Could also go in Political Truths that are worth sharing but aren’t funny
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Hoping Bad Bunny has the courage to call out ICE at his Super Bowl performance. The Grammy crowd may be friendlier than an NFL crowd.
“We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans,” Bad Bunny said, after deploying the phrase “ICE out,” which has been used as a call for an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Next Sunday, Bad Bunny will take to the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage for a performance that has been marked by anticipation and criticism from conservatives
Could also go in authoritarian milestones thread
Le is saying what other lawyers are thinking.
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She’s apparently currently assigned to something like 83 cases because of all the people who have left the DOJ, combined with their lack of respect of the law increasing case loads.
So now her co-worker has 166 cases?
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Aliya Rahman was driving to see her doctor — the 39th such appointment since she’d suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2024— when the two cars in front of her suddenly came to a stop in the middle of traffic. Almost immediately, she heard someone loudly blowing a whistle and quickly realized she was in the middle of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.
The 43-year-old Rahman — who is also autistic and sensitive to loud noises and crowds — next heard a “cacophony of conflicting commands,” beginning with someone barking, “ ‘Move or I will break your f***ing window,’ in my passenger side.
Rahman talked to The Independent via Zoom the past week to enlighten the public about her ICE ordeal and shed light on how a lack of compassion about her condition devolved into a nightmare after being dragged to a reviled detention center, where she was repeatedly mocked over her disability before she blacked out and landed in a hospital.
She explained to The Independent that she has an autism-related auditory issue that makes multiple voices in a crowded space all sound like they’re the same volume. To work around that, she tries to look at people’s mouths as they speak. “But you can’t do that with ICE officers who cover their face and who are yelling — I wouldn’t even call them instructions,” she said.
“I’ve gotten a lot of hate messages saying that I’m an r-word who should be deported, or death threats, rape threats, all kinds of stuff,” she said.
Caring about autistic people’s needs is woke
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More insanity. I guess this is America now.
It was a charter.
Part of the problem is likely that they’re chartering planes but instead of any sort of gov’t bidding process, they’re just saying, well heck, lets use trump and friends to funnel money to them.
Agree. Its basically turned into a giant Trump family grift.
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Woman who has been in the US since 13 and her US citizen husband show up for a second appointment with DHS to move her paperwork forward for a green card.
DHS guy says good news, your I-30 paperwork has been approved. Asks her husband to step out and speak with him a minute. As he steps out the door slams shut and locks behind him. He doesn’t see her afterwards. Immigration takes the wife to start deportation proceedings.
This is going to be a huge civil lawsuit.
Married to an American, valid work permit, with no criminal record whatsover.
They also likely forged his signature on papers to try to get him deported.
This is truly banana republic behavior.
I didn’t think you could sue the federal government for civil rights violations. So i’m not sure there can be a civil lawsuit.
Per a front page article in the Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 7, it is extremely difficult to sue ICE. Extract:
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You theoretically can, but law / procedure makes it difficult, and any individuals who may have misbehaved are almost effectively immune.
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