We Found More Than 40 Cases Of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds And Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, Techdirt

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The original version has even more horrifying photographs and videos of agents engaging in this kind of behavior. Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at r…

When They're Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens' Phones

Jim Vorel, Jezebel

ICE agents seemingly believe they can get away with anything, even stealing and selling the phone of a 16-year-old citizen.

Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86

Adam Hancock, Al Jazeera English

Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.

“They Could See My Color”: Minneapolis Uber Driver Speaks Out On Why Border Patrol Accosted Him

Fatima Khan, The Intercept

Ahmed Bin Hassan, a Somali American, was defiant as more than a dozen masked federal agents harangued him about his accent. The post “They Could See My Color”: Minneapolis Uber Driver Speaks Out On Why Border Patrol Accosted Him appeared first on The Intercep…

New footage shows fired Cinnabon employee telling police Somali customers triggered her ‘PTSD’

Nhari Djan, Yahoo Entertainment

Body cam footage of a police officer speaking to the employee shows her claiming that the Somali couple, whom she

The New Surveillance State Is You

Andrew Couts, Wired

Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.

ICE Agents Violently Detain Black Pastor on Christmas Eve

Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ by aggressively detaining a pastor. Multiple agents in tactical gear can be seen in a video arguing with a man in his car on a video taken on Christmas Eve in Lewiston, Maine. “…

StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing.

Jonah Valdez, The Intercept

Known for targeting celebrities like Ms. Rachel, the pro-Israel blacklist also goes after private individuals who post in solidarity with Palestine. The post StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing. appeared first on…

SD Governor Gets Shitty After Town Announces It Won’t Be Pitching In With Upcoming ICE Raids

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

If there’s anything the GOP/MAGA party can’t stand, it’s people who won’t fall in line. It openly courts fascism while still pretending its ultimate concern is the protection of (certain) civil liberties. It cheers on politically motivated prosecutions while …

‘It’s a black hole’: Civil rights office at Department of Education veers from original mission

Sunlen Serfaty, CNN, CNN

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and...

Sacked agents sue FBI, saying they were punished for taking the knee

BBC News

The group say adopting a gesture used by protesters helped to defuse tensions during a 2020 demonstration.

FBI agents sue after being fired for kneeling during racial justice protest

Carrie Johnson, NPR

The FBI agents kneeled during a protest in 2020 not to reflect a left-wing political view, but to de-escalate a volatile situation, they say in court papers. The FBI fired them in September.

Letters from Our Readers

The New Yorker

Readers respond to Adam Gopnik’s piece about the demolition of the East Wing, Jessica Winter’s essay about the so-called crisis of men, and Jill Lepore’s essay about historical precedents for the Trump era.

U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown

Noah Hurowitz, The Intercept

ICE’s operation against Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign. The post U.S. Citizens With Somali Roots Are Carrying Their Passports Amid Minnesota ICE Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.

ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video

Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept

Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.” The post ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video appeared first on The Intercept.

Fired worker sues government in case that could upend civil rights laws

Carrie Johnson, NPR

A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon, and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.

The Anti-Trans Playbook

Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books

The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

Trump administration's effort to end 1960s school desegregation cases faces a hurdle

COLLIN BINKLEY, Yahoo Entertainment

The Trump administration’s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge in Louisiana. After the judge ...

Judge seeks settlement in 'Alligator Alcatraz' civil rights lawsuit

Associated Press, Yahoo Entertainment

A federal judge in Florida wants civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the U.S. and for Florida to meet next month to hammer out a settlement in a lawsuit...

Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson was unjustified

apnews.com, Biztoc.com

Laura Loomer Completely Melts Down Over Mamdani-Trump Meeting

Rachel Kahn, The New Republic

Self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer could barely conceal her rage about President Donald Trump’s meeting with NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Friday, which, by all appearances, went shockingly well.“Not condemning Trump,” Loomer disclaimed, before …

Judge blocks Trump administration from imposing fine on University of California over discrimination claims

Express Web Desk, The Indian Express

The administration had earlier demanded that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funds after accusing the campus of allowing antisemitism.

Where Wokeness Went Wrong

Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books

Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.

Lawsuit challenges US ban on transgender TSA officers conducting pat-downs

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

A Virginia transportation worker has alleged the new policy under Trump discriminates on the basis of gender identity.