Paul Tassin
@pilgrim33.bsky.social
Housing attorney in New Orleans, posting for me and not for my org. NOLSW Local 2320.
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 AM
fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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This is correct, actually. There is a lot of pain the could cause him personally and it would make much better leverage than tariffs (though for the record they should use all tools available to them)
trump only cares when it hits him personally. they should sanction trump directly.
you wanna see results: close his scottish golf course.
you wanna see results: close his scottish golf course.
January 19, 2026 at 5:30 AM
This is correct, actually. There is a lot of pain the could cause him personally and it would make much better leverage than tariffs (though for the record they should use all tools available to them)
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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
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Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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There will be more of this until we stop ICE, because this isn’t about immigration enforcement.
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:21 PM
There will be more of this until we stop ICE, because this isn’t about immigration enforcement.
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Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered.
@justsecurity.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
@justsecurity.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
This just shows how absurd the whole "armed conflict" framing is. The men on the boats weren't members of an organized armed force, and therefore the question of "perfidy" is inapposite. The problem is that they were civilians who were murdered.
@justsecurity.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
@justsecurity.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
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ICE guy at the new training course Democrats make him take paying attention and trying really hard to learn.
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
ICE guy at the new training course Democrats make him take paying attention and trying really hard to learn.
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Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
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I keep coming back to this
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
January 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I keep coming back to this
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Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony
Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.
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T-P gives us a billion word article on housing affordability that talks with zero tenants or housing advocates but gets quotes from 5 or 6 real estate developers. www.nola.com/news/busines...
New Orleans’ signature housing policy failed. Now comes the hard part for Mayor-elect Moreno
New Orleans’ Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning has fallen short. Mayor-elect Helena Moreno now faces the challenge of incentivizing developers, reforming city processes, and using public assets to expand ...
www.nola.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
T-P gives us a billion word article on housing affordability that talks with zero tenants or housing advocates but gets quotes from 5 or 6 real estate developers. www.nola.com/news/busines...
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Wired: Let’s arrest Jonathan Ross and charge him w a state homicide Trump can’t pardon.
Super-Wired: Let’s arrest the entire Minnesota FBI office with him, lock them up for 1/2 of that time w a state obstruction charge Trump can’t punish.
Super-Wired: Let’s arrest the entire Minnesota FBI office with him, lock them up for 1/2 of that time w a state obstruction charge Trump can’t punish.
Apropos of nothing
January 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Wired: Let’s arrest Jonathan Ross and charge him w a state homicide Trump can’t pardon.
Super-Wired: Let’s arrest the entire Minnesota FBI office with him, lock them up for 1/2 of that time w a state obstruction charge Trump can’t punish.
Super-Wired: Let’s arrest the entire Minnesota FBI office with him, lock them up for 1/2 of that time w a state obstruction charge Trump can’t punish.
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abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
abolish ice is the moderate position to be honest. whichever candidate promises to nuremberg the ice agents has my vote at this point
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Katrina Warriors Reunion
Carnival 2026
It’s the Inaugural Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. Afro-New Orleans Festival of Literature & Culture
Saturday 24 January 2026
11 am until 4 pm
André Cailloux Center
2541 Bayou Road
New Orleans 70119
Carnival 2026
It’s the Inaugural Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. Afro-New Orleans Festival of Literature & Culture
Saturday 24 January 2026
11 am until 4 pm
André Cailloux Center
2541 Bayou Road
New Orleans 70119
January 7, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Katrina Warriors Reunion
Carnival 2026
It’s the Inaugural Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. Afro-New Orleans Festival of Literature & Culture
Saturday 24 January 2026
11 am until 4 pm
André Cailloux Center
2541 Bayou Road
New Orleans 70119
Carnival 2026
It’s the Inaugural Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. Afro-New Orleans Festival of Literature & Culture
Saturday 24 January 2026
11 am until 4 pm
André Cailloux Center
2541 Bayou Road
New Orleans 70119
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Well if Minneapolitans have taught you anything in the last 5 years, it is record, record, record. 📷
It is your right to record - Minnesota is a one-party state - that means it does not require consent to record if you are party to the conversation yourself.
It is your right to record - Minnesota is a one-party state - that means it does not require consent to record if you are party to the conversation yourself.
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Well if Minneapolitans have taught you anything in the last 5 years, it is record, record, record. 📷
It is your right to record - Minnesota is a one-party state - that means it does not require consent to record if you are party to the conversation yourself.
It is your right to record - Minnesota is a one-party state - that means it does not require consent to record if you are party to the conversation yourself.
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If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
January 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
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surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational
January 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational
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I too have watched the video. There's nothing graphic in the visuals, thankfully. But this is straight-up, no defenses, not really questionable murder
I have watched the video. I think you probably do not need to watch the video. it shows what you think it's gonna show in terms of lack of justification.
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I too have watched the video. There's nothing graphic in the visuals, thankfully. But this is straight-up, no defenses, not really questionable murder
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If ICE shows out at Mardi Gras this year they way they did last year- there needs to be some serious questions about how to handle that.
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If ICE shows out at Mardi Gras this year they way they did last year- there needs to be some serious questions about how to handle that.