Sarah Einselen

An update from WGN on Debbie Brockman: "Earlier today, a WGN-TV creative services employee was detained by ICE. She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her. Out of respect for her privacy, we will have no further statements about this incident.”

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Okay this is a good headline

I’m not a Catholic but I am a Christian. This statement is quite moving. This is the way of Jesus.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

(He's rebooked and hanging out at a hotel in the meantime) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Ahh. Not a huge leap to think the bad actors targeting him could've done that too, then. That's disappointing, about the lack of security. Thanks for the reply.

This is super weird. @wandrme.paxex.aero or other aviation writers, is this a thing that happens? Tickets suddenly canceled *after* check-in and security?

OP was headed to Spain after getting death threats incl his US home address. He's a historian of opposition to fascism around the world.

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Got my longest and most valuable freelancing gig off a Twitter post actually. And met my husband using okcupid 😆

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Something I'd note - tho I'm no expert, my understanding of HR stuff is that a company has a legal obligation to provide a working environment free from, like, death threats. There's no way a social media platform *isn't* going to permaban someone who posts like this toward a platform employee.

Yeah the post was pretty indefensible.
bsky.app/profile/segy...

That immigration agent who threw a woman to the ground, prompting DHS to declare his conduct "unacceptable"?

He's back at the courthouse.

And DHS still won't tell us his name.

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the Middle East, evangelicals are abandoning politically centered theology for peace (RNS) — Recent leadership changes in the Middle East show the evangelical world outside the US moving away from Christian Zionism toward a politics of mercy.

OPINION: Evangelicals are reclaiming the moral and prophetic dimensions of their faith — centering it not on political loyalty or territorial claims, but on principles of justice, mercy and human dignity.
religionnews.com/2025/10/03/i...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

CATO has been consistently good on the issues they're good on for some time.

It's one of the reason I caution people abt conflating right with bad -- principled right is right on key issues.

After the passage of the notorious 1924 immigration law, HIAS started looking for alternative countries of refuge for people who needed it. We are back there.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission.

/this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.

"They hated immigrants more than they loved their own country's freedom" would make a hell of an epitaph.

An “immigration judge” is not an actual judge in the judicial branch. They are a DOJ employee.

As Judge Young, an actual judge, made clear in one of the truly essential parts of his Tuesday ruling. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

“You’re the cause of my suffering” (Gen 16:5) — Sarah, after exploiting Hagar.

Oppressors cry “violence” when their injustice backfires. Instead of repenting, they double down.

YES! This is the site where links still work and people read articles.

Link your thing! Read the link!

Journalist taken to the hospital after shove by officer outside immigration court in NYC The journalist, who works with a Turkish news agency, was put in a neck brace and transported to the hospital.

what would you say if you saw this in another country? gothamist.com/news/journal...

50 Let’s be honest. In our secret heart of hearts, many of us are tiny Trump wannabes. After all, who does not feel the urge to stride about, “sticking it to The Man,” wrecking institutions and careers simply because we find them irksome? Most of us, however, ascribe to Shakespeare’s famous adage: “O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." MEASURE FOR MEASURE, act 2, scene 2.66.

Just an extraordinary decision. Never seen anything like it.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Finally, perhaps we don't much care. After all, these Plaintiffs, a group of non-citizen pro-Palestinians are relatively small compared to the much larger interest groups who have every right vigorously to espouse the cause of the State of Israel. Palestine is far away and its people are caught up in the horrors of a modern war with heavy ordinance wreaking massive indiscriminate destruction, a war that is not one of our making. Why should we care about the free speech rights of their compatriots here among us?

Here's why: The United states is a great nation, not because any of us say so. It is great because we still practice our frontier tradition of selflessness for the good of us all. Strangers go out of their way to help strangers when they see a need. In times of fire, flood, and national disaster, everyone pitches in to help people we've never met and first responders selflessly risk their lives for others. Hundreds of firefighters rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 without hesitation desperate to find and save survivors. That's who we are. And on distant battlefields our military “fought and died for the men [they]

marched among.” Frank Loesser, “The Ballad of Roger Young”, LIFE, 5 March 1945, at 117. Each day, I recognize (to paraphrase Lincoln again) that the brave men and women, living and dead, who have struggled in our Nation's service have hallowed our Constitutional freedom far above my (or anyone’s) poor power to add or detract. The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.

Judge Young then proposes that maybe Americans just don't care because there aren't many immigrant Palestinians among us and Gaza is far away. He then concludes this section with a robust defense of WHY people should care about what this admin is doing, which I'm reproducing in full.

Read it all.