Over much of the past decade, the City of Austin permitted more housing annually than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 new homes, roughly 1.5× the total number of housing units permitted statewide across Massachusetts that year.
Coates: Can you describe what it was like inside that facility?
Rahman: From an audio perspective, nonstop laughter from agents. Absolute silence from people chained together in lines, all black and brown—just chaos.
New letter from Habiba Soliman, detained w mom & 4 young siblings at Dilley for 8 months and counting.
"When will our punishment end? When will we be free?"
As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration.
They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering https://t.co/g13zOsJSqz