If you don’t know Orange County, NY, lots of NYPD retirees up there

"Regardless of where you stand on … immigration, we all know that what is happening in the Midwest is a disaster." Orange County will formally oppose a proposal to build an ICE facility in NY's Hudson Valley www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems. The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡 1000 troops have been there since March 2024

I just want people to know that there is no active insurrection, no regular protests, no rioting or whatever. The only time people are in the streets is when masked armed ICE thugs descend on one of our neighbors to disappear them as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign.

Six weeks into the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities, observers say federal agents are employing violence more frequently and with little apparent restraint against citizens and noncitizens alike. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Tom Homan is claiming that he wants "access to the jails" in exchange for ending the siege on Minneapolis. Be clear that this is just a lie. 1) Jail rosters are public information and every LEO agency has access to them. They regularly pick up people to deport all the time, everywhere.

Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war. interc.pt/45dH4W2

You would think CBS would note that footage shows Ross wasn't hit. You would be wrong.

Great FOIA and investigative work shows the one thing the Trump administration is good at is ignoring what the intelligence community is actually saying & twisting the narrative. By @rshapiro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social and no paywall because Wired makes FOIA-based reporting free.

Hot 97 Names The Kid Mero as New Morning Show Host: Here’s When He Starts

“They couldn’t hear my voice when they knocked on my window, but they could see my color,” Bin Hassan told The Intercept. interc.pt/45CADMi

The federal government is paying Louisiana $1 million a month to house ICE detainees at the notorious Angola prison. lailluminator.com/briefs/ice-a...

I love being a hard ass. Me and buddies get to have all the weapons and surveillance equipment and you get none. We can beat you or kill you or shoot you with gas as much as we want. And if you so much as push us we'll charge you with assaulting an officer and send you to prison for 10 years.

This whole thing I did in Trump 1 starting to feel pretty quaint these days www.vice.com/en/article/w...

If this is the training, it’s a wonder ICE agents are able to walk across a grocery store parking lot without massacring everyone in a moving vehicle

I’d like to think of I were a tough guy fascist I wouldn’t even think executing a lady in her car was a cool kill but then I remember how many Palestinian toddlers they assassinate because they threw a rock somewhere near a tank.

nothing about this is new. The Post was gunning for de Blasio and various aides of his throughout his time in office

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship. That means they are banned from voting. That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials. A. New. Must. Read.

Praying for the opinion writers at the Times whose fingers must be tired from justifying war in Venezuela, now having to fire up their word for processors anew for emergency defense of murder in Minneapolis

For some background on how the Defense Department has always wanted a bigger piece of the War on Drugs, and how the Trump administration has bulldozed over the already somewhat muddy lines between military and war enforcement functions, here's my piece from last fall theintercept.com/2025/10/26/d...

As discussed on today's @openargs.bsky.social, the US quietly designated the Venezuelan "Cartel del los Soles" an FTO just before Thanksgiving in anticipation of what we just did in Venezuela. In the wake of these events, the recent designation of Colombia's Clan de Golfo is extremely concerning

Once again.

Time to dust off those old no blood for oil signs

We have always been at war with Venezuela

Welcome to A New Era, Cea Weaver!

With a few hours left in office, Mayor Adams has vetoed 19 Council bills in a last-ditch bid to block the measures, which carry big implications for immigration, housing, NYPD accountability & more. The Council seems poised to override several of them. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/m...

Bari Weiss seems to think if she says stuff like “truth-finding is our North Star” enough, people won’t notice she has no idea what she’s doing

Didn’t the NY Observer used to have this policy with Trump?

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“Crucial to public safety is ensuring the public has confidence officers will be held accountable for their actions,” said Davie, who served as board chair from 2017 to 2022. “To do anything less makes a mockery of oversight and undermines public safety." www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/16/n...

ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Does anyone believe that literacy education is important yet?

Buckle up, here's a wild tale involving the former head of the Brooklyn Dems Frank Seddio, $2 million in missing cash, an alleged scammer, and the Brooklyn court system (that Seddio has played a huge role in shaping). hellgatenyc.com/frank-seddio...

The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...

This is so insane but also a great example of law enforcement responding to a change in the law with willful obtuseness to keep doing the more punitive thing. See also: NYC decriminalized weed in the 1970s, but the NYPD kept jailing people for it till full legalization nysfocus.com/2025/11/13/n...

NY teen smoking a joint, talking on the phone on her way to school: "I don't want to use AI if I don't even know what it's talking about. I don't want to use it if I don't even understand the basis for what it's saying" Hold the line, teens!

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

New: a judge has ruled that Flock surveillance images are public records that can be requested by anyone. Shows that at least in some cases, police cannot withhold the data collected by its surveillance systems. www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

I love when people use that canva flyer template with a “queer witchy rave with wellness tents” vibe, only to share, say, a list of food pantries for people whose snap has been cut off, or a blood drive at the office

It really is déjà vu because they did the same exact thing months ago, and years ago, never with the slightest personal consequences. Schumer will feast lavishly tonight, maybe even at the same dinner party as his Republican "opponents."

Every day that federal workers continue to show up to work without pay is a testament to how thoroughly decimated the American labor movement is and how much organizing work remains to be done

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others.