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Federal judge to decide whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia should return to immigration custody 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 1058
Abrego's lawyers have proof of Todd Blanche's direct involvement in his prosecution - after lying to the court about it. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 25 1491
Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It's using the DMV to help. 8 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 14 1370
11th Ct. grants Florida's request to limit the injunction against the anti-drag law to cover only Hamburger Mary's 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 917
"Rob Reiner was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California's Prop 8 banning same sex marriage." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 47 1846
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 1071
More Trump DOJ Hijinks in Abrego Garcia Saga 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 971
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 995
CBP agents held this U.S. citizen for hours until he agreed to let them search his electronic devices 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 38 2006
🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered. https://merrychristmas.gov 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 1197
Turkish student who criticized Israel can resume research at Tufts after visa revoked, judge rules 0 Eugene Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 780
"Constitution's 'domestic violence' clause may block Trump deployment of National Guard in Oregon." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 877
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 813
Amicus brief from the Cato Institute, Dale Carpenter and Eugene Volokh urges full Fifth Circuit to affirm panel ruling 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 898
Trump Action Tracker keeps track of antidemocratic actions by category including civil liberties, with links 6 mahina Dec 2025 Dec 2025 12 1308
Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 860
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1075
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 58 2683
Fired EPA employees challenge agency, alleging free speech violations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 755
The Rise of the Anti-Trump Jury. Juries Can Stop Trump, Too 1 ck4829 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1172
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 972
They're simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but ... 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1601
Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 1143
Ask yourself why there wasn't this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 70 2835
FL has suspended 25 rules using DeSantis' yearslong immigration state of emergency 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 1391
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana 6 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 53 2696
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 965
After 27 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris "Jimmie" Duncan is finally getting out. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1358
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 1097
ICE video shows officers planned to 'smash' into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol 7 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 37 2423

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Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 689
MAGA's $300 million heist 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1077
Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1000
At the Justice Department, Civil Rights Now Means Gun Rights 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 768
UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump's university attacks 0 usonian Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1216
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1297
Wisconsin: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs--And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 927
Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: 'I felt like a piece of trash' 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 852
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1076
Advocates Applaud as Pro-Palestinian Commentator Sami Hamdi Released by ICE 2 cbabe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 817
DOJ Officials Hype Up Ongoing Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 704
Q) How does a person protect a pro democracy anti fascist web site? 2 Ranting Randy Oct 2025 Nov 2025 2 827
Trump administration speeds up new rules that would make it easier to charge some protesters 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 869
Flock cameras lead Colorado police to wrong suspect: "It became my job to prove my innocence" 2 ck4829 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 0 819
"Excessive force. PERIOD!" 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 40 1477
Are You on Trump's List of Domestic Terrorists? There's No Way to Know. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 734
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1163
EXCLUSIVE: Key Lime Air is running flights of detainees for ICE, according to government data and flight tracking 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 934
Don't think of it as a concentration camp; think of it as an "accountability center." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 758
Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He's A Good Christian 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 850
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 827
BREAKING: Full Fifth Circuit decides it will rehear the case over West Texas A&M's effort to ban a drag show 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 957
Trump ally says grand jury empaneled in Florida to investigate a sweeping conspiracy against Trump 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 950
Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 929
Man challenges arrest for mocking DC troops with Darth Vader's theme song 3 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 26 1117
6 ICE monsters attack blind 4'6" man 2 Nululu Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1140
ICE agents hold teens at gunpoint at Dutch Bros in Hillsboro 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1179
DoDEA Must Return Books to Shelves, Judge Rules 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 850
After hours of oral argument ... in Callais v. Louisiana... Supreme Court is ready to decimate ..Voting Rights Act 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 869
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 683

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Hey Desperate Times, this is Desperate Measures. Desperate Measures, this is Desperate Times. 1 ck4829 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 724
Can Police Enter Your Home Without a Warrant? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide. 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 831
Official border patrol FB page is posting the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song. "Jew me sue Kick me k*ke me." 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 826
Supreme Court to hear arguments in pivotal case on the Voting Rights Act 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 883
"MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 979
"Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner." 11 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 22 1878
Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, which has agreed to accept him for residency. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 38 2233
Discussion Highlights False Confessions on International Wrongful Conviction Day 0 ck4829 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 697
This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to Prison in Africa 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1146
Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia return to court as his deportation saga continues 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 672
"They are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest." 7 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1419
How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 802
"Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem." 5 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1121
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 1247
"It's important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it." 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 804
Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to 'convert' gay and transgender youth 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 920
"Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point." 12 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 57 3381
" Fascism occurs twice: ..." 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1074
"This is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account." 4 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1235
crazy kop. Cop sees guy pumping gas, mistakes it for pistol. doesn't apologize, tries to justify his actions 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1192
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