Elizabeth Jackson

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
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The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

These kind of posts make my day, thanks.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….”

A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam

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WILD situation in Texas right now: The House Speaker has required Dems, who just returned from their out-of-state quorum break, to have police escorts once they leave the chamber. One Dem is refusing to leave the House floor with escort, and GOP leaders have blocked press access to the chamber.

Cutely decorated “best friends” scrapbook page in a protective sleeve—but the pic is Trump and Epstein

someone is making scrapbook pages and hanging them up on fences

Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop

Outside Dupont north metro

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

There are thousands of FEMA calls going unanswered due to budget cut backs and this is what they’re focused on?!

BREAKING: Gerry Connolly Resigns As Ranking Member Democratic Party leadership needs to reckon with its inability to understand when it is time to step aside—because this model is enabling the collapse of our democracy

Dem Rep Gerry Connolly has resigned as Ranking Member of House Oversight due to his cancer.

I like Connolly. But we should all be furious that Dems gave him this critical role knowing he was battling incurable cancer. This is a pattern from Dems. It must stop.
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‼️ Zelensky: "For several weeks now, we have had the American proposal for an unconditional ceasefire. And almost every day, in fact, in response to this proposal - Russian drones, Russian bombs, artillery shelling, ballistics."

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

State elections are not subject to this federal law. WI has its own election laws. See below

Kristi Noem in tight athleisure—white top, drawstring grey pants—in front of a prison cell packed with mostly shirtless men. Noem’s hair cascades out of her navy DHS cap. The men appear to be wearing loose white patient pants. Norm wears a heavy gold-and-silver watch. The men’s arms are at their sides or clasped in front, as if they’ve been told to stand at attention. Noem’s cap is pulled low, so we can’t really see her eyes; instead, her face appears comprised mainly of lips. The men’s heads have been shaved; there’s lighting on Noem but they’re in the murk, hard to distinguish from one another.

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

Sundance Picks Boulder, Colo., as Its New Home The Sundance Institute chose the new location for the movie festival because it had outgrown Park City, Utah, its home for the past 40 years.

Sundance goes to Boulder, CO. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

I win a golden retriever

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live How a Bill Does Not Become a Law - SNL

This is more where we are.

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The pardons would make this amendment moot, but I get your point.