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Treating bus riders like criminals — instead of the billionaire tax cheats who are robbing our communities of revenue for schools, hospitals and more — highlights the absurdity & cruelty of the federal occupation of D.C.

We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

LP Member & Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was arrested this afternoon for protecting an immigrant neighbor as they were recovering in the hospital.

This is the THIRD local official this year ICE has brutally arrested for exercising their duties. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

If you’re cashing an ICE signing bonus and think a mask makes you untouchable, think again. Trump can’t give you a get-out-of-jail-free card. As AG, I’ll hold ICE agents accountable when they exceed their authority and bully people in violation of state law.

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

Important and necessary step from @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.

NEW: I profiled @repcasar.bsky.social.
His formative experience in politics was organizing immigrant construction workers in Texas. Now he's trying something harder: organizing the Democrats.
prospect.org/politics/202...

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.

So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. D.V.D., ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [June 23, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv– 10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala, even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order, it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya. Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Earlier this month, OpenAI & Microsoft lobbyists called for a shutdown on AI regulation. Our new report details the harmful impacts of unrestricted AI on our communities and what local government can do. localprog.org/43FPlS6

Thank you @terrigerstein.bsky.social -- one of my favorite people to conspire and think with! It means a lot!

@daveyseligman.bsky.social -- one of the nation's fiercest and most innovative legal fighters for workers and consumers -- just launched his campaign for CO Atty Gen'l. David would be a superb AG. Please consider supporting him TODAY - contribution link below.

A white text box with a colorful outline. The statement is about a mayor in Newark that was arrested by ICE.

A white text box with a colorful outline. The statement is about a mayor in Newark that was arrested by ICE.

Our member, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, was arrested by ICE today. We are glad to hear that he has been released and is safe but he never should have been arrested in the first place.

From our network and LP Board member Commissioner Murray-Thomas, read our statement of solidarity 👇

Graphic displaying a Local Progress statement titled, "Amid Federal Threats, Local Leaders Stand Strong for True Civil Rights."

@marymoriarty.bsky.social is a brilliant & fair prosecutor committed to reforming our deeply flawed legal system.

The Trump Admin’s recently-launched investigation into Moriarty’s office is a calculated attack on local democracy.

Full statement: localprog.org/StandWithLoc...

“At a time when democracy is threatened and trust in government appears to be at an all-time low, organized working people across the country are showing us the possibilities for governance at the local level.”

An important topic in our essay series #restoringdemocracy

Maryland’s Republican sheriffs have rushed to join ICE's 287(g) program this year. Now, more than 1.1 million Marylanders, nearly a fifth of the state, live in 287(g) counties.

Learn more: boltsmag.org/marylan...

I wrote about what it would take and mean to empower localities to co-govern with organized collectives of working people. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/empower...

A screenshot of the Wisconsin Right Now story. It reads: Wisconsin Judge Monica Isham Threatens Not to Hold Court Over Hannah Dugan Arrest A picture shows a photo of both Judge Monica Isham and Judge Hannah Dugan side by side.

🚨NEW: Wisconsin judge threatens to go on strike in support of Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested by the FBI.

Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

"After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years... As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

Marco Rubio # @marcorubio •46m We will be revoking the visas and / or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals.

Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Great job opportunity to head up workers' rights enforcement for the city of Philadelphia! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CityofPhilad...

Butler’s antidote to this exhilarated hatred:

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

Nothing I love more than good food and worker organizing!

We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...