Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social: "EPD has been notified by the FBI that there is a federal investigation into the incident and will be serving the City and Department with legal process to prohibit release of incident and crash reports, BWC footage, and other evidence associated with this incident."

Ellis rules that the Trump administration impermissibly prevented the free exercise of religion, in violation of the First Amendment. Those engaged in prayer have been shot, without warning, with pepper balls and tear gas, Ellis says.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Dude sucks so much he’s never once got invited to Shabbat.

mr mayor it is imperative: you need to let me hotbox one of these things at maximum elevation

ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents. As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Interesting @reason.com article from @joelancaster.com about the interpretations (and misinterpretations) of The Punisher. Great read for #comics fans and #police non-fans.

Man, I love whenever I get to do history research. Today I learned that when Lafayette visited Philadelphia in 1824, city leaders showed him Eastern State Penitentiary, still under construction. Lafayette's reaction: "What!? have you Bastilles in this country?"

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

This seems huge, and deserves more attention. SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights. Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court. Feds fail us, states step up.

It’s another day. Are you passing the Ms Rachel test?

lmao

We didn‘t have good social media when Cheney shot his friend in the face. We just had to walk around saying, “Hey … Dick Cheney shot a guy.”

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

"Hott—shockingly— answered 'No' when asked if he agreed 'agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?' Similarly, Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations"

Hard to explain to Gen Z how funny it was when Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face with birdshot while hunting. The jokes sustained us for months.

damn he’s right. I‘ve been exposed as a tactical sandwich poser

Your average Subway 6-inch has an effective range of about 15 feet, making it best for CQC or a sidearm (side-sub?). For increased range and stopping power, you're going to want something baguette-based, like a Croque Monsieur.

Plaintiffs in the Chicago lawsuit against DHS are asking to unseal an Oct. 20 transcript, and the redactions make it sound kind of juicy storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My latest: on Friday, a Tennessee appeals court ruled that new evidence didn’t prove Russell Maze's innocence--even though the medical examiner whose testimony helped convict Maze recanted and concluded Maze’s son died of natural causes, not from being shaken. www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

Fucking goons. "Troopers also issued $113 fines for drivers who honked their car horns in support of protesters. TCPalm saw multiple people getting tickets, but does not know any details because FHP has not provided the public records it requested." www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...

Donna got much better in the mid to late '70s. And you miss her when she's not there. Try listening to a Playing in the Band from '71. It's weird without Donna yelling!

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted Here are a few of them:

these absolute madmen

Y'all, William & Mary has blocked THREE punts and scored a safety on each one. Doing some research about safety records... I'll let you know what I find.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Finished my ork warbikers just in time for Orktober

They're calling him the most French man in history

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record. But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...

Motion to compel discovery of DHS video and drone footage in Chicago granted. lol, lmao storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Home Depot came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

I always see some surprised libs and lefties when @walterolson.bsky.social's stuff goes around, but Cato is consistent on police issues. If you're noticing their stuff more and more, it's because the state of things is bad.

I tried using Claude for a Python project, which is the only actual AI use-case for me. At one it recommended a really inefficient approach and then claimed I prompted it to. I had to copy and paste the log to get it to admit it. In some ways it really is like working with a human.

It takes only two or three seconds to become helpless in flowing grain

I know of two other cases of Portland guys with valid work permits who were arrested by ICE but don't show up on the online detainee locator. One family could only find their loved one by searching all the the ICE facilities on a third-party messaging app for inmates. Story TK tomorrow

Inevitable: plaintiffs in Chicago lawsuit against DHS ask why the feds can put together fashy video edits for social media but not give them any of the raw footage through discovery storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In our (longer) video in here, near the end of it, I ask @katmabu.bsky.social about how per our sources the trump wh is pressuring doj to arrest/indict more people — including/esp. journalists, dem electeds, dem candidates — for “obstructing” ICE and other enforcements. I tell her yes her name…

Immigration courts are generally open to the public, and advance notice is only *suggested* by DOJ. They can't outright require it. I know this because I got blocked from going to the Krome Immigration Court earlier this year and emailed EOIR. They wouldn't respond to my direct question about it.

This case underscores how SCOTUS made it impossible to hold immigration cops accountable for the abuses you see in all those videos. A federal task force cop manufactured evidence to put an innocent woman behind bars for two years. Because of SCOTUS-conferred immunity, the case never got to a jury.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

"But it is not your own Shire. Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out." - Gildor Inglorion, Fellowship of the Ring, "Three is Company"

the monkeys are reportedly on the shortlist to replace Brian Kelly

The night of the South Shore raid, Border Patrol called CPD to pick up two U.S. citizens they arrested two miles away. CPD says they can’t find any case reports confirming they did so, and DHS won’t reply to my inquiries about the arrested U.S. citizens. What happened to them?

An anonymous officer was caught on video throwing a woman to the ground during a peaceful protest outside the ICE field office in Durango. Dozens of protesters remained Tuesday after demonstrating through the night over the detainment of two children and their father on the way to school.

We just filed our PI brief in this one detailing how these stops are illegal, in part, because DHS won’t accept that REAL IDs are real. ICE rejected one woman’s ID and put her in shackles because “the Biden Administration made a lot of mistakes.” ij.org/press-releas...