"free speech warriors"

"Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fascinating, excellent reporting from Sarah Kinosian & Julia Symmes Cobb @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

🚨Guest hosting Today Explained this afternoon!! Digging into what's ~really behind Trump's escalation in Venezuela. First @alexhorton.bsky.social on the timeline and the WH's stated rationale…

Gift link The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court: www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...

We’re back! S2 Ep.1 of “Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times is out.” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social , staff writer for The New Yorker, discusses his recent article in the magazine, “Enemies of the State: How the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S.”

Just finished @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social's "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" and I'm blown away both by the mounds of research and the expert storytelling. If you want an in-depth and entertaining primer on the making of our migrant situation, this is the book.

These are very much worth reading 👇👇

Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social reports on the Trump Administration’s recent vessel strikes in the Caribbean, and what they reveal about his broader agenda.

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’s shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war in Gaza.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

A federal judge in El Paso has ordered the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago from ICE detention. The immigration rights activist and DACA recipient has been detained since Aug. 3. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

New — DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs responds to ICE shoving a photojournalist to the ground, leading him to be escorted out in a neck brace by medics. Says nothing on whether injuring the press violates ICE standards, nor if the officer will face any repercussions.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours. By Izzy Ramirez The full story: lataco.com/feds-injure-...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

First review of my new book LONDON FALLING, from Kirkus. At a moment when every day feels like a month and every month feels like a year, April 7 is still a very long way off. But the book is available for pre-order now. 🙏

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

“'They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,' said the agent, who said he worked in the 'intelligence unit.'" nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"Lutnick also told meeting attendees that the administration would discuss 'suspending' all other green-card categories so the gold-card path would represent the only way to immigrate permanently." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Firing of a Federal Prosecutor Crosses the Reddest of Lines, via @ruthmarcus.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

They Helped Oust a Dictator. Now the New Regime Is Coming for Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

“The idea that speech or thought contrary to the government line could trigger punishment is the dream of autocrats,” @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social writes. “Eventually, it makes enemies of everyone.”

“The first nine months of Donald Trump’s second term have been a breakneck exercise in rebranding those disfavored by the White House as enemies of the state.” My Comment in next week’s @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...