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Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.
JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.
There’s never been a time when only White people ilved in the US.
What this Nazi is talking about is wanting whites to dominate all others. He’s fine with us as his nannies, cooks, cleaners, drivers, etc.
Classic white supremacism: stay in your subordinated place or else.
Not going to happen
Posting something a little different this week. @soniashah.bsky.social and I went to explore the Hagerstown area where DHS plans to put an ICE detention center. This is the result of that trip.
"“Everywhere that this has happened has been kind of a real dumpster fire,” said Steven M. Neuhaus, a Republican who is the Orange County executive. “It’s been greeted with controversy, protests, violence, and it’s not something that we want in this sleepy county.”"
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRITZ EMMANUEL LESLY MIOT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-02471 (ACR) V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: "America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions." More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington's vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take.? eSec Noem I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE. 6:52 PM - Dec 1, 2025 - 13.2M Views ' Letter from George Washington to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783). 2 Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl.) 1110 n.91. But see supra n.l.
So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) "damn" countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti's TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) 1 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. 1 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. | 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. 9| 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. 9|5. They claim that Secretary Noem's decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary's decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things— in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Let me guess. Fifteen swing districts?
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Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.
Every cruelty and incompetence of the Trump regime coming together.
A vague gesture toward professionalism but better than nothin
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DHS has bought a warehouse outside Hagerstown MD, likely part of a nationwide expansion of “mega” detention centers
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
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The RW influencers who have descended on Bmore in recent days are likely going to try to pervert excellent reporting on fentanyl by @alissazhu.bsky.social into pretext for a crackdown in bmore, just as they did in MN.
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WHO ARE THE THREE FAR-RIGHT INFLUENCERS THAT ARRIVED IN BALTIMORE THIS WEEK? Let's talk about it.
First up: Ben Bergquam, AKA Steve Bannon's Bitch.
Time and time again.
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Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.
Was there any time they didn’t
immediately say the migrant/protester was a domestic terrorist who wanted to hurt or even kill them?
They might have some credibility if they at least said “hold on — let’s get all the facts first” …. just one time
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
Ten-hut, Baltimore: the Nazis have sent reconnaissance in advance of invasion. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/arrival-of...
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
Gavin Newsom just announced that California will be the first state to join the World Health Organization.
This is in direct defiance of Donald Trump, who just pulled the United States out of the organization.
i'm beating a dead horse but it's completely fucking absurd that so many in the political media hounded Biden for a year over some stuttering and slurring, meanwhile this man is literally decomposing on camera after stroking out and it's just a shrug
The DOJ has arrested and detained three people who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor's role as a local ICE official.
Jordan Kushner, lawyer for Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the arrested activists, describes the "circus" of her arrest.
Civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed.
Right-wing influencers have descended on Baltimore. Spread the word.
Gutter racism on the international stage.
Look up which local businesses are supporting ICE expansion in your state. Here in Maryland, there are 35 companies supporting ICE and their campaigns of terror
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Unclear that oil co's are keen on VZ opps at all. So again, why?
An estimated "$110bn in capital expenditure on exploration and production alone would be required to bring the country’s output back to where it was 15 years ago—2x the amount America’s oil majors combined invested worldwide in 2024."
