Tom Maroney

Michigan Avenue right now.

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

Tim Apple removed the app De-ICER by making ICE agents a protected class.

Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44.

"We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, the president of the United States said."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

#treason

Opinion| Could releasing the Epstein files cause autism?

Why are real news organizations covering this distracting nonsense?

ugh too real.

That line break is cleverly placed. I fell for it for a second.

Thank ou @robertgarcia.bsky.social for advocating for Andry Romero!

Thank you for advocating for him!

ANDRY ROMERO and the others also deserve due process and the right not to be placed in a concentration camp that has NEVER RELEASED a single person (except for the transfer of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's transfer to another facility).

Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’ Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiš, dubbed ‘the Czech Trump’

Protests can be effective. They brought down a billionaire oligarch in the Czech Republic.

HELP ANDRY ROMERO TOO.

@robertgarcia.bsky.social , @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, @repyassansari.bsky.social , @repdexteror.bsky.social

4 Dem Reps arriving in El Salvador today, please check on and advocate for Andry Romero, who faces grave danger at CECOT after being transferred there.

RELEASE ANDRY ROMERO!

31-year-old makeup artist Andry Hernandez Romero fled Venezuela seeking asylum because he was in danger as an out gay man. While waiting for his asylum application to be processed, he was transferred from the holding facility in San Diego to CECOT.

#cecot #deportation #resist #bringthemhome

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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report

Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

Ouch, that Newsom byline!

ALL CLASS MEMBERS!

Grassley faced a very angry crowd yesterday, and one thing they specifically questioned him on was Abrego Garcia and the others being detained in El Salvador. I'm not hopeful for anyone sent there, but I think there will be blowback.

Undocumented immigrants paid hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes over the last 10 years — while 6 tech giants dodged $278 billion while raking in tax breaks and government contracts.

But somehow immigrants are the problem.

TIMELINE ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION. 2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years. March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense. April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason. August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal. 2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law. March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered.

As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

It's unfortunately not as a big a win...

"'The SC’s opinion today gives the administration cover to ‘try’ to bring him home but does not require the federal government to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia home,' Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, told CNN. "

Yes but he was able to eliminate the team that regulates self-driving cars, so his mission has been accomplished.

"Capitulation begets capitulation...Courage begets courage."
@pramilajayapal.bsky.social

Andry Romero praying as his head is shaved at CECOT, the brutal, inhumane prison in El Salvador. Our tax dollars are paying for this horrific violation of human rights.