Ivan F. Gonzalez
@ivanfgonzalez.bsky.social
Multilingual Education. Seattle WA.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Trump's rhetoric toward Democratic lawmakers is a disgrace—it’s not even close to acceptable coming from an American President.
Republican Senators need to show some courage and state plainly that the President is not above the law. That is the bare minimum.
Republican Senators need to show some courage and state plainly that the President is not above the law. That is the bare minimum.
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trump's rhetoric toward Democratic lawmakers is a disgrace—it’s not even close to acceptable coming from an American President.
Republican Senators need to show some courage and state plainly that the President is not above the law. That is the bare minimum.
Republican Senators need to show some courage and state plainly that the President is not above the law. That is the bare minimum.
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In US District Court of MD, LWV along with several state and local Leagues are suing US Citizenship & Immigration & Dept. of Homeland Security for violating our first amendment rights. Stand with us in the fight to empower voters and defend democracy. www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvus.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
In US District Court of MD, LWV along with several state and local Leagues are suing US Citizenship & Immigration & Dept. of Homeland Security for violating our first amendment rights. Stand with us in the fight to empower voters and defend democracy. www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre... @lwvus.bsky.social
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Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
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NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
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The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
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The President of the United States is using his platform to lift up people calling for political violence—the hanging of Democratic Members of Congress.
This is dangerous beyond measure. There has to be a line, and my Republican colleagues must wake up and speak out.
This is dangerous beyond measure. There has to be a line, and my Republican colleagues must wake up and speak out.
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The President of the United States is using his platform to lift up people calling for political violence—the hanging of Democratic Members of Congress.
This is dangerous beyond measure. There has to be a line, and my Republican colleagues must wake up and speak out.
This is dangerous beyond measure. There has to be a line, and my Republican colleagues must wake up and speak out.
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My message to Secretary Noem & AG Bondi:
Remove ICE from Memphis.
ICE isn’t addressing violent crime here, and reports show the people they’re sweeping up aren’t “the worst of the worst.” Immigrants aren’t driving crime in Memphis—they commit less than the general population, here and nationwide.
Remove ICE from Memphis.
ICE isn’t addressing violent crime here, and reports show the people they’re sweeping up aren’t “the worst of the worst.” Immigrants aren’t driving crime in Memphis—they commit less than the general population, here and nationwide.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
My message to Secretary Noem & AG Bondi:
Remove ICE from Memphis.
ICE isn’t addressing violent crime here, and reports show the people they’re sweeping up aren’t “the worst of the worst.” Immigrants aren’t driving crime in Memphis—they commit less than the general population, here and nationwide.
Remove ICE from Memphis.
ICE isn’t addressing violent crime here, and reports show the people they’re sweeping up aren’t “the worst of the worst.” Immigrants aren’t driving crime in Memphis—they commit less than the general population, here and nationwide.
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is nuts.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.
Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
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The Trump administration can claim over and over again that prices are going down, but the numbers don't lie and the American people can see the truth for themselves.
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Trump administration can claim over and over again that prices are going down, but the numbers don't lie and the American people can see the truth for themselves.
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Marco Azogue worked nights cleaning commercial buildings in Minneapolis. He was arrested after a court hearing in his asylum case — and when he was loaded onto a plane at MSP, he didn't know where it would take him.
'We had no idea where we were going’: Deportees pass through MSP • Minnesota Reformer
When Marco Azogue climbed the stairs onto a plane parked on the tarmac of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, shackled at the wrists and ankles, he assumed the plane was taking him to his home...
minnesotareformer.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marco Azogue worked nights cleaning commercial buildings in Minneapolis. He was arrested after a court hearing in his asylum case — and when he was loaded onto a plane at MSP, he didn't know where it would take him.
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While most companies and institutions that have cut ties with Larry Summers have been clear about why, others have attempted to quietly scrub him from their websites. This just makes his inevitable attempt to return to respectability all the easier. New in @prospect.org
Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers - The American Prospect
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While most companies and institutions that have cut ties with Larry Summers have been clear about why, others have attempted to quietly scrub him from their websites. This just makes his inevitable attempt to return to respectability all the easier. New in @prospect.org
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There's been this idea of a "low-hire, low-fire" job market floating around and I think it's mostly fair but with some nuance:
1) Economy-wide, "low-hire" is true. In Aug, the hires rate was 3.2%, just barely above the Covid low of 3.1% and consistent with levels last seen pre-pandemic in Mar 2013.
