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Peter Griesar
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Immigrant detention firm seeks immunity in case before Supreme Court

Slavery. They’re taking about slavery.

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One of the largest private companies profiting from President Donald Trump’s rapid expansion of immigrant detention centers says it should be immune from a legal challenge to its $1-a-day detainee work program because it was acting on behalf of the federal government.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case, in which a plaintiff representing a class of more than 30,000 former detainees of a Colorado Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center says they were coerced into participating in the “voluntary” work program at unfairly low wages. The government is protected from some lawsuits through a concept known as “sovereign immunity,” and some government contractors have attempted to claim that this immunity applies to them as well.
Geo Group, which derived more than half of its $2.4 billion annual revenue last year from federal contracts, is seeking to reverse lower-court rulings that denied its ability to benefit from the government’s immunity from lawsuits. A district court ruled in 2022 that Geo wasn’t legally shielded, partly because the government never instructed it how much to pay detainees for work.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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rparloff.bsky.social
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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dschleifer.bsky.social
@kaine.senate.gov & @markwarner.bsky.social - no one is answering your phones. Hell, Tim doesn't even have voicemail. Sure, it's Sunday, but it's a Sunday when you might be about to vote. Don't cave. If you do, know that your constituents here in VA are prepared to support anyone that primaries you
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Primaries for senators
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
yappelbaum.bsky.social Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
griesar.bsky.social
FAA reductions are a boon to private jet providers who are seeing people book private to avoid cancellations.

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Jets.com EVP Sales Vincent Kavanagh notes, "We've seen a big spike recently in charter inquiries online, many from first-time fliers looking for guaranteed access when the airlines cannot deliver."
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
griesar.bsky.social
Make government use Blackberries again
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
griesar.bsky.social
Dishonorable. Indefensible. Murder.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
griesar.bsky.social
Trump Officials [Post Trump]: Please! We were only following orders!

America [locks cells]: your mom
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs.

"More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
griesar.bsky.social
First day of the 2026 General Assembly better add zeroes to these tax brackets
Tax Rate: 2% Income Range: $0 - $3,000 Taxes Due: 2% within Bracket Tax Rate: 3% Income Range: $3,001 - $5,000 Taxes Due: $60 + 3% within Bracket Tax Rate: 5% Income Range: $5,001 - $17,000 Taxes Due: $120 + 5% within Bracket Tax Rate: 5.75% Income Range: $17,001 + Taxes Due: $720 + 5.75% within Bracket
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
griesar.bsky.social
Just got this text about the daytime running light not working

“Just an FYI - I asked how much it was to replace the full LED Headlight assembly...Parts and labor is $4081.07”
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
griesar.bsky.social
Everyone’s Twelve Theory holds true
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d
Bovino was asked in his deposition if that was still true — that all use of force in Chicago had been "exemplary."

Bovino says "no."

Then he's asked if some force had been "less than proper?"

Bovino: "All uses of force have been MORE than exemplary."
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
griesar.bsky.social
A year ago a Sysco truck dumped a tank of fuel in Fifeville. The fuel was off-road diesel. Was Sysco ever investigated and fined for using off-road diesel in their delivery trucks?

www.29news.com/2024/11/18/c...
Charlottesville neighborhood to install “no trucks” signs after diesel spill
People who live in Fifeville say through traffic has been a problem for as long as they can remember. Friday’s accident was the final straw.
www.29news.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
griesar.bsky.social
Dual use Schumer primary merch
luriethereal.bsky.social Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 6d
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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92%. 🙌🏾
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
griesar.bsky.social
One sad story from Virginia's election is that 40% of the electorate had no problem casting a ballot for a confirmed and outed Nazi.
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The comic in question. I'm sorry, I don't have the energy to write proper alt text.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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cleefouti.bsky.social
Captain Torture
A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM