A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
Must read:
On February 18, Damaris Bello accompanied her mother to a green card interview in downtown Sacramento.
By the next morning, Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez had been deported to Mexico, where she hasn't lived in 27 years and despite having valid DACA status.
I'm old enough to remember that the notion of "conflict between the government and the [Catholic] clergy” was a crisis of the government violating the religious freedom rights of Catholics (see, e.g., Affordable Care Act contraception coverage requirement, Hyde Amendment issues, etc.)
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
32 immigrants died in ICE custody in 25, and already in 2026, 9 have died. Immigrant detention becomes a death machine.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I'm flying to St. Louis today. I've been studying immigration enforcement data for years. What I keep finding: the national picture only makes sense when you understand what's happening county by county, jail by jail. That's what this week is about. Come be a part of the discussion.
We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
There are a lot of interesting things in here but to see the USCCB come after the most famous/awful decision from the Taney court was a nice moment for me.
9-12 months to be placed in a scheduling queue for anyone but especially a disabled person approaching crisis is beyond wild. It’s criminal. No one should have to wait years for basic health services. But it’s a reality so many people and their families are facing every day.
For months we’ve seen signs that her medications are not working and begged for a referral to psych for a comprehensive work up. We finally got this message above today
Email message indicating recipient should not reply and that wait time for scheduling is 9-12 months
My life on the tenure track is wild. I normally post about things related to religion/migration/politics. But I’m also a parent advocate for an adult child with complex special needs.
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
Short-sighted, cowardly, & quite frankly unconscionable behavior from @utaustin.bsky.social here. Flagship public unis should be leading voices for the best of our communities & nation, not pandering to the worst in an utterly fruitless attempt to curry favor with those who'll always despise them.
The Epstein angle adds color to what we already knew: opposition to Francis was craven and opportunistic, and almost universally cashed out to support for Trump.
religionnews.com/2026/02/11/e...
ALERT: A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...
El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson:
"Medical evacuation flights were forced to divert to Las Cruces. All aviation operations were grounded, including emergency flights.
This was a major and unnecessary disruption. One that has not occurred since 9/11."
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
Trump's Religious Liberty Commission sued over lack of diversity
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
halftime show
what a shot
*BREAKING: Rubio is out as acting Archivist, and has illegally named an ineligble political appointee to "to serve and perform the functions of archivist"—which he did not have the authority to do.
My reporting expands on @federalnewsnetwork.com's scoop:
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lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-...
They said dead men tell no tales but Epstein sure has been telling us some lurid tales
But they're not racist or violent, right? 1/
Think about what it's like to be Black and hear candidates for office speak so cavalierly about murder.
Extra-judicial murder.
Of which this country is guilty.
Yeah, you feel like an equal citizen.
www.rawstory.com/don-lemon-26...
It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.
We, the employees of the NLRB, are calling on members of Congress to reject the Senate’s proposed funding deal unless it includes meaningful reforms for ICE and CBP’s operations.
Our Union has never endorsed a government shutdown before. But we believe we have no other choice.
