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Jamie Baker Roskie

@whenisayj.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Former director, UGALaw Land Use Clinic. Long ago immigration practitioner. Coloradan, my people are Montanans. No one is free unless all are free. Justice for the #Spokane3.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody reut.rs/4iQ01Wp
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Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
A Michigan nurse was charged with helping a Mexican national escape from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the hospital ​where she worked, court documents unsealed on Tuesday showed.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: We launched this tracker in May, when ICE's detentions had been rejected about 10,000 times by federal courts. It's doubled in less than five months. See and sort the latest numbers, plus read the rulings. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 8h
Do I know a CA labor lawyer on here?
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 8h
It’s been clear since the first round of Alien Enemies Act “deportations” to CECOT that the U.S. is outsourcing immigrant detention to countries that have less robust human rights protections. It is a continuing disgrace that the Court pretends not to know this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 8h
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 8h
*to abolish
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 8h
Racism.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 8h
The top line: The en banc court is likely to rule against the Trump administration and allow U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to proceed with a contempt of court inquiry.
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A Critical Moment for the Rule of Law
This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ninety invitations for candidate prayer breakfasts in my inbox and I am confused about this premise.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We don't talk enough about how Russell Vought was given an entire chapter in Project 2025 to explain how he would do his part to wrest the entire Executive Branch into the President's iron grip as quickly as possible before anyone noticed static.heritage.org/project2025/...
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is what true fascism looks like, running deep cover in a policy proposal so impossibly boring to read that hardly anyone notices that your primary goal is quite simply to regulate your friends and dynamite the administrative state into oblivion
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/09/2026
Bangkok floodwaters recede after torrential rain as residents count losses reut.rs/3VfCzrV
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Bangkok floodwaters recede after torrential rain as residents count losses
Floodwaters receded in many parts of the Thai capital Bangkok on ‌Sunday after torrential rain eased, even as residents in some flooded neighbourhoods remained stranded in their homes.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/09/2026
Floods, landslides kill 15 in India, four in Nepal as rivers rise reut.rs/4yd1WJm
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Floods, landslides kill 15 in India, four in Nepal as rivers rise
Heavy rain and storms have triggered floods and landslides across parts of India and neighbouring Nepal, killing at least 19 people ​and leaving 10 workers missing as rivers rose above danger levels, authorities said.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
meow
Large cat-like creature
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Surprise, they're going to keep arresting whomever they damn well please. (And I appreciate the diligent followup by @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social here.)
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Of course he's going to try to demolish the Kennedy Center in the stupidest way possible. It's a metaphor for everything he does.
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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Top Health Nominees Break With RFK Jr. as Measles Cases Surge newrepublic.com/post/215521/... via @newrepublic.com
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Top Health Nominees Break With RFK Jr. as Measles Cases Surge
Two leading health nominees are declining to fully endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views on vaccines.
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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't care what the Discourse says, I refuse to listen to or learn about a country song called "Choosin' Texas."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: This week SCOTUS greenlit a flawed database for the Trump administration to purge voters from the rolls. While some claim the impacts will be minimal, it’s a good bet some red states will work with Trump to purge as aggressively as they can get away with.
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/09/2026
Murder rates fell in 2025 and look to be still dropping this year. New research points to what could be behind the decline: billions of federal dollars spent during Covid-19 on crime prevention and mental health initiatives. bit.ly/4xMoks9
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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But they're going to build a baseball park in Grand Teton, apparently!
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heather bussing @heatherbussing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
breathe
A river flowing between two strips of land into the sea at dusk. The sky has stripes of the marine layer and clouds with different density and colors of light coming through. The water is reflecting light with shadows where the waves are.
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/09/2026
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’ www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city…
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inhumane civil confinement violates Due Process if officials manifest “deliberate indifference” or the conditions are “punitive.” Judge Kaplan found both. Evidence suggested that “harsh conditions” were “a deliberate feature” to incentivize self-deportation. 5/5
Asthis Court explained when it issued the PI, the administration's actions with respect
to noncitizens illegally present in the country and the conduct by ICE staff and contractors at 26 Fed
"suggest that harsh conditions of confinement are a deliberate feature" of the administration's massdeportation program 49 That conclusion has been reinforced by passage of time and the full development of the record. Since this Court issued the PI, the administration has continued to
attempt to detain and deport as many noncitizens illegally present in the country as possible, as fast
as possible, and with as little procedure as possible. Part of that program has been its self-deportation
project, which, as the administration has described it, "offers illegal aliens a choice: leave voluntarily with [flederal support and financial assistance or face strict enforcement and penalties. '500 That the
harsh conditions of confinement at 26 Fed are one aspect of this "strict enforcement and penalties" is supported by the fact that ICE has papered walls and windows on the fifth, ninth, and tenth floors with flyers asking detainees, "Do You want to Return Home?" and incentivizing them with money to "[a]sk[] to return home now." These flyers serve as an ever-present visual reminder of the
Hobbesian choice posed to detainees and described by an ICE officer at 26 Fed: self-deport or
"remain detained" for years.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No changes of clothes. Clogged toilets. Inadequate food. Inadequate menstrual products. No medical staff at night. Asthma attacks. Withdrawals. Dementia. Inadequate medical screening. A detainee held for 6 days at peak overcrowding later tested positive for tuberculosis. 4/5
The medical precautions and care ICE provided to detainees during the summer of
2025 also was inadequate.
