Sam Menefee-Libey

Paul Blume @PaulBlume FOX9 • 1h SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9 Q 39 1）419 • 1.3K Ill 124K 贝企 Paul Blume *• @PaulBlume_FOX9 Judge Blackwell had ordered the SHOW CAUSE hearing because he was frustrated that in 5 Habeas cases he was presiding over, he felt his orders were being ignored, leaving immigrant detainees unconstitutionally locked up for days. Ms. Le said that govt lawyers just cannot keep up. 3:37 PM • Feb 3, 2026 • 13.3K Views

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.

If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

It is actually important that we figure out how to put the energy of these guys to use for our purposes while also minimizing the harm they can do to us. It’s something most major campaigns and organizers have to deal with. “Front towards enemy” energy should be handled strategically.

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social Follow man radiates "front towards enemy" energy, just point him the right way and go 9:33 AM • Jan 12, 2026

Geographical density and legal regime. Leash laws mean dogs poop where humans walk. New York is a dense place with more people and dogs in a confined space.

A record number of people are in immigration jail AND most of these detentions are probably illegal. I think a good demand is to end immigration jail. If there is nowhere to jail people, they will be forced to arrest fewer people. This scheme is working bc of warehouses full of humans.

I keep thinking about domination as attitudinal, as will to “power over”, as a relational modality of which Epstein seemed to be an extreme articulation on every successively uncovered front. Hard to get robust critical and empirical purchase on that kind of thing, so not sure how to analyze it…

I’ve been thinking about this all day

Rep. Kelly Morrison describes 'horrifying' conditions inside Whipple building Rep. Kelly Morrison describes cold temperatures, shackling and lack of medical care inside a Minneapolis ICE holding site after a judge restored congressional access.

Rep. Kelly Morrison describes 'horrifying' conditions inside Whipple building www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Still true!

See www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... for more

(and check out the Feigenbaum, cited in the zine, for a deep dive)

Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. /SECRETARY/ Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program.

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives.

This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

You can smell this tear gas all the way from the Justice Center building downtown

@sml47.bsky.social In Gaza, hunger doesn’t knock — it lives with us.
Children sleep with empty stomachs, and hunger echoes louder than the bombs.

We need food and safety… and we need the world to care.
Please don’t ignore our pain 💔🙏🏻

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

It is worth reading Graff's 50 indictment. It has a lot of important information.

It's also important to note that there have been many independent scholars and journalists publishing damning indictments of Border Patrol for decades. www.theborderchronicle.com/border-patro...

Oh holy shit. There was so much good programming at the Kennedy Center that wasn’t their marquee events, too. All wiped out.

I’m also thinking a lot about Cristina Beltrán’s “Cruelty as Citizenship” and Daniel Martinez Hosang and Joseph Lowndes’ “Producers, Parasites, and Patriots”…

Fascism arises from material conditions of militarized, alienated deprivation, as it always has. We’ve always known this, and to see it unfold again here over the past few decades has been crazy-making, with additional tragic dimensions due to its familiarity…

Poetry Is Not Revolution | Commune Be cruel, poets, so that the rest of us may be kind.

See also: communemag.com/poetry-is-no...

I signed this as a professor at another university in California

anyone can sign but especially if you have ties to CA and/or higher ed, please sign/share!!

Developments! Very cool

Hours after I first posted this article, I was told that several VA nurses who are members of AFGE will attend the union’s annual legislative conference in Washington next week to raise the issue of kicking the National Border Patrol Council out of AFGE and the AFL-CIO. I hope they succeed.

Another reminder that this is just what Border Patrol is, as is demonstrated persuasively in this under-seen documentary

Unclear what documents ProPublica reviewed, but they sound sure in a way that must have been cleared by legal.

I really hope this woman has strong community protection.

It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Please CHRIST look at the UK; Starmer’s Labour didn’t win the last election; the Conservatives lost it. The thing to do is to *BURN AWAY* Schumer, Jeffries et al through direct action, protests, primaries. You and I are in charge (sorry! but also: congrats!) Catch up with us, Dems, or be retired.

The base looks like the 40mm hard blue foam rounds