Public Defendering

Never ever

If you’re an ICE agent (or someone familiar with their upcoming raids) who wants to talk, especially about Broadview, I am mandawritesthings at proton dot me.

How shocking that police lie to excuse their excessive force

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

This happened in Louisiana, Louisiana State Police are the same police that had a DOJ probe for systemically targeting Black motorists with excessive force (and in most cases deadly force), this is not new but it’s horrible that LSP continues to prey upon Black motorists

Don’t undersell Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi

From the law community on Reddit: Stephen Miller on deportations plans. Wouldn't this have... major civil war implications? Explore this post and more from the law community

Stephen Miller also told everyone he was going to get red state National Guards to invade blue states *a year ago*.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/rZOO...

literally pitting red states against blue ones *militarily*

based on a threat not to the United States or its national security

but to white supremacy alone

no no you don’t understand when i said “states rights” i meant my state should have the right to invade your state with guns

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Some context that I think gets lost by calling people here "protesters." Strictly true that they were protesting. But this was neighborhood. Almost all of it was people who came out of their houses and pleaded to stop using gas because there were kids in houses/yards in the blocks off Kedzie.

Every American should be deeply offended when they hear this. What they are saying is YOU are too stupid to know this is a lie! You are a fool.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Demonstrators against the Gaza Genocide in Jerusalem tonight. Still from a video posted by @RSolidarityNet on X

Jerusalem tonight.
"We must resist against genocide"

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Weird stuff happens all the time but I do have to say I’m pretty skeptical that federal agents were “rammed by 10 cars” and somehow none of them were injured? If that’s true, surely it wouldn’t be too hard to track down 10 busted vehicles?

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

Again, this is what the SCOTUS has sanctioned. On Sept. 10th @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I talked about Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion white-washing ICE raids in Noem v. Vazquez Perdomo. His fact-free opinion was either naive, lazy, or sinister. The Trump Admin read it as a green light.

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within' Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

It boils down to, he just missed being on tv

these clips from the secretary’s speech have the same energy as a 9 year old boy who decided to start a secret club and is explaining to his friends why they should all call themselves “the vipers” from now on

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Did I miss the part where their oath of office included swearing loyalty to the president?

You can tell he’s been the subject of a lot of complaints in his past

Climate change may be the single greatest geopolitical wild card of the next century — a reshaping of countries' agricultures, economies, and even literal geography. And here a guy who never rose above the rank of Major says the U.S. military shouldn't even consider it.

We are screwed.

Kavanaugh Stop in action

Pritzker: “Over the weekend, we received numerous confirmed reports of federal agents…abusing their power, intimidating innocent civilians, and waging war on our people…What I’ve been warning of is now being realized.”