Brittany Perry
@bnperry.bsky.social
Academics/Faculty at DIS Study Abroad,Duke Ph.D., ventures in refugee law and migration studies
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Quite the closing words from the judge too:
Another big win for the rule of law! Federal judge just blocked the end of TPS for Haiti, which was supposed to go into effect tomorrow.
Violence and unrest remains prevalent in Haiti and this decision keeps more than 350k people safe while the case makes its way through the courts.
Violence and unrest remains prevalent in Haiti and this decision keeps more than 350k people safe while the case makes its way through the courts.
February 3, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Quite the closing words from the judge too:
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
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There can be no compromise on shutting this entire system down.
Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)
Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)
In a separate video, Castro said he spent 30 minutes with Ramos and his father.
“His dad said he hasn’t been himself and he’s been sleeping a lot, because he’s been depressed and sad,” said Castro. “Liam actually was not awake during our visit.” www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
“His dad said he hasn’t been himself and he’s been sleeping a lot, because he’s been depressed and sad,” said Castro. “Liam actually was not awake during our visit.” www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:19 AM
There can be no compromise on shutting this entire system down.
Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)
Remember Ramos’s limp body when you listen to any politician caving (I’m talking about you, Schumer, but also others)
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🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/
There are so many things beyond words at this moment. Pure evil and DEEP stupidity.
There are many serious governments in the world.
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
The US is not one of them.
(There are no penguins in Greenland.)
January 24, 2026 at 11:27 AM
There are so many things beyond words at this moment. Pure evil and DEEP stupidity.
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Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
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The United States is not an ethnic-nationalist dictatorship.
But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.
Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.
But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.
Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The United States is not an ethnic-nationalist dictatorship.
But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.
Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.
But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.
Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.
A little bit of chaos?? This is a fucking nightmare for this dad and this whole community
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 6:41 AM
A little bit of chaos?? This is a fucking nightmare for this dad and this whole community
This is America, a country where we champion the law and our constitution? This should make any patriot physically sick.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
This is America, a country where we champion the law and our constitution? This should make any patriot physically sick.
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I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.
This should not be a difficult concept.
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school.
That threat does not come from immigrants.
There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
That threat does not come from immigrants.
There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
Minneapolis Public Schools announces that out of an abundance of caution classes are canceled today and tomorrow due to safety concerns in the aftermath of the ICE shooting. kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/a...
No school for MPS rest of the week; Apparent ICE presence at Roosevelt High School causes chaotic scene
Minneapolis Public Schools said that out of an abundance of caution, there will be no school on Thursday or Friday due to safety concerns related to the woman who was fatally shot by an ICE agent.
kstp.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
There is a threat to Minneapolis so extreme that *every child in the city* has been forced to stay home from school.
That threat does not come from immigrants.
There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
That threat does not come from immigrants.
There has only been one murder in Minneapolis in 2026. It was federal agents' killing of a 37 year-old US citizen/mother in her minivan.
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I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
🧵
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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If I stayed at A&M, I would not be able to teach more than half of my courses. A deep loss that experts like Dr Petersen are being silenced.
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 AM
If I stayed at A&M, I would not be able to teach more than half of my courses. A deep loss that experts like Dr Petersen are being silenced.
I am sad for the future of Texas A&M. Some of my most meaningful career experiences were at this institution and my colleagues and their students deserve so much better.
The definition of "race ideology," which will likely be banned at Texas A&M, includes "accus[ing a race or ethnicity] of being oppressors in a racial hierarchy or conspiracy."
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I am sad for the future of Texas A&M. Some of my most meaningful career experiences were at this institution and my colleagues and their students deserve so much better.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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The fact that US law currently permits this is all we need to know about how all nationalisms bend towards fascism.
Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.
Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The fact that US law currently permits this is all we need to know about how all nationalisms bend towards fascism.
Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.
Focus on "foreigners" allows nation-states to outsource responsibility for their many failures. "Foreign states," "foreign gulags," "foreign people," etc.
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“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”
Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.
Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”
Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.
Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.
Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.
‘Approximately 500,000 foreign-educated nurses work in the U.S. as of 2022, representing about one in six registered nurses.’ www.kff.org/racial-equit...
Do not Google how many nurses are here on those visas
September 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
‘Approximately 500,000 foreign-educated nurses work in the U.S. as of 2022, representing about one in six registered nurses.’ www.kff.org/racial-equit...
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The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
September 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
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Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial
September 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Uit de VS National Holocaust Memorial
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September 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Attention #americans in #copenhgen: Stand up for American Democracy: Tomorrow (14/6) at Kogens Nytorv at 14:00: www.democratsabroad.org/cph_no_tyran...
No Tyrants Protest in Copenhagen
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
www.democratsabroad.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Attention #americans in #copenhgen: Stand up for American Democracy: Tomorrow (14/6) at Kogens Nytorv at 14:00: www.democratsabroad.org/cph_no_tyran...
I have a big birthday next week and even though my @bsky.app footprint is small, if anyone wants to give me a gift, donate to causes I love, like drc.ngo @drcngo.bsky.social
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Read about our operations and strategic framework. DRC Danish Refugee Council is making a difference for refugees world wide. Established in Denmark in 1956. Currently operating in 40 countries.
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April 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I have a big birthday next week and even though my @bsky.app footprint is small, if anyone wants to give me a gift, donate to causes I love, like drc.ngo @drcngo.bsky.social
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Reminds me of this American Indian prophecy:
When the last tree is cut,
the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted;
when to breathe the air is sickening,
you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money
When the last tree is cut,
the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted;
when to breathe the air is sickening,
you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money
This is like a caricature of what happens when a right-wing billionaire takes power. What next? Legalizing the clubbing of baby seals? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reminds me of this American Indian prophecy:
When the last tree is cut,
the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted;
when to breathe the air is sickening,
you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money
When the last tree is cut,
the last fish is caught,
and the last river is polluted;
when to breathe the air is sickening,
you will realize, too late,
that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money