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I ❤️ Romona & WPG. Mom to 2 fabulous young women. San Francisco. She/Her.
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lizzielizliz.bsky.social
I am a birthright citizen.

I became naturalized when my parents received their citizenship.

This affects me directly.

Please don’t stop resisting. There’s so many Democratic voters just like me.

Trump’s administration is trying to get rid of us.
June 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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tjsleakyroof.bsky.social
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
walshbr.bsky.social Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Jun 27
For locals still pissed about this - there's a 3pm protest planned at the Rotunda on federal overreach and university autonomy.
walshbr.bsky.social Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Jun 27
Imagine how much work one could get done without all this shit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
June 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
qmargaretten.bsky.social
Great thread
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 26
There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.
1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina (1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records (last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/ show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful title which a person has to anything”).
June 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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jimweingarten.bsky.social
So, they have to keep #Kilmar in jail to protect him from #ICE?! That's pretty fucked up. That means jail is safer than the streets filled with masked thugs exiling innocent people. #DueProcess #July17 #GoodTrouble #FuckICE

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to wait in jail over fears ICE will deport him
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys expressed concern that his release would lead to immediate detention by ICE and deportation
www.independent.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Phang: Vance Boelter received better treatment when taken into custody than Narciso Barranco—a Mexican immigrant working at IHOP, landscaping in the parking lot under the hot sun on a Saturday—who was beaten by Border Patrol agents.
June 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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schwellenbach.bsky.social
🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns

Read it @pogo.org:

www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.
www.pogo.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Finally, Mr. Reuveni says that he was ultimately fired because he refused to sign a legal brief making an argument that was directly contrary to law and unsupported by any evidence put forward in the case — that Abrego Garcia's deportation was legal because he was a "terrorist."
5. Mr. Reuveni refused to sign an appeal brief with arguments unsupported by evidence orlaw and was put on administrative leave in retaliation for his protected activity and refusal to obey an illegal order That same afternoon of Friday April 4 , Roth circulated an outline of an appeal brief to multiple attorneys, including Mr. Reuveni. Mr. Reuveni understood that his name would appear on this brief.Mr.Reuveni responded to that email, including Roth and others, with the same points he had told Ensign in their phone call. Additionally, he noted that because the government had not argued that Mr. Abrego Garcia was a member of a terrorist organization to the court in the brief DOJ and agency leadership cleared for filing, it could not do so on appeal for the first time. That evening, Mr. Reuveni received an email with a draft brief that made the same legal arguments to which Mr. Reuveni had consistently objected. Mr. Reuveni responded saying that the draft briefstill contained the arguments discussed earlier that were not supported by law or the record. Then later that night, the appeal brief was again circulated. This time, the same arguments Mr. Reuveni had objected to were moved to a different section of the brief. Mr. Reuveni emailed Flentje and said that he could not sign the brief given the unsupported arguments. Early the morning ofSaturday, April 5, Flentje emailed Mr. Reuveni and asked him to call him. Mr. Reuveni and Flentje had a phone call around 1:20 a.m. in which Mr. Reuveni again repeated the same objections he had made previously. Flentje told Mr. Reuveni that he should sign the brief, and that he had signed up for the responsibility to do so when he accepted the Deputy position. Mr. Reuveni responded, “I didn't sign up to lie. ” Ultimately, someone else signed that brief, making arguments contrary to law, which was filed at 1:41 a.m. on April 5. Less than seven hours later, Mr. Reuveni was placed on administrative leave for alleged "failure to follow a…
June 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Reuveni notes that he repeatedly told DHS throughout the night of March 15 that they had to follow court orders. Even Drew Ensign agreed Judge Boasberg's order required them to turn the planes around.

