NEW: Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term. Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Federal prison guards are suing the federal prison system -- for unilaterally cancelling their union's collective bargaining agreement and thus "unlawfully stripping employees" of their bargained rights:

This week a federal prison CO died in a crash on the way back from work. According to both prisoners & staff I have talked to, he'd just finished working 16 hours, half of which was mandated overtime because the agency is understaffed. thewynneprogress.com/one-killed-i...

Arrived in NY to find it is SNOW weather here and I am glad i brought appropriate socks because fuck that

lolwut

An LA sheriff's deputy was caught on camera *choking a handcuffed inmate* because he got mad that the inmate was eating a burrito and refused to stop eating and put it in his pocket (???) According to a 1421 file posted on the LASD site this week, the deputy got a 30 day suspension.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

👀https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-elections-republicans-democrats-2026-21129181.php

LOLLL prison email is the best

Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

Sentence of the moment: www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/6...

Between this and the lead found in most protein powders, you gotta wonder how much of what the country is going through can be linked to brain damage: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow, just saw this posted on a subreddit for federal employee news:

JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Best Halloween costume spotted in weho last night

What the what. Wild story by @lataco.bsky.social lataco.com/federal-immi...

We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged church abusers across decades. Our investigation reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, complacency & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Read it here:

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

amazing www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Trump’s chief immigration enforcer honed his controversial tactics in California -- w/ @saralibby.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Today - 18 months after the Cal AG criminally charged a prosecutor for sharing disciplinary info abt sheriff's deputies that it turned out was already in public court records - an LA Superior Court judge dismissed the remaining charges against Diana Teran. Background:

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist. But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a... You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

And one more thing: The Washpost editorial fails to mention that Amazon is a ballroom donor. Guess who founded Amazon? Guess who owns the Washpost?

BREAKING: Dozens of Northern California immigrants abruptly summoned to ICE office for weekend check-ins www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

NEW: Meet the Bay Area priest shot in the face with pepper ball at Coast Guard Island protest www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

ooooof (from yesterday's @hcrichardson.bsky.social newsletter)

I am in the airport and I thought I was sitting next to a man having a breakup conversation and then realized this guy is just talking about the future of the country.

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

LASD just posted its 40th in-custody death for this year. That's not the highest in recent years, but it's higher than some.

Executive director the private prison company LaSalle Corrections - a major ICE contractor - died this week in a plane crash while traveling from Huntsville, TX to Louisiana. This might seem minor but... I'm so curious why he was flying from Huntsville TX (hq of the TX prison system) to Louisiana

LASD just posted its 39th in-custody death for this year. This year had been on track for a record-breaking number of jail deaths, but fortunately the pace of the deaths has slowed considerably in recent weeks

Multiple sources tell me numerous FBI agents showed up this week at Carswell, a women's federal prison in Texas. If you work or live there and know more about what prompted the visit, please reach out. You can DM here or if you prefer secure Signal find me at KeriB.123

BREAKING: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

The application to be a federal corrections officer now has several essay questions, including one (#7) in which applicants are expected to explain how they would advance the president's executive orders in the role:

“What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

the AUDACITY of this (obviously unsolicited) story pitch

UPDATE: I’ve graduated from “nobody” to “distortionist”

absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

wtf

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

My No Kings dispatch: ‘I’m living in a nightmare’: Japanese internment camp survivors see history repeating under Trump www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Somebody left an empty bottle of abilify at the makeshift shrine by the KISS star

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, are asking for details about a reported meeting between the White House and an executive with the insurer.