This is my neighborhood. There AREN’T sirens going off everywhere. They are not doing this for max theater. They are doing it _to get people._
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I would call your mayor and ask why she’s permitting illegal checkpoints.
aug 19, 2025, 12:50 am • 4 0 • view
Seriously? I do not think you understand the situation in DC.
aug 21, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I realize they don’t care about legality at this point, but if you know—are they formally doing this as an interior immigration checkpoint, or something weirder?
aug 19, 2025, 1:48 am • 27 3 • view
Seconding this question: I’m not sure if reporting is clear on what they’re calling this.
aug 19, 2025, 1:53 am • 38 5 • view
For the 14th St checkpoint the other night, reporting had authorities saying: we’re checking for functioning taillights and seatbelt compliance and also: we’re checking for licenses and immigration status. I’m now very unclear on the legality of these checkpoints?
aug 19, 2025, 2:12 am • 42 7 • view
That feels very illegal to me! I haven't researched it recently, but that feels like a checkpoint for general law enforcement, which IIRC is a 4th Amendment problem. You can have an immigration checkpoint, and you can have a DWI checkpoint, but you can't have a checkpoint for all the things.
aug 19, 2025, 2:16 am • 6 1 • view
I used to write motions challenging the scope of DWI checkpoints when they expanded to check for things like insurance and registration.
aug 19, 2025, 2:17 am • 8 1 • view
is stopping to check insurance and registration a seizure in a way that a dwi checkpoint is not? is combination itself a problem? or does dwi have an exigency that justifies an otherwise unlawful seizure?
aug 19, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 1 • view
It's been years, and I can't look it up right now, but my memory is that DWI checkpoints specifically are ok b/c they are both justified by a serious public safety concern and tied to the roads (unlike, say, checkpoints to look for drugs). Paperwork doesn't have the same public safety justification
aug 19, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 1 • view
thanks!
aug 19, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
Definitely do not bet on my being correct about it!
aug 19, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 1 • view
that's okay, I assure you that your uncompensated responses to my idle and I'm sure ignorant musings are being held to a very low bar
aug 19, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
This explainer from 15 years ago is still pretty good on the law. Hasn't developed much recently. www.aclu-sdic.org/sites/defaul...
aug 19, 2025, 2:30 am • 27 4 • view
Whatever happened to the ACLU? Can't remember the last time I heard them suing the Trump admin
aug 19, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view
So, they're illegal? They're not being conducted within a reasonable distance of the border.
aug 19, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view
The ocean is the border
aug 19, 2025, 2:46 am • 9 0 • view
i was misremembering, your cite to ACLU / what CBP thinks the border is, are right on. that should be external, maritime borders, not including the Great Lakes or eg the Souris and Roseau Rivers, which I had not heard of before right now. Who names a river Mouse anyway. cc @asgvisalaw.bsky.social
aug 19, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems like it was a bad decision when we decided the 4th Amendment doesn't apply within 100 miles of the border (i.e., like 90% of the country by population and every single large city save Denver.)
aug 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
People of color, specifically.
aug 19, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
Apparent _immigrants,_ specifically. This has been immigration enforcement.
aug 19, 2025, 12:24 am • 2 0 • view
Dara, do you think they are stopping a car full of white men? No, they likely focus on the people of color, this is racial profiling being used to try to catch a gardener or nanny they can rip from their family.
aug 21, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, “apparent” as in people who APPEAR TO BE, as in racial profiling, yes.
aug 21, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Appear to be immigrant? No, they just happen to not be white.
aug 21, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
No, this is exactly the distinction I am drawing. Enforcement that was indiscriminately targeted at nonwhites in DC would look different — there would be operations east of the river, for example. The operations we’re seeing reveal racialized assumptions about who is an immigrant.
aug 21, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
😡
aug 19, 2025, 12:57 am • 0 0 • view
Racial profiling and making DC UN-livible.
aug 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
understandably, there is a steven miller quota to meet.
aug 19, 2025, 12:26 am • 8 0 • view
If you're an American and you're NOT deeply humiliated by this, you're not a REAL American. Fie on you and a pox on your house.
aug 19, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
They're hunting us for sport.
aug 19, 2025, 7:01 am • 0 0 • view
To whoever saw this and decided that, yeah, the answer was to have more sirens down my street for the last three days: thanks for reading my Bluesky, please get out of my city
aug 21, 2025, 1:32 pm • 46 1 • view
Will someone please tell me how this is 'making America great'?
aug 19, 2025, 12:16 am • 9 1 • view
It’s both. The theater is to keep his fucking rube fans happy.
aug 19, 2025, 1:49 am • 4 0 • view
This is so so sick.
aug 19, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Where are all these people sleeping, eating and who is paying for it?
aug 19, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/real...
aug 19, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 0 • view
Many of us (most of us) in the neighborhood don’t have cars
aug 19, 2025, 3:07 am • 10 0 • view
Seems like they're blocking traffic while armed. Is this a state where you can defend yourself and your property by using your vehicle as protection?
aug 19, 2025, 12:34 am • 4 1 • view
This isn’t a state. It’s the District of Columbia.
aug 19, 2025, 12:36 am • 15 0 • view
Govt must prove you could safely retreat AND were not in danger of loss of life if you choose to use deadly force in DC. mpdc.dc.gov/sites/defaul... Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom.
aug 19, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
The only thing people can say is fuck this shit.
aug 19, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
Set off sirens. Do not let them do this shit quietly. Drive through that checkpoint till they beg you to stop. This is YOUR neighborhood
aug 19, 2025, 1:45 am • 11 1 • view