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Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has expelled hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers to El Salvador without due process to be detained at the supermax mega-prison complex known as CECOT, with many of them accused of belonging to gangs largely on the basis of having tattoos. The Trump administration recently admitted in a court filing that a Salvadoran father with protected status was among those sent to El Salvador. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his family and had been granted protected status in 2019, blocking the federal government from removing him. Despite admitting to an “administrative error,” the Trump administration says it will not seek to return Abrego Garcia to his family. “Every single day now, new stories are coming out showing that they made a lot of mistakes,” says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. “Their goal is to ramp up deportations and arrests as quickly as they can, and if that leads to a bunch of innocent people getting swept up alongside, the message that the White House is sending is they don’t care.”

Princeton has become the latest university to be targeted by the Trump administration, as the federal government pauses dozens of federal grants to the school. The news comes after the Trump administration threatened to cut off more than $8.7 billion to Harvard and earlier suspended $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania and $400 million to Columbia University. In all cases, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism, citing the schools’ responses to student-led campus protests in solidarity with Gaza. “It’s time for us to step back … and think more critically about how we run our universities,” says former Columbia law professor Katherine Franke, who says students from abroad, even those with green cards and U.S. citizenship, are now “terrified” of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown. “It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”

Tuesday was a very good day for Democrats. For a change. At ballot boxes in both Wisconsin and Florida, and in the U.S. Senate. We enjoy while we can on today's BradCast, while trying to make sense of everything else we have time for in the bargain. [Audio link to full show follows below this [...]

A legal fight for the integrity and public oversight of elections in the Peach State has been running in federal court for nearly eight years now. As we've reported over those years here on The BradCast, it began long before Trump and his Republican MAGA stooges dreamt up their imaginary 'Stop the Steal' scheme to [...]

Hundreds of people gathered in Washington D.C. on Monday March 31, 2025 to mark Transgender Day of Visibility.

The Trump administration has made the targeting of transgender people a central tenet of its approach to government. A transgender teen reflects on the importance of resistance.