Ida Mojadad
@idamoj.bsky.social
🔹public policy grad student @ UCLA 🔹lightly editing @ SF Public Press + SPJ NorCal board. priors: SFGATE, The Frisc, SF Chronicle, SF Standard, SF Examiner, SF Weekly. more @ idamoj.com 🇮🇷💖🇺🇸
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This is just nuts - in my experience, students need these resources now more than ever
The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · last wk.The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated, prompting backlash from current and former tutors. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 3w agoI need people to understand that this administration’s litigating position is (1) federal law currently mandates the detention, without bond, of every noncitizen who is allegedly unlawfully present and (2) constitutionally, they don’t get a day in court. they’re generally losing, but they’re trying.
![Ochoa Ochoa v. Noem: Due Process
Having concluded that Ochoa Ochoa's detention is discretionary and not
mandatory, the court turns to whether it violates due process. "Procedural due
process imposes constraints on governmental decisions which deprive individuals of liberty' or 'property' interests within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the
Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment." Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 332 (1976).
"Freedom from imprisonment-from government custody, detention, or other forms
of physical restraint-lies at the heart of the very liberty that [the Due Process
Clause] protects." Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 690 (2001).
To support its argument that Ochoa Ochoa has limited due process rights in
the detention context, Respondents rely on Dep't of Homeland Sec. v. Thuraissigiam, where the Supreme Court held that a petitioner who was still "at the threshold of initial entry," though technically in the country, could still be treated as "an alien
seeking initial entry." 591 U.S. 103, 114 2020) holding that a noncitizen detained "within 25 yards of the border" is treated as if stopped at the border and had not acquired due process protections). Contrary to Respondents' position, Thuraissigiam held only that noncitizens detained close to the border "shortly after unlawful entry"
have not yet "effected an entry." Id. at 140; see also Shaughnessy v. United States, 345 U.S. 206, 212 (1953) (explaining that noncitizens "on the threshold of initial entry
stand[] on a different footing" than those who have "passed through our gates").](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreieofbtos26t3epka4a7c2p3xw477nfbl2guurqcuoslw2h24qolye)
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”
NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
wired.com
Huh I thought frontier labs wanted to protect the sanctity of trade secrets is why we have can’t have data center transparency
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4w ago🌶️ "This is the tip of the iceberg. Apple lacks visibility into what’s been happening behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership." 🌶️
Bruce Lee’s file is part of the immigration records at the National Archives in San Bruno, which could soon close. I explain why these artifacts are important for the Bay Area’s Chinese American community in my new @sfchronicle.com column/newsletter. Read it at www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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if you want to fight back against these forces in your personal media diet, try as much as you can to visit, share and support your favorite and beloved publishers DIRECTLY (sign up for a newsletter, visit their homepage, etc.) and financially support them if you can
grim, unfollowed. murtaza who retweeted this post, unfollowed. klippenstein for being a childish asshole about it too, unfollowed. the intercept men 🗑️
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w agobrain poisoned, gutter misogyny. 1) that there is (thankfully) no norm for releasing the play-by-play of personal messages in cases like this and 2) the detail about being explicitly told not to come over and coming over anyway does not in any way complicate this story
I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions
Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.
we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system
i will say that although this is the beginning of the right’s assault on birthright citizenship, one difference with roe v. wade is that the latter was fueled by a mass movement with a broad, institutionalized base in the nation’s evangelical and catholic churches. the question, i think…
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.later in the week i'll have a video on jackson's concurrence, which is worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4v2...
Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.
Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social · last mo.Here’s the discourse we’re missing out on by not engaging on Elon Musk’s microblog
throwback to my cute lemonade stands vs the neighbor boy who just stopped at selling lemons
I know it’s considered cool not to learn about people and systems and situations you don’t like but actually studying them equips you better to fight them
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
kinda surprised (not really) to see little attention paid to what the LOCAL pro Palestinian advocates that endorsed both Chan & Chakrabarti have to say about the whole thing
NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:
Activists in Memphis are facing retaliation for trying to document an ongoing occupation by federal agents:
Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
motherjones.com
I would not be alive today without this ER department. the state that is described here, now led by people with business backgrounds who seem to be more concerned with having a surplus, is absolutely atrocious missionlocal.org/2026/05/ucsf...
‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say
Providers at UCSF's Parnassus ER say understaffing has reached a crisis point. One described seeing patients dead on a gurney.
missionlocal.org
Press Robinson was the first member of his family to vote and the first Black person to win a seat on the Baton Rouge school board. He thinks a Supreme Court ruling will erase political gains African Americans have made across the South. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.
Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights A...
washingtonpost.com
one of the few things I can say with agreement from my fellow Iranians is that it is a deeply terrible time to be Iranian. thanks to @suhauna.bsky.social for capturing the dark divisions beyond that sentiment that's consumed us www.latimes.com/california/s...
Behind the Trump administration's detentions of L.A. Iranians
In L.A., home to the largest Iranian diaspora, a vocal segment has joined forces with Trump-aligned far-right activists to wage campaigns against other Iranians.
latimes.com
This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.
NPR@npr.org · 3mo agoJust in: A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.
In just over 24 hours we've gone from SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act to Louisiana suspending an active election to do a high-speed gerrymander. Just an absolute travesty of justice.
Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander
Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.
democracydocket.com
