Rick Tulsky
@ricktulsky.bsky.social
Forthcoming book: Injustice Town. Career spent exposing criminal justice flaws. Past: Phila Inquirer, LATimes, SJMercury News. Cofounder Injustice Watch. Nonpracticing lawyer. Pulitzer, Nieman Fellow among my lucky past. Now: A dedicated Caniac, of course
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Rick Tulsky
@ricktulsky.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Dear Frog: The pot is boiling.
"Complete Muslim." Mamdani is probably going to go door to door to evict Jews and Christians. And I'm sure the next target is Birmingham.
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Complete Muslim." Mamdani is probably going to go door to door to evict Jews and Christians. And I'm sure the next target is Birmingham.
Waiting for reviews is nerve-wracking. I can only imagine what happens upon publication Feb. 3. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
INJUSTICE TOWN | Kirkus Reviews
When an innocent man fights his murder conviction against all odds, truth is the only weapon he has.
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Waiting for reviews is nerve-wracking. I can only imagine what happens upon publication Feb. 3. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Reposted by Rick Tulsky
Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.
So much to be proud of: Seven bullet wounds of a woman who was alerting the neighborhood to the presence of ICE agents. www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So much to be proud of: Seven bullet wounds of a woman who was alerting the neighborhood to the presence of ICE agents. www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
US Dist Judge Sara Ellis issues injunction against police using force unless objectively necessary. Care to bet on whether the government continues its use of unnecessary force, claiming it was 'objectively necessary'? www.scribd.com/document/944...
Injunction Judge Ellis | PDF | Justice | Crime & Violence
Judge Sara Ellis issues injunction to halt illegal conduct by federal authorities in "Midway Sweep:"
www.scribd.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
US Dist Judge Sara Ellis issues injunction against police using force unless objectively necessary. Care to bet on whether the government continues its use of unnecessary force, claiming it was 'objectively necessary'? www.scribd.com/document/944...
Wow.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Wow.
And here is the link to the exemplary* Gregory Bovino, who is in charge of the 200+ federal agents who are snatching residents off the streets in Chicagoland. (Actually Bovino testified the agents' work is NOT exemplary. It's more than exemplary, he said. With a straight face.
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino deposition
YouTube video by Chicago Tribune
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And here is the link to the exemplary* Gregory Bovino, who is in charge of the 200+ federal agents who are snatching residents off the streets in Chicagoland. (Actually Bovino testified the agents' work is NOT exemplary. It's more than exemplary, he said. With a straight face.
I'm wondering how serious scholars could be surprised that the Heritage Foundation president would come to the defense of giving a platform to anti-semites? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm wondering how serious scholars could be surprised that the Heritage Foundation president would come to the defense of giving a platform to anti-semites? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Judge Sara Ellis is ruling from the bench, calling out Bovino and others for lying to cover up their unnecessary force against peaceful protesters. Yesterday Judge Gettleman ruled that the government was committing abuses inside Broadview. Today Ellis rules they also commit abuses outside.
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Judge Sara Ellis is ruling from the bench, calling out Bovino and others for lying to cover up their unnecessary force against peaceful protesters. Yesterday Judge Gettleman ruled that the government was committing abuses inside Broadview. Today Ellis rules they also commit abuses outside.
This is extraordinary: How the government tries to dupe citizens. Anyone who sat in Judge Sara Ellis' courtroom yesterday saw a far different (factual) picture of what is going on: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," Professor Nick Cul...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is extraordinary: How the government tries to dupe citizens. Anyone who sat in Judge Sara Ellis' courtroom yesterday saw a far different (factual) picture of what is going on: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
In one courtroom in the federal courthouse in Chicago, Judge Ellis has heard testimony all day about force used against protesters. In another, Judge Gettleman issues a TRO requiring DHS to stop holding detainees in inhumane conditions. www.scribd.com/document/943...
Gettleman TRO | PDF | Injunction
ICE required to provide humane facility for those detained in Broadview
www.scribd.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In one courtroom in the federal courthouse in Chicago, Judge Ellis has heard testimony all day about force used against protesters. In another, Judge Gettleman issues a TRO requiring DHS to stop holding detainees in inhumane conditions. www.scribd.com/document/943...
