The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Wanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker

Yes, but there’s a solution. Impeachment for every one of those perjurious, treasonous sonsabitches. You can’t climb to the top of MAGAland without believing or pretending to believe some nonsense. Election denying judges are morally treasonous. We must remove them asap. Or they can resign.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 5h ago

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

You can’t fool me those are all Chuck Tingle titles @chucktingle.bsky.social come clean won’t you?

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2d ago

Guys I just got this marketing email and I'm scared.

Virtually shackling the ankles of a substantial portion of Haiti's population. I can't see how Haiti's history would be allegorically relevant to that at all.

The U.S. State Department, under both Democrats and the GOP, contributed to the awful crisis in #Haiti. So we have a strong additional moral obligation to stop deporting #Haitians to where they may be murdered. My report @newrepublic.com. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2138...

How Washington Failed the Haitians It Promised to Protect

Years of misrule and misdeeds conspired to break the island nation and serve up its endangered refugees to the despicable predations of the Trump administration.

newrepublic.com

Things Atlantic writers / Bari/ subpar NYT op-ed writers DON’T say:

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · yesterday

As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about

To flag this and expand: there is a visceral, community-wide, impactful sense of terror that is at times paralyzing, at times physically disabling, and is affecting families in ways large and small. Kids and babies are affected when mom or dad is feeling this. It’s hitting churches and businesses.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

The sense of fear is absolutely palpable.

A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

thecityreporter.nyc

Complaint: charging an applicant $500 for a TPS category work permit and then sitting on the application for 690 days should be some kind of violation. Refunds. Apologies. Maybe a path to citizenship he said hopefully.

Immigrant who donated lifesaving kidney to his brother is detained by ICE again José Gregorio González, who’s been his brother’s caregiver since the kidney transplant, was detained during a routine ICE check-in. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Immigrant who donated lifesaving kidney to his brother is detained by ICE again

José Gregorio González, who’s been his brother’s caregiver since the kidney transplant, was detained during a routine ICE check-in.

nbcnews.com

Re: Dislosure Day, a friend saw it and wondered why they didn't just, early on or anytime really, upload the thing to Youtube, as opposed to (entire plot of the film) and... is there an answer to this?

The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

Looks like the BIA has decided to run with the Supreme Court's incomprehensively stupid ruling that people standing at ports of entry in the US are not in the US to say that it's smuggling to help someone to come, in broad daylight, to a port of entry and request asylum.

BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.

Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts

This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.

boltsmag.org

It’s 5 months old but how does the choice to put THAT GUY front and center instead of the mayor of NYC look now, fellas?

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 6mo ago

A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept. It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA

Do not kill that which is cringe, kill that within you that cringes

A late-night snack? 😄😋 🥙 Sandwich from Crudo Pizza & Panuozzo, a popular Italian spot in Toronto. The sandwiches are freshly made Italian Panuozzo as the centrepiece (traditionally made from pizza dough), and filled with prosciutto di parma, mozzarella di bufala, tomatoes and arugula. #foodie

The imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d ago

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

inquirer.com

9th Cir., 2-1, joins the 2d, 6th, 10th, and 11th Cirs. in holding that DHS cannot detain unadmitted noncitizens found living inside the United States without the possibility of bond while their removal proceedings are pending. Circuits split with 5th and 8th. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

And another. The article is fine. I hate the headline. HATE it. Marriage is, not enough, but a vital component for some people’s journey, past tense particularly. It wasn’t ever ALWAYS smooth. And for many it wasn’t even sufficient. And now they’re trying to destroy that path entirely.

Ximena Bustillo@ximenabustillo.bsky.social · last mo.

Spouses of US citizens were never guaranteed status. But generally they were not a main target of arrests and could have a lapse in status while waiting green card approval + it wouldn’t be a sudden mark against. Trump’s sweepy policies changed that. www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

I hate to dunk on people doing Actual Reporting but “re-imagined” sticks in my craw Also day 1 he slammed the door shut on refugees already screened and ready to arrive at their forever safe country so that’s a kind of “reimagining” as in “imagine if the US didn’t welcome refugees anymore”

Ximena Bustillo@ximenabustillo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Asylum was first on the list of legal immigration processes to be reimagined by the Trump admin. Congressional statutes, admin court decisions, policy memos and arrest tactics have change the lives of those hoping to get + those already with this protection: My latest: www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...

There is no topic in urban planning that has been more exhaustively researched than food deserts. And this research has all shown that the actual constraint is time, not access. Low-income people tend to have less time to cook fresh meals.

As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

ancljkuy.donorsupport.co

Most states follow model rule 3.8(a), that a prosecutor shall "refrain from prosecuting a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause". Mine certainly does. Why are these DOJ lawyers not being dragged in front of ethics tribunals and expelled from the profession?

Missing today Scott Eric Kaufman, known to many and his readers as SEK, gone these 10 years this November. I checked, and the tribute page at LGM is still up. Alas, Oldman Cat at FB is gone, and so is Acephalous, that magnificent blog. Link rot... the sands reclaiming greatness. 1/2

This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

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If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."