This retelling of recent history by Cecilia Muñoz is at best wrong and at worst dishonest, but what stood out is not what she says but rather what she doesn't say: no critical self-reflection, no mistakes, no self accountability. Just deflective, blame-shifting.... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Communities in NJ are making the demand clear: shut Delaney Hall down! We commend Mayor Baraka for joining the people of NJ to reject Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages:

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents.

New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

What is more morally urgent that stopping the slaughter of men women and children being bombed and starved to death in an open air prison with no where to escape? Funded totally by us tax payers ?
It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?

This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.

I see some people conflating all Trump voters with the MAGA movement, and strategically, I think that's an error. I am not talking about a moral differentiation. I am talking about who can be provoked to act differently in the future: cult members vs ill-informed people making vibes-based decisions.

First they came for the Palestinian protestor and I said “hey you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now” because I actually paid attention to the poem

NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife:
"I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Newark that will nearly double the agency’s capacity to detain people in the NYC region.

Geo Group CEO: “ We believe the scale of the opportunity before our company is unlike any we’ve previously experienced.”

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.

The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"

When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

so many attacks on so many fronts. i'm overwhelmed but also so grateful for people who are trying to figure out how they can take action to protect people from relentless attacks.
we all need to take action, however small or big. solidarity is the only path forward.

Indeed, Favreau's remarks are incredibly mendacious! As just one of innumerable examples: 59% of Latinos disapproved of Obama's handling of deportations in 2011! www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Must read!

This is not the time to politically defend prioritized deportations. This is the time to oppose all deportations. Amazing to me that you still think “felons not families” is good framing….