To begin, ICE regularly detained in the hold rooms individuals who were unfit for
detention in such crowded conditions or for detention at all. For example, at the peak of the overcrowding in early July 2025, ICE held a detainee who subsequently tested positive for tuberculosis for six days in the tenth-floor hold rooms.? ICE on those days held at least 70 and at
most 170 detainees across the four hold rooms, thus exposing some significant number of people every day to that detainee in extremely close quarters?
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The best trick misogyny ever pulled was teaching women to hate other women.
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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is possibly the stupidest thing in the history of stupid things. And I include the MMA fight and racing cars around the National Mall.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Several protesters just interrupted the pro-data center party, flipped everyone off while yelling “thank you for using all of our water!”
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2. ICYMI: The Government Accountability Office previously concluded that adding this census work to the U.S. Postal Service's responsibilities — a key focus of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for the #2030Census — would not be cost-effective or as easy as it may seem www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
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Postal workers conducting the census is part of a Trump pitch for taking over USPS
The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
How will the Supreme Court’s decision to revive a flawed citizenship database affect voters? We’ve already seen the impacts. Texas said it had used the system to identify 2,724 potential noncitizens on its rolls. But it confirmed this week that more than one in five were, in fact, citizens.
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The Supreme Court is letting Trump use a faulty database for purges. What it could mean for voters
The Trump administration said states made “some 60 million voter-verification queries" to its flawed SAVE system between January 2025 and April 2026.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 25/09/2026
The career prosecutor at the heart of the grand jury misconduct in the case resigned in a fiery letter that made it clear she's not going down for this alone. More from Josh Marshall:
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The Broadview Six Case May Be About to Break Open
Here is a short update on the so-called Broadview Six case —...
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heather bussing @heatherbussing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
breathe It's a bookstore cat day.
A view from the back of a very chubby orange cat with a white striped tail sitting on wooden floors surveying the children's section of Raven books in Lawrence, KS.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 24/09/2026
Soaring gas prices are driving European utilities back to coal, with power generation from the most polluting fuel likely to jump by a quarter in the next six months to offset a similar plunge in gas-fired generation, analysts said.
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High European gas prices push power producers back to coal
Soaring gas prices are driving European utilities back to coal, with ​power generation from the most polluting fuel likely to jump by a quarter in the next six months to offset ‌a similar plunge in gas-fired generation, analysts said.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: White House reinstates access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico following judge's order reut.rs/4yTuDen
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 24/09/2026
An appointee of President Donald Trump will determine whether to end the American Bar Association's status as the federally recognized accreditor of US law schools after a US Education Department panel failed to deliver a recommendation on Thursday.
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US Education Dept panel on law school accreditation hits impasse on ABA role
An appointee of President Donald Trump will determine whether to end the American Bar Association's status as the federally recognized accreditor of US law schools after a US ​Education Department panel failed to deliver a recommendation on Thursday.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most Senate Republicans and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted down a resolution meant to curb President Trump’s war powers. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/sena…
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Senate Votes Down a Resolution to End the War with Iran
Many senators backed the president’s war powers despite frustration from voters.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: DOJ goes to SCOTUS to be able to re-implement its third country removal policy, seeking a stay of the lower court order and immediate administrative stay. It will be Docket No. 26A406.
No. 26A_
In the Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL., APPLICANTS
D.V.D., ET AL.
APPLICATION FOR A STAY OF THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY
D. JOHN SAUER
Solicitor General
Counsel of Record
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
SupremeCtBriefs@usdoj.gov
(202) 514-2217
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: the Missouri congressional map is back at SCOTUS Voting-rights org asks Court to clarify its earlier order refusing to green-light a new gerrymandered map following an extraordinary 8th circuit order purporting to...green-light that same gerrymandered map.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 23/09/2026
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Secure Justice @securejustice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The hypocrisy and irony is major league level. Not breaking news - privacy matters to everyone. officerprivacy.com/homepage3
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Section 287 Agreements have one key informational advantage; you can likely locate information on these agreements through a state FOIA process.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What information we are likely to find out is going to be through the inter-agency agreements under Section 287; for instance, we are getting accurate reporting on the Haitian immigration crisis in Ohio through the local jails, ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/i....
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Ohio ICE detentions of Haitians have more than doubled after Trump ended protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Nearly 75 Haitians living in Ohio have been detained at one of four Ohio detention facilities that contract with ICE since President Trump took away their protected status on July 27 —  a 142.3% incre...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So…the Administration has shutdown the database that counsel use to locate their immigration clients; they are now shutting down courtrooms to the public and the press (violating the 1st Amendment); and they have been holding “mega-hearings” to deport children. UM.
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