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On Friday, a federal judge temporarily BLOCKED the Trump administration from building a border wall across the Big Bend region—including inside the national park.

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Kids are spending longer than ever in ORR custody, and attorneys have turned to habeas petitions to get them out. Jill Williams of Acacia and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law explained the strategy to me.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-child-should-need-a-habeas-petition

“They can’t be that stupid.” Former Rep. Liz Holtzman, a lawmaker who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon, slams Trump over reports the DOJ is reviewing whether Watergate prosecutors committed misconduct. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

gmafb www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...

"In the past, most unaccompanied minors in ORR custody were children who had recently crossed the US-Mexico border by themselves—not kids who arrived with a parent and had been living in the country for years." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last week, Donald Trump unveiled an A.I.-powered ‘giant wiener chatbot’ to simplify access to gov't information. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social tested it out and … it also fact checks some of his favorite lies 🫢 Or at least it USED TO. Some of the bot’s answers have reportedly since been reprogrammed.

AFL-CIO Chief Economist Darrick Hamilton says America's increasing economic inequality "is the result of a government that has over-indexed on the values of profit and speculation and under-indexed on investments in the capabilities of American people." youtu.be/gjyy3WgDv_U?...

Former Rep. Liz Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Nixon, told me the reported Trump DOJ effort to review whether Watergate prosecutors committed misconduct is "beyond stupid." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pI_...

Mahmoud Khalil is detailing his life’s story and his experience in ICE detention in his new memoir. He joined me to talk about why he decided to write this book, and the betrayal he felt when the country he chose as home turned against him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wG6...

this week I went to Santa Monica’s Downtown Farmers Market to get your predictions -- on whether California’s Prop 40 one-time tax on billionaires will pass, whether ICE’s latest hiring surge makes Americans safer, and what FBI hackers might have uncovered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9im...

A historic 96-mile protest march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUo...

The Trump administration is carrying out wide-scale family separations, far more than in the first Trump term. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXN...

Ms. Magazine's Jennifer Weiss-Wolf: “power structures have not changed. That says as much about our democracy... as it does about the lesson that young people are learning about the path to power.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=82It...

Trump is leaving open the possibility of declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act to seize control of the elections. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ph...

Donald Trump unveiled an AI-powered chatbot to simplify access to government information and services. Then it started fact-checking his favorite lies. We tested it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxd...