More than a hundred people rallied together on Friday evening, protesting the Buffalo ICE Field Office’s recent arrest of Omar Ramos Jimenez of Rochester. Those who support Jimenez claim he was wrongfully detained and are demanding his immediate release. www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-n...

Am I so prolific that ChatGPT writes like me? In some cases, yes. One reader uploaded my entire corpus to the plagiarism machine to see if it could write like me. And it did. Just worse and stupider and with even less accuracy. Quite the feat!

Breaking on MS NOW: The Trump Justice Department FAILED today to secure an indictment against New York AG Letitia James. DOJ could attempt again to indict James. — via Carol Leonnig

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told Somali residents to call 911 if ICE shows up wearing masks to arrest undocumented immigrants — and said police will “immediately respond” and “intervene.”

If you didn’t know why we objected to the term “war on drugs” forty years ago, maybe you do now.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

My first college essay (on King Lear) was pedantic and juvenile. My professor wrote it “deserved the very least” (a c minus). I dusted myself off, learned what I could from the feedback, and tried to do better. I am deeply grateful, thirty years on, that she cared enough to tell me I was wrong.

To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit. All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.

JUST IN: A federal judge in New York (appointed by Trump) has ordered the Trump administation resume a deferred action program for young undocumented immigrants who faced abuse/neglect in their home country. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Once this child is learning, say, fluid dynamics in his second year of graduate school, he will no longer be “good at math” if he cannot collaborate with peers. And by then it will be too late to learn.

WHY LONG ISLAND MATTERS IN THIS CRISIS – Thank you for your kind words about the case we at @latinojustice won on Friday—that case was from 2016, this thread is about the crisis on Long Island now. (Yes, the article is paywalled – support local journalism).

Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.

Lawsuit is from 2017 lawsuit against Suffolk County and its Sheriff for unlawfully holding people in county jails after posting their bail or resolving their cases, for the sole purpose of letting ICE take them into custody.

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

This is proof they did not nullify but found DOJ had not made its case.

When many other Democratic leaders in Congress were cravenly supporting the run-up to the Iraq War, Nancy Pelosi opposed it and whipped votes in the House against it. She has many other career accomplishments but that brave and prescient stand is what I'll remember.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

[Exit Clown.]

My great grandfather was attacked when he tried to vote for the 1st time in 1964. He went got stitches and came back and voted. How could I stay home???

I do not think he should be mayor, but this is so much healthier of an approach to take toward a democratic election than anything we are hearing from Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is going to leave NYC the moment he loses. Sliwa seems to truly want to stay in this great city.

Blocked and reported.

This, I agree with. "It was reasonable for me under these circumstances not to know that these orders were a war crime" is viable under these circumstances in ways that it wasn't for, say, the Nazis in charge of liquidating a ghetto, but that reasonableness will decrease over time

Usha Vance didn’t like her husband suggesting she needed to be fixed. She made him sleep on the couch but for some reason that didn’t work.

Morality, decency, justice, and fairness just never enter these discussions. Nor does the possibility that effective leadership and advocacy can move the needle. The year I was born, public approval of interracial marriage was 30 percent. Death penalty support has dropped 30 percent since 2000.

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

And Brutus is an honorable man

KING … But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son⁠—

Yes

Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.

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."

Bonkers. Must read. And bonkers.

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

He is just much better at this than they are.

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

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.

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.