Border Control supervisor Kristopher Hewson: Has seen no unjustified use of force by agents. His team did nothing differently after Judge Ellis issued a TRO, because they already were operating appropriately.
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Border Control supervisor Kristopher Hewson: Has seen no unjustified use of force by agents. His team did nothing differently after Judge Ellis issued a TRO, because they already were operating appropriately.
Quick post from Chicago federal courthouse, where they just played a piece from Border Patrol Chief Bovino's deposition. Asked if he thought agent's conduct had been 'exemplary,' he said 'no.' How would he characterize what is going on in Chicago? "More than exemplary."
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Quick post from Chicago federal courthouse, where they just played a piece from Border Patrol Chief Bovino's deposition. Asked if he thought agent's conduct had been 'exemplary,' he said 'no.' How would he characterize what is going on in Chicago? "More than exemplary."
Another awful incident, and another claim by federal authorities blaming it on the citizens' allegedly threatening them with their cars. How many times can that plausibly be the explanation?
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Another awful incident, and another claim by federal authorities blaming it on the citizens' allegedly threatening them with their cars. How many times can that plausibly be the explanation?
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I dunno. As Democracy is threatened of going down the toilet,is this really the time for a Washington Post analysis of the coded message sent by Mamdani's suits? www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
Analysis | Mamdani’s suits and ties send a clever message
These aren’t your dad’s suits and ties that Mamdani is wearing. They’re your groomsmen’s.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I dunno. As Democracy is threatened of going down the toilet,is this really the time for a Washington Post analysis of the coded message sent by Mamdani's suits? www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
"Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help we can bring" -- Graham Nash, 1968.
"Videos show officers in military-style gear confronting pedestrians, blocking intersections and deploying tear gas in confrontations spanning eight different neighborhoods." -- Chicago Tribune, 2025.
For the help we can bring" -- Graham Nash, 1968.
"Videos show officers in military-style gear confronting pedestrians, blocking intersections and deploying tear gas in confrontations spanning eight different neighborhoods." -- Chicago Tribune, 2025.
Border Patrol’s strong-arm tactics are the new norm in Chicago as Trump moves to sideline ICE leadership
Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents, who work wi…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help we can bring" -- Graham Nash, 1968.
"Videos show officers in military-style gear confronting pedestrians, blocking intersections and deploying tear gas in confrontations spanning eight different neighborhoods." -- Chicago Tribune, 2025.
For the help we can bring" -- Graham Nash, 1968.
"Videos show officers in military-style gear confronting pedestrians, blocking intersections and deploying tear gas in confrontations spanning eight different neighborhoods." -- Chicago Tribune, 2025.
Okay, the question answers itself. But still.... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Okay, the question answers itself. But still.... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I am SURE the Nobel committee will be impressed.
At some point we might have to consider the fact that he might be mentally unstable.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I am SURE the Nobel committee will be impressed.
Reposted by Rick Tulsky
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
"At a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, Trump’s celebration of his marble bathroom was so tone deaf it seems likely to make the history books..."
October 31, 2025
Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"At a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, Trump’s celebration of his marble bathroom was so tone deaf it seems likely to make the history books..."
Shocking.
Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Shocking.
How can this be okay??? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs
Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
How can this be okay??? www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
Monkey see, monkey do.
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Monkey see, monkey do.
Welcome to Evanston. This is not a.Trick or Treater.
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Welcome to Evanston. This is not a.Trick or Treater.
Plaintiffs defend why Bovino should have to report daily to Judge Ellis: Gov't agents "have used tear gas on at least 7 different occasions in the past two weeks in residential neighborhoods...tear gassed kids going to Halloween parties, schools... pregnant women...elected officials...journalists"
Chc - Seventh Circuit Response Draft_tables | PDF | Injunction | Mandamus
Plaiintiff response to US govt supporting Judge Ellis' decision
www.scribd.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Plaintiffs defend why Bovino should have to report daily to Judge Ellis: Gov't agents "have used tear gas on at least 7 different occasions in the past two weeks in residential neighborhoods...tear gassed kids going to Halloween parties, schools... pregnant women...elected officials...journalists"