Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

Come for “Lindsey Halligan texted a reporter,” stay for “DOJ spox called her Lindsay {sic}”

Bonkers. Must read. And bonkers.

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

He’s going to invade and install the winner of the Nobel peace prize as his puppet so no one will complain.

He is just much better at this than they are.

Wow. Curtis. Andrew. My god.

Cuomo came into this thinking Sliwa would go easy on him in exchange for police commissioner, proving he has no idea who Curtis Silwa is.

I never thought qualified immunity would be a topic in a mayoral debate.

Sliwa is on fire!

“I agree with Curtis” is going to behind a meme.

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:

Today, @latinojustice.bsky.social, @ccrjustice.org, @justicecommittee.bsky.social, Beldock Levine & Hoffman, and Gideon Oliver sued Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for letting Lieutenant Jonathan Rivera get away with murder. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/16/f...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

the church makes its art available to the public for free.

One reason why the Constitution broadly protects speech without regard to its content, and why it also protects expressive conduct rather than words alone, is that you never know whether the most profound form of protest against authoritarianism will turn out to be a frog costume.

“Donald Trump’s Census Bureau followed the law, scandal for Biden”

What was their clue?🙄

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

When you recall that political reporters ran interference for Trump over his "opposition" to Project 2025, remember that even AT THAT TIME there was a hidden camera interview with Vought where he said that was bullshit and he didn't mean it. www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

To put it another way - if Jeffries wants people to the left of the party's mainstream giving full-throated support to moderate nominees, he damn well better endorse left-of-mainstream candidates who win primaries. That's not "bending the knee." It's being fair. And not a fecking idiot.

What would make a Mayor Cuomo administration even worse? Police Commissioner Eric Adams (assuming that’s the deal here, not the Saudi nonsense)

So long as you don’t say the words “defund the police,” people are wildly in favor of defunding the police.

A professor told me once that he refused to teach “constitutional law,” but could teach “a history of constitutional decisionmaking.” Now I understand why.

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me

Where is Agatha Christie when you need her?

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

SCOTUS holds for the first time in history that law enforcement can stop people based on their race. Would it approve roving patrols targeting white people, who commit most of crime in this country, or citizens, who commit crimes at higher rates than non-citizens?

Do not get used to these even though they are standing around wasting your money on their phones.

Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!" Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country" Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

Using police to treat “social disorder” instead of “crime in the strict sense” is the mistake at the heart of “broken windows policing”

So the megalomaniac rich dude who used his fortune to buy a major newspaper wants to make his untalented second wife a star? I wonder if he's also missing a beloved childhood toy. A sled, maybe?

Be sure to add this to your FOIA requests, you’ll get the video by 2029 or so.

BREAKING: With #2030Census prep already underway, President Trump says he's instructed Commerce Dept to "immediately begin work" on a "new" census that excludes people living in the states without legal status from a count the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state”

Had my first request from opposing counsel that ICE officers be granted permission to appear “under pseudonym” while testifying in a federal trial.

The way you’d cook it, that’s probably true.

RIP Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained-mathematician-turned-satirist whose silly songs used to poke fun at our sensibilities and brighten our days when we were younger. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

When you strip away humanity

Police gang databases are speculative, barely regulated, and notoriously faulty — a perfect tool for officials seeking to imply criminality without due process. Many — hundreds of thousands of entries — are shared directly with ICE. New in @theintercept.com: theintercept.com/2025/07/22/i...

American police procedurals have indeed encouraged people to embrace torture. The pilot for Blue Bloods, in 2010, celebrated an officer waterboarding a suspect in a toilet bowl.

Where did they find a plane still labeled as Eastern Air Lines, a carrier that went bankrupt in 1991.

I share this view. If the BOP tried to kill Epstein, he’d be alive today (and possibly have been let out of prison by mistake).

Remember that the moment it was discovered that Abrego was not removable the government could have asked for him back and said “look, we aren’t monsters.” They want to be monsters. And they want people to know.

“This egregious decision betrays the public trust & accountability that is necessary to advance public safety" say @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social & Dep. Speaker Ayala. PC Tisch's cowardly decision is outrageous & dangerous. She must #FireJonathanRivera for #AllanFeliz! gothamist.com/news/city-co...

BREAKING: nearly 5mos after NYPD Deputy Commissioner found Lt. Rivera guilty for killing #AllanFeliz & recommended he be fired, Commissioner Tisch shamefully reverses course. Today she announced her preliminary decision to dismiss charges against Rivera -- without regard to city procedure.