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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
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After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️
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I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
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every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take
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2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes.
Read our full story:
Read our full story:
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes.
Read our full story:
Read our full story:
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The biggest AI transition—for now!—is a permission structure for your boss to screw you www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The biggest AI transition—for now!—is a permission structure for your boss to screw you www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
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(watching up from hell as a perfect digital clone of my mind lives the rest of my life after i voluntarily obliterated it) well this sucks
August 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
(watching up from hell as a perfect digital clone of my mind lives the rest of my life after i voluntarily obliterated it) well this sucks
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Someone with subpoena power should look into this.
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/revealed-t...
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: Trump's $100 Million Man
This is who likely sent $100 million to Trump's World Liberty Financial from a fictitious company called Aqua 1 Foundation.
www.jacobsilverman.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Someone with subpoena power should look into this.
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/revealed-t...
www.jacobsilverman.com/p/revealed-t...
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"In the event of a change of party in charge of the Executive Branch, this order will self-destruct."
this is my favorite bit - dcts should ignore existing law in future cases, and instead divine SCt's intent from its opinion-less orders
July 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"In the event of a change of party in charge of the Executive Branch, this order will self-destruct."
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Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
June 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv
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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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In a concurrence in the AARP opinion on remand, Judge Ho says that the Supreme Court is treating "members" of tren de aragua as "favored litigants." Which, given that the dispute is partly about whether anyone is a member of the gang, is an aggressive claim.
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May 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In a concurrence in the AARP opinion on remand, Judge Ho says that the Supreme Court is treating "members" of tren de aragua as "favored litigants." Which, given that the dispute is partly about whether anyone is a member of the gang, is an aggressive claim.
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The case of a Saudi-American who was held, briefly, at Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 was an impetus for the current birthright citizenship debate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The case of a Saudi-American who was held, briefly, at Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 was an impetus for the current birthright citizenship debate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
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The 2nd circuit panel reached the right result for Özturk. Their recitation of the chilling facts is worth reading. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
![On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs approved revocation of Öztürk's F-1 visa. Ozturk, 2025 WL 1145250, at *2. The
approval was, apparently, based solely on the assessment by DHS and ICE that
Öztürk's co-authorship of the op-ed a year earlier demonstrated her involvement in organizations that "may undermine U.S. foreign policy." Id. at *17. Öztürk was
not informed that DHS and ICE were considering seeking her visa revocation, nor
that such a determination was made. The Armstrong Memo stated that "[d]ue to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department of
State will not notify the subject of the revocation." Id. at *3 (emphasis added).
Four days later, six heavily armed, plainclothes officers, some masked,
arrested Öztürk without warning on the street near her residence and drove her
away in an unmarked vehicle, crossing state lines and transporting her first to
New Hampshire, then to Vermont, and the next day, flying her to a correctional
facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she remains in custody.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreifwmw3d6qswzfjzxxdt43xxkqxeyjtg5nzrjne42tgowzz3x3r7ne@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The 2nd circuit panel reached the right result for Özturk. Their recitation of the chilling facts is worth reading. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
@404media.co I just got an AIPAC ad promoting the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear arsenal before your April 30th episode?!
May 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@404media.co I just got an AIPAC ad promoting the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear arsenal before your April 30th episode?!