Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name.
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Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Anyway, this is your regular reminder that my Signal is available in my bio, and that if you have something you want publicly known I'm happy to chat with you about it and come up with a plan.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.
Only spending the night reminding myself how much I love Ragtime, a musical that didn’t get its due at the time and that I can only hope will be appropriately affirmamented with the current revival
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Only spending the night reminding myself how much I love Ragtime, a musical that didn’t get its due at the time and that I can only hope will be appropriately affirmamented with the current revival
Oh no. It me.
I spent a lot of my life around speculative "what's better than the rule of law" but now we're in actual "what's worse than the rule of law."
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Oh no. It me.
I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking.
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking.
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Anyway, as someone who came out of college a) fully poststructuralist and b) ready to fight the liberal modernists who blamed the postmodernists for the Bush administration’s “create our own reality” power politics, bc postmodernism was just describing those politics not prescribing them: mea culpa+
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Anyway, as someone who came out of college a) fully poststructuralist and b) ready to fight the liberal modernists who blamed the postmodernists for the Bush administration’s “create our own reality” power politics, bc postmodernism was just describing those politics not prescribing them: mea culpa+
Reposted by Dara Lind
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
Modernity was nice while it lasted.
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Modernity was nice while it lasted.
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
BLIZZARD TIME to end the #macysdayparadeissurreal
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BLIZZARD TIME to end the #macysdayparadeissurreal
WHY DOES THAT SHREK LOOK LIKE A CAKE FAIL
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
WHY DOES THAT SHREK LOOK LIKE A CAKE FAIL
Stranger Things float + Foreigner. Sometimes i think someone in programming is doing it for the hashtag. #macysdayparadeissurreal
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stranger Things float + Foreigner. Sometimes i think someone in programming is doing it for the hashtag. #macysdayparadeissurreal
yassified rhino dancing to Kool and the (greatly depleted) Gang is a real #macysdayparadeissurreal moment
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
yassified rhino dancing to Kool and the (greatly depleted) Gang is a real #macysdayparadeissurreal moment
My brother: “that golden turkey float looks like it was constructed at the bottom of Mount Turkey Sinai while Turkey Moses was up receiving the Commandments.” #macysdayparadeissurreal
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My brother: “that golden turkey float looks like it was constructed at the bottom of Mount Turkey Sinai while Turkey Moses was up receiving the Commandments.” #macysdayparadeissurreal
Reminder: the hashtag is #macysdayparadeissurreal
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Reminder: the hashtag is #macysdayparadeissurreal
It’s amazing how JD Vance can suck all joy out of a food troll. Like. He’s just such a bitter and desiccated person.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s amazing how JD Vance can suck all joy out of a food troll. Like. He’s just such a bitter and desiccated person.
Reposted by Dara Lind
Before this ruling, the Trump admin had said that anyone who originally crossed the border without authorization was to be held in immigrant detention without the chance for release on bond. This had left lawyers scrambling to file habeas petitions for their detained clients.
New: A federal judge in California ruled that Trump's administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by U.S. immigration authorities nationally without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Before this ruling, the Trump admin had said that anyone who originally crossed the border without authorization was to be held in immigrant detention without the chance for release on bond. This had left lawyers scrambling to file habeas petitions for their detained clients.
This was eye-opening for me.
Really just fantastic reporting by @matinastevis.bsky.social today: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This was eye-opening for me.
Samantha Hancox-Li is the most essential thinker of 2025 and anything that supports her is good.
Something that definitely happened last year is that @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com got on CNN. It's true—we have video.
And, that happened because of an article she landed in a larger publication.
Big platforms lead to big audiences for liberal ideas. Build one: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
And, that happened because of an article she landed in a larger publication.
Big platforms lead to big audiences for liberal ideas. Build one: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Gorilla Channel Governance
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Samantha Hancox-Li is the most essential thinker of 2025 and anything that supports her is good.
BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
For every second you spend thinking about Nuzzi et al please donate a dollar to an indie media outlet that is actually doing good shit on a shoestring budget!
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
What’s the “dudes rock” equivalent for older white women
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What’s the “dudes rock” equivalent for older white women
Reposted by Dara Lind
“28% of contractors, as of late August, say they’ve been either directly or indirectly impacted by enhanced ICE enforcement... Complete Roofing Solutions in D.C. closed... the company said its crews were terrified of working in the city.”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
In Washington D.C., contractors face labor shortages due to ICE raid threats
The same fear is hitting job sites nationwide.
www.marketplace.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“28% of contractors, as of late August, say they’ve been either directly or indirectly impacted by enhanced ICE enforcement... Complete Roofing Solutions in D.C. closed... the company said its crews were terrified of working in the city.”
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Reposted by Dara Lind
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
PSA: It’s a Monday night in November and FS1 is showing the 109th running of the Indy 500.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
PSA: It’s a Monday night in November and FS1 is showing the 109th running of the Indy 500.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
For the next 45 laps this is an Oliver Bearman fan account.
Reposted by Dara Lind
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anyway the District of Columbia is an incredible city and I love it so much and I’m so glad I get to live here.