Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickTed Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 2hICE officers are now asking immigrants they arrest if they have ever voted illegally and whether they did so by mail or in person as part of a pre-election push to root out alleged voter fraud - which remains rare www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comIn run-up to election, ICE is asking detainees if they voted illegallyPeople who admit to voting illegally are then asked if it was by mail or in person. 166627
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2hLook, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent. 18733252
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5h“Intimidation and threats from the current administration have led funders who once saw themselves as allies to our movement to reassess political risk and pull back funding.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comWA immigrant support organization gutted by mass layoffsThe nonprofit laid off more than half its staff amid a unionization effort. Leadership blamed poor fundraising and a depleted budget. 212358
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickCharles Moore @charles-dc.bsky.social · 5hThese rules, and all the fines issued under them, are STAYED. That means that the government cannot enforce these fines while our case moves forward. www.publicjustice.net/federal-cour...publicjustice.netFederal Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Unlawful Civil Penalty Scheme Targeting Immigrant Families - Public JusticeOctober 6, 2026 Contacts: Public Justice, communications@publicjustice.net The Legal Aid A federal court granted preliminary relief to immigrants challenging the Trump Administration's unprecedent... 15417
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9hA few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office. 18320127
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickSam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 10hThe 2nd birthright order isn’t significant bc of its legal impact as an order, but bc in it Trump personally explicitly endorsed a policy vision fundamentally opposed to 14A as interpreted by SCOTUS ICE actions destabilizing the meaning of US citizenship are consistent with Trump’s official policy 17218
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fed. judge accuses ICE agents of "apparently perjurious testimony," fabrication of evidence, false statements, fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents' authority, and more. Case involves the accidental arrest of a U.S. citizen who had to get stitches. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 6511206
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1911836694
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️ 2218851695
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As the Trump admin is calling in thousands of people here for years who are protected from persecution in their home country, Tom Homan is on TV saying people who want to avoid being sent to Africa can just "self-deport." So it's accept persecution or be deported to a third country. 9260104
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickGwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The latest ICE arrest wave targets ppl with "withholding of removal," a status that means an immigration deemed they'd be in danger if deported to their home countries. The Trump admin is now pushing to deport them to third countries. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...thecityreporter.nyc'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country DeportationImmigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion. 310066
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026They cut down the "grandmother" tree. 29490343
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Even a significant portion of Republicans are like “uhhh yeah that’s sketchy” 414319
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickLuis A. Mendez @mendezmovierpt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gallup's PID survey is one of the most respected and predictive surveys in the polling world. It showed a close environment before the 2024 and 2022 elections. It showed a Dem edge in 2020 and 2018...It is D+11 going into 2026. Largest lead for Dems since Obama came into office with a ~68% rating. 521748
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...thecityreporter.nyc'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country DeportationImmigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion. 9201110
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...austinkocher.substack.comJulian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on RecordAccording to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29. 6726382
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...sltrib.comICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said. 14962435
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is no small thing for Alito to publicly rule out overturning Obergefell. The justices have sent other signals that they’re not interested, but this one closes the door.cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet. 3427451
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brazil's version of the 2024 election. 1128439
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Bolsonaro wing is also crushing it for congress and the state elections. 1125351
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"With nearly 85% of votes reported, Flavio led Lula with 48.47% of the votes to the president’s 43.49%. A candidate must pass 50% in order to win outright...surveys in the run up to the election had forecast Lula leading the first-round vote by around 3...points." www.cnbc.com/2026/10/04/b...cnbc.comBrazil election headed to runoff, projection shows, as Bolsonaro lead narrowsFlavio Bolsonaro led Brazil’s first-round presidential vote as more than half the ballots were counted, with Datafolha projecting a runoff. 1213030
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This feels like genuine heresy. 3731131
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Unbelievably depressing... the kind of result that drains you of all hope for the future 1441153
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026also thanks jd vance and christopher rufo 141668127
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading. 753549900
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026An extraordinary story, and I hope you read it. 20382101
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 36452891813
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dug into this and her name seems to be Zhao Jing. She’s being held at Adelanto. A habeas lawsuit was filed at 11:05 AM Pacific today. On X, a user said Ms. Zhao had taught her son. As to why ICE arrested her, no idea. Most likely she’s a pending asylum applicant who got stuck in backlogs for years. 21510244
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickSameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students. 2016061554
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah, famously, eggheads and poindexters and nerds have never asked “is this true.” 2932030
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The richest man in the world is agreeing with some explicitly crazy sexist shit about how only high-testosterone men should vote (no women, no “low-t” men). 2424267
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌ 33584160
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️ 101158856
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The world’s richest man says he’ll rename his company because a doddering and incredibly unpopular man did a social media poll. 35642108
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture. 771951768
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment 1153987
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickOlivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off 81563664
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you’re not on X you won’t appreciate the extent to which virulent racism against Indians has become THE rallying call of the far right. 2938698
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I kind of really want to see this because it seems so aggressively unpleasant on purpose? 1113114
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8335143
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hypothetical: a president publicly discloses a private cell phone number to encourage millions to intimidate and disturb a legislator to pass a bill. It meets the criteria for state criminal harassment. Immune under Trump v. United States? Or official conduct that can overcome the presumption? 2332883
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today. 662325470
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickNikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning 3693862743
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026this is very funny 1313701382
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —> 4867229
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s 841598238
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026The Holei Sea Arch at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park collapsed into the ocean around the same time a tropical storm hit the Big Island in September, the National Park Service said.nyti.msThe Holei Sea Arch, a Centuries-Old Hawaii Wonder, Crumbles Into the PacificA tropical storm was moving through the area when the 90-foot lava rock formation disintegrated, the National Park Service said. 6110931
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You don't get to claim you are treating anything with "seriousness" after you assert that "narco-terrorist cartels are our hemisphere's ISIS." The further beclowning of US counterterrorism. 2032460
Reposted by Aaron Reichlin-MelnickMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 501247693