This is highly related to my main takeaway from my jury duty earlier this year: "beyond a reasonable doubt" for _every element_ of the crime charged is a HIGH STANDARD TO MEET in a jury trial, esp when the gov is doing all this. Every juror should be prepared to hold the government to that standard.

A while back I asked on here where I could buy genuinely striking glasses in DC. Those of you who said A Brighter Image — I owe you a drink. Incredible selection, INCREDIBLE service, customer for life over here.

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

This is a good story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

People of Canada. You have one job. For the next 24 hours you have to get Drake as far away from Rogers Centre as possible. And keep him there.

Every time I talk to a general-assignment reporter doing an immigration story I feel like the oldest, most cynical person in the world. "Do you know where I can get data on XYZ?" "...oh, you sweet summer child."

Not at all sure why I have this stuck in my head, but since it's a total bop I might as well share it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWVp... I will defend Godspell to the death. "What if Hair, but about Jesus and the songs were actually good, and it gained rather than losing coherence in the second act?"

This is absolutely worth reading. Among other things, it features an ICE agent testifying in a sworn affidavit that the defendant had a removal order and final tags…based on assumptions another agent made that as it happened were wrong.

ICYMI: Georgia has 3rd-highest pop'n of Venezuelans in US; I wrote abt what life is like for them right now: @austinkocher.com @daralind.bsky.social @maria-hinojosa.bsky.social @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social atlpresscollective.com/2025/10/19/v...

NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico. Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico. He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law. W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Live your life so that your parent never has to give a quote to the Boston Globe calling you "high-ranking dumb" to _exonerate_ you.

I’m so glad someone called me out on this!! I said I was going to watch “the end” of last night’s baseball game. Then we went to bed in the 12th and avoided spoilers to resume it in the morning. Reader, we finished at ELEVEN THIRTY AY EM.

The Mark Felt rule of anonymous government sources is that you should assume they have decided it serves their purposes for the truth to be known. The corollary to that rule: being on the losing side of an internal struggle GREATLY reduces the fear and cost of kvetching to the press.

You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to log off for the night, watch the end of this baseball game, clean up the kitchen, maybe read some New Yorker articles. The horrors will still be here tomorrow, regardless of anything I do tonight.

Yeah, I think it’s definitely Interesting that reporting on the purge is saying both “numbers too low” and “Trump likes the aggro tactics.” The amount of effort required to plan a helicopter raid takes away from more efficient stuff. But! +

This is a good illustration of what’s happening tonight re ICE leadership purge. Posts and caption identify this dude as ICE, but his uniform says Border Patrol. A LOT of the most aggro stuff that has been casually attributed to ICE (esp in Chicago and LA, and in Portland in 2020) was actually CBP.

One note: ICE field offices cover regions. So these locations don’t necessarily mean that the cities listed will be targets (though I’m not saying they won’t be). www.ice.gov/doclib/about...

A Homeland Security Investigations agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop on Oct. 17. But a @dcpolicedept.bsky.social officer omitted any mention of the shooting from his reports, apparently under instruction from a "team leader." washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7732...

I fully cosign this as not only a sentiment but a strategy.

Let us now praise well-executed features: Molly Fischer on Costco, for the New Yorker. Can the Golden Age of Costco Last? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Their activity over the last week has included: car crashes, arrests of citizens, rapid responders and bystanders, four days straight of tear gas attacks on dense residential neighborhoods, real guns and pepper ball dispensers pointed at faces, breaking windows and dragging people from cars

This is a vroom tweet: BE4RCUB

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

There’s this; there’s also the part where you can’t control the salience of immigration because it turns out it also involves things happening in other countries

Something that I think _everyone_ in the debate over Dems and immigration needs to take a lot more seriously: to the extent that “when immigration rises in salience, voters move right and punish dovish parties” is a thing, it’s more of a thing when doves are _the party in power._

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W

we, uh, tried it: slate.com/life/2025/10...

New report from Human Rights Watch just dropped...

Between this and @nickmiroff.bsky.social’s Atlantic article on the fitness requirements, seems fair to say the recruiting effort is hitting systemic issues. Q is do they a) find a way to further loosen requirements; b) improve recruit targeting; c) accept smaller ICE than they hoped for.

So let me get this right. ICE got a bajillion dollars in the OBBBA to hire hundreds of thousands of agents, which they're behind on actually doing, but they're too poor to afford a couple of bodycams. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I would like to publicly take an L on something: circa Feb, when folks were connecting dots between targets of conservative influencers and targets of ICE, I cautioned against assuming causation. One generally shouldn’t! but I think there are enough data points to say there is a dox-to-ICE pipeline.

I do have some questions about this “no matter exist as a matter of law” thing and would love @lawfaremedia.org to explain it to me.

Booksky: I’m about a third of the way through The Radetzky March and seriously considering abandoning ship. If it hasn’t grabbed me now, is it ever going to?

At some point, we’re going to have to get some policy elites really mobilized on elementary good-government stuff.

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS www.latimes.com/california/s...

Deprofessionalization watch

IMHO this shouldn’t be limited to journalists. If you work in information — this includes, uh, pretty much everyone in official Washington — you should simply be in the habit of making it clear whether the info you’re about to share can be further circulated or not.

Just watched Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and wow, what an enormously well constructed film. Why aren’t we talking all the time about how perfectly in tune Keanu and Winter are at all times. How every gag is set up perfectly. ???

"White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities"

This is not a dunk on Hamed, but if you are a European seeking to resettle as a refugee in the United States you by definition do not “oppose migration.”

Seeing this post bsky.app/profile/rmac... followed by this post bsky.app/profile/jess... on my feed sure…is…something!!

I expect the divorce papers to show up any minute now, how’s your Wednesday going

This is a real “or barbarism” situation. Value the work you wish to reward. With dollars and clicks and attention and time. Or suffer the consequences of the world you’ve built.

One of the most important pieces of reporting this year imho www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Anyway, this is your regular reminder that my Signal is available in my bio, and that if you have something you want publicly known I'm happy to chat with you about it and come up with a plan. Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.

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I really wonder how this episode plays to people who are passively listening to it as opposed to treating it as Appointment Television

Not to steal @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social’s shtick but this is simply Saturn Devouring His Son