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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔴🇺🇸 [#DeportationProject] The Office of Remigration: “America First” and its overseas negotiations. Behind the Trump administration’s third-country deportation system is a little-known Department of State: the Office of Remigration.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HUGE NEWS ON HOLDING ICE AND BORDER PATROL ACCOUNTABLE: My bill to allow people to sue federal agents for violating their constitutional rights — just like people can already sue local police — received its final approval from the Senate and is on its way to the Governor! 🧵

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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

May the ghost of Jonathan Gold come back to vote against her in the general election.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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1truthwhisperer.bsky.social @1truthwhisperer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ask this woman if she's financially invested in the contractors and industries making 'BANK' off of the untold billions allocated by Congress to ICE, the private for-profit concentration camps, and other DHS contractors.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I think it’s fair to say that ensuring the government must show cause for denying people their freedom is the absolute core function of the court, in the U.S. legal tradition. What OP is describing is a frontal assault on the entire idea of judicial power. If this policy stands, Article III falls.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

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Dispatch from the occupation

What life is like in Minneapolis now

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Take a stroll through the 92nd Street Y's archive of writer's tapes. The most enchanting thing published this morning.

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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Art Moreorless @artmoreorless.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Democrats should go in front of cameras and say, "The GOP has a majority. SCOTUS says that Trump can cancel any funding he feels like. We're sitting this one out because he'll just change the rules. The GOP needs to fix it themselves."

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 26/09/2025

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

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nikki muthafunka @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/09/2025

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

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Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter

The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

One of the more interesting books I've read, on how some judges thought about how to navigate how to rule in the 1850s yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 24/07/2025

Each American taxpayer paid $1.60/year for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If I were a Democratic governor or mayor, I would approve a $1 public media fee annually on each resident. I was thinking of this today because the @wbez.org shortfall is $3M, which is ~$1 per Chicago resident.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Let's also connect the dots: ICE officers, agency spokespeople, now even government lawyers are all trying to get out of being named/seen publicly while doing their jobs. The effect (and maybe the point) is to normalize terror, arbitrariness, and lack of accountability. It's police state behavior.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 23/06/2025

California has introduced a bill that will prohibit all law enforcement in the state from masking their faces

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Lori Schoenberg @lbschoenberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

@vermontgmg.bsky.social asks some critical questions about whether ICE, as currently constituted, can continue to exist in a Democratic society. Since we’re here, I recommend his prior reporting on US Customs + Border Protection’s structural deficiencies (linked herein). bsky.app/profile/verm...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/06/2025

"They know it's wrong, and we should never let them forget what they're doing because if they want to say they're pro-life we're gonna make them prove it." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social delivered this message in front of the Supreme Court as we rallied to free Andry. Join the fight: freeandry.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Want to make 3 court filings available given focus on Abrego Garcia. 1) Here's the first Immigration Judge's ruling that KAG posed a risk, which Pam Bondi falsely claimed amounted to a ruling he's a MS-13 terrorist. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

TIMELINE
ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION.

2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years.

March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense.

April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason.

August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal.

2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law.

March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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Lori Schoenberg @lbschoenberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🧵 Hi everyone, I recognize that I have not introduced myself, beyond my bare bones bio. I am an immigration attorney, who is based in Los Angeles. Apart from my professional obligations, I am a member of the Board of Directors for the Refugee Children Center, a nonprofit org in North Hills, CA. 1/

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🧵 BAD DOGE: WHAT CAN I DO? Here's a letter I am sending to all of my elected representatives. Please copy as much as you like, and send it to yours, today! This link will help you find how to contact them. My letter follows in the thread below... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What Musk is trying to do is have the ability to engage in impoundment of appropriations- funds Congress has ordered be spent- even if administrative agencies are resisting Trump and respecting the constitution, various statutes and court injunctions. Just by shutting off payment

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/10/2024

🦋 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! I recommend exploring our custom feeds, which are a little like hashtags but more interesting. We have them for academic and professional subjects, sports, cities, hobbies (e.g., gardening, baking), and many more. Search them in the sidebar under Feeds. 🧵

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

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