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ICE agents detained a 19-year-old immigrant in Chicago on June 12; in the month since he's been shuffled across 3 Kentucky jails.

His story so far is a look into the legal and logistical strategies being used to defeat immigration cases nationwide.

My latest: djbyrnes.substack.com/p/arrested-t...
Arrested, transferred, lost, dismissed: One Chicago resident's journey through ICE detention
U.S. immigration authorities have moved one young man so often over the last month that even the Department of Homeland Security has had trouble keeping track of him.
djbyrnes.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Why so quiet, JD?
July 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Top Democrats Demand Release of All Epstein Files Naming Trump newrepublic.com/post/197718/...
Top Democrats Demand Release of All Epstein Files Naming Trump
House Democrats are taking action after seeing the MAGA fury over Trump’s Epstein conclusion.
newrepublic.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Donald Trump Jr in 2024: How is it that my father could be convicted of 34 crimes, but no one on Epstein's list has even been brought to light? I'm trying to figure out how that's possible. It's almost like they're trying to protect those pedophiles for some reason. I can't imagine why.
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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meanwhile, after the FBI announces an investigation of the Obama era CIA and FBI directors, the conspiracy right is asking about Epstein
July 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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FBI: Quick, distract them from the Epstein files!
July 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I’m still curious how he knows so much about what’s in the files.
July 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Wow -- Trump jumps in to try to shut down a reporter who attempts to ask Pam Bondi about the missing minute in the Epstein jailhouse tape
July 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Trump refers to Epstein as "this creep."
Trump was Epstein's buddy. Everyone at that table knows this. Every reporter in that room knows this.
Wow -- Trump jumps in to try to shut down a reporter who attempts to ask Pam Bondi about the missing minute in the Epstein jailhouse tape
July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The Epstein files were a big story when people thought maybe some Democrats were in them. But now that Trump is refusing to release them, possibly because of his own appearance in them, it's not such a big story anymore.
July 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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OH MY. 😳

"Bannon is in the Epstein files." -- Elon Musk
July 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The ultimate betrayal stings like a hidden blade. DOJ’s Epstein memo is a shameless whitewash, denying a client list or murder. It’s a grotesque curtain drawn over elite corruption, shielding predators while justice bleeds out in plain sight.
July 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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It's Veep now, every day. They have become completely untethered from reality. It's all a show, a terrible Trumpian shitshow every day.
So 34 million Americans are going to go work on farms. Moving into rural communities, right? Got it. That's a brilliant plan.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This from a senior U.S. government official reads like a translation of a statement by a Soviet apparatchik from the 1930s, or a Maoist one from the 1960s.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell should be charged with additional crimes since she apparently was the mastermind, seller, buyer, rapist, transporter, and recruiter for a child sex trafficking operation. Who would have guessed the WHOLE LIST is just her?
#BondiIsLying
#EpsteinClientList
#BondiCoverUp
July 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This. Right. Here.👇
This is getting lost. When Stephen Miller shrieks orders for 3000 daily arrests, they HAVE TO go after noncriminals. It's the only way to juice the numbers. So Miller is shifting resources away from serious crimes toward that.

@vermontgmg.bsky.social and me on this:

newrepublic.com/article/1976...
July 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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To reiterate an obvious point: The military operation in MacArthur Park was farcical. But it also reveals a habit of thinking and acting by major government organizations dangerous to a free society. What starts as farce can end as tragedy.
July 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.

It’s. All. Lies.

All the time.
July 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Man, if you’re getting dunked on by a Doocy, just give it up
DOOCY: So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk? 

LEAVITT: I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general said 

DOOCY: I've got the quote. She said, it's sitting on my desk right now to review.
July 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM