Tim McGrath

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

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Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream In her new book, ‘Bad Company,’ journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream

@issielapowsky.bsky.social talks to @greenwell.bsky.social about her new book, "Bad Company"

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

They're taking college students. Not criminals. We know the NYT won't ever write it this way, so it's time to be a forwarding Facebook aunt and send these stories to your family that still reads emails and make it clear that this has nothing to do with anything besides white supremacy.

Migrants, and a Pastor, Arrested Inside Manhattan Immigration Courthouse Dozens of masked agents in plainclothes searched for targets exiting the elevators.

Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...

HUGE SHOUTOUT to @propublica.org's @sophiechou.bsky.social. Stories like this can't happen without data. But the data alone isn't worth much without data journalists like Sophie to find it, clean it, parse it and reveal the stories in it.

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

congrats to everyone who equated anti-genocide protest with supporting hamas

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

The headline doesn't, and can't, really get to the extraordinary detail of this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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Collaborators.

"We don't give our names," say the brown shirts, one of whom is wearing a Marvel graphic tee while carrying out illegal orders.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

(From a friend):

Your support is urgently needed to help Mahmoud and his family’s urgent and evolving needs as we work to secure his release and support his family during this incredibly difficult time.

chuffed.org/project/just...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

A Los Angeles Times headline reads, "Large majority of homeless people in California are not illicit drug users, study finds."

It’s almost as if skyrocketing homelessness isn’t caused by addiction or mental illness, but by millions of people being rent-gouged out of a place to live.

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

According to this story some Dems will be wearing pink, some Dems will be wearing black, some Dems wearing blue, and some Dems wearing yellow. Another masterful gambit from the Democrats! I'm sure this will finally take down donald drumpf the Cheeto in chief!

May these ghouls never know peace again.

Hunter Schafer Speaks Out After Getting Passport Misgendering Her: "F*ck This Administration" In an 8-plus-minute video, Schafer connected the passport to “historical rises of fascism and everything this new administration represents.”

“I just wanna say, trans people are beautiful. We're never gonna stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that. F*ck this admin. I don't really have an answer on what to do about this, but I feel it was important to share: This is real. So, yeah. F*ck.”

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening.

People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book.

Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.