Beatrix Hoffman

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack | Common Dreams ​Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they've failed to do, and resist accordingly.

Universities Didn't Fail, They Succeeded—That's Why They're Under Attack www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

#JusticeUnderLaw

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.

#USAnotRFK

Lets gooooo

🚨And now - an arrest for videoing police. Pretty sure this was a violation of rights when we had them. We owe these people their voices as much as the oppressors must be exposed.

New Policy Bars Undocumented Immigrants From Many Health Services This Medical News article discusses new restrictions on access to HHS programs for undocumented immigrants and potential implications of the rule beyond the affected programs and communities.

Denying immigrants' access to care hurts everyone

Not to be forgotten, as the President now attempts to take over the Library of Congress:

He did something similar in February when he fired the Archivist of the US.

It's now three months later and counting, and he apparently has notified Congress of his reasons for doing so, as required by law. 🗃️

A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).

Here’s another reason why they want to dismantle the federal government…

HAPPENING NOW: A HUGE crowd of protesters have gathered outside a Milwaukee courthouse to support Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest earlier today

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

Chicago now!

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Something everyone can do is give to their AAUP chapter.

They’re some of the only ones standing up to this nonsense.

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

@teslatakedown.com
#TeslaTakedown
Northbrook, Illinois
About 100 folks showed up on a cold, windy early Spring day. Lotsa honks and fist pumping support today!

Chicago #teslatakedown ! 3/1/25

Health advocacy in the history of US immigrants’ rights Foreign-born practitioners in the health professions are critical to the health-care labour force in many high-income countries. In addition, both immigrant and non-immigrant health professionals have...

My short history of doctors and nurses working for immigrant rights, and immigrants providing care for all. Lancet provides free access with registration, or PM me for a pdf.

NYT screen shot that reads: Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown. With an image of an Orange Man.

For folks interested in learning why this isn't original or new, see research by historians such as Natalia Molina, John McKiernan Gonzalez, and Alexandra Minna Stern.

Janet Nguyễn of Marketplace does an excellent job of examining the historical roots of health insurance denials