I am not surprised. Not in the least. I think nothing less of this bunch. But, it still doesn’t make it any less infuriating.
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
🚨BREAKING: ICE accidentally published a government watch list of immigration lawyers… because nothing says “healthy democracy” like federal agencies quietly cataloging the attorneys who challenge them.Yes, really.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted what appears to be a covert roster of immigration attorneys on its own website. No announcement. No explanation. Just buried there until attorney Arlene Amarante stumbled across it while using the site and realized her own name was on the list. Casual. Normal. Totally fine.
The list has since been taken down, which is usually what happens when something is completely legitimate and not deeply alarming.
Immigration advocacy group Al Otro Lado has now filed a FOIA request demanding answers. Who created this list? Why did it exist? And why was ICE cataloging lawyers at all?
Then the situation got even more disturbing.
Amarante noticed a clear pattern, telling WGNO that a large number of the attorneys on the list were people of color. At that point, this stops being bureaucratic incompetence and starts looking like targeting.
Her question cuts to the heart of it. Why does this list exist? Whether it was an “innocent incursion” or something intentional and nefarious, we need to know. Especially when this administration keeps pushing the idea that helping immigrants is itself the harm, and this list seems to reflect that mindset.
And let’s be honest, this didn’t come out of nowhere.
In March 2025, the White House issued a memo titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” openly attacking immigration lawyers, accusing them of “unscrupulous” behavior, and directing the Attorney General to take action against lawyers and firms that cross the Trump administration.
So when ICE gets caught maintaining a quiet database of immigration attorneys, the context matters.
Al Otro Lado didn’t sugarcoat it, warning that the list raises “grave concerns of political targeting and professional intimidation” while the administration escalates its attacks on immigrant advocates.
Staff attorney Andrew Fels said what everyone is thinking. There is no obvious legitimate reason for ICE to be compiling a covert roster of immigration lawyers. The group is now demanding ICE publicly explain the list’s purpose and release the policies governing who was included.
Legal director Cassandra Lopez issued a warning that should make every lawyer uneasy. History may be repeating itself. Lawyers are appearing on government watch lists simply for doing their jobs, defending asylum seekers, and holding the government accountable in court.
Since the start of Trump’s second term, lawyers haven’t been treated as officers of the court. They’ve been treated as enemies. This watch list looks like the next step, where adversarial legal representation itself becomes suspicious behavior.
That’s not law enforcement. That’s authoritarianism.
And when the government starts monitoring the lawyers tasked with challenging it, the rule of law isn’t being protected… it’s being dismantled.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2001053041705771290?s=20
Last week, I saw the stories of Border Patrol and ICE STOPPING PEOPLE AT THE BORDER WHO WERE TRYING TO LEAVE. And, throwing them in those Private Prison Industry Detention Centers.
SO, WHAT IS IT?
You really trying to pay people to leave?
And, if so, where was this appropriated by Congress?
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Kristi Noem makes an announcement on Fox & Friends: “We are saying that if you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you’re in the US illegally, we’ll give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home. We’ll buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home and that includes people that have not been detained.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2003124827968672171?s=20
Brian Schwartz
@schwartzbWSJ
NEW: Wall Street and Trump allies are making their push for who they want Trump to select as Fed chair.
Here’s how they’re running a quiet campaign to get their choice into the Fed
Comes as Trump was saying privately he wasn’t entirely sold on Kevin Warsh- until an interview that impressed the president.
W/
@NickTimiraos
https://x.com/schwartzbWSJ/status/2002426553263706188?s=20
ProPublica
@propublica
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.
It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination … don’t matter,” one attorney said.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2002499290187350436?s=20
Terry Moran 🇺🇸
@TerryMoran
This is excellent reporting. Not because we don’t know this, but because
@peterbakernyt
here does what so few of my colleagues in the legacy press do: Speak the truth about what is happening in our country in plain English.
The ability to recognize that 2+2=4 is the essential characteristic of good journalism in America today.
“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch. Mr. Trump takes it upon himself to reinterpret a constitutional amendment and to eviscerate agencies and departments created by Congress. He dictates to private institutions how to run their affairs. He sends troops into American streets and wages an unauthorized war against nonmilitary boats in the Caribbean. He openly uses law enforcement for what his own chief of staff calls “score settling”against his enemies, he dispenses pardons to favored allies, and he equates criticism to sedition punishable by death.”
https://x.com/TerryMoran/status/2002781045951692968?s=20
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
Stephen Miller is literally framing the same logic that fueled the 1930s mass deportations… hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens were deported in the name of “protecting jobs.”
