Andy Genz
@ajgenz.bsky.social
Dad, immigrant rights advocate, lawyer, DC resident, jogger
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This bullshit is making everything worse and the only thing I’m sure of is that I will continue to spend five figures a year to access four figures of care just in case I need seven figures of care.
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Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Hey look POTUS calling for military tribunals
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.
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the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
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" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project
Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
This is just another reason why it's so insidious that ICE is currently detaining over 20,000 people *picked up internally* who have NO CRIMINAL RECORD.
Thousands and thousands of people are in this situation; giving up their cases and accepting deportation because they can't bear being in jail any longer.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
Don Lupe shared that one detained man who volunteered to be deported due to unbearable conditions had to wait months.
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is just another reason why it's so insidious that ICE is currently detaining over 20,000 people *picked up internally* who have NO CRIMINAL RECORD.
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Thousands and thousands of people are in this situation; giving up their cases and accepting deportation because they can't bear being in jail any longer.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
Don Lupe shared that one detained man who volunteered to be deported due to unbearable conditions had to wait months.
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thousands and thousands of people are in this situation; giving up their cases and accepting deportation because they can't bear being in jail any longer.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
In many ways, that is a major point of detention.
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“I’m going to walk the streets with my whistle and I want to keep my neighbors protected because they deserve protection,” said one Charlotte area community member, “and they deserve to live in a world where they’re not scared.”
From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about ICE and Border Patrol agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend their immigrant neighbors. New at @americasvoice.bsky.social: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/look-for-t...
Look For The Helpers: Americans Come Together To Protect Immigrant Neighbors
From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about immigration agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend immigrant communities.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“I’m going to walk the streets with my whistle and I want to keep my neighbors protected because they deserve protection,” said one Charlotte area community member, “and they deserve to live in a world where they’re not scared.”
Really like this thread on the ad featuring ex-military/CIA Democrats and why psychologically it's so critical that those individuals delivered the message.
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Really like this thread on the ad featuring ex-military/CIA Democrats and why psychologically it's so critical that those individuals delivered the message.
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It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
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I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
The Trump administration has a new mass deportation playbook.
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
We’ve seen it in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Charlotte. And it’s coming to more cities.
@daralind.bsky.social explains 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I regret to inform you that I have finally broken down and done a direct-to-camera and I ESPECIALLY regret to inform you that I enjoyed it and will probably do more
This is a very frustrating thread that sounds right.
i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a very frustrating thread that sounds right.
In addition to the inhumanity of it all, under Trump we're *paying* to detain over 20,000 people arrested in the interior at one time who even ICE admits have no prior criminal charges or convictions. That costs money and hurts our communities with ~no arguable benefit.
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In addition to the inhumanity of it all, under Trump we're *paying* to detain over 20,000 people arrested in the interior at one time who even ICE admits have no prior criminal charges or convictions. That costs money and hurts our communities with ~no arguable benefit.
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
This is...brutal.
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is...brutal.
McFaul knows infinitely more about Russia than I do and I appreciate his candor about his past errors, but thinking for even a moment that Trump "had finally figured Putin out," is disqualifying for offering a useful opinion on any situation involving Trump and Putin.
Drafting a "peace plan" with Putin and then telling the Ukrainians to accept it is not mediation. It's acting as an agent for the Kremlin. Trump's and Witkoff's efforts to appease Putin are deeply disappointing. I was fooled into thinking Trump had finally figured Putin out. Looks like I was wrong
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
McFaul knows infinitely more about Russia than I do and I appreciate his candor about his past errors, but thinking for even a moment that Trump "had finally figured Putin out," is disqualifying for offering a useful opinion on any situation involving Trump and Putin.
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The plan says that "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States." This implies that both Russia and the Trump administration don't see the US as part of NATO in any real sense. That should deeply alarm every other NATO state.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The plan says that "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States." This implies that both Russia and the Trump administration don't see the US as part of NATO in any real sense. That should deeply alarm every other NATO state.
This is one reason the Dems may be forced to be more aggressive than they are inclined to be if and when they retake power in Washington: if they don’t, no one in or out of the government will trust our government again.
At this rate Europeans will only be able to view Washington as a reliable partner after a fundamental reform of the US constitutional order
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is one reason the Dems may be forced to be more aggressive than they are inclined to be if and when they retake power in Washington: if they don’t, no one in or out of the government will trust our government again.
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What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
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3/ some who showed up to honor the man the CIA says was behind the brutal bone-saw murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi included “ David Ellison, Apple’s Tim Cook, Salesforce/TIME’s Marc Benioff, and SpaceX/Tesla’s Elon Musk.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
3/ some who showed up to honor the man the CIA says was behind the brutal bone-saw murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi included “ David Ellison, Apple’s Tim Cook, Salesforce/TIME’s Marc Benioff, and SpaceX/Tesla’s Elon Musk.”
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Some of Judge Ellis’s reliance on body-worn camera footage is just so damning for ICE. Here, she doesn't even bother to elaborate; she just shows you that basically nobody had shields or weapons.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Some of Judge Ellis’s reliance on body-worn camera footage is just so damning for ICE. Here, she doesn't even bother to elaborate; she just shows you that basically nobody had shields or weapons.