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Book me on Cameo. All of my proceeds go to St. Francis Center Los Angeles. They provide food and comprehensive services to low income and homeless individuals and families in the Greater Los Angeles Area. #officespace #futurama #bobsburgers #idiocracy #kingofthehill

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Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody
YouTube video by Brick
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December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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✨Before the year ends, make a gift to the National Immigration Law Center.

As this administration continues to target immigrants, your support helps us sustain our vital work to defend our communities and fight for immigrants' rights.
www.nilc.org/donate-now/
Support NILC's Work
www.nilc.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#2025recap
When violent enforcement escalated, we responded with litigation and persistence. We challenged unlawful raids, fought to restore counsel for children, forced action on asylum cases, and showed up nationwide to demand accountability.
This work continues. Support us: immdef.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This year felt like a decade. I wanted to highlight some of the immigration reporting I've done over the past 12 months:

In January, I wrote about the big money fueling the right's plot to end birthright citizenship.
The big-money right-wing push to upend the Constitution—and kill birthright citizenship
“We’re in totally uncharted territory.”
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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We keep each other safe. 🩵
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Donate now and your gift will go 2X as far to help:
✅ Transform prison environments to ensure people can live with dignity
✅ Defend due process
✅ Remove barriers to housing for formerly incarcerated people

Support this vital work: https://secure.vera.org/a/fy26-eoy2x
Donate to the Vera Institute of Justice
Make your 2X MATCHED gift now. With your support, we can transform our justice systems.
secure.vera.org
December 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“There was no way for them to do the aggressive kind of detention and deportation numbers [they want] without having to break a lot of due process and violate a lot of people's rights, which is exactly what we're seeing.”
LUPE: RGV elected officials could and should be doing more to stop ICE raids - Rio Grande Guardian
The argument that local elected officials are powerless because immigration enforcement is a federal issue does not cut it, says community group.
riograndeguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park.

Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.
December 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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To stay up to date with the state of immigration detention in the U.S., check out Vera’s ICE Detention Trends dashboard, now updated with data through mid-October: www.vera.org/ice-detentio...
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
www.vera.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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When raids began in SoCal in June 2025, ImmDef & CLUE launched the Detained Immigrant Bond Fund. We raised $850K, bringing 85 people home this holiday season. With average bonds at $10K, we can free just 5 more—unless you help us step up again.

Donate: cluejustice.org/bond
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Happy birthday Don Alias!

Miles Davis – electric trumpet with wah-wah pedal
Michael Henderson – bass guitar
Don Alias – drums, percussion
Jack DeJohnette – drums
Billy Hart – drums
Al Foster – drums
James Mtume – percussion
Carlos Garnett – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
#jazzsky
On the Corner / New York Girl / Thinkin' of One Thing and Doin' Another / Vote for Miles
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Trump administration is sending masked federal agents to round up our immigrant neighbors—even people with #DACA, who should be protected, are being detained.

Lawmakers must provide permanent protections. Tell your Senators to pass the DREAM Act:
https://bit.ly/48W2rxv
Take Action!
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December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.
‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it
People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Merry Christmas, taxpayers.
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"They want to build a network of concentration camps."
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in US Warehouses
ICE's plan to warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants in massive storage facilities is "beyond dehumanizing."
www.commondreams.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities.

Here's how to reach out:
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is how pressure works. Advocates say Jeanette Vizguerra may not have to stay in ICE detention while her case moves forward. ICE detention is often framed as inevitable. In reality, it’s discretionary.

sentinelcolorado.com/metro/immigr...
Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released on bond from Aurora ICE jail - Sentinel Colorado
Vizguerra gained prominence after she took refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration.
sentinelcolorado.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Congress is considering a bill that would limit ICE’s authority to deputize state and local law enforcement for immigration enforcement.

Tell Congress to vote yes on this bill and end the 287(g) program once and for all.
End ICE's Dangerous 287(g) Program
ICE's 287(g) program turns local police into a weapon for ICE, meaning more racial profiling, more fear in our communities, and more people in immigrant detention. Tell Congress to end it now.
action.aclu.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM