Athul K. Acharya
@athul.acharya.cc
Civil-rights lawyer
Executive Director of @pubaccountability.org
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Athul K. Acharya
@athul.acharya.cc
· Mar 6
“Journalism is not a crime ... it’s the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights,” an attorney told the City Council Wednesday. The city will pay $938K to journalists and legal observers targeted and attacked by police while covering the 2020 racial justice protests.
Portland Settles Lawsuit With Journalists, Legal Observers Targeted By Police During Protests
The city of Portland will pay out $938,330 to settle a lawsuit from journalists and legal observers who were attacked and threatened with arrest for covering the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Po...
www.portlandmercury.com
Oh hey, that attorney was me, and the journalists and legal observers were my clients
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people/orgs who actually are cool and dangerous tend to take themselves less seriously
January 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
people/orgs who actually are cool and dangerous tend to take themselves less seriously
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Incidentally, KBJ just sniped at Kavanaugh over his Kavanaugh Stops opinion in a footnote today joined by Sotomayor. She isn't letting this one go. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
January 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Incidentally, KBJ just sniped at Kavanaugh over his Kavanaugh Stops opinion in a footnote today joined by Sotomayor. She isn't letting this one go. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
Angela, remind me, who becomes president after we hash tag impeach
Hell, no, we tried that once, it killed over 600,000 Americans.
We need to focus on the Congressional Republicans, who could #impeach and remove him ANY DAMNED DAY, if they chose to.
Let’s make them choose to.
Call all day, every day.
We need to focus on the Congressional Republicans, who could #impeach and remove him ANY DAMNED DAY, if they chose to.
Let’s make them choose to.
Call all day, every day.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Angela, remind me, who becomes president after we hash tag impeach
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it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities
they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years
they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 5:04 PM
it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities
they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years
they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years
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jesus fucking christ what is it going to take to put an end to this madness
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 6:23 AM
jesus fucking christ what is it going to take to put an end to this madness
Ezra Klein is right about one thing: As long as we remain in the Union, we have to live with these fuckers. As long as we remain in the Union, every four to eight years, they’ll invade our cities, kill our people, and piss on their graves. Ezra Klein is wrong only that he thinks we have to take it.
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Ezra Klein is right about one thing: As long as we remain in the Union, we have to live with these fuckers. As long as we remain in the Union, every four to eight years, they’ll invade our cities, kill our people, and piss on their graves. Ezra Klein is wrong only that he thinks we have to take it.
It’s the follow-on thought that no one wants to think: If Trump is hitting every charge in the List of Grievances, the blue states should Declare Independence.
January 15, 2026 at 8:21 AM
It’s the follow-on thought that no one wants to think: If Trump is hitting every charge in the List of Grievances, the blue states should Declare Independence.
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Well said. I just wish that State resources could be deployed by the Governor more directly. Order the State Police, not just Minnesotans, to track the activities of ICE caravans and to intervene when state laws are clearly violated. Call out Nat Guard and billet them at strategic locations.
January 15, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Well said. I just wish that State resources could be deployed by the Governor more directly. Order the State Police, not just Minnesotans, to track the activities of ICE caravans and to intervene when state laws are clearly violated. Call out Nat Guard and billet them at strategic locations.
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After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
Enrique Tarrio, exlíder de los Proud Boys, dice que se ha convertido en agente de ICE
Tarrio, quien recibió un indulto de Trump por su participación en el asalto al Capitolio en 2021, fue detenido un mes después de su liberación por un cargo de agresión en Washington D.C.
www.telemundo.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM
After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...
Wife and I are watching HER (2013) and the most unrealistic sci-fi aspect of it so far is that they built high-speed rail in California
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Wife and I are watching HER (2013) and the most unrealistic sci-fi aspect of it so far is that they built high-speed rail in California
Parenting a two-child household, day ~23:
ME: gotta throw the underwear in the hamper and pee in the toilet
BRAIN: you got it boss. throw the underwear in the toilet 👍
ME: gotta throw the underwear in the hamper and pee in the toilet
BRAIN: you got it boss. throw the underwear in the toilet 👍
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Parenting a two-child household, day ~23:
ME: gotta throw the underwear in the hamper and pee in the toilet
BRAIN: you got it boss. throw the underwear in the toilet 👍
ME: gotta throw the underwear in the hamper and pee in the toilet
BRAIN: you got it boss. throw the underwear in the toilet 👍
Wait these results are pretty funny, though. I’m not going to find the actual post but it looks like Roberts and Gorsuch are most often wrong while Jackson is most often correct
January 14, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Wait these results are pretty funny, though. I’m not going to find the actual post but it looks like Roberts and Gorsuch are most often wrong while Jackson is most often correct
Man this shit is shameless. It’s racial gerrymandering when Democrats do it but political gerrymandering when Republicans do it, not even the barest fig leaf
The opinion is from Judge Josephine Staton, an Obama appointee. She was joined by Judge Wesley Hsu, a Biden appointee.
