CJ Ciaramella
@cjciaramella.bsky.social
Jeopardizing the good order and security of institutions for Reason Magazine. I report on prisons, policing, and civil liberties. Based in the fabulous Florida Keys.
Email: cj@reason.com, cj.ciaramella@protonmail.com.
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Email: cj@reason.com, cj.ciaramella@protonmail.com.
Signal: cjciaramella.68
One of the silver linings of the trade war is I started calling my cat “de minimis,” which is a great nickname for cat.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
One of the silver linings of the trade war is I started calling my cat “de minimis,” which is a great nickname for cat.
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A federal judge dismissed felony charges filed against an ICE arrestee based on "the scrapes on an ICE agent’s hand after the agent punched a hole in his car window—a use of force that the judge found to be unconstitutionally excessive." @qjurecic.bsky.social]
The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A federal judge dismissed felony charges filed against an ICE arrestee based on "the scrapes on an ICE agent’s hand after the agent punched a hole in his car window—a use of force that the judge found to be unconstitutionally excessive." @qjurecic.bsky.social]
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
The Wager by David Grann is an incredible Age of Sail survival story, but Grann also draws out all these other interesting angles—imperialism, military law and duty in extremis, early use of book publishing as P.R.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Wager by David Grann is an incredible Age of Sail survival story, but Grann also draws out all these other interesting angles—imperialism, military law and duty in extremis, early use of book publishing as P.R.
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Our episode on who would possibly want to work for ICE won an award! www.anthemawards.com/winners/list...
Entry - Anthem Awards
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November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Our episode on who would possibly want to work for ICE won an award! www.anthemawards.com/winners/list...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We love to see reporters working together southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
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When you push the create a player sliders as far as they can go
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
When you push the create a player sliders as far as they can go
Latest: A Missouri town will pay $500K to settle a lawsuit after a police officer shot and killed a man's 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund says it's one of the largest settlements for a police shooting of a dog reason.com/2025/11/17/m...
The Animal Legal Defense Fund says it's one of the largest settlements for a police shooting of a dog reason.com/2025/11/17/m...
Missouri town will pay $500k to settle lawsuit over deputy shooting blind and deaf dog
Sturgeon, Missouri will settle a lawsuit filed by a man whose 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu dog was shot and killed by a police officer.
reason.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Latest: A Missouri town will pay $500K to settle a lawsuit after a police officer shot and killed a man's 13-pound blind and deaf shih tzu.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund says it's one of the largest settlements for a police shooting of a dog reason.com/2025/11/17/m...
The Animal Legal Defense Fund says it's one of the largest settlements for a police shooting of a dog reason.com/2025/11/17/m...
Latest: An 8th Amendment lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a South Florida prison put sensors around the prison.
Data show the place is a heat sink. The heat index almost never dropped below 88 degrees. One room recorded a peak heat index of 119 ... at 10 p.m. reason.com/2025/11/17/h...
Data show the place is a heat sink. The heat index almost never dropped below 88 degrees. One room recorded a peak heat index of 119 ... at 10 p.m. reason.com/2025/11/17/h...
Heat index inside a South Florida prison hit 119 degrees, report says
A lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a Florida prison collected temperature readings during the summer. It found brutal heat day and night.
reason.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Latest: An 8th Amendment lawsuit challenging extreme heat in a South Florida prison put sensors around the prison.
Data show the place is a heat sink. The heat index almost never dropped below 88 degrees. One room recorded a peak heat index of 119 ... at 10 p.m. reason.com/2025/11/17/h...
Data show the place is a heat sink. The heat index almost never dropped below 88 degrees. One room recorded a peak heat index of 119 ... at 10 p.m. reason.com/2025/11/17/h...
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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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
If bluesky banned me I would simply say, "Thank you."
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If bluesky banned me I would simply say, "Thank you."
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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
Lord give me the inner-confidence of a writer who blew up their sinecure for no reason.
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Lord give me the inner-confidence of a writer who blew up their sinecure for no reason.
hell yeah sumo account
Day6
Yz Ōnosato 5-0 (L)
M3 Hiradoumi 2-3 (R)
These two men were both born in 2000. Hiradoumi has lost to Ōnosato their last five matchups #kyushubasho2025
Yz Ōnosato 5-0 (L)
M3 Hiradoumi 2-3 (R)
These two men were both born in 2000. Hiradoumi has lost to Ōnosato their last five matchups #kyushubasho2025
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
hell yeah sumo account
was the previous owner apprehended by the batman?
