Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name.
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Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Anyway, this is your regular reminder that my Signal is available in my bio, and that if you have something you want publicly known I'm happy to chat with you about it and come up with a plan.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
Reposted by Dara Lind
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
THIS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT ALL.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
THIS IS NOT VERY GOOD AT ALL.
I love Rose Lavelle my hometown queen but damnit Hersh
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I love Rose Lavelle my hometown queen but damnit Hersh
I’m really expecting the 51st minute to be a game changer vibes-wise. This crowd seems like they have it in em.
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I’m really expecting the 51st minute to be a game changer vibes-wise. This crowd seems like they have it in em.
Okay I do appreciate the Spirit holding off an aggressive attack in the first half but I do need them to score at SOME point, some of us also have a race to watch tonight
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Okay I do appreciate the Spirit holding off an aggressive attack in the first half but I do need them to score at SOME point, some of us also have a race to watch tonight
I get what the broadcast directors are doing, but surely there are also women rooting for the Spirit at this game.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I get what the broadcast directors are doing, but surely there are also women rooting for the Spirit at this game.
A revelation from some grant applications in 2006; a few key breaks from prominent writers (starting with @attackerman.bsky.social who will never get the credit he deserves for launching my and @jamellebouie.net ‘s careers in the same weekend); [structural factors forcing me out of journalism]
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A revelation from some grant applications in 2006; a few key breaks from prominent writers (starting with @attackerman.bsky.social who will never get the credit he deserves for launching my and @jamellebouie.net ‘s careers in the same weekend); [structural factors forcing me out of journalism]
for the next 90 minutes of playing time (+needed) this is a Washington Spirit fan account
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
for the next 90 minutes of playing time (+needed) this is a Washington Spirit fan account
Hi, vroom expert here! This is not funny. Ferrari drivers only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
Saw this over on the other site. Absolutely phenomenal graphic. Much meme potential.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hi, vroom expert here! This is not funny. Ferrari drivers only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
So we’ve all memorized the lyrics to “La Perla” by now right
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So we’ve all memorized the lyrics to “La Perla” by now right
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
Song of the Southern Hemisphere summer in my book
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
Reposted by Dara Lind
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
A Family's Fight to Bring Their Father Home - Documented
Don Lupe had been living in the U.S. for 27 years when he was detained by ICE agents during a worksite raid in New Jersey. Then his family fought to have him freed.
documentedny.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
MY TIME HAS COME
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
MY TIME HAS COME
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
A man missing for weeks and the immigration system that lost him
Vicente Ventura Aguilar got picked up last month, but his family doesn’t know if he’s dead or alive. ICE says he’s not in their system, so they say they can’t help.
www.ms.now
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I’ve been REALLY reticent to use the term “disappear” to refer to people arrested by immigration enforcement, even when there’s now routinely a lag of hours or days before loved ones know where they’re being held.
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
This is an actual literal disappearance. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/i...
Reposted by Dara Lind
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
My column will be going out every other week as part of @documentedny.bsky.social's (essential!!) Early Arrival newsletter, so you should probably sign up for it. documentedny.com/newsletter/
Join Documented's Newsletter - Documented
Sign up for Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter to get everything you need to know about immigration at the local, national, and policy level.
documentedny.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
Reposted by Dara Lind
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela
The Trump-appointed judge stopped short of launching contempt proceedings against the administration.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Judge says improperly deported man now missing in Venezuela
Yeah, this is a real reminder that your opsec is only as good as your humans.
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yeah, this is a real reminder that your opsec is only as good as your humans.
To those of you who can’t follow directions and didn’t sign up for the email, here’s a browser link for my first @documentedny.bsky.social column.
It’s gonna run every other Friday. We’re calling it THE THROUGHLINE: where politics, policy, and lived reality meet.
mailchi.mp/7c817f3b533d...
It’s gonna run every other Friday. We’re calling it THE THROUGHLINE: where politics, policy, and lived reality meet.
mailchi.mp/7c817f3b533d...
Early Arrival: Trump’s new immigration playbook
mailchi.mp
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
To those of you who can’t follow directions and didn’t sign up for the email, here’s a browser link for my first @documentedny.bsky.social column.
It’s gonna run every other Friday. We’re calling it THE THROUGHLINE: where politics, policy, and lived reality meet.
mailchi.mp/7c817f3b533d...
It’s gonna run every other Friday. We’re calling it THE THROUGHLINE: where politics, policy, and lived reality meet.
mailchi.mp/7c817f3b533d...
I’m always so conflicted about talking about this in public but: I am 100 percent certain that being medicated for ADHD successfully inoculated me against trying illegal stimulants.
Wait until they hear about the drug cascade that untreated ADHD tends to lead to.
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I’m always so conflicted about talking about this in public but: I am 100 percent certain that being medicated for ADHD successfully inoculated me against trying illegal stimulants.
Reposted by Dara Lind
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
My column will be going out every other week as part of @documentedny.bsky.social's (essential!!) Early Arrival newsletter, so you should probably sign up for it. documentedny.com/newsletter/
Join Documented's Newsletter - Documented
Sign up for Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter to get everything you need to know about immigration at the local, national, and policy level.
documentedny.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Imagine getting my columns SENT TO YOU rather than having to hope you spot it on balkanized social media!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
You can make it happen! It’s real!
Reposted by Dara Lind
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Weberian argument for bureaucratic vs charismatic governance is not at heart about the idea of using a state to accomplish humanitarian policy goals but about _prevention of corruption_
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Weberian argument for bureaucratic vs charismatic governance is not at heart about the idea of using a state to accomplish humanitarian policy goals but about _prevention of corruption_