1) Economy-wide, "low-hire" is true. In Aug, the hires rate was 3.2%, just barely above the Covid low of 3.1% and consistent with levels last seen pre-pandemic in Mar 2013.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There's been this idea of a "low-hire, low-fire" job market floating around and I think it's mostly fair but with some nuance:
1) Economy-wide, "low-hire" is true. In Aug, the hires rate was 3.2%, just barely above the Covid low of 3.1% and consistent with levels last seen pre-pandemic in Mar 2013.
1) Economy-wide, "low-hire" is true. In Aug, the hires rate was 3.2%, just barely above the Covid low of 3.1% and consistent with levels last seen pre-pandemic in Mar 2013.
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NEW: Charlotte’s Bishop Martin amid ICE raids: “To those of you who are afraid to come to church, you are not obligated to attend Mass when you are inhibited from doing so by circumstances beyond your control, as the Church has always taught.” catholicnewsherald.com/90-news/loca...
Bishop Martin calls for prayer, fasting, outreach to immigrants in wake of federal actions in Charlotte
Stand with migrants but ‘do not vilify’ federal agents, he urges
CHARLOTTE — Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv., is urging all Catholics to pray, fast, reach out to immigrants, and contact their elected...
catholicnewsherald.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NEW: Charlotte’s Bishop Martin amid ICE raids: “To those of you who are afraid to come to church, you are not obligated to attend Mass when you are inhibited from doing so by circumstances beyond your control, as the Church has always taught.” catholicnewsherald.com/90-news/loca...
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While doing absolutely NOTHING to lower costs, Trump’s administration is accepting expensive gifts and firing ethics officers who tell them not to.
The most corrupt presidency in American history. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-employee...
The most corrupt presidency in American history. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-employee...
DOJ Watchdog: I Was Fired Over Bondi’s Thirst for Free Stuff
A fired ethics officer claims Bondi and Patel pushed him out over lavish gifts.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
While doing absolutely NOTHING to lower costs, Trump’s administration is accepting expensive gifts and firing ethics officers who tell them not to.
The most corrupt presidency in American history. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-employee...
The most corrupt presidency in American history. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-employee...
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🚨BREAKING: Starbucks baristas and allies are at the York, PA Regional Distribution Center — the largest in the country — demanding Starbucks bargain in good faith.
Baristas are 7 days into an open-ended ULP strike to win a fair contract. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZY...
Baristas are 7 days into an open-ended ULP strike to win a fair contract. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZY...
BREAKING: Starbucks Workers are on STRIKE!
YouTube video by Starbucks Workers United
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🚨BREAKING: Starbucks baristas and allies are at the York, PA Regional Distribution Center — the largest in the country — demanding Starbucks bargain in good faith.
Baristas are 7 days into an open-ended ULP strike to win a fair contract. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZY...
Baristas are 7 days into an open-ended ULP strike to win a fair contract. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZY...
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NEW: @warren.senate.gov and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines.
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
Jayapal, Warren Introduce Legislation to Curb Corporate Influence on Federal Regulation, Restore Deference to Experts - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) are introducing the Experts Protect Effective Rules, Transparency, and Stability (EXPERTS) Act to r...
jayapal.house.gov
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
NEW: @warren.senate.gov and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines.
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...
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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
Kristi Noem has told everyone that there are no U.S citizens being detained or deported & that’s a Blatant Lie like most of what comes out of her mouth. This is just a very short list of U.S. citizens that have been detained since January.
Kristi Noem has told everyone that there are no U.S citizens being detained or deported & that’s a Blatant Lie like most of what comes out of her mouth. This is just a very short list of U.S. citizens that have been detained since January.
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
Kristi Noem has told everyone that there are no U.S citizens being detained or deported & that’s a Blatant Lie like most of what comes out of her mouth. This is just a very short list of U.S. citizens that have been detained since January.
Kristi Noem has told everyone that there are no U.S citizens being detained or deported & that’s a Blatant Lie like most of what comes out of her mouth. This is just a very short list of U.S. citizens that have been detained since January.
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8 GOP Senators snuck a provision into the emergency funding bill that would let them sue the gov. for MILLIONS if their phone data is accessed w/out their knowledge.
This doesn’t protect YOUR privacy, it carves out a self-serving deal just for themselves.
We deserve better.
This doesn’t protect YOUR privacy, it carves out a self-serving deal just for themselves.
We deserve better.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
8 GOP Senators snuck a provision into the emergency funding bill that would let them sue the gov. for MILLIONS if their phone data is accessed w/out their knowledge.
This doesn’t protect YOUR privacy, it carves out a self-serving deal just for themselves.
We deserve better.
This doesn’t protect YOUR privacy, it carves out a self-serving deal just for themselves.
We deserve better.