Emil Bove intervened and ordered DHS to ignore that interpretation.
At 10:13 p.m., after he and Mr. Flentje had exchanged numerous emails and he had no information about any DHS compliance, Mr. Reuveni again emailed DHS to ask about whether guidance had been disseminated with direction for DHS to turn any planes around ifnotyet landed or to not deplane the people on board if already landed. Shortly thereafter, DHS responded via email that they were holding issuance of guidance pending a decision from the Attorney General. 2. Emil Bove advised the Department of Homeland Security that it may take actions that violate the court's injunction because the injunction was not yet issued in writing For the next few hours on the night of March 15 , Mr. Reuveni exchanged emails with Flentje and engaged in multiple phone calls with Ensign. He was concerned about two things: 1) that deplaning any passengers would violate the court's orders, and 2) the need to notify the court of the government's compliance with those orders, or its interpretation of the orders. Sometime around midnight, Ensign informed Mr. Reuveni that DOJ would be filing a notice with the court, signed by Bove, explaining its interpretation ofthe court order, including that no violation ofthe court order had occurred because the two planes left U.S. airspace before the court's written minute order. Ensign directed Mr. Reuveni to prepare Bove's notice of appearance. While Mr. Reuveni disagreed with the interpretation that there was no violation of a court order, the fact that Bove, a senior DOJ official, was willing to enter an appearance in the case and make this representation to the courtsomewhat lessened his concerns because he believed he and his staffwould not be put in the untenable position ofdefending this argument. In an email from Acting Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Yaakov Roth to Ensign, Flentje, and Mr. Reuveni, Roth explained that Bove had advised DHS that under the court order it was permissible to deplane individuals on the flights that departed U.S. airspace before the minute order had issued on the docket. That afternoon, the Department ofJustice filed a Notice indicating that defendants "were promptly notified of the court's temporary restraining order issued in the morning and the 7:26 PM EDT minute order that temporarily enjoined any removals pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation. ” The Notice also asserted that “some gang members subject to removal under the Proclamation had already been removed from United States territory under the Proclamation before the issuance of this court's second [written] order. " ³4 By day's end, multiple media reports and postings from senior government officials in both the United States and El Salvador on social media confirmed that all individuals on two ofthe three planes that had taken offMarch 15 had been detained in the CECOT prison in El Salvador.35 The next hearing in the case occurred on Monday, March 17, 2025. At some point priorto the March 17 hearing, Ensign informed Mr. Reuveni that Ensign would not be handling the hearing given concerns that the court would likely interrogate Ensign concerning the March 15 events.
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Reuveni accuses Drew Ensign, the DOJ lawyer appearing for the Trump admin in the CECOT cases and other immigration cases, of lying to Judge Boasberg on March 15 when he said he didn't know planes were taking off.

He says Ensign was at a meeting the day before when the flight were planned!
At this hearing, Judge Boasberg said that “the plaintiffs ... expected planes to be departing within the last couple of hours,” and asked Ensign “if any ofthe named plaintiffs are, in fact, or any plane that has departed?" Ensign assured the court that none of the named plaintiffs would be removed during the pendency ofthe TRO. When Judge Boasberg asked if that meant the plaintiffs “are either not on the planes or that they will not be removed from the planes and will be brought back once the planes land in El Salvador, ” Ensign asserted, “I don't know the status ofthe planes. Ifthere are removal flights, the five would not be on them. ” When Judge Boasberg asked whether any deportations orremovals were imminent, as “in the next 24 or 48 hours,” Ensign answered, “I don't know the answer to that question. "26 Mr. Reuveni reasonably believes Ensign's statement to the court that he did not know whether AEA removals would take place “in the next 24 or 48 hours" was false. Ensign had been present in the previous day's meeting when Emil Bove stated clearly that one or more planes containing individuals subject to the AEA would be taking off over the weekend no matter what.
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.

He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you” and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.21 - Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove's statement because, to Mr. Reuveni's knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership - in any Administration – had ever suggested the Department ofJustice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a "fuck you.” Mr. Reuveni was in disbelief, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice consistently advises its clients of their obligation to follow court orders, not to ignore them. Mr. Reuveni knew that it was absurd and unlawful to do otherwise, a proposition that Mr. Reuveni felt even more certain of after a brief conversation with his supervisor, August Flentje, shortly after the meeting.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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June 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
qmargaretten.bsky.social
More of this please.
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 22
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
June 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Iran has learned its lesson.

by Susan Collins
June 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Trump has effectively launched the U.S. into war without congressional approval, without a declaration, and entirely on impulse.

Call your Congressperson and demand Congress to speak out and to take immediate action to stop the U.S. from entering a full-scale war.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. 773 ReTruths 2.95k Likes Jun 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
June 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Illegal Strikes on Iran
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.
chadloder.bsky.social Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 21
Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA
June 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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qasimrashid.com
Here's an idea. Dem Governors & Mayors should be ordering their local law enforcement to arrest any & all unidentified and masked alleged ICE agents.

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle, we'd call that a kidnapping.

Why not here?

1/2
June 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Philly, today: ICE impersonator arrested, charged in Northeast Philly robbery that took place on June 8th, police say
ICE impersonator arrested, charged in Northeast Philly robbery, police say – Metro Philadelphia
Authorities have arrested and charged a man who allegedly impersonated a federal immigration officer during a robbery earlier this month in Mayfair.
metrophiladelphia.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Lawndale, CA, 6/18: Another kidnapping, this time of a gardener, by masked terrorists into a private vehicle with no plates.
A gardener in a work shirt with hands cuffed behind his back is being walked towards a Ford SUV with no rear plate by two masked men in body armor
June 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, 6/18 around 9:30am — Unidentified masked terrorists kidnapped an elderly homeless man off the street and bundled him into a private car with no license plate.
A large masked man with a bulletproof vest and blue nitrile gloves hustles an elderly man whose hands are cuffed behind his back into an unmarked vehicle with no rear plate
June 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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bwd.bsky.social
Job is out! He announced his release from his Instagram/Threads account.

Thank you all for sharing the news about his detention.
I just got out of the Metropolitan Detention Center. I will address what happened to me at a later time. I appreciate the concerns. With that said, shout out to all the HOMIES inside for their hospitality and for looking out for me. I'm indebted to y'all.
June 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
June 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM