Saralegal
@saralegal.bsky.social
Sara, 30+. AuDHD, queer, Jewish diasporist. Public sector paralegal by day, nerd by night.
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Victims of ICE/CBP: Their Names, Their Stories
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My act of solidarity with Minneapolis today was adding about a hundred new names to my spreadsheet of people harmed by DHS/ICE/CBP cruelty since Trump took office a year ago. It's up to over 4,200 now--still just a tiny fraction of the true, horrific total.
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“Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing”
—> this, in the facility with a measles outbreak.
—> this, in the facility with a measles outbreak.
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
sahanjournal.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:39 AM
“Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing”
—> this, in the facility with a measles outbreak.
—> this, in the facility with a measles outbreak.
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Judge orders release of suspects in alleged shovel attack on agent
Department of Homeland Security says agent fired in self-defense after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom.
www.startribune.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
Of course he hasn't. Crafting words carefully is intellectual landlordism, don'tcha know?
February 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Of course he hasn't. Crafting words carefully is intellectual landlordism, don'tcha know?
I regret to inform you he's pontificating about dumpster fires now. Literally.
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I regret to inform you he's pontificating about dumpster fires now. Literally.
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He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
February 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.
...What a weird thing to say.
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
...What a weird thing to say.
He's also the "authors being paid for their work is an atrocity on par with genocide" guy, apparently!
February 3, 2026 at 10:51 PM
He's also the "authors being paid for their work is an atrocity on par with genocide" guy, apparently!
"Valorous dumpster fires" is just the sauce on the unjustified ego sandwich.
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
"Valorous dumpster fires" is just the sauce on the unjustified ego sandwich.
Anyone going on a paternalistic screed about how "all normie libs" are cop appeasers in a thread about *Minneapolis,* where the "normies" are by all accounts the driving force, is not a serious person.
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Anyone going on a paternalistic screed about how "all normie libs" are cop appeasers in a thread about *Minneapolis,* where the "normies" are by all accounts the driving force, is not a serious person.
I would probably have been unhappy doing prosecution work anyway, so I'm very glad the county snapped me up first.
February 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I would probably have been unhappy doing prosecution work anyway, so I'm very glad the county snapped me up first.
Every time I feel overwhelmed by the state of the world, I remind myself just how much worse it could have been if I hadn't turned down an interview at the AUSA office a few years back. What a dodged bullet that was.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Every time I feel overwhelmed by the state of the world, I remind myself just how much worse it could have been if I hadn't turned down an interview at the AUSA office a few years back. What a dodged bullet that was.
*on behalf of DHS, rather.
February 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
*on behalf of DHS, rather.
A Julie Le was ordered to appear at the show cause hearing today on behalf of the DOJ. The attorney page you're looking at may be outdated?
Extremely inclined to doubt this is true, but Judge Blackwell did set a show cause hearing for today and Julie Le was ordered to appear for the government . . .
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
A Julie Le was ordered to appear at the show cause hearing today on behalf of the DOJ. The attorney page you're looking at may be outdated?
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Even if there hadn't been so much evidence: sexual abuse in war, sexual abuse of prisoners, sexual abuse in every hierarchical relationship should, by now, be anticipated. The people who deny reports of it should be doubly ashamed of themselves.
Nothing makes me more rage-whiteout furious than people who deny the sexual violence the hostages and the murdered went through.
A Hamas Hostage’s Secret Ordeal
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Even if there hadn't been so much evidence: sexual abuse in war, sexual abuse of prisoners, sexual abuse in every hierarchical relationship should, by now, be anticipated. The people who deny reports of it should be doubly ashamed of themselves.
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
Heartbreaking story out of Texas: 25-year-old Oscar Isidro developed depression after his father was deported last year. In January, ICE came back and took his sister, Rubiana.
He died by suicide days later.
Rubiana is still detained.
He died by suicide days later.
Rubiana is still detained.
North Texas family reeling after daughter’s ICE detainment, son’s death
A North Texas man was found dead last month after he had been missing for two weeks. Family members say he was distraught over his sister’s recent ICE detainment and father's deportation to Peru.
www.keranews.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Heartbreaking story out of Texas: 25-year-old Oscar Isidro developed depression after his father was deported last year. In January, ICE came back and took his sister, Rubiana.
He died by suicide days later.
Rubiana is still detained.
He died by suicide days later.
Rubiana is still detained.
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A perfect distillation of the Israeli Jewish left
Yair Golan says if he is PM, he won't fund settlements anymore.
Yair Lapid says that Golan should take it back and apologize because settlers are Israeli citizens.
Golan then walks it back half-way, saying he'll only fund the "settler blocs".
Yair Golan says if he is PM, he won't fund settlements anymore.
Yair Lapid says that Golan should take it back and apologize because settlers are Israeli citizens.
Golan then walks it back half-way, saying he'll only fund the "settler blocs".
Yair Golan vows not to fund settlements if he comes to power
After allied Opposition Leader Lapid advises he retract statement, Democrats party chief clarifies he was referring to illegal outposts, and settlement blocs are 'part of Israel'
www.timesofisrael.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
A perfect distillation of the Israeli Jewish left
Yair Golan says if he is PM, he won't fund settlements anymore.
Yair Lapid says that Golan should take it back and apologize because settlers are Israeli citizens.
Golan then walks it back half-way, saying he'll only fund the "settler blocs".
Yair Golan says if he is PM, he won't fund settlements anymore.
Yair Lapid says that Golan should take it back and apologize because settlers are Israeli citizens.
Golan then walks it back half-way, saying he'll only fund the "settler blocs".
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Whistles are highly effective for both community defense and alerting people to the fact that there's an existential risk in their communities. If you are not centering the people who are fearing for their lives. families, and communities, I am not interested in whatever you have to say.
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Whistles are highly effective for both community defense and alerting people to the fact that there's an existential risk in their communities. If you are not centering the people who are fearing for their lives. families, and communities, I am not interested in whatever you have to say.
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After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 AM
After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
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I am relieved that a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s illegal attempts to end temporary protected status for Haitians. We won’t stop fighting for a future where all our neighbors are protected. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/02/n...
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for Haitians - The Boston Globe
A judge paused the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 AM
I am relieved that a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s illegal attempts to end temporary protected status for Haitians. We won’t stop fighting for a future where all our neighbors are protected. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/02/n...
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Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”
Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
February 3, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”
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Giants hater here. This play was magic, you knew the Giants were going to win once David Tyree hung on, and I wish every sports fan got to see their team do something even half of this cool. This was the most excited I've ever been about a non-Philly-related sports play ever. Unreal.
February 3, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Giants hater here. This play was magic, you knew the Giants were going to win once David Tyree hung on, and I wish every sports fan got to see their team do something even half of this cool. This was the most excited I've ever been about a non-Philly-related sports play ever. Unreal.
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Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...