell” The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Sal...

Human Rights Watch and Cristosal have released a comprehensive report on the maltreatment and torture of the Venezuelan men illegally sent to CECOT.

#justiceforCECOTprisoners #humanrights

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The Eviction Kings One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.

Today's must-read by @thomasbirm.bsky.social: a major corporate landlord is fueling homelessness across the U.S. *and* the mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.

Sen. Kaine, does appeasement work with fascist regimes?

Baltimore & National Capital Region! This Wed, Nov 12 at 12PM I am giving a talk on my new book Freedom Train for the Sociology Colloquium @jhu.edu (Mergenthaler, Coleman Room 526). Learn how Black workers desegregated American unions! @ucpress.bsky.social Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9959542255...

Tonight, Senate Republicans — aided by eight Democrats — passed a funding bill that will raise healthcare premiums for millions of Americans and leave some families without health care at all.

Let's discuss.

You are an embarrassment to the state of Virginia. May the republic last until we can vote in a replacement who will have a spine.

Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do

This striking headline is a faithful reflection of the facts.

If the US President had an interest in saving Christians’ lives in Nigeria, he could do so en masse by simply reinstating the aid program we had in January.

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Tiny Virginia snail sees its shadow

The human impact of cutting USAID Billionaire wealth, inequality, and the decimation of lifesaving aid. Read stories of USAID budget cuts impact and take action today.

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No Christian can support our current regime. Thank you to all who document the horrors.

Toad bangs his poor head against the wall. From "The Story" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

USAID would have been ready to help. I wonder what happened to them?

Trump’s Government Of Spite: Political Performance Art For Assholes A couple weeks ago, as millions of Americans took to the streets in what may have been the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, the President of the United States responded by… posting a …

excellent + 🎯 via @mmasnick.bsky.social

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Where’s the National Guard when we actually needed them?

Sic semper tyrannis Restore Democracy

It was great to see so many people out protesting the regime! My protest sign today:

Reuters announces that henceforth all headlines will be entirely in quotation marks for clearer understanding of truth: "President" "Trump" "orders" "tariffs" "on" "China," "some" "experts" "call" "them" "unconstitutional"

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

"Asked who is to blame for the loss of his [two-year old] son, Taher is direct: the United States.

“In the camps, we survive only on rations,” he says. “Without rations, we have nothing — no food, no medicine, no chance to live.”

#USAIDsaveslives

Or we could just put Musk into orbit.

What Extreme Poverty Looks Like Ten percent of humanity struggles to live on under $2 a day. That, and the gap between the extremely poor and the more privileged, is important to see.

Nearly 10% of humanity (~800M people in 2025) struggles to live on less than $3 a day. It’s important for Americans to appreciate that reality — and the growing gap between the extremely poor & the extremely privileged — because, as USAID demonstrated, our nation has the power to change it.

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Rubio’s legacy.

Even in 1945, a racist, anticommunist US Army could figure this out: our current regime is led by fascists. Dated, but absolutely worth a read!

I’ve discovered what links all of the shooters in this country: guns.

Actions speak louder than words.

“The shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development will cost taxpayers $6.4 billion over two years.” We’re paying to let millions of people die. Thanks, Musk and Rubio. #RestoreUSAid

The man most responsible for destroying the American government is well-known to every federal employee, but should be condemned by all who believe in democracy: Russell Vought, the architect of American Fascism.

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.