Mass deportation doesn’t protect American workers. It drives down wages, crushes organizing, and empowers exploitative employers. Targeting immigrant labor weakens labor standards for everyone, because an attack on immigrant workers is an attack on all workers.
History shows this approach fails, harms citizens, and creates widespread social and economic damage.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2002583516601565192?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
The only story that lasted less time in the news cycle than Trump’s revolting social media post about Rob Reiner was Trump having his name added to the Kennedy Center. Literally, two stories that would be weeks-long scandals w/any other President each lasted less than a day.
10:50 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2002783662237172066?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: A judge once blasted a DOJ letter for numerous “factual, legal, and typographical errors” when blocking Texas Republicans’ gerrymander. But this was hardly a one-off event.
Now, the DOJ regularly files flawed complaints, undermining its own power.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2002761861201060350?s=20
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1
ICE detained a U.S citizen they took when she was leaving a store in Louisiana! Her name is Dolce Consuelos Diaz Morales & when they stopped her she told them she was a U.S citizen! They have provided her birth certificate & all her immunization records & they still have her!
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2002505274695761947?s=20
Karly Kingsley
@karlykingsley
The wave of Republicans tapping out of Congress looks like accountability or exhaustion, but it’s not. It’s an admission that there’s nothing left to govern and that power has already moved somewhere less visible. It’s astounding how much damage has been done in less than a year.
7:16 PM · Dec 20, 2025
https://x.com/karlykingsley/status/2002548631937970563?s=20
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
🚨ICE WITHHELD MEDICAL CARE FROM A DIABETIC MAN. HE DIED. THEN THEY MARKED HIM AS “RELEASED.”
This is what happens when the government decides all immigrants are criminals.
Nenko Gantchev was 56 years old. He lived in Chicago for 30 years. He entered the U.S. legally on a student visa, had a work permit, paid taxes, owned a trucking company, and was married to a U.S. citizen. He was in the middle of his green card application through that marriage when ICE arrested him.
Not for a crime.
Not because he was dangerous.
But because he showed up to a USCIS interview.
From the moment ICE took him, Nenko was treated like a criminal… not a husband, not a business owner, not a man who followed the legal process for decades.
A federal judge ordered Nenko released on bond, along with hundreds of others, after finding these arrests were likely unlawful. ICE itself classified him as low risk to public safety.
He remained detained as the government fought that release order in court.
Nenko was diabetic. While held in a private ICE detention facility in Michigan, his health deteriorated. His family says he was denied proper medical care and a medically appropriate diet. He repeatedly told them he wasn’t feeling well. They sent commissary money just so he could eat food that wouldn’t spike his blood sugar.
They hoped he would be released because of his medical condition.
Instead, ICE kept him in custody.
On December 16, on the day of their 8 year wedding anniversary, his wife didn’t receive his usual phone call. When she searched the ICE detainee locator, it said Nenko had been “released.”
The next morning, she learned the truth.
Nenko Gantchev had died in ICE custody.
ICE now claims his death was from “natural causes,” while providing no meaningful explanation to his wife. Other detainees report he asked for medical help and did not receive it in time.
This is not an isolated incident.
This year alone, nearly 30 people have died in ICE custody, making 2025 the deadliest year on record. Every time, officials insist it’s a tragedy… not the predictable outcome of a system that dehumanizes immigrants by default.
Nenko wasn’t a criminal. He was labeled as one.
When a system treats people as disposable, and dehumanizes them, neglect becomes routine.
When neglect becomes routine, people die in custody.
And when they die, the paperwork says “released.”
A U.S. citizen lost her husband.
And unless this system changes, she will not be the last.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2002791348580057571?s=20
Feisty is proud to be a Democrat!
@FeistyLibLady
MAGA GOP Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a long history of corruption, but he always manages to use more corruption to stay in power.
His wife State Sen. Angela Paxton filed for divorce this year alleging adultery.
Now he wants to be Texas’ next Senator.
At Turning Point USA’s annual convention Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus.
Paxton wouldn’t know Jesus if he tripped over him.
#DemsUnited
https://x.com/FeistyLibLady/status/2002750822069764388?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Welker: Why didn’t the justice department meet that Friday deadline?
Blanche: The statute requires us to protect victims, and so the reason why we are still reviewing documents and still continuing our process is simply that, to protect victims. So the same individuals that are out there complaining about the lack of documents are the same individuals that don’t want us to protect victims.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2002758608401088812?s=20
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: The Justice Department has pulled more than a dozen images, including one containing photos of President Trump, from the thousands of files related to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that it released Friday.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2002781017220755617?s=20
Ben Norton
@BenjaminNorton
More US piracy:
US forces seized a second tanker carrying oil off the coast of Venezuela, in international waters.
This vessel is not even on the list of US sanctions (which are illegal under int’l law).
