Rachel Rosenbloom

CJFS Healey Statement ICE Sign the Letter to Governor Healey Dear Governor Healey: We write as Jewish residents of Massachusetts who understand that the fight against antisemitism cannot be separated from the struggle agains...

Jewish MA residents: Please sign our letter to Gov. Healey demanding she end all cooperation with ICE--particularly the 287g agreement with the Dept. of Corrections. All other blue states have terminated their 287g's.

Text: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tinker v. Des Moines: Youth Rights in a Time of Plausible Genocide On this anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines, plaintiff Mary Beth Tinker speaks to the need for freedom of speech for students and teachers about Palestine.

Mary Beth Tinker wrote essay ⬇️ for anniversary.

She says:

Decades ago students needed the freedom to protest the Vietnam war.

Today, students need the freedom to demand a ceasefire in Gaza (for safety of all) & the end of U.S. aid for genocide.⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tinker-...

Feb. 24, 1969: Tinker v. Des Moines Case Wins Free Speech Rights for Students The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

#tdih 1969, SCOTUS ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate" in Tinker v. Des Moines -- students (age 8-17) suspended b/c they wore armbands to school to protest Vietnam war. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

The ACLU's brief for the plaintiffs in the birthright citizenship case.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Kris Collins, Gerry Neuman and @rosenbloom.bsky.social just filed this excellent brief in the birthright citizenship case, on the very strong statutory basis for declaring the Trump E.O. to be unlawful.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Demographic Category Unaccompanied Children Family Unit Members Total 19-Dec 3,223 8,595 11,818 20-Jan 2,680 5,161 7,841 20-Feb 3,070 4,610 7,680 20-Mar 2,974 3,455 6,429 20-Apr 712 716 1,428 20-May 966 979 1,945 20-Jun 1,603 1,581 3,184 20-Jul 2,426 1,989 4,415 20-Aug 2,998 2,609 5,607 20-Sep 3,756 3,808 7,564 20-Oct 4,687 4,634 9,321 20-Nov 4,475 4,172 8,647 20-Dec 4,852 4,248 9,100 21-Jan 5,688 7,066 12,754 21-Feb 9,263 19,289 28,552 21-Mar 18,716 53,411 72,127 21-Apr 16,900 48,297 65,197 21-May 13,878 40,816 54,694 21-Jun 15,022 50,106 65,128 21-Jul 18,681 76,572 95,253 21-Aug 18,492 79,899 98,391 21-Sep 14,180 62,577 76,757 21-Oct 12,625 41,556 54,181 21-Nov 13,745 43,279 57,024 21-Dec 11,704 49,437 61,141 22-Jan 8,607 30,419 39,026 22-Feb 11,779 25,165 36,944 22-Mar 13,892 34,052 47,944 22-Apr 11,857 37,082 48,939 22-May 14,420 51,166 65,586 22-Jun 14,929 44,071 59,000 22-Jul 13,003 42,851 55,854 22-Aug 10,993 39,305 50,298 22-Sep 11,539 44,579 56,118 22-Oct 11,654 46,745 58,399 22-Nov 12,780 49,827 62,607 22-Dec 11,829 60,843 72,672 23-Jan 9,034 25,829 34,863 23-Feb 10,418 25,643 36,061 23-Mar 11,852 33,269 45,121 23-Apr 11,062 46,555 57,617 23-May 9,442 45,026 54,468 23-Jun 6,732 31,271 38,003 23-Jul 10,035 60,165 70,200 23-Aug 13,527 93,111 106,638 23-Sep 13,154 103,027 116,181 23-Oct 10,697 84,411 95,108 23-Nov 11,940 82,676 94,616 23-Dec 12,456 101,707 114,163 24-Jan 7,483 39,806 47,289 24-Feb 9,355 45,972 55,327 24-Mar 7,926 45,987 53,913 24-Apr 7,632 40,160 47,792 24-May 7,693 41,819 49,512 24-Jun 6,662 27,817 34,479 24-Jul 5,624 16,080 21,704 24-Aug 6,397 15,544 21,941 24-Sep 5,839 13,599 19,438 24-Oct 5,876 15,236 21,112 24-Nov 5,765 12,247 18,012 24-Dec 6,114 14,265 20,379 25-Jan 2,746 7,095 9,841 25-Feb 733 809 1,542 25-Mar 631 468 1,099 25-Apr 790 534 1,324 25-May 1,007 460 1,467 25-Jun 638 277 915 25-Jul 451 316 767 25-Aug 626 513 1,139 25-Sep 822 979 1,801 25-Oct 831 639 1,470 25-Nov 681 386 1,067 25-Dec 544 386 930 26-Jan 447 180 627

Now that asylum/protection at the US-Mexico border is gone (illegal but true), and now that suffering abuse inside the US is probable, only 627 child/family migrants entered Border Patrol custody in January—the fewest for which we have records (since October 2011).

Old photograph of a wave in the ocean.

On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance

Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.

Yesterday, we filed this amicus brief in Trump v Barbara: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It's an updated/expanded version of the brief we filed last spring in the circuit courts. Summary below. TL;DR: birthright citizenship is guaranteed by BOTH the Constitution AND federal statute.

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.

It's harrowing stuff:

newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Every American needs to watch this:

Read this whole thread and support journalism that matters.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS.

Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

quite seriously: AUSAs are going to start filing briefs written with ChatGPT and the sanctions situation is going to be like nothing we’ve ever seen

Incredible testimony at Surprise, AZ city council meeting, to go along with the “Be a neighbor, not a Nazi” signs that people were holding.i don’t know who this person is, but they really nailed it.

New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.

It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

This is civic action.

Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.

130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

The attorney working for DOJ who asked to be held in contempt so she could get some sleep and said "this job sucks" was assigned **88** federal cases in less than a month, per a court docket search.

www.fox9.com/news/federal...

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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