Colin Lawrence
@colinjlawrence.bsky.social
(he/him) Passion for Human Rights, Migration, Politics, and Pizza. Micah 6:8. Christian nationalism is idolatry.
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Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
October 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
September 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
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We also had another high school shooting in Denver. The suspect is a white 16 year old boy who was radicalized online and promoted anti semitic and white nationalist nonsense.
coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...
coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...
Suspect in Evergreen school shooting was ‘radicalized’ by ‘extremist network,’ investigators say | Colorado Newsline
The suspect who shot and injured two people at Evergreen High School was “radicalized by some extremist network."
coloradonewsline.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We also had another high school shooting in Denver. The suspect is a white 16 year old boy who was radicalized online and promoted anti semitic and white nationalist nonsense.
coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...
coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...
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Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”
They bend the knee without even being asked.
They bend the knee without even being asked.
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”
They bend the knee without even being asked.
They bend the knee without even being asked.
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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LIVE: New ICE Detention Numbers Explained
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-new-i...
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-new-i...
LIVE: New ICE Detention Numbers Explained
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
austinkocher.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
LIVE: New ICE Detention Numbers Explained
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-new-i...
Listen now | In this Substack Live event, I walk through the latest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention data that shows nearly 58,000 people in detention as of June 29, 2025.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/live-new-i...
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Two refugee families - one from South Africa, the other from Myanmar. Two very different experiences under Trump.
@silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
@silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Two refugee families. Two very different experiences under Trump.
A South African family was given a fast track to entering the U.S. as refugees. A family from Myanmar is struggling amid cuts to resettlement agencies under Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Two refugee families - one from South Africa, the other from Myanmar. Two very different experiences under Trump.
@silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
@silviafosterfrau.bsky.social reports from the city both are now starting over in: Birmingham.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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JUST IN: Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.
Judge orders release of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.
n.pr
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
JUST IN: Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.
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"Under the Trump rules, migrant children have stayed in shelters an average of 217 days before being released last month to family members, according to new data from the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement." APNEWS.COM
217 days and counting: Trump's rules slow the release of migrant children to their families
Releases of immigrant children in U.S. custody have slowed dramatically since the Trump administration increased vetting of people seeking to take care of them.
apnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Under the Trump rules, migrant children have stayed in shelters an average of 217 days before being released last month to family members, according to new data from the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement." APNEWS.COM
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NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: In the days before the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case became a nationwide story, DHS and DOJ officials clashed over how to handle the case, with DHS officials strategizing about how to keep him there and about ways to smear him in the press.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: In the days before the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case became a nationwide story, DHS and DOJ officials clashed over how to handle the case, with DHS officials strategizing about how to keep him there and about ways to smear him in the press.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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Lot's of folks asking "what can we do?" We have Good Trouble assignments each day on the Daily Beans podcast. You can join your local Indivisible chapter. You can run for something. There are tons of elections to help with between now and 2026. Head to mobilize.us for ideas. 2/
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May 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Lot's of folks asking "what can we do?" We have Good Trouble assignments each day on the Daily Beans podcast. You can join your local Indivisible chapter. You can run for something. There are tons of elections to help with between now and 2026. Head to mobilize.us for ideas. 2/
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arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
May 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
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The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.
🚨ALERT 🚨ICE reported at 5300 South Dakota Ave NE in the last couple of hours. 4 agents and 2 cars confirmed. At least one person detained.
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
🚨ALERTA🚨ICE/La Migra reportado en 5300 South Dakota Ave NE en las últimas dos horas. 4 agentes and 2 carros confirmados. Al menos una persona detenida. 1/
May 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.
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LATEST: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting responds to Trump's executive order that aims to cut funding to NPR and PBS:
"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority."
"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority."
Trump signs order to ax federal funding for NPR and PBS
His order calls the 2 biggest U.S. public broadcasters that have decades enjoyed bipartisan congressional support "biased."
www.axios.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
LATEST: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting responds to Trump's executive order that aims to cut funding to NPR and PBS:
"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority."
"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority."
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ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."
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a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
a formerly enslaved Black anarchist woman led the first American May Day parade in Chicago in 1886 and don’t you forget it!!
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May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
May Day protesters will rally nationwide against the 'war on working people'
May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on T...
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
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Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, who died this day in 1380.
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
"Love transforms you into what you love"
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
"Love transforms you into what you love"
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Today is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, who died this day in 1380.
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
"Love transforms you into what you love"
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
"Love transforms you into what you love"
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Sigh. I’m a broken record, but our research suggests that DHS intentionally employs enforced disappearance (incommunicado & unregistered detention) as a tactic to facilitate deportations and hamper lawyers’ ability to intervene to enforce their clients ‘s rights: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Sigh. I’m a broken record, but our research suggests that DHS intentionally employs enforced disappearance (incommunicado & unregistered detention) as a tactic to facilitate deportations and hamper lawyers’ ability to intervene to enforce their clients ‘s rights: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
So What About Everyone Else at CECOT?
Many have been asking about all the other people unlawfully disappeared to El Salvador, and who is fighting for them.
www.muellershewrote.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...
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"I would argue tattoos, gang allegations and other proxies have allowed law enforcement to engage in policing that seems race-neutral on its surface but ultimately race-based in practice. Body art becomes a socially acceptable pretext for ethnic and racial profiling." -@bronxdefender.bsky.social
Opinion | ICE’s focus on tattoos is part of a long and depressing tradition of profiling
Lawyers for multiple deported migrants say tattoos were incorrectly used to label their clients members of a violent Venezuelan gang. Sadly we've seen this all before.
www.msnbc.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"I would argue tattoos, gang allegations and other proxies have allowed law enforcement to engage in policing that seems race-neutral on its surface but ultimately race-based in practice. Body art becomes a socially acceptable pretext for ethnic and racial profiling." -@bronxdefender.bsky.social
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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I've been shown what purports to be a draft version of a soon to be released Executive Order reorganizing the State Dept. The chain of custody is a bit indirect and it's important to be clear that there can be many versions of such orders circulating and they can be subject to subsequent edits etc.
April 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I've been shown what purports to be a draft version of a soon to be released Executive Order reorganizing the State Dept. The chain of custody is a bit indirect and it's important to be clear that there can be many versions of such orders circulating and they can be subject to subsequent edits etc.
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In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield
Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
www.reuters.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In addition to giving the contract to himself and so stealing public money the very concept of this thing is a crazy level boondoggle www.reuters.com/business/aer...