This barbaric naval blockade is an act of war.
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/20/us-second-merchant-vessel-venezuela
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2002533783288123723?s=20
Non-Human Media
@NonHumanMedia1
The reason why so many people keep wishing deportation will effect Black Americans on a mass scale and keep using fear tactics to convince us this is the case is because they can’t fanthom a reality where Black Americans are not treated worse than every other group at all times
12:31 PM · Jan 26, 2025
https://x.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1883583505617260870?s=20
Non-Human Media
@NonHumanMedia1
In most situations from mass incarceration, environmental racism, employment opportunities, life expectancy and almost any other social indicator of well being Black Americans are usually at the bottom so it’s breaking ppls brain to imagine a scenario where this isn’t the case
12:31 PM · Jan 26, 2025
https://x.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1883583506930094392?s=20
Non-Human Media
@NonHumanMedia1
Essentially, Black Americans are the ground floor on which everyone else walks on so our degradation and depredation is normalized as the status quo
Now that perhaps another group might have negative experiences that don’t necessarily apply to us is an affront to reality itself
https://x.com/NonHumanMedia1/status/1883583511636103319?s=20
lips so pursed
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
JD Vance: “Kamala Harris opened the border and destroyed the economy. The Trump administration gave you net negative migration and much more job creation.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2002821250133942608?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
JR: This isn’t the Republican Party anymore. It’s the MAGA Party and we are not going back.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2002801007617884615?s=20
Jane Mayer
@JaneMayerNYer
👑Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level https://nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share via
@NYTimes
https://x.com/JaneMayerNYer/status/2002783980366819771?s=20
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1
The Trump Administration is trying to coverup any and all documents and photos regarding Trump! Last night the DOJ website deleted numerous photos of Trump & Epstein including the ones of him on Jeffrey’s desk including the one with Trump,Melania,Jeffrey & Epstein together! 🤬
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2002642396220154325?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BREAKING: More proof the DOJ scrubbed Trump from the Epstein files.
The first image is from the DOJ’s “official” release, Trump’s name redacted.
The second is the original, Trump clearly visible.
This isn’t protection of victims.
This is protection of power.
They’re altering the record. Period.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2002779135895040038?s=20
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Vance: “We believe in honoring your father and mother rather than shipping all their money off to Ukraine”
A truly repulsive demagogue.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2002829942246052235?s=20
absolutely no lie told.
The United States versus Elon R. Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
We will never have universal health care because white conservatives are in charge of everything.
We will never have universal health care because white people & white culture don’t want it, specifically because it would help minorities, immigrants & especially Black people.
12:38 PM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2002810963213558048?s=20
InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
CBS NEWS POLL: Trump’s approval trends among Hispanics
February
🟢 Approve: 49% (-2)
🟤 Disapprove: 51%
DECEMBER
🟢 Approve: 29% (-42), new low
🟤 Disapprove: 71%
Net 40-point negative swing
https://x.com/IAPolls2022/status/2002801349969531363?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE detain Santa—for checking on the boys & girls at detention center.
“Santa run!” witnesses yell. “They’re coming Santa! Run!”
Agents run at a full sprint from inside building to tackle him to ground—kneel on his back.
“Be nice to Santa!… This is a little excessive!”
Multiple agents try to drag him across the pavement into the building—but they were not strong enough to carry him.
ICE claims that Santa stepped over a blue line they painted on the ground outside the facility in Portland, Oregon. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2002847952461513069?s=20
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
If after this last election and all the propaganda, lies and sabotage Democrats faced you decided to join THAT SIDE and the people behind it that’s cool but I ain’t with that shit
I decided to fight it
Still fighting it
I don’t feel defeated
I’m angry
And you should be too
9:29 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2002763259892646173?s=20
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
Like we have 8% unemployment in the Black community and Black women being dumped on the sidewalk in labor and you’re arguing about AIPAC?
What are we doing?
9:39 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2002765856724615425?s=20
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
Voters told people time and time again they hate Trump and are tired of him. A crazy bloc of voters said no and formed alliances to force him down on our throats and here we are
Same with Bernie
Democrats are the only folks that can’t double down but must bow down
Fuck that
9:42 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2002766601947578879?s=20
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
And there are a lot of us out here
So instead of telling us to accept the bullshit some voters are shoveling how about we build a coalition together and shout right back at them “we’re not going for this shit.”
Need us too
If you don’t good luck winning elections without us
10:20 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2002776223643246720?s=20
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
Not every Democratic voter is yelling “genocide” at Biden or Harris.
Not every Democratic voter is down with replacing Black politicians with easily controllable DSA drones.
Lots of us are tired of this “I’m young, progressive and I hate Democrats vote for me!” bullshit.
