Chilling Dissent
Mohsen Mahdawi Faces Conservative Judges as Trump Administration Tries to Lock Him Back Up
The Republican-appointed judges could influence future rulings on defendants’ rights amid Trump’s free speech crackdown.
Justice
The War on Immigrants
The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely
Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.
Voices
What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.
The War on Immigrants
He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof.
Paramjit Singh is going blind in ICE detention. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.
Voices
GOP Reviving Executions for Iryna Zarutska’s Murder, but Rolling Back Reforms Won’t Prevent These Crimes
The far right proposed turning back the clock on lots of criminal justice reforms to prevent similar crimes, but not the change that might work.
License to Kill
Venezuela Boat Crews Targeted by Trump Are Low-Level Pawns in the Drug Game
When drug boat operators get caught, they usually get a few years in prison. Now Trump is executing them without trials.
Chilling Dissent
The Persistent Push to Depict Luigi Mangione and His Supporters as Terrorists
Trump calls them extremists. Mainstream media casts them as unhinged. We saw something else at a protest for Luigi Mangione.
Voices
The Bullet as Shitpost: Media Won’t Publish Manifestos but Reproduces Scrawls on Casing
From “ANTI-ICE” to “Notices bulges OwO,” the media latches onto memes on bullets. At its core, it’s the shooters trolling.
Unmasking ICE
Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds
For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.
Chilling Dissent
MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure
“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency."