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President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
Judge orders administration to submit plans for return of migrants deported to El Salvador prison under AEA
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to submit plans to return or provide hearings for the migrants who were sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison in March.
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
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A win! A South Los Angeles tow truck driver has been found not guilty of federal charges after being accused of towing a government vehicle used by ICE during an immigration arrest earlier this year.
Man accused of towing ICE SUV during LA immigration operation found not guilty
A Los Angeles tow truck driver accused of towing a federal SUV during an immigration enforcement operation was found not guilty by a federal jury Friday. Bobby Nuñez, 33, was arrested and charged with...
www.nbclosangeles.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A win! A South Los Angeles tow truck driver has been found not guilty of federal charges after being accused of towing a government vehicle used by ICE during an immigration arrest earlier this year.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say I believe this is the first ICE supervisor to ever be incarcerated in his own ICE jail.
POETIC JUSTICE? Cincy ICE Supervisor will spend night in BUTLER COUNTY JAIL, most notorious ICE prison in Ohio. He was arrested for strangling his partner + charged in Hamilton, but now has federal case, charges unknown. Madeline Fening @citybeatcincy tracking case www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I believe this is the first ICE supervisor to ever be incarcerated in his own ICE jail.
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"We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism. We are going to have to scale up our organizing to build with other sectors, all under attack in different ways. We need to make militant moves if we’re going to win in this moment."
— Todd Wolfson
— Todd Wolfson
In an Attempt to Cause Fear and Demobilize, the Trump Administration Increases Threats on Higher Education
Educators and organizers from the AAUP how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling higher education as we know it.
inthesetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism. We are going to have to scale up our organizing to build with other sectors, all under attack in different ways. We need to make militant moves if we’re going to win in this moment."
— Todd Wolfson
— Todd Wolfson
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"I was ripped off the bench."
Tania Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges removed by the Trump administration this year, despite a backlog of millions of cases. Nemer is suing for unlawful discrimination.
Tania Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges removed by the Trump administration this year, despite a backlog of millions of cases. Nemer is suing for unlawful discrimination.
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"I was ripped off the bench."
Tania Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges removed by the Trump administration this year, despite a backlog of millions of cases. Nemer is suing for unlawful discrimination.
Tania Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges removed by the Trump administration this year, despite a backlog of millions of cases. Nemer is suing for unlawful discrimination.
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“There is something going on here, with all of these cities coming together and protecting our democracy."
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns.
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns.
‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“There is something going on here, with all of these cities coming together and protecting our democracy."
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns.
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns.
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We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
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▶️ WATCH: My reaction to a Fox News guest telling Americans to buy fake Christmas trees so AI data centers can use the land.
December 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
▶️ WATCH: My reaction to a Fox News guest telling Americans to buy fake Christmas trees so AI data centers can use the land.
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Two quick weekend actions:
📬 Sign our Veto SB 293 action alert, telling DeWine to protect voters' right to use the entire election timeline.
🍃 Sign our Veto SB 56 action alert, urging for Ohio's marijuana policy to legalize and repair, not recriminalize.
🚨The time is now: acluohio.org/Act
📬 Sign our Veto SB 293 action alert, telling DeWine to protect voters' right to use the entire election timeline.
🍃 Sign our Veto SB 56 action alert, urging for Ohio's marijuana policy to legalize and repair, not recriminalize.
🚨The time is now: acluohio.org/Act
Act - ACLU of Ohio
acluohio.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Two quick weekend actions:
📬 Sign our Veto SB 293 action alert, telling DeWine to protect voters' right to use the entire election timeline.
🍃 Sign our Veto SB 56 action alert, urging for Ohio's marijuana policy to legalize and repair, not recriminalize.
🚨The time is now: acluohio.org/Act
📬 Sign our Veto SB 293 action alert, telling DeWine to protect voters' right to use the entire election timeline.
🍃 Sign our Veto SB 56 action alert, urging for Ohio's marijuana policy to legalize and repair, not recriminalize.
🚨The time is now: acluohio.org/Act
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Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs
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Opinion
Prison education saves lives and money. Don’t end it
Public safety and rehabilitation are not competing values. They are interdependent
by Jonathan Morgan
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Prison education saves lives and money. Don’t end it
Public safety and rehabilitation are not competing values. They are interdependent
by Jonathan Morgan
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Prison education saves lives and money. Don’t end it: Jonathan Moran
When Andy’s Law, HB 338, is acted on in the Ohio Senate, legislators can and should remove the provisions that eliminate higher education and tablet access while preserving narrowly tailored safety re...
www.cleveland.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Opinion
Prison education saves lives and money. Don’t end it
Public safety and rehabilitation are not competing values. They are interdependent
by Jonathan Morgan
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
Prison education saves lives and money. Don’t end it
Public safety and rehabilitation are not competing values. They are interdependent
by Jonathan Morgan
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
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Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.
