Dana Bacon

I'm with you - I'd rather celebrate the organic good in our local reality than see people prop up contrived or overstated versions of the same.

Someone posted in that thread that the photo was from California last year, with receipts.

Losing My Perspicacity, February 5, 2026 How the Epstein list explains the fall of the Washington Post

“It’s hard to imagine what version of reality these people live in, where no one is off limits, no one can ever really be canceled, no matter what they’ve done, where everything is a conflict of interest, so nothing is a conflict of interest.”

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Ngl, I'm pleased with the alt text

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

If you're looking to understand how we're in such a quagmire with immigration policy enforcement, you should really really really read or listen to @vermontgmg.bsky.social 's testimony. CBP and ICE are fundamentally broken and have been trending this way for 20 years.

Federal judge orders release of detained father, 5-year-old son held at Dilley facility A federal judge ordered the release of a father and his 5-year-old son who were being held at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas.

A federal judge has ordered the release of a father and his 5-year-old son held at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. news4sanantonio.com/news/loca...

Neighbors in Rosemount MN come out on a sunny cold morning to show support for constitutional norms and opposition to ICE abuse

Grateful for the 300+ neighbors in Rosemount MN who came out in 3° f temps (-16° c) to support democracy and constitutional norms and to object to ICE enforcement abuses.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

History of Science
Intercultural Communications (in Sweden)
Structure of Scandinavian Language
Strindberg: Drama
Constitutional Law History (loved this prof)

Thanks to all who replied. This is a good piece. bsky.app/profile/left...

‘Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?’: Mother of Liam Conejo Ramos shares her story from hiding Liam and his father are currently being held by federal authorities in the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, an hour plus drive southwest of San Antonio.

In an interview with MPR News, Liam's mother gave an update on her son and her own safety. She said Liam asks again and again, “Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?” Or “Mommy, we don’t want to be here anymore. This place is ugly.”

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

I played Tom Lehrer once at my suburban pizza bar for the sake of mayhem.

Paul Murphy Paul Murphy was an advocate of First Amendment freedoms and a leader in the fields of civil liberties. He was known for studying the First Amendment in World War I.

And done! Work like yours makes me think of my favorite history professor. Keep going strong, Marc. firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/paul...

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on

Is the unwritten outcome that training taught administrators how better to avoid enforcement?

this story quotes:

- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors

... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

So when the president was calling out Somalis that was okay discrimination, but the current version isn't okay? What a position to maintain, spox. :(

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This is one of the more astounding threads I've read about the judicial branch's efforts to undo ICE misconduct. Due process and the right of habeas corpus are things our ancestors fought for in the founding of our nation. Lose these rights and we will become a lesser nation.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Apologies, wrong link in the first post (there are two letters).

Correct link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I suggest reading in full…it’s really something. The judge, by the way, is a Bush appointee and two-time Scalia clerk.

bsky.app/profile/anna...

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.