Lisa White

Federal law prohibits voter intimidation by anyone — including federal, state, and local officials. Don’t let anyone interfere with your right to vote. Your community is counting on you! You can still register and vote in person at any vote center or polling place through Nov. 3 election day.

This is why I keep saying: if Dems are serious about accountability, they need to be ready to bull their way through the scolding & tut-tutting that is inevitably going to greet even the mildest attempts. It will come from Rs, from pundits, from journalists, from centrist Ds. It'll be relentless.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Finally.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

Our new podcast MAKE the CASE launches today! Go behind the scenes of legal battles around the most consequential issues of our day, from surveillance & immigration to voting rights & police accountability. Listen at www.aclunorcal.org/make-the-case/ and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Holy shit.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Censoring medical research goes against the very mission of public health agencies and negatively impacts everyone’s health. See you in court.

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

Next up: ❎ Axon ❎ Celebrite ❎ Palantir LFG!

The National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, is allowing political ideology to override scientific expertise in determining which projects receive federal funding. This is censorship and we sued to stop it.

BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

Kanye West, who repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazis, performed at SoFi Stadium (LA) and Raymond James Stadium (Tampa) in 2026, and is playing at AT&T Stadium (Dallas) in November. Praising Nazism is fine for NFL owners, but "Free Palestine" isn’t?

Violent patriarchy. The leveraging of Lindsay Clancy’s story to demonize all women is violent patriarchy. Society’s silence on the scores of women who die at the hands of men while hyper focusing on the actions of this one woman is violent patriarchy. We have to call that out. 5/5

Breaking! In a major win, today we settled our lawsuit with Sonoma County over its runaway drone surveillance program that trampled people's rights to privacy. No one should be afraid to open their blinds or go into their backyard because a government drone might be spying on their home.

Customs and Border Protection is detaining green card holders with past arrests for more than 72hrs at the San Francisco airport, a violation of agency guidelines. No beds or clean clothes. Limited access to medications, family, and attorneys. Many were transferred to ICE detention centers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

In a victory for free speech, a federal court ruled that the Trump Administration can’t deport noncitizens for criticizing Israel and the war in Gaza. "Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only ‘free’ to express complementary views about the government and its leaders,” the judge wrote.

We're deep into Mad King territory here and yet there will still be people on the Sunday shows today pretending that the president isn't a mentally deranged despot

Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.

Trump knows he can’t win an election the legal way, so he’s trying to sabotage it by demanding voter lists and empowering his controlled Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot and who doesn’t. They’ll steal this election if we let them. We won’t let them.

KBJ has them cold:

This is 100% true. They'll gleefully destroy any institutional space that makes room for Black people, and then turn around and say it's for "intellectual diversity" or similar bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these "anti-wokers" are mediocre--at best!--occupants of those same spaces

License plate readers were already a privacy nightmare. Then came SignalTrace, which adds new sensors to existing ALPR cameras. From mobile phones to fitness trackers, from Bluetooth headphones to smartwatches, it picks up signals from any personal device you carry that emits one.

Communities across the country are canceling their Flock contracts under public pressure. We built a toolkit to help yours be next! Because here’s the thing: these aren’t normal traffic cameras. They log every passing car into a national database law enforcement—including ICE—can search.

In Vallejo, 41% of drivers police stopped were Black. Black people are just 16% of the city’s population. Statewide data shows police consistently stop and search Black and Latino drivers at higher rates than other racial groups. This is racial profiling. And it doesn't make the roads safer.

What makes talking about crime and surveillance difficult is that the biggest surveillance zealots are those who either believe a) they don't commit crimes or b) their crimes are fundamentally different from the crimes other people commit and shouldn't be prosecuted.

Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.

lmao he looks like he was photoshopped in

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The ACLU has mounted a full-court press to protect the vote amid an onslaught of voter suppression tactics in California and across the U.S. Today we filed an amicus to invalidate Shasta County’s illegal Measure B which would block most residents from casting mail ballots like they could before.

We’re calling on Alameda County supes to stop stalling and fast-track approval of a civilian sheriff’s oversight board with meaningful investigative and subpoena powers. Elected sheriffs hold enormous power over jails and law enforcement. They must be held accountable to the public they serve.

The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Proposition 39 would make it harder for eligible California voters to cast ballots and would expose millions of people who vote by mail to the risk of identity theft. It claims to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist. That’s why in November, we urge Californians to Vote No on Prop 39.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed."

This ruling in our lawsuit Pablo Sequen, et al. v. Albarran, et al. protects every person, in every jurisdiction, who seeks justice in our nation's immigration courts.