Corene Kendrick

BREAKING: Class action lawsuit filed today by ACLU of Illinois and MacArthur Justice Center challenges denial of access to counsel and horrific conditions for immigrants held in the Chicago-area Broadview ICE facility
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“While state Republican leaders were quick to shoot down the notion of using reserve funds to keep Alabama’s SNAP program up and running, you know what they found a way to justify?

How about $400 million in COVID relief funds that were used for a mega prison?”

The Trump Outrages That Matter Most Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President's most disruptive, significant, and truly surprising moves.

“It is a response, if an imperfect one, to the sense of being overwhelmed by events to take a minute to pause and assess them, to think about what really matters and what might last from the jarring, undeniably historic moment through which we are living.”

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Trying to blame the Dems cutting off SNAP (while sitting on billons of available contingency funds) as his boss bulldozes the WH to build a ball room like Saddam's palace, sends $40 billion to bail out Argentines, and eats "gold adorned" brownies in Korea is not gonna work.

Since Kristi Noem wouldn't give her own children a break when they begged and pleaded with her to not shoot their puppy in the head, I think this request will just result in her and the CBP/ICE thugs quadrupling down on the cruelty over the weekend.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Mark Walter, principal owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, serves as CEO of Guggenheim Partners, which holds ~$12 million stake in the GEO Group, a private prison corporation that operates ICE detention centers.

This is why the Dodgers won’t directly condemn the raids destroying immigrant families.

The SCOTUS Trumpires pause to consider calling a strike against the emperor

The Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers

It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin. While…

DOJ bringing baseless charges against the partner of the publisher of @theonion.com for peacefully protesting -- what's next, ICE arresting the siblings of Trey Parker and Matt Stone because South Park mocks puppy-killer Noem, Trump, and Vance on the regular?

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –

Grace Lee Boggs

On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

‘Catastrophic’ Hack Underscores Public Defender Security Gaps Recent cyberattacks on public defenders’ offices in multiple Western US states have spotlighted the technological vulnerabilities of an often overlooked but critical part of the US judicial system.

A ransomware attack nuked 60 years of case files at the Federal Public Defender's office in Arizona earlier this year, highlighting the technological vulnerabilities of an often overlooked but critical part of the U.S. judicial system. bit.ly/49nkJrJ

To paraphrase the immortal words of Leia Organa, isn't he a little short for a stormtrooper?

Popehat said it best:

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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

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Black Panther Party shows it can be done.

I wouldn't use the word "art" to describe this Nazi wet dream of AI clanker slop. US tax dollars at work.

It has now stopped in Cambodia — 40 hours — and Laos — 44 hours.

If it keeps following the route it did for ICE last month, there will be one more stop in Vietnam.

Think about everything you’ve done since about 4am on Friday. That’s how long these people have been shackled on a plane.

Politico Magazine: "The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Thank you, Chicago.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Censorship has no place in a free society — in or out of prisons.

I've been doing prison litigation for a long time, so believe me when I say that this is shocking and horrifying.

After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history. Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

This has been verified by multiple independent sources.