Judge: Response, DOJ? Hegseth memo doesn't seem to identify events. DOJ: President's determination last weekend reflected in Truth Social posts indicate that DHS had made request. He talks about his decision, explains that conditions have deteriorated into "lawless mayhem."

I'm not sure accusations of healthcare are the same as accusations of pet-eating... The "healthcare for illegal aliens" line seems like it's more about attacking public goods that just happen to benefit outgroups. It's like the cities that shut down public pools instead of desegregating them.

Today, a receiver took over Hinds County's Raymond Detention Center. People detained there shared stories of being held in cells covered with mold and feces and sleeping on floors. At least 6 died there this year, including a murder & drug overdose. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/01/m...

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“It is draconian to take away SNAP benefits from a single mother without clear and convincing evidence that intentional trafficking was occurring during a time when food scarcity is so prevalent,” Franklin County Judge Thomas Wingate said in his 2023 decision. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Does any other song more reliably get people in their early 30s dancing like fools (myself included) like "Mr. Brightside"?

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have indicted three women for allegedly 'doxing' an ICE agent. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter. Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

More Meta creeper glasses on the goon squad

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Klein also misses the fact that there is an entire infrastructure dedicated to helping right-wing college students get people like Kirk and Shapiro to speak on campuses. The right exploits universities' openness to spread their message. It's much harder to do that with evangelical churches!

If we can’t measure pollution, we can’t protect our air or our future. Ending the EPA greenhouse gas reporting program means flying blind on emissions and leaving communities, businesses, and national security in the dark. America should lead on clean energy, not hide the facts.

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters." Uhh, hello?????????? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

House lawmakers voted to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults and to treat young people more harshly in the D.C. justice system — fulfilling a top request from the Trump administration despite universal opposition among top D.C. elected officials.

Why would you use a Mercator projection for a map like this, lmao

"“They thought we were just white trash rednecks & that we would just roll over & take it & not say anything." Remarkable new feature by @laurengill.bsky.social about the doubts & resistance that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' mega prison project has spurred in rural Arkansas: boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

Texas A&M is one of the biggest schools in the country, but alarming events there receive a fraction of the attention given to Harvard. I wrote about a campus vigil for Charlie Kirk, and how TX Republicans plan to honor his legacy by cracking down on speech www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

NEW: Some police officers in New York State drove drunk. They crashed their official vehicles and hit other motorists. They arrived at work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation by The New York Times and New York Focus found.

Bill de Blasio was so damaged by the NYPD's disrespect that he **checks notes** won re-election in a landslide two years later

“ICE's new contract shows that the organization will continue to far exceed its initial mandate and continue to become a federal police force to be used for political purposes,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-spends-...

Not the point, but no historical sources document Alexander the Great ordering his ships burnt. Guess it's too much to expect a Supreme Court justice to hire a fact checker for her book though...

deadliest year-to-date death rate in LA county jails on record — worse than the height of the pandemic.

ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

A "bright future for Gaza — but not necessarily one that includes the Palestinians who live there" is quite the choice of words

Kind of crazy that Timothee Chalamet was the first King of Greece en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of...

WHAT FED INDEPENDENCE ACTUALLY MEANS In today's newsletter, I wrote about the way Trump sees the Fed, and the potential constitutional stakes involved here.

Gannett newspapers job listing:"AI-Assisted Reporter" www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Is there some class Democratic consultants have to take that makes them forget how to talk like normal people? "a move that recalls times" "creating fear to distract" "individuals convicted of assaulting" "Every American should be deeply concerned"

I'm about to go to prison because I can't decide on my second favorite movie

This photo deserves a Pulitzer. I'm dying from laughing so hard. 10/10, no notes.

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

They're playing "Seasons (Waiting on You)" at the New Baltimore rest stop

Remember that time period when anyone asking a “stupid question” online got a link to “Let Me Google That For You?” I used it too. It’s one of the things that inspired me to write this, and it’s why I’m much more patient with questions than I used to be: www.techpolicy.press/in-an-age-of...

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

10 journalists were put in cuffs and/or violently assaulted by LAPD on Friday night. @willbunch.bsky.social wrote his Sunday @inquirer.com column about what this means for press freedom nationally. My description: “Utter lawlessness by the LAPD... they seemed thirsty to crack skulls.” Gift link:

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Well, that's bleak www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Some good reporting by the @inquirer.com on ICE using illegal reentry prosecutions in federal court, along with Old Arrests and prior removals. Contains charts! Involved combing records! Gift link: www.inquirer.com/crime/ice-de...

Federal funding for a program that helps states investigate pregnant and post partum deaths runs out next month. The president’s budget proposal cut the program, too. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/mate...

Great update from @themarshallproject.org on why the federal government _still_ doesn't know how many people die in prisons and jails each year. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...

Begging journalists and media to publish more explainers like this. They’re not sexy or prestigious but audiences need, like, and, yes, even share them bc they’re a window into an otherwise opaque and confusing world that’s easy to caricature as the deep state