Dan Moritz-Rabson
@dmoritzrabson.bsky.social
I report on the criminal legal system and fact check things. Published in ProPublica, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, and other places. Researcher/fact checker at Freakonomics Radio Network. Email me at dmoritzrabson@gmail.com. Clips at dmoritzrabson.com
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This is a pogrom
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:19 AM
This is a pogrom
"But while the odds are somewhat against a serious reckoning with the brutality and wrongdoing of Trump’s mass deportation effort, it does not have to be true of the atrocities of ICE and the Border Patrol. If it is, it is because we made it so."
Great piece by @jamellebouie.net on the need for ICE hearings. Get it all out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...
Opinion | We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:36 PM
"But while the odds are somewhat against a serious reckoning with the brutality and wrongdoing of Trump’s mass deportation effort, it does not have to be true of the atrocities of ICE and the Border Patrol. If it is, it is because we made it so."
Drink man shoots and kills daughter after getting into an argument about Trump and saying he wouldn’t mind if she was sexually assaulted because he has other daughters. No charges brought.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules
Lucy Harrison died after being shot in chest by alcoholic Kris Harrison while staying at his home in US last year
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Drink man shoots and kills daughter after getting into an argument about Trump and saying he wouldn’t mind if she was sexually assaulted because he has other daughters. No charges brought.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago, evidence shows
A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…
www.chicagotribune.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...
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Ex-LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor was indicted for murder.
Then, he spent a year flying internationally and living at his Southern California home without DHS or L.A. authorities trying to arrest him.
Latest from the "Wait... what?" files w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Then, he spent a year flying internationally and living at his Southern California home without DHS or L.A. authorities trying to arrest him.
Latest from the "Wait... what?" files w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Ex-cop wanted on murder charge flew overseas, lived in L.A. for a year without arrest
Former LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor was indicted for murder by an L.A. County grand jury in September 2024. He was able to leave the U.S. four times and live in Carson for more than a year before bei...
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Ex-LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor was indicted for murder.
Then, he spent a year flying internationally and living at his Southern California home without DHS or L.A. authorities trying to arrest him.
Latest from the "Wait... what?" files w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Then, he spent a year flying internationally and living at his Southern California home without DHS or L.A. authorities trying to arrest him.
Latest from the "Wait... what?" files w/ @lacrimes.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
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“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules
The government dropped its case against Marimar Martinez but her lawyers say it has refused to correct the record after calling her a “domestic terrorist.”
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
Thinking about this quote from @alexvitale.bsky.social (again) as Dems have begun to walk back the simplest demands to rein in ICE. As I noted in July, the anti-mask accountability bills proposed didn't have any teeth. After live-streamed extrajudicial killings, we're functionally in the same place.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Thinking about this quote from @alexvitale.bsky.social (again) as Dems have begun to walk back the simplest demands to rein in ICE. As I noted in July, the anti-mask accountability bills proposed didn't have any teeth. After live-streamed extrajudicial killings, we're functionally in the same place.
"In Nov. alone, three journalists were hit with pepper balls or other less lethal munitions and subjected to chemical agents while covering an ICE arrest in St Paul...I interviewed the St Paul chief of police about these attacks in December. He refused to acknowledge that the incidents had occurred"
“Journalism is a public service, and I am proud to be a public servant,” Georgia Fort writes. “Professional reporting, observing and documenting is not a crime. But the freedom to do so is at risk.”
Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
I covered the Minnesota church protest. Press credentials didn’t protect me.
nyti.ms
February 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"In Nov. alone, three journalists were hit with pepper balls or other less lethal munitions and subjected to chemical agents while covering an ICE arrest in St Paul...I interviewed the St Paul chief of police about these attacks in December. He refused to acknowledge that the incidents had occurred"
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Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
The Vieques hospital was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. The locals had incredibly little access to healthcare for years. The facility was *just* completed in Dec. Meanwhile, tourists have flocked to the island+tech guys have bought up land on the island while locals still lack basic services
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
The Vieques hospital was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. The locals had incredibly little access to healthcare for years. The facility was *just* completed in Dec. Meanwhile, tourists have flocked to the island+tech guys have bought up land on the island while locals still lack basic services
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Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton tells the judges on Epstein and Maxwell's cases that AUSAs “worked all hours” over the weekend to remove “thousands of documents and media that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human error”
February 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton tells the judges on Epstein and Maxwell's cases that AUSAs “worked all hours” over the weekend to remove “thousands of documents and media that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human error”
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And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 AM
And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.
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Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.
Lots of both sides let's see how much of a logic pretzel we can create energy emanating from Big Media begs important questions like do reporters have eyes? Is there even a truth in the Beltway Brain, or just somewhere in between what two opposing people say?
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Lots of both sides let's see how much of a logic pretzel we can create energy emanating from Big Media begs important questions like do reporters have eyes? Is there even a truth in the Beltway Brain, or just somewhere in between what two opposing people say?
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
Oooo an investigation? And then what will they make some recommendations in 6 months to implement in three years??
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Oooo an investigation? And then what will they make some recommendations in 6 months to implement in three years??
How long did Democrats call leftists extreme/irrational for demanding the abolition of ICE? Over how many years did they lay the groundwork for the extrajudicial murder campaign playing out?Will they actually move to stanch the flow of chaos emanating from the White House or continue acting too late
Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 AM
How long did Democrats call leftists extreme/irrational for demanding the abolition of ICE? Over how many years did they lay the groundwork for the extrajudicial murder campaign playing out?Will they actually move to stanch the flow of chaos emanating from the White House or continue acting too late
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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
"we do not tolerate attacks on places of worship" says the administration that rolled back longstanding policy and is ARRESTING UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE AT CHURCH
January 22, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"we do not tolerate attacks on places of worship" says the administration that rolled back longstanding policy and is ARRESTING UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE AT CHURCH
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January 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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