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A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A video surfaced showing the brutalization of community members by ICE and the St. Paul, Minnesota PD after ICE abducted two of their neighbors. As a result of the chemical munitions and police beatings, eight people, including a journalist, were hospitalized. 11/25/25
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Ensuring these employees are afforded the right to organize their workplaces is key to ending worker exploitation across the fashion industry.
Workers Who Make Black Friday Deals Possible Face Attacks on Right to Organize
New reports detail how the fashion industry relies on underpaid and overworked labor in the Global South.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ensuring these employees are afforded the right to organize their workplaces is key to ending worker exploitation across the fashion industry.
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Is Ohio really better than ❌ichigan? Not with SB 1, the Higher Education Destruction Act, in play.
We are falling behind, and the culprit is SB1. This outrageous law is actively driving prospective local, out-of-state, and international students outside of Ohio.
#RepealSB1 #OhioState
We are falling behind, and the culprit is SB1. This outrageous law is actively driving prospective local, out-of-state, and international students outside of Ohio.
#RepealSB1 #OhioState
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Is Ohio really better than ❌ichigan? Not with SB 1, the Higher Education Destruction Act, in play.
We are falling behind, and the culprit is SB1. This outrageous law is actively driving prospective local, out-of-state, and international students outside of Ohio.
#RepealSB1 #OhioState
We are falling behind, and the culprit is SB1. This outrageous law is actively driving prospective local, out-of-state, and international students outside of Ohio.
#RepealSB1 #OhioState
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Your voice matters. ACLU of Ohio Advocacy Director Collin Marozzi ran the numbers and found November 2025 races from across the state decided by just a few votes. https://www.acluohio.org/news/amended-senate-bill-293-opponent-testimony/
Protect your vote. Tell Gov. DeWine to veto SB 293.
Protect your vote. Tell Gov. DeWine to veto SB 293.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Your voice matters. ACLU of Ohio Advocacy Director Collin Marozzi ran the numbers and found November 2025 races from across the state decided by just a few votes. https://www.acluohio.org/news/amended-senate-bill-293-opponent-testimony/
Protect your vote. Tell Gov. DeWine to veto SB 293.
Protect your vote. Tell Gov. DeWine to veto SB 293.
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🚨🚨 RED ALERT — #Ohio's Republican supermajority is trying to rush several harmful bills through the Statehouse next week before anyone notices
Click on a bill or two and take action: OhioBills.wtf
Click on a bill or two and take action: OhioBills.wtf
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚨🚨 RED ALERT — #Ohio's Republican supermajority is trying to rush several harmful bills through the Statehouse next week before anyone notices
Click on a bill or two and take action: OhioBills.wtf
Click on a bill or two and take action: OhioBills.wtf
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Police killed 152 people during routine traffic stops in 2024.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
Why Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective | ACLU
Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations like broken taillights or tinted windows. Data shows these stops rarely make roads safer, and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police.
www.aclu.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Police killed 152 people during routine traffic stops in 2024.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
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“This is ethnic cleansing,” civil rights icon Dolores Huerta says of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. “We have never seen such horrific, horrific attacks on our people.”
“This Is Ethnic Cleansing”: Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Decries Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta, now 95 years old, is continuing her lifelong activism as immigration raids intensify across the country. She addressed the No Kings rally in Watsonville...
www.democracynow.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“This is ethnic cleansing,” civil rights icon Dolores Huerta says of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. “We have never seen such horrific, horrific attacks on our people.”
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Building a Culture of Solidarity in the Face of Relentless and Increasingly Sadistic Attacks Against "The Left." | via @haymarketbooks.org @keeanga.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2_...
Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Building a Culture of Solidarity in the Face of Relentless and Increasingly Sadistic Attacks Against "The Left." | via @haymarketbooks.org @keeanga.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2_...
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UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!!
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!!
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️
cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...
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One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”…
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats have condemned Trump's push for regime change in Venezuela after the president unilaterally declared the U.S. is engaged in “armed conflict” last week. “Congress can’t let any president start [a war] illegally or unilaterally.” the group added.
Democrats Warn Trump’s Goal for “Illegal” War With Venezuela Is Regime Change
“The American people don’t want another war,” said the Democrats of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats have condemned Trump's push for regime change in Venezuela after the president unilaterally declared the U.S. is engaged in “armed conflict” last week. “Congress can’t let any president start [a war] illegally or unilaterally.” the group added.