Disobedient Feline

REFUGEE: "We'd like asylum in the United States."

ASYLUM HOTLINE: "We're full. Not taking any more."

REFUGEE: "We're white."

ASYLUM HOTLINE: "How soon can you get here?"

How about some basic rules?
--All law enforcement officers should wear identification
--No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks
--All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams
...oh and...
--All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

Thank you for clarifying this. It sounds like the scene was chaotic -- AND that ICE was determined to grab Mayor Baraka in particular.

Evidence of anyone occupying a guardhouse. There is plenty of evidence the statements from DHS & Alina Habba are total BS.

I compiled this from the AP article linked above & video clips posted by activists on the ground with @maketheroadnj.bsky.social
Please give 👆 a follow. They put in the work.

This was the point at which Rep BWC was shoved out of the way & Rep Menendez, with several activists, rushed to mayors aid to prevent him from being pulled back into the facility.

To be just as clear, there is no evidence of a truck or bus with detainees arriving nor is there

Protesters on public property.

Mayor Baraka (outside the fence now) was warned by someone inside the fence they were coming to arrest him. The mayor responded “I’m on public property”.

Shortly after, masked ICE agents came outside the fence, grabbed & handcuffed Mayor Baraka.

Contractor, GEO Group.

It was understood, at one point, that the mayor would be allowed to accompany the MOC into the facility.

The delegation was stopped inside the fence & told the mayor was not allowed inside. At this point they went back outside the fence to join the

Mayor Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week.

Let’s be clear on what happened in Newark leading to the arrest of Mayor Baraka.

The mayor was demonstrating outside the facility when 3 NJ MOC; Menendez, McIver & BWC, arrived to do an oversight inspection of an ICE facility run by a private prison

apnews.com/article/immi...

DOGE is attempting to centralize Americans’ most sensitive data, Social Security, medical records, and more, without proper safeguards or oversight. That’s a massive risk to our privacy, our rights, and our national security which Congress must be consulted.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

MAJOR BREAKING: Congresswoman Sara Jacobs has introduced a bill called the DELETE DOGE Act that would completely defund and stop Elon Musk’s operation.

This needs to pass.

You can’t determine if someone is a migrant without a hearing. No due process means they can snatch anyone off the street, say they’re a migrant and send them to Libya.

Trump administration mulling end to habeas corpus, legal right to challenge one’s detention Top White House adviser Stephen Miller announces potential move, which US has made only four times in history

TBF, I read about it first in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants

Shorter Stephen Miller: The president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants--including American citizens.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.

Everything was better under Biden.

My statement on the release of Mayor Baraka and today’s events.

Gn moon 🌙

Dr. Carla Hayden talks with Brewster Kahle at the San Francisco Public Library.

Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers.

Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.

The real-life refugees of 'Casablanca' make it so much more than a love story Casablanca is more than just a love story. It is a film about, and stocked with, the waves of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during wartime.

Ah, I don't know if it worked quite like that. It was more that the refugee community was already hanging out?
www.npr.org/2023/01/23/1...

They were actors who were actual refugees!! Hollywood was *full* of refugees at the time, including some of the cinematographers and directors.

I’m always struck by the realization that in 1942 when Casablanca was written and filmed, no one knew how the war would turn out.
And by the fact that some of the actors singing were real-life refugees from the Nazi advances.

Last surviving Casablanca actress Madeleine Lebeau dies French actress Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving cast member of the classic 1942 film Casablanca, dies at the age of 92.

The woman who shouts "Vive la France!" in the film. She lived into her 90s.
www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

I feel like I know my Bluesky audience pretty well, but just in case some of you have (gasp!) never seen Casablanca and therefore never had the heartsplitting experience of watching a bunch of real life European refugees stand up and drown out fake Nazis by singing the Marseillaise go fix that soon.

In the War, my father (recovering from malaria & a plane crash) & my godfather were stationed in Casablanca for a spell. My godfather was the American vice-consul & had a super apartment where everyone went to drink/forget/plot. I can't watch the film without thinking of them living it in real time.

Hegseth: Trump Will Install New Military Attorneys Who Won't Be 'Roadblocks to Anything' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth firings of Army, Navy and Air Force JAGs as ensuring "they don't exist to be roadblocks to... anything that happens."

We are in the revolution. A group of radicals have seized control of the government and they are dismantling our way of life. They are using psychological and technological warfare tactics against us.

They are preparing to escalate to physical warfare.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump could take control of D.C.'s police force. He's tried before Here's how the president can use a law to control the D.C. police.

Alarming report in Axios this morning about the president’s desire to federalize DC police and “order it to be heavy-handed on city streets.” www.axios.com/local/washin...

Throw up absolutely every possible block to this. We do not need MPD to turn into a reality show with a plot required to provide daily entertainment and affirmation to this addled old man.

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra.

I have a Mabel.

Brutal Town hall.

But here’s the truth—Republican politicians aren’t scared of their constituents. They’re scared of Trump and getting primaried. And voters keep electing more extreme candidates, so here we are—officials who don’t care what their constituents think.

Republican voters did this!