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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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Weird, normally you only catch him on the Minors 😎
Is that Rob Ford’s jacket?
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Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
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UPDATE: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has paused any deployment of National Guard troops to Portland until Tuesday evening, October 28. The order was issued as a decision was pending from a different court on whether out-of-state troops could deploy to Portland.
UPDATE: National Guard Deployment Paused Again in Oregon, as Appellate Judges Decide How to Proceed
Updated: 5:44 pm October 24. Originally published 2:04 pm October 24. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has paused any deployment of National Guard troops to Portland until Tuesday evening, October 28....
www.portlandmercury.com
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"The proposed system surfaced Friday after US Customs and Border Protection quietly published a presolicitation notice for what it’s calling a Modular Mobile Surveillance System, or M2S2. The listing includes draft technical documents, data requirements, and design objectives."
NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.

by me @ wired:
DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
www.wired.com
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From a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson tonight on Greg Bovino being summoned to court:

“DHS can think of nobody better to correct Judge Ellis’s deep misconceptions about its mission, and we thank him for his service.”
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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com
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“Rayfield submitted a brief with the 9th Circuit Court that showed DOJ attorneys had submitted false information to the courts that inflated the strain on the federal government’s law enforcement resources caused by having to staff the Portland protests”
After an appeals court ruled in favor of Trump deploying the Oregon National Guard to manage anti-ICE protests in Portland, the DOJ wants immediate permission to send troops from any state. Despite all the movement on Oregon's legal case, the full lawsuit has yet to be taken up in court.
Once Again, District Judge Weighs Whether Out-of-State National Guard Troops Can Be Sent to Oregon
On Friday, October 24, US District Judge Karin Immergut said she’ll issue a decision no later than Monday on whether to lift a temporary restraining order barring out-of-state National Guard troops fr...
www.portlandmercury.com
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Great play-by-play dispatch from Letitia James’s arraignment, via my Lawfare colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
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Anti -ICE protest at Cedar park tennis court: maps.app.goo.gl/6NZf17M9ZwQa...

TODAY, October 24th.

Time : 3:45 to 4:45 pm
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“Celebrates ugliness” My man you look like a naked mole rat and you never stop screaming
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
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Reminder that while Todd Blanche is threatening to arrest Democrats, he's also one of the officials who decides whether to hand $230 million in taxpayer money to Trump, which he very well may do. That should secure him that pardon if he needs it.

newrepublic.com/article/2021...
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Trump flunkie Todd Blanche says it's a crime for states to hold violent ICE thugs responsible for their crimes. He is wrong.
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Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:

"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
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A federal judge ORDERS senior Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino—the face of Chicago's Operation Midway Blitz — to attend in person at a hearing she just set on Tuesday. He's accused of violating her order by lobbing tear gas into a crowd.

More on Bovino www.allrisenews.com/p/general-sc...
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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Tho full 9th Cir voted not to rehear the panel ruling in Newsom v Trump yesterday (permitting federalization of national guard in L.A.), 11 judges said it was "fundamentally erroneous" & that the deployment was based on "unsupported assertions of crime & disorder." ...
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Federal agents raided the WRONG HOME in Portland—no warrant, guns drawn on a family with a baby. ICE still arrested 2 people after realizing the mistake. ICE official on the aggressive tactics: "If people interpret that as aggressive, so be it."
ICE official defends agency's tactics amid fallout from raid on wrong home in Portland, Oregon
In footage shared widely on social media last week, federal immigration agents​ were seen breaking into a home Portland, Oregon — but the person they were looking for doesn't live there.
www.cbsnews.com
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NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.

He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.

Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
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Can you IMAGINE a Jones Day partner telling a client, "No, we intentionally didn't appeal a second TRO, that covered more action and more activity, and figured we could just deal with that later"?
Unreal to hear Yaakov Roth try to explain away why DOJ didn't appeal the second TRO.

I've watched DOJ appeal amended orders, subsequent orders, second orders, extensions of orders, and more. It's unreal to say that DOJ thought it shouldn't appeal a TRO with a different, expanded scope.
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“Philosophically, I do not believe it is the role of politicians to determine what professional educators can or should teach in the classroom,” Rogers wrote.