10:18 AM · Dec 21, 2025
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2002775710180720940?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE just hours away from deporting Indigenous woman—agents said her tribal ID looked “fake.”
“She already had the jumpsuit on to be deported,” her aunt said. “They identified her as an immigrant.”
“No one at the jail seemed willing to fix, or even acknowledge the mistake.”
Officials eventually released her—a lieutenant from the Sheriff’s Office called it a “silly mistake” and a “human error.”
Leticia Jacobo is just one of dozens of Native Americans who have reported being detained or questioned by ICE.
“In 1924, Congress did guarantee birthright citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States,” lawyer explained.
Leticia Jacobo was born in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of Arizona. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2002774198779805894?s=20
CENTER LEFT WINS ELECTIONS
@reesetheone1
307,500 votes in WI MI and PA,
MAGA: loud but fragile.
They can only beat women from coastal states.
https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/2002865056040763415?s=20
Jesus Freakin Congress
@TheJFreakinC
Just so we are clear…
The U.S. is not… and never has been… a Christian nation.
This administration has pushed xenophobic rhetoric straight out of the “great replacement” playbook, dehumanizing immigrants, framing them as criminals, and celebrating brutality toward minorities.
They’ve laughed as people were assaulted, children ripped from their families, kids held in detention centers far longer than legally allowed, constitutional rights ignored, due process denied.
Pregnant women were left to miscarry without medical care or food. Nursing mothers were separated from their NICU babies, while their milk supply dried up. People with life-threatening illnesses were denied medicine, and medical care, leaving some to die, or choose between life and self-deportation.
They’ve expanded detention, threatened children to give up asylum rights, and blocked congressional oversight of ICE facilities… all while publicly mocking the abuse in videos from White House accounts.
These are not Christian actions. They are cruelty dressed as policy.
So, when JD Vance stands on a podium talking about “protecting the weak” and “respecting all of God’s creatures,” while his party celebrates this abuse, it’s not leadership, it’s a middle finger to the American people and to what we were taught America was as children… a melting pot, a place of inclusion and opportunity.
Because when JD Vance says, “in the United States, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore,” what he really means is: if you are not white, your safety, your family, your constitution rights, and your humanity don’t matter here.
https://x.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2002854800463946174?s=20
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
ICYMI — Vice President JD Vance referred to Minneapolis as “Mogadishu”, said Jasmine Crockett has a fake “street girl” persona, and said “you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore” in 🇺🇸
If you’re sensing a (racist) theme here you are not alone
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/2002846557167837217?s=20
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
We’re cooked as a nation. I really don’t know what to say at this point. We’ve said over and over this whole movement is just lightly masked white supremacy but the smart people in the media said we didn’t know what we were talking about.
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2002825960778039342?s=20
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
🚨BREAKING: CBS just pulled their anticipated story on Trump’s CECOT concentration camps.
The same company who suspiciously cancelled Steve Colbert when they needed Trump to approve the Paramount deal.
When the press bends to tyrants, countries die.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/2002902791287943319?s=20
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2002890562119360821?s=20
The okayest poster there is
@ok_post_guy
Why on earth would it be frustrating to watch apartments get built in your neighborhood while you refuse to bring your illegal apartment units into compliance with modern building codes?
https://x.com/ok_post_guy/status/2002999118600511612?s=20
The okayest poster there is
@ok_post_guy
To draw a finer point on this: refusing to allow new housing construction means forcing people to live in old, outdated apartments in people’s basements with inadequate wiring, no permanent heat…and places like SF sure seem to think that’s a better outcome!
https://x.com/ok_post_guy/status/2003000017582461428?s=20
Interesting video about Military Chaplains and how unqualified Pete is messing with them.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yAdwp3/
Here is a gift link to the NYT article about Bari Weiss killing a fact-checked story because it was not sympathetic enough to a presidential administration in the midst of deciding about another corporate merger that CBS’s owners are trying to win.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.OfxV.ZsKyQthh0JNi&smid=url-share
ProPublica
@propublica
“The consequences on lives lost and funding squandered will grow exponentially and irreversibly in many cases,” Nicholas Enrich, then an acting assistant administrator at USAID, warned in a Feb. 8 email to agency leaders.
They did not respond.
https://x.com/propublica/status/2003088218221101511?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Larry Ellison is consolidating media power in plain sight.
He backed The Free Press, installed Bari Weiss at CBS, and the network has since bent toward Trump-friendly coverage.
Now he’s floating a $40B personal guarantee to outbid Netflix, not for movies, but for CNN and Paramount’s news infrastructure.
This is clearly about CONTROLLING the narrative ahead of the midterms.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2003110553762341250?s=20
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