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Just came over to Bluesky to keep up with some reporters, news sites, and commentators. (It's great for setting up lists of news & trusted sources to read.) Not expecting to run a feed here but may comment on articles.
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neithj.bsky.social
I made a bunch of protest themed cup cozies to give away (and keep protestor's coffee hot, water cold) and saved a bundle of patterns for knitting and crocheting different protest themed items of all shapes and sizes ravel.me/neithj/psct
Resist Raised Fist Knit Coffee Cup Cozy based on raised fist Racial Unity pattern by Stacy Pamela https://ravel.me/neithj/rfrccc Rebel knit Star Wars themed protest coffee cup cozy, pattern based on Rebel Scum by Hobbes LeGault https://ravel.me/neithj/raccc Feminist Killjoy fingerless hand mitts, pattern by Jen Walker & Cheryl Koester https://ravel.me/neithj/fkm It's a Coup protest coffee cup cozy, based on chicken motifs from Jamie Lomax's Farm Doodle patterns https://ravel.me/neithj/iacccc
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
neithj.bsky.social
“Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait” was how Floridians used to cruelly refer to black babies, with tons of merch… Contributor: Jim Crow meets ICE at 'Alligator Alcatraz' - Los Angeles Times apple.news/ATfOcp0isSL-...
Contributor: Jim Crow meets ICE at 'Alligator Alcatraz' — Los Angeles Times
'Alligator Alcatraz' is a rebrand of an age-old threat and a euphemism for cruelty wrapped in a bad joke.
apple.news
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
neithj.bsky.social
Denaturalization… Earlier I had read that they were expected to target those naturalized in the past 10 years, now this article implies free speech and political action may create more targets, no matter how long they’ve been citizens.

www.vox.com/politics/418...
Trump is now picking up where he left off. The administration has said that it will pursue these denaturalization cases in civil rather than criminal court proceedings. In such proceedings, individuals are not entitled to an attorney, and the legal bar for the administration to prove that a citizen did something to warrant denaturalization is lower than it would be in criminal court. There is also no limit on how long after naturalization the government can seek to revoke someone’s citizenship. All of that raises due process concerns. “Somebody might not know about the proceedings against them. There might be a good defense that they’re not able to offer. There’s no right to an attorney,” Burke Robinson said. “It seems to me to be really problematic.”
July 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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franken-pattern.bsky.social
OR, you can implement other methods to stop an obvious kidnapping. There are lots of imaginative choices...
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
neithj.bsky.social
Gift Article NYT DoJ vs courts whistleblower re: violating court orders plus lying and stonewalling the courts

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
neithj.bsky.social
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/u...
June 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
neithj.bsky.social
‘Legal scholars say the president’s actions are not authorized by the statutes… “He is declaring utterly bogus emergencies for the sake of trying to expand his power, undermine the Constitution and destroy civil liberties,” said Ilya Somin, a libertarian…’

gift art:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
Gift Article https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-emergency-powers-invasion.html?rsrc=ss Citing this series of crises, he has sought to draw on emergency powers that Congress has scattered throughout the United States Code over the centuries, summoning the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of California’s governor, sending scores of migrants to El Salvador without the barest hint of due process and upending the global economy with steep tariffs. Legal scholars say the president’s actions are not authorized by the statutes he has cited and are, instead, animated by a different goal. “He is declaring utterly bogus emergencies for the sake of trying to expand his power, undermine the Constitution and destroy civil liberties,” said Ilya Somin, a libertarian professor at Antonin Scalia Law School who represents a wine importer and other businesses challenging some of Mr. Trump’s tariffs.
June 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
neithj.bsky.social
www.fox29.com/news/victim-...
June 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
neithj.bsky.social
'...both circumventing the Convention Against Torture and giving the administration a cruel new weapon in its immigration crackdown.'

NO judicial review

www.vox.com/scotus/41616...
Trump’s lawyers, moreover, are quite candid about what it means if the Supreme Court accepts these jurisdictional arguments. “To the extent an action does not fit” within their proposed process, they argue, “the result is that judicial review is not available.” So, if Trump prevails, many of the immigrants he hopes to target will not have any recourse in any court. Many immigrants, in other words, could be deported without any judge or other neutral adjudicator considering whether the immigrant will be tortured in the country the Trump administration wants to send them to — both circumventing the Convention Against Torture and giving the administration a cruel new weapon in its immigration crackdown.
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
neithj.bsky.social
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Jun 9
Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies.

In response? Tear gas deployed and protesters shot with rubber bullets in LA.

A WIRED guide on how to protest safely:
How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
www.wired.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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econklin44.bsky.social
What makes these soulless idiots so horrifying is that they're not only effectively turning off the life support system for millions of Americans, with this & similar moves, they're channeling the funds saved into their own pockets & those of other billionaires. 🤬
June 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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boltsmag.org
Floridians were preparing new initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other issues on the ballot. But a new law makes these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment. boltsmag.org/florida...
A New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida Organizers
The new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures.
boltsmag.org
May 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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meidastouch.com
BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas — appointed by Donald Trump himself — has just ruled that Trump's controversial attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations is unlawful.
Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act Unlawful
Another loss in court for the Administration
meidasnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
neithj.bsky.social
If you are on apple news you can also read it here apple.news/AUh94aMx5T8i...
They told at least one of the mothers to bring her children to the appointment, then denied access to lawyers or choices.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · May 1
Undocumented mothers and their U.S. born children were deported. Attorneys for the families say federal immigration agents planned everything.

"She was trying to get ahold of a phone to try to call her family and her attorney. But she wasn’t being allowed.”
ICE Lied About Everything on Deported U.S. Citizen Kids, Lawyers Say
Attorneys for the families of the deported U.S. citizen children say federal immigration agents planned everything.
newrepublic.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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brunojnavarro.bsky.social
Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the Syracuse.com investigation shows.
April 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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theatlantic.com
"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history."
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
bit.ly
April 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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axios.com
The Trump administration has a legal attack plan to push the Supreme Court to bless his power to deport more people with fewer judicial restraints.

"We really do want to push the court — ultimately the Supreme Court — to take a stand."
Inside Trump's Supreme plot on immigration
Trump's plan revolves around two cases and obscure laws that have ignited lawsuits and sent shockwaves through the immigration system.
www.axios.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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casmudde.bsky.social
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM