Professor Yelena Duterte (she/her)
@doothirty.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Director of the Veterans Legal Clinic @UIC Law
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Obsessed with everything veterans law related. Made in the Bay Area. Assembled in Chicago. Shipped to Syracuse. Returned to Chicago.
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Obsessed with everything veterans law related. Made in the Bay Area. Assembled in Chicago. Shipped to Syracuse. Returned to Chicago.
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This explains so much of what we are seeing.
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE.
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This explains so much of what we are seeing.
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Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Apparently it’s a crime to remind military members to follow the law and refuse illegal orders (something that it is ingrained in basic) and the pentagon can recall you into the service to discipline you. However, the pentagon will not prosecute you for dodging the draft five times.
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Wtaf?!
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wtaf?!
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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
I have assumed that a cub fan did this… check out the 2016 timing - timing seems a bit suspicious.
watching WISHMASTER and are we positive that the united states hasn’t been cursed by an evil genie
October 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have assumed that a cub fan did this… check out the 2016 timing - timing seems a bit suspicious.
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Chicagoans, if you’re free tomorrow morning you can find me here: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...
Roxane Gay: 10 Years of Being a Bad Feminist
Celebrating a decade since the release of the modern classic
www.chicagohumanities.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Chicagoans, if you’re free tomorrow morning you can find me here: www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...
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Chicago frens!
Do I know an Illinois-barred attorney who can help me protect an artist from a BS defamation claim? Suggestions much appreciated.
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Chicago frens!
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Just wild footage today. it’s very difficult to sue cops for constitutional violations, and they never personally pay (they’re indemnified), but this stuff makes it as easy as it ever gets.
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just wild footage today. it’s very difficult to sue cops for constitutional violations, and they never personally pay (they’re indemnified), but this stuff makes it as easy as it ever gets.
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.
I know what I’m seeing.
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I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.
September 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.
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Most people never begin.
They tell themselves the timing isn’t right.
That the space is too crowded.
That their voice won’t matter.
But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started.
You don’t have to be one of them.
Begin today. your future self will thank you.
They tell themselves the timing isn’t right.
That the space is too crowded.
That their voice won’t matter.
But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started.
You don’t have to be one of them.
Begin today. your future self will thank you.
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Most people never begin.
They tell themselves the timing isn’t right.
That the space is too crowded.
That their voice won’t matter.
But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started.
You don’t have to be one of them.
Begin today. your future self will thank you.
They tell themselves the timing isn’t right.
That the space is too crowded.
That their voice won’t matter.
But years from now, they’ll look back with regret, wishing they had started.
You don’t have to be one of them.
Begin today. your future self will thank you.
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Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?
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“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech hero by firing a bunch of people for saying mean things about him” is the kind of thing Tom Lehrer could have done roper justice to.
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“We’re celebrating the legacy of our martyred free speech hero by firing a bunch of people for saying mean things about him” is the kind of thing Tom Lehrer could have done roper justice to.
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A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
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This is so wildly inadequate. If taken at face value, it‘s a claim that Article II empowers the President to kill people whenever wherever in the world because “U.S. interests“ as defined by him.
I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.
I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.
As expected the War Powers report justifies the attack in the Caribbean solely on the basis of the President's authority under Article II of the Constitution as "Commander in Chief and Chief Executive." 2/n
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is so wildly inadequate. If taken at face value, it‘s a claim that Article II empowers the President to kill people whenever wherever in the world because “U.S. interests“ as defined by him.
I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.
I know. But this is a legal claim. And no, no law gives him that power.
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Thank you on this labor day!!
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank you on this labor day!!
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If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
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This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
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Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
August 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
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UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.