Judge Kenneth Lee, the Ninth Circuit judge on the three-judge district court panel and a Trump appointee, dissented. [Corrected post.]
Judge Kenneth Lee, the Ninth Circuit judge on the three-judge district court panel and a Trump appointee, dissented. [Corrected post.]
January 14, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Man this shit is shameless. It’s racial gerrymandering when Democrats do it but political gerrymandering when Republicans do it, not even the barest fig leaf
Still surprised by how much I underestimated Trump II. “Build domestic concentration camps,” “send political prisoners to foreign gulags,” and “start a hot war with Europe”—none of these were among my predictions. And I thought I was predicting the worst case!
Denmark confirms an expanded, more permanent Danish and NATO military presence in and around Greenland, beginning today. Deployments span land, sea, and air, including protection of critical infrastructure, fighter jets, and naval operations. Sweden has committed forces; other NATO allies may follow
January 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Still surprised by how much I underestimated Trump II. “Build domestic concentration camps,” “send political prisoners to foreign gulags,” and “start a hot war with Europe”—none of these were among my predictions. And I thought I was predicting the worst case!
Hmm
Northerners were constantly trying to maintain the status quo, the old norms, the old rules, all while Southerners defected at every turn
And then Fort Sumter fell, Lincoln put out Proclamation 80, and droves of people flocked to long enlistment lines, eager to finally just shoot those fuckers.
And then Fort Sumter fell, Lincoln put out Proclamation 80, and droves of people flocked to long enlistment lines, eager to finally just shoot those fuckers.
![WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law.
Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department.
I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event, the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
And I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Hmm
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Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell
phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?
phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
cbsn.ws
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell
phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?
phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?
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Combine this with the news today of troops from Sweden and Germany, among others, heading to Greenland. Trump is making his move against NATO. I know it sounds lame, but all I can say is call your senators and representatives.
#BREAKING Denmark's foreign minister said after talks with US officials in Washington that US President Donald Trump has a clear wish of 'conquering' Greenland.
January 14, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Combine this with the news today of troops from Sweden and Germany, among others, heading to Greenland. Trump is making his move against NATO. I know it sounds lame, but all I can say is call your senators and representatives.
How it feels reading this tweet as a civil-rights lawyer
January 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
How it feels reading this tweet as a civil-rights lawyer
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Growing up is coming to see Calvin's parents as protagonists in their own right
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Growing up is coming to see Calvin's parents as protagonists in their own right
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Bozo’s big mad he got caught laundering his talking points through Dan Ryan in a private text thread, proceeds to paste what he learned about wiretap laws from google (lmao), claims he volunteers at IRCO, and signs off with this profundity: “I am not a good racists.”
It’s poetry.
It’s poetry.
i like the detail where he’s pursuing legal action against the merc, full crash out on their IG:
January 14, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Bozo’s big mad he got caught laundering his talking points through Dan Ryan in a private text thread, proceeds to paste what he learned about wiretap laws from google (lmao), claims he volunteers at IRCO, and signs off with this profundity: “I am not a good racists.”
It’s poetry.
It’s poetry.
Another one: I think any member of ICE should be afforded no more process than he showed his victims. Hell, I think you could talk me into the entire conservative carceral and punitive project as long as we limit it to members of ICE.
January 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Another one: I think any member of ICE should be afforded no more process than he showed his victims. Hell, I think you could talk me into the entire conservative carceral and punitive project as long as we limit it to members of ICE.
(I picked a relatively “anodyne” thing—beating up a child and then stealing and pawning his cell phone—for a reason.)
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
(I picked a relatively “anodyne” thing—beating up a child and then stealing and pawning his cell phone—for a reason.)
Better late (very, very late) than never
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Better late (very, very late) than never