ICE conduct in Colorado "unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state The ruling is a win in federal court for ACLU, Colorado law firms who sued ICE to stop “indiscriminate” arrests and detentions

A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social. 

The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas. 

The male Northern Cardinal is a brilliant pop of color on a snowy morning.

A frosty spruce tree on the right with snow all around. There is a pale band of aurora in the dark blue night sky.

day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!

ADF, ACLU ‘Strange Bedfellows’ in High Court Free Speech Case The Alliance Defending Freedom and the ACLU, frequently at odds, have joined together in urging the Supreme Court to allow pre-enforcement review of state subpoenas that may chill speech.

The Supreme Court is hearing a case today about New Jersey’s subpoenas seeking sensitive donor information from a nonprofit running crisis pregnancy centers.

We urged the court to promptly review the plaintiff’s First Amendment claims. If the government can target one nonprofit, it can target any.

Landscape winter photo early on the morning with a candy floss pink sky and a strip of blue with a line of frost covered trees in the foreground.

#Artadventcalendar

A female buffalo head in flight, the wings aren't the focus but the face is and that's what really matters. The background behind the head has been oversaturated for extra cuteness.

WEIRD DUCK NEWS:

It finally happened.

After months of posting, tracking from Canada to Montana, to Northern California to a 2 miles up the street, getting up at 4:30am to get to the wetlands, and waiting, today at 8:29am, we got an in focus bufflehead in flight.

Let's. Fucking. Go. 🪶

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

Apple and Google have immense power to shape what content is available on our smartphones. When they cave to government pressure to remove certain apps, politicians get to shape how we communicate.

We should be in control of what happens on our own phones — not the government or corporations.

Large granite dome above ponderosa pines along a mountain river

Granite dome rises above the South Platte 🌿 #Fallback to May 22

All the more reason to be an Election Day Worker. Be the sun those fucking fascist election monitors can fuck right off into. And preserve democracy by your presence to help folks vote.

PS: today is a great day to confirm your voter registration status.

Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.

The Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants isn't just cruel — it's illegal.

The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.

We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025 Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

The Journalist Who Spent More Than 100 Days in ICE Detention | American Civil Liberties Union Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was covering a protest near Atlanta when local law enforcement arrested him. Then, ICE detained him.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was a member of the Atlanta community for more than 20 years before ICE detained him for covering a protest.

On this episode of At Liberty, we discuss what his deportation means for the state of free speech.

Oregon forest

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #oregon #forest #creek #waterfall #moss

A closeup of a Red-tailed Hawk that was perched a few feet from the nature trail.

A bird with a yellow breast and black and white eye mask sits in a tangle of leaves and bare stems looking handsome.

A delightful fall yard visitor, the Common Yellowthroat. Pausing very briefly before diving into the bushes to look for more bugs

#birds 🌿

Took a boat #stunday, on Rock Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park. #photography #landscape #canoeing #algonquin #rocklake #myplayground

A Hands-On Lesson in Civics Sees Surging Student Interest in the Age of Trump The American Civil Liberties Union sees interest spike in its student advocacy institute, while conservative groups have their own programs.

Over 800 students from across the country completed our National Advocacy Institute in DC over the past 3 weeks.

There's more interest now than ever before in the Institute, where students learn about key civil rights issues, build leadership skills, and connect with other incredible advocates.

Last light.

Skocjan caves Slovenia. I cannot describe how massive this place was. #travel #photography #caves

A closeup photo of an owlfly, seen from the side, hanging by its legs from a curved, thin twig at night. There is a little out of focus greenery in the background. The owlfly looks somewhat like a dragonfly, with a long abdomen and long, multi-veined wings, but has long, knob-tipped antennae, a fuzzy thorax, and large, spherical compound eyes. It is clinging to the twig head up, wings folded downward below its body, with its abdomen held out away from the twig.

Another owlfly photo, because why not - they're really cool insects. This one was roosting on a pine twig on a misty night; their eyes reflect light from flashlights, so if they're around they're not too hard to spot. (Ascaloptynx appendiculata, Arizona) #insects 🐙🌿

At the grand opening of the North American Matzu Culture Exchange Association.

Morning on Atlantic Beach

NEW: The Senate just reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and expand federal protections for our right to vote.

As states continue to pass legislation that makes voting harder, it's time for our leaders to protect this essential right.

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At Bite of Seattle today.

At the Kent Cornucopia car show.

US judge blocks Trump's elimination of union bargaining for federal workers A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

Federal employees have a right to organize unions.

Eliminating this protection is a violation of workers' free speech rights, and a federal judge agrees.