LiJia
@ljgong.bsky.social
Policy and Legal Director at Local Progress
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Treating bus riders like criminals — instead of the billionaire tax cheats who are robbing our communities of revenue for schools, hospitals and more — highlights the absurdity & cruelty of the federal occupation of D.C.
We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.
We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Treating bus riders like criminals — instead of the billionaire tax cheats who are robbing our communities of revenue for schools, hospitals and more — highlights the absurdity & cruelty of the federal occupation of D.C.
We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.
We demand an end to federal overreach and the harassment of our communities.
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LP Member & Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was arrested this afternoon for protecting an immigrant neighbor as they were recovering in the hospital.
This is the THIRD local official this year ICE has brutally arrested for exercising their duties. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
This is the THIRD local official this year ICE has brutally arrested for exercising their duties. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
LP Member & Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was arrested this afternoon for protecting an immigrant neighbor as they were recovering in the hospital.
This is the THIRD local official this year ICE has brutally arrested for exercising their duties. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
This is the THIRD local official this year ICE has brutally arrested for exercising their duties. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
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The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.
New ICE data show that the court order banning profiling reduced ICE arrests in LA by 66%! In other words, ICE is effectively admitting that TWO THIRDS of LA arrests were unconstitutional profiling. Did they admit this to the court? NO! They lied to the courts...
August 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.
Important and necessary step from @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social
We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police.
By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.
This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.
By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.
This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.
August 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Important and necessary step from @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social
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NEW: I profiled @repcasar.bsky.social.
His formative experience in politics was organizing immigrant construction workers in Texas. Now he's trying something harder: organizing the Democrats.
prospect.org/politics/202...
His formative experience in politics was organizing immigrant construction workers in Texas. Now he's trying something harder: organizing the Democrats.
prospect.org/politics/202...
Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win
The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.
prospect.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
NEW: I profiled @repcasar.bsky.social.
His formative experience in politics was organizing immigrant construction workers in Texas. Now he's trying something harder: organizing the Democrats.
prospect.org/politics/202...
His formative experience in politics was organizing immigrant construction workers in Texas. Now he's trying something harder: organizing the Democrats.
prospect.org/politics/202...
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
www.nbcnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Earlier this month, OpenAI & Microsoft lobbyists called for a shutdown on AI regulation. Our new report details the harmful impacts of unrestricted AI on our communities and what local government can do. localprog.org/43FPlS6
May 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Earlier this month, OpenAI & Microsoft lobbyists called for a shutdown on AI regulation. Our new report details the harmful impacts of unrestricted AI on our communities and what local government can do. localprog.org/43FPlS6
Thank you @terrigerstein.bsky.social -- one of my favorite people to conspire and think with! It means a lot!
Great piece by @ljgong.bsky.social of @localprogress.bsky.social: "At a time when democracy is threatened & trust in gov't appears to be at an all-time low, organized working people...are showing us the possibilities for governance at the local level." rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/empower...
Empowering Localities to Further a New Progressive Federalism - Roosevelt Institute
During the first Trump administration, states and localities were leaders in resisting the Trump agenda. State attorneys general in particular used their litigation muscle to stop and slow down odious...
rooseveltinstitute.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thank you @terrigerstein.bsky.social -- one of my favorite people to conspire and think with! It means a lot!
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@daveyseligman.bsky.social -- one of the nation's fiercest and most innovative legal fighters for workers and consumers -- just launched his campaign for CO Atty Gen'l. David would be a superb AG. Please consider supporting him TODAY - contribution link below.
I'm David Seligman.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
I’m running for CO Attorney General.
This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.
May 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@daveyseligman.bsky.social -- one of the nation's fiercest and most innovative legal fighters for workers and consumers -- just launched his campaign for CO Atty Gen'l. David would be a superb AG. Please consider supporting him TODAY - contribution link below.
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Our member, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, was arrested by ICE today. We are glad to hear that he has been released and is safe but he never should have been arrested in the first place.
From our network and LP Board member Commissioner Murray-Thomas, read our statement of solidarity 👇
From our network and LP Board member Commissioner Murray-Thomas, read our statement of solidarity 👇
May 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Our member, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, was arrested by ICE today. We are glad to hear that he has been released and is safe but he never should have been arrested in the first place.
From our network and LP Board member Commissioner Murray-Thomas, read our statement of solidarity 👇
From our network and LP Board member Commissioner Murray-Thomas, read our statement of solidarity 👇
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@marymoriarty.bsky.social is a brilliant & fair prosecutor committed to reforming our deeply flawed legal system.
The Trump Admin’s recently-launched investigation into Moriarty’s office is a calculated attack on local democracy.
Full statement: localprog.org/StandWithLoc...
The Trump Admin’s recently-launched investigation into Moriarty’s office is a calculated attack on local democracy.
Full statement: localprog.org/StandWithLoc...
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@marymoriarty.bsky.social is a brilliant & fair prosecutor committed to reforming our deeply flawed legal system.
The Trump Admin’s recently-launched investigation into Moriarty’s office is a calculated attack on local democracy.
Full statement: localprog.org/StandWithLoc...
The Trump Admin’s recently-launched investigation into Moriarty’s office is a calculated attack on local democracy.
Full statement: localprog.org/StandWithLoc...
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“At a time when democracy is threatened and trust in government appears to be at an all-time low, organized working people across the country are showing us the possibilities for governance at the local level.”
An important topic in our essay series #restoringdemocracy
An important topic in our essay series #restoringdemocracy
I wrote about what it would take and mean to empower localities to co-govern with organized collectives of working people. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/empower...
May 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“At a time when democracy is threatened and trust in government appears to be at an all-time low, organized working people across the country are showing us the possibilities for governance at the local level.”
An important topic in our essay series #restoringdemocracy
An important topic in our essay series #restoringdemocracy
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Maryland’s Republican sheriffs have rushed to join ICE's 287(g) program this year. Now, more than 1.1 million Marylanders, nearly a fifth of the state, live in 287(g) counties.
Learn more: boltsmag.org/marylan...
Learn more: boltsmag.org/marylan...
May 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Maryland’s Republican sheriffs have rushed to join ICE's 287(g) program this year. Now, more than 1.1 million Marylanders, nearly a fifth of the state, live in 287(g) counties.
Learn more: boltsmag.org/marylan...
Learn more: boltsmag.org/marylan...
I wrote about what it would take and mean to empower localities to co-govern with organized collectives of working people. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/empower...
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I wrote about what it would take and mean to empower localities to co-govern with organized collectives of working people. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/empower...
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🚨NEW: Wisconsin judge threatens to go on strike in support of Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested by the FBI.
Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏
Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏
April 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚨NEW: Wisconsin judge threatens to go on strike in support of Judge Hannah Dugan, arrested by the FBI.
Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏
Monica Isham: “I have no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE & sent to a concentration camp without the due process the constitutions we swore to support require.”👏
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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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"After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years... As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"After the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years... As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, ProPublica found, it rose substantially in Texas." www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
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This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
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BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals.
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
March 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals.
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Great job opportunity to head up workers' rights enforcement for the city of Philadelphia! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CityofPhilad...
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Great job opportunity to head up workers' rights enforcement for the city of Philadelphia! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CityofPhilad...
Butler’s antidote to this exhilarated hatred:
February 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Butler’s antidote to this exhilarated hatred:
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.