This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

“With federal officials changing up COVID-19 vaccination protocols, Pima County residents are facing hurdles as they try to get the new shot this year. And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

Update: Lawyers for the DA & other defendants filed a motion asking to seal some exhibits in this case, saying the texts about the alleged "love triangle" (w/the two sisters) & abortion were just media fodder, had nothing to do with the core claims storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect. The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Learned via X account name change that Bovino is no longer the El Centro chief, he’s now “Commander of Operations at Large; California.”

As the Trump administration forges ahead on building a 27-mile border wall across the San Rafael Valley—one of few untouched areas in Southern Arizona—University of Arizona researchers find new signs that jaguars are crossing the border from Mexico: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Oh god, a breach of ECF could be extremely dangerous. Lots of sealed filings.

Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein survivors say history is repeating itself with Trump's DOJ "sidelining them from critical decisions." It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration." Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...

A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.

irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Reup: Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

A stunning scoop from @mariasacchetti.bsky.social: Despite pledging to target criminals, the Trump administration has freed a three-time felon from prison in exchange for his testimony against Abrego, a wrongly deported man who has not been convicted of a crime www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing. apnews.com/article/migr...

Interesting story from @lookoutnews.bsky.social "Just minutes before the start of the 21st annual Bisbee Pride Parade on Saturday, Border Patrol agents detained several individuals on Main Street where the Parade took place, startling residents and visitors gathered for the celebration."

NEW — Iranian asylum seeker in ICE detention center goes on hunger strike: "I will not eat until my voice is heard and I am free." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

🚨 Department of Defense says that it took command of 2,000 additional California National Guard troops (bringing to total to 4,000) “to support ICE,” raising serious Posse Comitatus Act questions. Does this mean the National Guard will be will deployed to back up ICE worksite raids? No answers yet.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

🚨: The University of Arizona, with currently 656 Chinese international students, will be monitoring their visa situation after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will be "aggressively" revoking their student visas. tucson.com/news/local/e...

Dispatch from 26 Federal plaza where plain clothes federal agents detained at least 7 people leaving immigration court, plus a priest attempting to observe the arrests. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/i...

It is very unsettling to see total fire suppression be so enthusiastically embraced despite the voluminous scholarship on the enormous and ongoing harms of decades of suppression-first wildfire policy. www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/le...

Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.

“Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.” @hassan.senate.gov “50 of the 240 Venezuelan men that [Trump exiled without due process] to the CECOT megaprison have been identified as legal U.S. residents.” @newrepublic.com

"This tax bill's enormity is being underplayed ... [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined," Jessica Riedl, a budget specialist at the conservative Manhattan Institute, told Yahoo Finance.

Question: Why are House Republicans trying to kick nearly 14 million people off their health insurance? Answer:

Members of Congress were also there, but were not arrested. One reason why? It's literally illegal for DHS to bar any member of Congress from entering an immigration detention facility for the purposes of conducting oversight.

U.S. may soon deport migrants to Libya on military flight, sources say - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

SCOOP: The Trump administration is “decommissioning” a Department of Justice office that been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think this aspect of Trump's gulag deal with Bukele is really underappreciated ... for all the talk about "cleaning up the gangs" the US government's belief is that he is collaborating with them www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

A brazen assault on the free press in El Salvador. Bukele is really doing the work burnishing his dictator credentials.

Wow, they're arguing that the Administrative Office of the US Courts is an executive agency that must be controlled by the president. This would functionally allow the president to shut down courthouses, fire judicial staff, and perhaps even cut off judicial salaries.

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

When Texas began arresting migrants for trespassing in '21, many paid hefty bails to get out of jail. The problem? Instead of releasing them, TX handed them over to ICE. I spent a year investigating how one county made up to $1.7 million by taking bail from deported migrants. Via @nytimes.com:

95% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans won't support Congress slashing Medicaid spending, as the GOP-controlled US House is poised to do story via @jennifershutt.bsky.social

Judge Crawford, summing up his finding on due process: "If the Government detained Mr. Mahdawi as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose."

Confirmation that parents did not consent to deportation of their U.S. citizen children (they had other parents/caretakers in the U.S.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh, there are now apparently *multiple deportations of U.S. citizen children in current cancer treatment*, one in Texas and one in Louisiana. www.aclu.org/press-releas...