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Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help.

My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life.

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 306. 2/12/26 … Intense fallout today from Pam Bondi’s psychotic appearance before the House Judicial committee yesterday.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 306. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

"Deux morts, des milliers de personnes arrêtées, deux villes ébranlées et Donald Trump défait. Ainsi s’achève l’opération anti-immigration « Metro surge », conduite par l’Etat fédéral dans les « twin cities », les villes jumelles de Minneapolis et Saint Paul, depuis début décembre. Tom Homan, le « tsar des frontières » de la Maison Blanche, a annoncé jeudi 12 février le retrait prochain des troupes de l’ICE (Immigration and customs enforcement, la police de l’immigration) et de la CBP (Customs and border protection, l’équivalent des douanes)."

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.

In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:

"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Department of Homeland Security must provide 'constitutionally adequate healthcare' at ICE detention center, judge rules A federal judge also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure compliance, including through review of medical records and on-site inspection and interviews with patients and staff at the Ca...

When @padilla.senate.gov and I visited the California City Detention Center, we met with people who were held without basic medical treatment or, in many cases, no medical attention at all. 🧵
www.latimes.com/california/s...

🚨BREAKING: Minneapolis police arrest ICE protesters blocking the Target entrance in response to Target's continued cooperation with ICE terror.

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2 wounded in shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

would an exchange like this in 1990 have been dropped by any of abc/cbs/nbc/cnn? never

will this make the cbs evening news? not today.

would an exchange like this in 1990 have been dropped by any of abc/cbs/nbc/cnn? never

will this make the cbs evening news? not today.

Rep. Massie: "This is bigger than Watergate…This cover-up spans decades, and you are responsible for this portion of it."

2 wounded in shooting in Toccoa, Georgia.

there has to be some perjury and some contempt of congress in all of this, no?

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

The FBI's Fulton County raid was based on debunked claims by election deniers The evidence provided for seizing 700 boxes of ballots was shockingly thin.

A newly released affidavit from the FBI reveals what experts have long warned:

The Trump administration is purposely recycling thoroughly debunked lies about the 2020 election in an effort to “take over” the handling of the midterms.

Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth w/ an appreciation thread of physicians:

1/ Charles R. Drew, MD

- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for American College of Surgeons

it might take you a while to get through this, but it’s time well spent.

You can’t reform this @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @democrats.org

3 wounded in shooting in Auburn, Washington.

Now they are saying 10 dead including the shooter.

the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare

Donald Trump’s DOJ just tried—and failed—to indict me in front of a grand jury.

We will continue to fight back against their rising tyranny.

Don’t Give Up the Ship.

Trump’s DOJ lackeys just tried to indict Members of Congress for stating the obvious:

You don’t have to follow illegal orders.

That the DOJ would even contemplate such an action demonstrates what a repressive regime is now running this country. 🧵

2 dead in murder suicide at Duncannon Food Mart and Apartments in Duncannon, Pennsylvania.

Deceased identified as 38 year old Ashley Rice.

Jeffrey Epstein’s friends want to “keep kids safe online” by enacting mass AI surveillance

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Here’s the article by Robert Reich which outlines the corporations & banks investing in DHS & for-profit prisons:
substack.com/home/post/p-...

culture temper tantrum

it's more & more infuriating to hear more & more trump appointees treat the search for truth by questions from the press with such utter contempt.

it's all they have for everyone in their lives: utter contempt.

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

funny!

but in response to the question, i think saying "nuremburg" out loud is sufficient ww
without actually having to roll their own (though maybe required more than one …)

and then, more directly, recite the constitution, and point out "they're not actually doing what they're supposed to do."