So sad to hear Dan McQuade of Defector passed away. Traded some DM’s with Dan over the years that always made me think: What a nice and original dude right here. I think of this piece of his every Halloween. RIP Dan defector.com/giving-out-b...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

New: Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano was scared to go into work on Jan. 11. He went anyway, stopping for gas along the way. Millions of people saw what happened next: Immigration agents surrounded his car and brutally arrested him. He told me what happened next: www.huffpost.com/entry/orbin-...

Strong statement from the Pipefitters' union on the killing of Alex Pretti: 'This state-sponsored murder has no place in our society.'

Wild that DOJ is investigating Minnesota anti-ICE church protesters on FACE Act charges. FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) was created to protect abortion clinics back in the 90s. Republicans have been working to repeal it in full & Trump has loosened enforcement, pardoning 23 extremists.

NEW: @natabortionfed.bsky.social sent a security alert to clinics in the Washington, D.C. area, warning of possible unrest & violence connected to an extremist group’s plans to protest outside the HHS building tomorrow. “This is the beginning of a new chapter of violence."

One photographer who's worked to document ICE activity said officers in Minneapolis are harsher than those he’s seen elsewhere.

A man who'd been charged with pointing a laser beam at Marine One with Trump onboard was acquitted by a DC jury in *35 minutes* this week. Another big L for Jeanine Pirro, who tried to "make a felon out of a homeless man with nothing but a cat toy keychain." www.huffpost.com/entry/man-ch...

New: In the days following the killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, ICE agents in one local office were called into a meeting. “We were briefed on avoiding standing in front of cars, wherever possible,” one agent present at the meeting told HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-of...

Scoop: U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requiring officers to undergo more crowd-control training to square off with demonstrators in cities like Minneapolis. This will likely result in more officers certified to shoot pepper balls and tear gas canisters. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

New: I went to Minneapolis and saw a brutal federal occupation. I also saw neighbors fighting back. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

Trump's New World Order is just the ancient barbarism of might makes right www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

New: In September, federal agents swarmed a manufacturing facility in upstate New York, arresting 57 people on alleged immigration violations. ...all without a single arrest warrant. Behind the unusual administrative warrant ICE used to question everyone: www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ra...

A federal women's prison - recently shuttered over sexual abuse of immigrants - could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. "Imagine, if I get sent back to Dublin but now for immigration?" one immigrant survivor of sexual abuse at FCI Dublin told me.

New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal. Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers. It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...

🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States. www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...

NEW: In my report for @huffpost.com, I take a deep dive into the battle being waged for common sense and rule of law in our courts and what the hell the point any of it is. I hope you will read: www.huffpost.com/entry/a-defy...

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

1: shoots gun at Capitol on J6 2: slueths tell fbi his name 3: he kills a man, claims self defense 4: he tells police he was the j6 gunman 5: he’s finally arrested 6: trump pardons him for j6 7: he allegedly kidnaps and sexually assaults someone www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: In a 3-2 vote Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole board recommended clemency for Tremane Wood, a man sentenced to death for a killing his brother admitted to committing www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

How much of Zohran Mamdani's ambitious agenda can he get done if he's elected mayor on Tuesday? A lot – and here's what it might look like: www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps. RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children New story w/ Senate library material www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

A perfect story for our times. Nebraska is getting its own immigrant detention center like Florida's Alligator Alcatraz. But people are upset because the center is replacing a work camp that provides the local economy with cheap prison labor. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

This is an excellent lede for a civil complaint. A+ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

ICE boasted over the arrest of Sydney Reid, a DC woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent in an altercation with ICE officers near DC Jail. Today a jury found Reid NOT GUILTY on a misdemeanor -- after grand juries no-billed the case 3 TIMES. Folks, don't let ICE lecture you about rocket science.

Internal DHS memo shows Trump plans to keep paying ICE agents and Border Patrol officers throughout the shutdown, while other feds go without pay. Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner

The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow over whether or not to totally gut the Voting Rights Act. If it does so it would decimate political power for racial minorities, particularly Black people, and help Donald Trump lock in one-party rule www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments about Colorado's conversion therapy ban tomorrow. In Chiles v. Salazar, a Christian therapist - repped by the Alliance Defending Freedom - claims that CO's 2019 ban on conversion therapy infringes on her freedom of speech. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

New banner greeting all visitors to the HHS website:

The Trump administration used a VA veterans’ newsletter to blame Democrats for the government shutdown. I don’t know how many people get this newsletter but it’s a massive audience, obviously. “Needless to say this really pissed me off,” a disabled vet who received it told me.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

Another day, another Jeanine Pirro case going to shit. Prosecutors are seeking to drop felony charges they filed against two other D.C. residents accused of assaulting a federal agent. Cases went nowhere. Judges are clearly exasperated by this stuff: www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

More regime consolidation of the media. Orbanism.

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled. Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.” Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

America Is Now A 'Show Your Papers' State The obvious end point of the Supreme Court’s logic is something normally associated with fascist regimes. www.huffpost.com/entry/americ...

The DC folk hero who threw a sandwich at a CBP officer was arraigned in federal court today on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal agent. He pleaded not guilty. Jury selection slated to start Nov 3. Yes, it’s looking like this will actually go to trial. Incredible.

The greatest shadow docket headline you’ll ever see

SCOTUS just gave Trump the green light to fire the FTC’s lone Democraric commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, while her case is pending. Slaughter was the only commissioner to vote against killing the FTC’s historic non-compete ban last week www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Shitty jobs report yet Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer boasts that "all job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans." Really sums up so much of what the administration is doing.

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

At least 13 people are charged with "assaulting" or "impeding" a federal agent in Trump's DC takeover. In several cases, what look like routine police scuffles have turned into federal cases carrying up to 8 yrs prison. The cases are "horseshit," an attorney said. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This morning a judge in D.C. Court unleashed a withering critique of Trump's DC police takeover, tossing a case built on "without a doubt the most illegal search" he'd ever seen. "Lawlessness cannot come from the government," the judge warned. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judge-...

This story demonstrates how even a short convo with an AI chatbot can be dangerous for vulnerable people: “The best way to sustain usage over time...is to prey on our deepest desires to be seen, to be validated, to be affirmed." www.reuters.com/investigates...