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may as well be here || occasional artist || me in court: if I speak, I am in big trouble

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Notification Center 22 NBC NEWS Breaking news Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud

The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job β€” despite no prosecution experience β€” successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?

09.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 688    πŸ” 144    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

was on an email chain for our immigration team and was wondering why it was only me, my supervisor, and our boss….realized once again that I am the sole staff attorney with one supervisor above me in a team that used to be 6 attorneys 😭 I hate it here!!!!

09.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

should be done by 9:20, ready to eat at just the time god intended

08.10.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my red flag is I wait til it’s 7:30 at night to START cooking dinner, which really means I won’t have the stove on until 8:15!!!!!!

07.10.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For all intents and purposes, the most powerful person in the federal government is Stephen Miller, not the President.

29.09.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1089    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 35
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (πŸŽ₯: Elias Eliahu)

25.09.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 28260    πŸ” 14184    πŸ’¬ 5804    πŸ“Œ 4088

So glad people are paying attention to the grant-and-deport regime

22.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say β€œif you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

21.09.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2138    πŸ” 814    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 28

my own family bringing up β€œwell we did things the right way” rhetoric about immigration today is so insane. you have me drunkenly explaining why immigration law is fucked up and somehow i’m the crazy one??

15.09.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

15.09.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 52014    πŸ” 11148    πŸ’¬ 653    πŸ“Œ 1181

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

14.09.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4309    πŸ” 1462    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 46

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

14.09.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5848    πŸ” 1188    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 50
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The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live.

Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

10.09.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12839    πŸ” 2686    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 463

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal β€œpapers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

08.09.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10226    πŸ” 2350    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 81

Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/

07.09.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4685    πŸ” 778    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 43

NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7.

This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.

05.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 741    πŸ” 381    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 13

Exactly right. ICE routinely brings people back after mistakes. Even still, today! But with him, it was the CECOT deportation flights. It was their defiance of Judge Boasberg. And when his removal threatened to blow up their narrative, they turned the full weight of the federal government on him.

23.08.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1299    πŸ” 300    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

WOW! After months of the Trump administration saying that he would never be allowed back into the country β€” they brought him back. Then after months saying he would never be let free β€” he's back home.

He still faces very serious criminal charges, and ICE may still move to arrest and deport him.

22.08.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 380    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 8

White people aren't well. Period.

22.08.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 345    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 0

even in β€œsanctuary cities” what do you think the local pds are raring to do 😭

20.08.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

on one hand there’s β€œurgent case we can’t take bc capacity & also your hearing is TOMORROW” but on the other there’s β€œconsult who HAS to be in person, doesn’t show up, & then missed calls” who will inevitably be upset when I tell them hey you gotta wait for another consult now bc of the backlog

14.08.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

14.08.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2577    πŸ” 860    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 13

good good shit…but also have you seen the og english one it’s based on? a young(er) sally hawkins was especially fun

12.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:

- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls

12.08.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5815    πŸ” 1804    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 72

🚨DHS asks the Supreme Court to halt an injunction restricting the ability of ICE and Border Patrol to stop and question people based on factors such as speaking Spanish, being Latino, doing day labor, or being in certain areas.

Hard not to read this as a request for a license to racially profile.

07.08.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1245    πŸ” 503    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 34

Moshannon is a Hell hole

law.temple.edu/csj/2024/09/...

And now packed to gills.

Support!

05.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries (RNS) β€”Β The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.

NEW: @rns.org has tracked at least 10 incidents of apparent federal agents conducting immigration enforcement activity on church grounds or in the immediate area, with incidents spread across five states and Puerto Rico.

β€œThis is domestic terror,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

04.08.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 644    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 19

roberts has been waiting 45 years for this at least, he’s not gonna balk at the chance to administer the coup de grace to even the slightest appearance of multi-racial democracy

02.08.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 343    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

stress over I had a 5 minute hearing that I spent many hours agonizing over

31.07.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

every day I gotta remind myself that I choose to do immigration work…I did this to myself πŸ˜”

30.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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