The article indicates the "fraud" category is limited to fraud in gaining citizenship. It, along with terrorism, are traditional categories for denaturalization. But adding other crimes is a dangerous expansion of the process, particularly when people are "accused" but not convicted.

I have to think there's an affordability story here. The overall population of the city hasn't changed much, so the new arrivals are mostly crowding out Maine-born residents. Historical note: I think this is the lowest Maine-born share on record #mepolitcs www.pressherald.com/2026/05/08/p...

In my latest piece, I write about how Susan Collins & the Bangor Daily News used lies, smears & dirty tricks to defeat her Democratic opponent in her first Senate campaign in 1996. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game.

People are comparing this photo to the 60s when most of you were actually alive in the 2020s when young Black people have essentially had to confront white cops in this same way.

I wrote about Matt Taibbi's failed lawsuit against me

I love that advice. That is the right thing to do. In my opinion, you can also apply it to instances where someone besides a colleague is being targeted or accosted. I recognize that is an unpopular stance among a certain stripe of journalist.

I guarantee you that no matter how deep seated the problems with the United States that led us here, exactly zero of them will be solved by "we should lock up more people and treat them worse."

Too many good liberals hear "training" and they think "professionalization"--they picture police spending hours learning the law, deescalation, and honing an air of expertise. What they probably don't picture is training that disproportionately emphasizes danger to officers and tactical responses.

There is a little too much emphasis on formal contracts between local police and DHS in the media. (Part of this is just the ability to quantify and data viz 287g agreements.) But, informal cooperation is wildly common and most people will never know. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

I think SCOTUS entering the media fray is a big self own in the sense that none of them have any idea how to win that fight and if they had the legitimacy to avoid the fight they wouldn’t be doing it in the first place

Always more money for cops. ALWAYS. It's pathological.

1/ In a recent episode of the @wunc.org Politics podcast, "Why NC Prison's Can't Pay Bills or Keep Staff," hosted by @raleighreporter.bsky.social, NCDAC secretary Leslie Dismukes argued that NC prisons are dangerously understaffed. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

People don't want to work in these deteriorating conditions – and prisons & jails cannot recruit their way around it Look at wages. The median corrections wage is higher than some of the most demanding jobs in the US, despite not even being a top 10 most dangerous job

This Correctional Officers Week is a good time to examine the "staffing crisis" across the US Prisons & jails are complaining that they can't hire & retain enough staff — why? The simplest, most obvious answer: There are way too many people locked up🧵

ICE officials want to bring their immigration terror campaign to the Bay Area and reopen the notorious "Rape Club" prison outside San Francisco to use as a concentration camp. They've already toured it along with private prison contractors. New from me in @prospect.org:

“A federal judge in #Boston this afternoon ordered the regime to release, within a couple hours, an Angolan man from Maine it had grabbed, then stuck in the Plymouth County jail, after regime lawyers were unable to provide any reason for grabbing him in the first place besides that they could.”

TIL that Louisiana allows for people who are involuntarily committed for substance use disorders to be "treated," against their will, with electric shocks. pdaps.org/datasets/civ...

great reporting as always from @tatiwm.bsky.social prismreports.org/2026/05/05/v...

All 58 California sheriffs endorse Chad Bianco for governor. Let that sink in. newrepublic.com/post/210008/...

My latest for @truthout.org examines the impact of free prison calls on families: truthout.org/articles/fre...

This would mean ICE would acquire 10 GEO facilities, which would allow a Dem President to shut them down the moment they take office, resulting in both less ICE capacity AND less GEO capacity. And in the short term, the total number of prison spaces remains unchanged, just some change ownership.

GEO Group earnings call happening now. Company CEO George Zoley tells participants that "the warehouse project has been paused, and DHS is evaluating how to proceed with this initiative to increase and consolidate the detention capacity."

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

1) DHS has in custody, for once, for real, an alleged violent criminal alien. 2) They manipulate a judge into releasing him so they can attack the judge for doing so.

There’s a reason ICE has been keeping a low profile, it seems.

Maine Medical Center Nurses are demanding that Maine Health cancel its contract with Palantir Technologies, the tech company powering ICE surveillance. https://www.mainepublic.org/health/2026-05-01/maine-nurses-demand-maine-health-cancel-its-contract-with-palantir-technologies

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

I have deep respect for the people who are continuing to protest this.

this entire thread is a nightmare

You’re telling me the party that misjudged the threat Trump posed in 2016 learned nothing by 2024?

Even worse: Biden lived through the Gingrich years and was Obama’s vp and yet he wouldn’t shut the fuck up about bipartisanship

HELL FUCKING YEAH CALVIN Calvin Duncan cleared to take office after federal judge grants TRO www.wwltv.com/article/news... www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

A recent survey by Consumers for Affordable Health Care found that 7 out of 10 Mainers have skipped or delayed medical care due to cost. Nearly half of households have incurred medical debt in the past two years, and most had health insurance at the time. https://bit.ly/4tNKxVy

@netabomani.com and I write about a history of Black publishing and Black printed matter in NYC and about the forthcoming Back Zine Fair for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social - urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/the-...

Years in the making, congratulations to the young people who made this happen. Can easily be replicated in cities across the country including NYC - thetriibe.com/reshape/chic...

With nine 287(g) agreements added to ICE's list today, we reached an insane mark in the program's expansion: 1,500 unique agencies now participate, or about 8.3% of all law enforcement agencies in the U.S. (*based on a rounded total of 18,000 LEAs) www.tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-...

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

Susan Collins kept saying Dems were holding up DHS funding and yet once her Senate GOP overlords and the House GOP and Trump decided they wanted to fund DHS...DHS got funded. Confusing! Just spitballing here but maybe reporters shouldn't take Susan Collins at her word? #MEpolitics

Every detained immigrant death is preventable if we simply end immigrant detention.

NINE THOUSAND people who work for the FBI — either two thirds of their agents or one quarter of their entire staff — have been diverted to doing at least some immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.

"In prison, we often must adapt to abnormal conditions, including seeing distorted versions of ourselves. After I finished my morning routine, I considered whether there were any documented psychological effects of us not seeing ourselves for long periods of time."

@rtraister.bsky.social offering sharper insight into ME-SEN than anything you'll see in Maine legacy media. (Or beltway media for that matter.) Below one salient chunk among many from this long conversation transcript. tinyurl.com/9ajbd4am #MEpolitics

The Maine legislature made mixed progress on racial equity in 2026. While there were efforts to shield New Mainers from excessive actions of federal agencies, attempts to advance tribal sovereignty largely fell flat due to opposition from Governor Mills. #mepolitics

Depressing to see that jump on "deportations," a sign that the more the Trump admin keeps immigration out of the news, the better for him. When it's highly visible, the American public hates it. When it's people being grabbed quietly without the spectacle, they forget about it and move on.

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

Certificates of innocence give exonerees modest state compensation and the right to expunge their records. Why has Cook County's top prosecutor been fighting to block people from getting them? New from @danhinkel.bsky.social @injusticewatch.org w/@boltsmag.org www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...