Four-Decades-Owned 1980 Phillips Berlina Coupe at No Reserve
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November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
was the previous owner apprehended by the batman?
No one’s aged worse than conservative Millennials. Every one of them looks like they drank from the wrong chalice in Last Crusade.
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
No one’s aged worse than conservative Millennials. Every one of them looks like they drank from the wrong chalice in Last Crusade.
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'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
Chicago has long been a town where the whiff of a federal indictment is the kiss of political death. Now, three politicians charged in the case, including social media influencer Kat Abughazaleh, seem...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"46 class members were arrested in violation of the terms of the Consent Decree and are thus entitled to relief... However, the majority have already been removed from the United States, either involuntarily or voluntarily, and only 13 of these class members remain in detention."
JUST IN: Judge orders release of non-high-risk immigration detainees (subset of 615) in Chicago area. Biden appointee Jeffrey Cummings cites violation of 2021 consent decree. Doc:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier via @ShiaKapos www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier via @ShiaKapos www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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www.documentcloud.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"46 class members were arrested in violation of the terms of the Consent Decree and are thus entitled to relief... However, the majority have already been removed from the United States, either involuntarily or voluntarily, and only 13 of these class members remain in detention."
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Chicago Public Media and the Sun-Times have filed a motion to intervene in order to get access to the walk-through video of the ICE facility yesterday:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Intervene – #70 in Moreno Gonzalez v. Noem, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-13323) – CourtListener.com
MOTION by Intervenor Parties Chicago Sun-Times Media, Inc., Chicago Public Media, Inc. to intervene CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA, INC.S, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES MEDIA, INC.S, EMERGENCY MOTION TO INTERVENE FOR THE L...
www.courtlistener.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Chicago Public Media and the Sun-Times have filed a motion to intervene in order to get access to the walk-through video of the ICE facility yesterday:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
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This is why it’s crucial that DHS text messages be preserved and why we need a real archivist www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Border Patrol Agent Charlie Exum Text Messages
www.documentcloud.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is why it’s crucial that DHS text messages be preserved and why we need a real archivist www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Latest: I wrote about a Portland woman who was dragged out of her car and detained for photographing ICE. reason.com/2025/11/12/o...
She didn't give them an ounce of respect, bless her
She didn't give them an ounce of respect, bless her
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Latest: I wrote about a Portland woman who was dragged out of her car and detained for photographing ICE. reason.com/2025/11/12/o...
She didn't give them an ounce of respect, bless her
She didn't give them an ounce of respect, bless her
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also:
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
also:
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
our sister publication, NIL-Wire, wrote its most important story yet.
a sit down with Boise State's Goth Volleyball Player
www.nil-wire.com/p/nora-hayd-...
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A juvie guard was found not guilty of battery and official misconduct last week. “The defendant puts his hand on [the child] and maybe pushes him at best,” the judge in the case said. “There is no picking up and throwing down.”
Watch the video. Tell me if you agree and if you also agree that 2+2=5.
Watch the video. Tell me if you agree and if you also agree that 2+2=5.
Here's a closer look at the surveillance video at the center of the Kevin Walker trial. Read the full story: www.injusticewatch.org/juvenile-cou...
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A juvie guard was found not guilty of battery and official misconduct last week. “The defendant puts his hand on [the child] and maybe pushes him at best,” the judge in the case said. “There is no picking up and throwing down.”
Watch the video. Tell me if you agree and if you also agree that 2+2=5.
Watch the video. Tell me if you agree and if you also agree that 2+2=5.
The Situation Room photo from the bin Laden raid, except everyone's looking one of Trump's doodles of a lady with big bazoombas
NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room.
Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.”
But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide.
defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...
Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.”
But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide.
defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...
MUST READ: White House "emergency" Epstein meetings held in secret facility
Why is the President's team using the most secure room on Earth to talk about a pedophile?
defiance.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Situation Room photo from the bin Laden raid, except everyone's looking one of Trump's doodles of a lady with big bazoombas
ICE is running all over Key Largo, Florida today. Look at these slobs
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ICE is running all over Key Largo, Florida today. Look at these slobs