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Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation

Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"

Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

It’s really interesting seeing how true this has turned out to be in my case. I came from studying Russian misinformation and the unreality state that existed around Putin and the oligarchs. by the time 2017/18 came around it was clear that we were in the same spiral of state capture.

Newsom is kinda frustrating like if your favorite team's quarterback is overrated and sucks and would be better off replaced by his backup.

Cuomo is like if your quarterback was a secret agent for the other team and kept running the ball into his own endzone and also was murdering his teammates

A fake Trump tweet of him next to the Canadian flag and someone goes RICOLAAAA! THIS IS SWITZERLAND YOU DUMB FUCK!

I’m gonna start a thread called “Bluesky Liberal Meme of the Day”

New consumer sentiment data just out for April:

Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.

Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings' ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

If only we had a historical precedent of a state rounding up 'undesirables' and shipping them just like a business moves freight

Judge Boasberg vindicated by Trump judge's ruling after being thrown under the bus by the Supreme Court.

this is possible but another way to think of it is that if you're under 40 in China you hadn't experienced anything but growth until 2020. the appetite for eating bitterness for the sake of the nation is not that great, but the fuck you spirit at US actions is very real.

they were an extremely gracious compromise to you bitches

Notice to Stakeholders Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025

Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...

NYT needs to correct this disinformation right away. Its reporters are apparently clueless about what's actually going on out there. People with valid visas and green-card holders ARE ABSOLUTELY being deported right now for speech, and without criminal convictions.

Was doing an interview about solidarity networks and the labor movement and I eventually came to this point that is true:

Until people on the left are willing to be told what to do and take those orders and do the work and like it, we will never rebuild a functional left in this country.

Case 1:25-cv-00072 Document 12 Document 12 Filed on 04/09/25 in TXSD UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BROWNSVILLE DIVISION Page 1 of 4 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED April 09, 2025 Nathan Ochsner, Clerk J.A.V., et al., Petitioners, VS. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Respondents. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:25-CV-072 TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER According to the Class Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Complaint (Doc. 1), Petitioners J.A.V., J.G.G., and W.G.H. are natives of Venezuela who are currently being held at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas.

The Court finds that maintaining the status quo is required to afford the parties the ability to develop a fuller record for the Court to consider the request for a preliminary injunction and other forms of relief, as presented in the Class Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, and to prevent the immediate and irreparable injury that may occur with the immediate removal of any Venezuelan alien subject to the Proclamation. In addition, the Court finds that immediate and irreparable injury will result to the Petitioners before the Respondents can be heard in opposition, thus requiring the consideration and issuance of this temporary restraining order ex parte. Accordingly, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, it is ORDERED THAT: Respondents are enjoined from transferring, relocating, or removing J.A.V., J.G.G., W.G.H., or any other person that Respondents claim are subject to removal under the Proclamation, from the El Valle Detention Center; and Respondents are enjoined from transporting such persons outside of Willacy County or Cameron County, Texas, without an Order from the Court. This Temporary Restraining Order shall expire on the earlier of 5:00 p.m. (central time) on Tuesday, April 23, 2025, or by Order of the Court.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Texas temporarily blocks Alien Enemies Act-based removals "from the El Valle Detention Center" in Texas.

Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., a Trump appointee, issued the order, as to 3 specific individuals & anyone else at the facility, shortly after being assigned the case.

Cool zone year one

Deeply weird seeing people try to paint the protests in South Korea as family friendly parties when the one that stopped the original coup featured girls doing karate moves on riot cops and guys in the legislature spraying special forces units with fire extinguishers

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Protests are powerfully for a number of reasons, solidarity, hope, optimism, etc

But more importantly they give people permission to act and continue to grow into actions that are diverse and far ranging in scope and scale.

Giving people the chance to find their own permission to act is good.

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!

"You journalists need to get your balls back"

No Person Shall Be Deprived... "Except If We Say So"

'this regime is attempting...to find a way around habeas corpus protections: You spirit someone across the border quickly before their lawyer can file a petition, dump them somewhere—say, a concentration camp run by a friendly client state—and then say, “oopsie, no more habeas for them.”'

This is very very bad that Trump is posting this

If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it's not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom's social security. That's why fighting for rights can't be selective. Everybody or nobody.

I love that they had to specify that certain people should be treated ok

Marc Andreessen said “it’s time to build” but the tech-right political/economic agenda is very clearly a fundamentally destructive project rather than a constructive one, and that’s being reflected in the economy

Marines with Skin Condition Affecting Mostly Black Men Could Now Be Booted Under New Policy A new Marine Corps policy says troops with a genetic skin condition that can cause pain and scarring from shaving and mainly affects Black men can be separated if the health issue persists.

pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...