2025 I need you to be over

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

If you build it they will come

The former head of Venezuela's national fencing team, in the US illegally and working as a fencing coach at UC-San Diego, was detained in violation of his due process rights, a judge ruled, ordering his immediate supervised release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

2025 is making it hard to teach law

Holy incompetence

MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Oh no. No no no

This is the Gig Surveillance Economy: ssrn.com/abstract=388...

New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own www.404media.co/irs-accessed...

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

bamboo?

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out DOJ’s lawsuit to compel NY to aid in immigration arrests at state courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

It *is* possible to get cross-jurisdictional and multi-police department Slack chats out of departments via public records requests. Here's a glimpse at the Chicago-area police Slack chat with people responding with the 👀 emoji to the news that there's been an ICE-involved shooting.

"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."

New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future www.404media.co/this-app-let...

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

DEVELOPING: The DOJs own data, provided as part of an ongoing lawsuit, appeared to show only about 2.5% of 614 people arrested by ICE on immigration violations in the Chicago area before Oct. 7 had criminal histories Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Breaking news: High-level discussions over whether to attack Venezuela — and how — have been underway for days. It remains unclear if President Trump has decided to pursue such an escalation.

2 Oakland privacy commissioners resign: ‘I felt like nothing I was doing mattered’ oaklandside.org/2025/11/12/o...

Congress released a cache of documents this week that were recently turned over by Epstein’s estate. Among them: more than 2,300 email threads that the convicted sex offender either sent or received between 2008 and 2019.

[sighs] Visas to US can be rejected b/c of "certain medical conditions – including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, cancers, diabetes, metabolic diseases, neurological diseases, and mental health conditions" as well as *obesity.* kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Republicans: GERRYMANDER! [CA changes map]: NOT LIKE THAT

Authors -- you are entitled to a payment for the books of yours that Anthropic stole for its AI. It's about $1,500 per book. I just filed - you should too! www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?_gl=1*1ersia....

The AI that’s jacking up your utility bill, draining your water and threatening your job is also helping China hack the US. @wsj.com

Join EFF as a legal intern and fight for privacy, human rights, and freedoms! Your work can make a real difference. The deadline to apply is November 15! www.eff.org/about/oppor...

"Millions of younger American women are increasingly imagining their futures elsewhere." In a new @gallup.com survey, 40% of younger women in the US (those ages 15-44) say that, if they had the opportunity, they'd like to move permanently to another country. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

As the first law professor in the US to teach a Sex Crimes course, I have two words for Megyn Kelly: Just stop.

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

The fact that they even needed to write this memo is telling

This here is just terrifying.

The CFPB plans to propose narrowing a key part of civil-rights era fair-lending regulations as the Trump administration overhauls protections and rules it says burden companies. The changes follow Trump's executive order that federal regulators curtail 'disparate impact' regulations reut.rs/47SuyMf

Other communities, take note—-

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

*the elevator scene in 5000 fingers 👀👀👀*

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw

New data from the Bureau of What the Actual

After Hurricane Katrina, a cardiologist in New Orleans found that the rate of heart attacks was three times higher than it had been before the storm. The rate has remained elevated ever since. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hQonN9

"Let them eat even less"

Is . . . the percentage of chocolate in "chocolate" decreasing or am i imagining it?

For ACA enrollees with incomes above 400% of the poverty level -- who would lose subsidy eligibility entirely if enhanced credits expire -- effects vary by age and zip code. A 60 year old in Baltimore making $63,000 has an increase of $5,207. In Charleston, WV, it's $22,509.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

3/ "Canada ... which has helped the US Coast Guard interdict suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean for nearly two decades, has also distanced itself from the US military strikes. ... made clear to the US that it does not want its intelligence being used to help target boats for deadly strikes"

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...