We don't bring the words "Nvidia" and "insidious" together enough.

For Trump to promote Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff is to wildly misread (or brazenly disregard) the mood of the electorate, whose revulsion toward the unlawful, brutal, and murderous excesses of ICE - of which Miller is the chief architect - was one of the top reasons for the blue tsunami.

This year my fears are dressing up as robots for Halloween

It is an assault on the democratic process for the federal government to be doubling down, this close to the election, on the big lie of widespread noncitizen voting.

The administration is routinely and as a matter of official policy sending people granted humanitarian protection in the US back to “third countries” - knowing full well that from there they will be returned to the places from which they had fled for their lives. It’s illegal and immoral.

Human Rights First@humanrightsfirst.org · 2w ago

"Deportation flights to certain harm and insecurity—in Afghanistan, Iran, and beyond—must be stopped.” We @humanrightsfirst.org are extremely concerned by reports from attorneys that the administration is preparing to force Afghans and Iranians back to danger via Pakistan. Read our full statement.

It's very clear that Trump administration's extremist immigration enforcement actions and mass deportations are attacks on democracy and civil rights. ACLU's latest report connects the dots and brings receipts. From its Executive Summary, 3 key points (a short thread): www.aclu.org/publications...

76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union

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Refugee advocates like @cwsglobal.bsky.social @rcusa.bsky.social are speaking out against cutting off Medicaid to refugees and asylees (that have not yet received green cards). Those populations are definitionally traumatized; a large percentage of them are torture survivors.

Center for Victims of Torture@cvt.org · last mo.

NEW: Updated estimate that 27% of the population of refugees, asylees and other forced migrants in the US are direct survivors of torture. The number is based on review of 41 peer-reviewed studies covering 12,020 forced migrants in high-income countries, including US. www.cvt.org/statements/u...

The Trump administration's refugee program is highly discriminatory. More than 450 state and local elected officials from across the country are calling for the US to welcome as refugees "those fleeing persecution, regardless of their race, religion, or country of origin." tinyurl.com/2tpr5j8n

450+ U.S. State and Local Elected Officials Call to Restore Refugee Program — The Refugee Advocacy Lab

WASHINGTON—Today, more than 450 state and local elected officials across the country delivered a letter to the Trump administration calling to rebuild a refugee program that is fair, strengthens our c...

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The United Nations was founded to preserve peace. It’s a horrific turn of events to have the US president take the podium there boasting of war crimes and threatening to commit more.

Lawyer for Texas man shot by ICE, Wilber Garcés Perez: No more traffic stops by ICE. ICE does not know how to conduct traffic stops safely. We need our members of Congress to put a stop to ICE stopping people in traffic

A president who bans the free press should not be president.

The White House's failure to understand the economic contributions of immigrants is as damaging to this country as its failure to understand international trade. The must-read new AFL-CIO/ACLU report shows how mass deportations DRAMATICALLY WORSEN the affordability crisis aflcio.org/reports/citi...

The correct spelling is "Lake 25th Amendment"

Trump is insisting that ICE resume vehicular stops - in effect ordering his unaccountable federal police force to keep murdering people in their cars. ACLU’s excellent “Agents of Chaos” report on ICE abuses, released today, could not be more timely: www.aclu.org/publications...

Agents of Chaos and Cruelty: How the Trump Administration's National Deportation Policing Force Has Attacked American Communities | American Civil Liberties Union

This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The repor...

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Another murder by ICE today. When is this going to stop?

Birthright citizenship has been, and remains, the law of the land. The question has been, and remains, settled.

Expelling productive members of society, as this administration (abetted by SCOTUS) is doing, is monumentally counterproductive from an economic point of view.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 5mo ago

The Supreme Court has upheld the US Administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans+Haitians—> www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 13 colleagues and I estimated the economic cost: $20bn/year lost to the US economy, and 360,000 US jobs: www.aclunorcal.org/sites/defaul...

Expressing solidarity with TPS holders and asylum seekers in view of today's terrible Supreme Court rulings. The American people embrace newcomers who need protection; the court made blatantly political decisions, ignoring the Trump administration's clearly racist intent in slamming the door shut.

On this World Refugee Day, let's rededicate ourselves to the core American values of welcoming the stranger and providing safe haven to the persecuted. Doing so makes our communities and our country better and stronger. Turning away refugees and demonizing newcomers diminishes us as a nation.

The United States is hosting the biggest sporting event in the world. But what kind of "host country" slams the door in the face of so many people from so many countries around the world? #FIFA2026 #WeWillWelcome

Today the US hosts its first #WorldCup2026 match. But what kind of "host" country blocks the door to immigrants and refugees, rounds up and arrests newcomers, throws them in detention camps without due process, and unlawfully expels them to places where their lives are in danger? #WeWillWelcome

More than thirty countries, the United States among them, have unrestricted birthright citizenship.

This competitive redistricting business has an ominous feel to it. Like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, or the Anglo-German naval arms race. Neither of which ended well.

Putin explained NATO to Trump. Now Trump wants to leave NATO. Operation Putin's Puppet nearing successful completion.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

Trump posted today that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and if that's not a threat of genocide I don't know what is.

Happy Passover / Chag Pesach Sameach!

“Illegal” is shorthand for the structural hypocrisy of a system that exploits the labor of undocumented workers without creating legal pathways for them.

Eid Mubarak! Nowruz Mubarak! Happy Spring!

I am so damn tired of the “fake news” label, which is a childish, petulant, way of referring to coverage you don’t like. Coming from persons in power - up to and including the president - it’s also a chilling authoritarian move.