CJ Ciaramella
@cjciaramella.bsky.social
Jeopardizing the good order and security of institutions for Reason Magazine. I report on prisons, policing, and civil liberties. Based in the fabulous Florida Keys.
Email: [email protected], [email protected].
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Email: [email protected], [email protected].
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"Chat, are we cooked?" Zoomer fighter pilot Jayden 'The Grim Rizzler' Jones asks his TikTok live audience as the Gettysburg achieves target lock on him with an SM-2 missile.
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Chat, are we cooked?" Zoomer fighter pilot Jayden 'The Grim Rizzler' Jones asks his TikTok live audience as the Gettysburg achieves target lock on him with an SM-2 missile.
It's happening again
spending my one wild and precious life comparing deductibles in open enrollment
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's happening again
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I call my wood chipper Quentin Tarantino because it's all about feet first.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I call my wood chipper Quentin Tarantino because it's all about feet first.
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NEW: The CPD officer who shot a 16-year-old in 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force will not be fired, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
CPD Officer Who Shot Teen in 2017 Won’t Be Fired — But Was Promoted After Costing Taxpayers $590K
Since the shooting, Chicago taxpayers have paid $591,500 to resolve four lawsuits that allege the officer, who was promoted in June 2025, violated the rights of other Chicagoans, according to an analy...
news.wttw.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
NEW: The CPD officer who shot a 16-year-old in 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force will not be fired, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
I wrote a column back in March on this: "The U.S. justice system heavily values finality in sentencing, and overturning sentences through courts or reform legislation, even when everyone agrees there's been a mistake, can take years, even decades." reason.com/2025/03/11/p...
A lot of people do not want to hear that there is an intense pro-police and pro-prison turn among the left. E.g. the drive to limit the pardon power, which is the only way some people get any relief from excessive sentencing on the state and federal level.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...
What Trump gets right and wrong about pardons
Pardons aren’t about helping political allies – they’re about bringing a measure of justice to an unjust system.
www.prisonpolicy.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I wrote a column back in March on this: "The U.S. justice system heavily values finality in sentencing, and overturning sentences through courts or reform legislation, even when everyone agrees there's been a mistake, can take years, even decades." reason.com/2025/03/11/p...
I'm a trad, but only for zines. Look at this beautiful marriage of form and function.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'm a trad, but only for zines. Look at this beautiful marriage of form and function.
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NEW: Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted. It wasn’t an oversight. Despite a decades-long reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NEW: Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted. It wasn’t an oversight. Despite a decades-long reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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I got a comment from CBP on this. They claim this woman was driving her "illegal alien boyfriend's" car and refused to show ID when stopped.
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I got a comment from CBP on this. They claim this woman was driving her "illegal alien boyfriend's" car and refused to show ID when stopped.
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
Florida requires motorists to show ID during a lawful traffic stop, but idk exactly how that applies to CBP stops. (Any lawyers want to chime in?)
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
It's @reason.com's annual webathon, when we ask readers to kick us some money, since we're a nonprofit: reason.com/donate
For the past 9 years, Reason has given me the resources to write full-time about things like barbaric medical neglect in prison: reason.com/2023/08/15/t...
For the past 9 years, Reason has given me the resources to write full-time about things like barbaric medical neglect in prison: reason.com/2023/08/15/t...
'This Is Not an Emergency'
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
reason.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's @reason.com's annual webathon, when we ask readers to kick us some money, since we're a nonprofit: reason.com/donate
For the past 9 years, Reason has given me the resources to write full-time about things like barbaric medical neglect in prison: reason.com/2023/08/15/t...
For the past 9 years, Reason has given me the resources to write full-time about things like barbaric medical neglect in prison: reason.com/2023/08/15/t...
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Men incarcerated at the notorious Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in the 1800s had more access to sunlight than people held at DCP now.
And it can lead to lifelong health consequences.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/12...
And it can lead to lifelong health consequences.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/12...
Isolation in Dauphin County jail can lead to lifelong medical problems: ‘If I don’t get out of here soon, I’m going to die’
Men incarcerated at the notorious Eastern State Penitentiary in the 1800s had more access to sunlight and outdoors than people currently incarcerated at DCP.
www.pennlive.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Men incarcerated at the notorious Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in the 1800s had more access to sunlight than people held at DCP now.
And it can lead to lifelong health consequences.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/12...
And it can lead to lifelong health consequences.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/12...
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Can #Massachusetts prosecutors hide the names of cops who are charged with crimes?
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
NEW: On Monday, I asked a judge to order Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan's office to disclose the names of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
#Massachusetts #mapoli
Mass Dump seeks ruling that Northwestern DA can’t hide names of cops charged with crimes
Northwestern DA David Sullivan spent tax dollars on private law firm to fight against police transparency in Massachusetts
andrewqmr.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Can #Massachusetts prosecutors hide the names of cops who are charged with crimes?
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no.
You can read about my pending lawsuit here:
Throwing this out to the four winds: The Florida Keys are where I live, and I care about them quite a lot. If you have info on ICE and CBP activity in the area, please contact me. I'm a reporter cataloguing civil rights abuses. (If you have info on abuses elsewhere, I'll take those, too.)
I was in this same spot this morning taking pictures of ICE and just missed this arrest. ICE and CBP have been running all over the Upper Keys for the past few weeks.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Throwing this out to the four winds: The Florida Keys are where I live, and I care about them quite a lot. If you have info on ICE and CBP activity in the area, please contact me. I'm a reporter cataloguing civil rights abuses. (If you have info on abuses elsewhere, I'll take those, too.)
I was in this same spot this morning taking pictures of ICE and just missed this arrest. ICE and CBP have been running all over the Upper Keys for the past few weeks.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I was in this same spot this morning taking pictures of ICE and just missed this arrest. ICE and CBP have been running all over the Upper Keys for the past few weeks.
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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Chicago plaintiffs in major class action lawsuit against DHS over "Operation Midway Blitz" have moved to dismiss now that the feds have packed up and left. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Chicago plaintiffs in major class action lawsuit against DHS over "Operation Midway Blitz" have moved to dismiss now that the feds have packed up and left. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys
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Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
www.instagram.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Live long and poorly enough, and you will see yourself become the thing you hate most. In this case, fake news.
get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing
December 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Live long and poorly enough, and you will see yourself become the thing you hate most. In this case, fake news.
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"Lane Kiffin had a dog just for PR purposes" is my Carl Hiaasen "I quit because Florida keeps making up real stories even I couldn't make up"
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 AM
"Lane Kiffin had a dog just for PR purposes" is my Carl Hiaasen "I quit because Florida keeps making up real stories even I couldn't make up"
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adverse possession. look it up.
The bear that moved into a home’s crawlspace more than a week ago in Altadena is not budging: despite numerous attempts by the homeowners to keep him out, the animal is staying put.
Unbearable living situation: Bear under Altadena home showing no signs of leaving
“I feel nervous all the time,” homeowner Ken Johnson said. “I’m always looking over my shoulder to see if he’s coming out.”
nbcnews.to
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
adverse possession. look it up.
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gahhhh just seeing the Tom Stoppard news. damn. i got a tattoo with a R&G are dead quote a few years back and it’s one of my faves, still.
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
gahhhh just seeing the Tom Stoppard news. damn. i got a tattoo with a R&G are dead quote a few years back and it’s one of my faves, still.