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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 56m

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Was worried that this was going to be *yet another* of the "people should all go back to Twitter" nonsense pieces, but @ianbetteridge.com's law of headlines rarely fails. The answer here is a clear "no" with good reasons:

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that that is the reason why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Those who stayed behind have lost something, too: the ability to not have their worldview shaped by some of the maddest people on the internet. One of the Tories’ big conference announcements was the promise of an Ice-style border force that would deport [citation needed] 150,000 people a year. That mass deportations of most existing migrants is not actually popular in the UK – that such a policy places yet more distance between the Tories and the mainstream centre which deserted them last year – seems not to have occurred.

It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2h

Seasoned prosecutor Erik Siebert didn't think the case against Letitia James was strong enough to go forward with, so Trump fired him and installed his crony Lindsey Halligan to indict. Andrew McCarthy looks at various bits and elements of the known record that suggest maybe Siebert was right. [NRO]

The Letitia James Case Appears More Complicated Than the Trump DOJ Indictment Suggests | National Review

Some exculpatory testimony and previously unreported documents create a blurrier picture of the bank-fraud allegations.

www.nationalreview.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 3h

More proof we're living in a simulation (and that I am, in fact, taking crazy pills):

"Coming Soon: National Security Tariffs on Peanut Butter. Seriously." www.mmmlaw.com/news-resourc...

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 4h

postmodern finance theory

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4h

the percentage of current U.S. gov policy that can be explained by the fact that trump has appointed a bunch of 12 year olds who are addicted to social media is frankly terrifying

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thereloadteam.bsky.social @thereloadteam.bsky.social · 4h

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Analysis: Friction Between Trump DOJ, Gun-Rights Groups Intensifies [Member Exclusive]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to find itself at loggerheads with the gun-rights movement in court, and growing frustration has activists starting to boil over.

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thereloadteam.bsky.social @thereloadteam.bsky.social · 4h

Analysis: Friction Between Trump DOJ, Gun-Rights Groups Intensifies [Member Exclusive]

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5h

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 5h

Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more.

The government gave her nothing.

This Indiana city doesn’t have to pay an innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked her home, court rules

Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more. The government gave her nothing.

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 5h

Is it good when one of your top pass rushers quits in the middle of the season? Is that a good sign?

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 6h

Philadelphia Eagles edge rusher Za’Darius Smith announced his retirement Monday morning.

It was sudden news from the 33-year-old veteran, who played five games with the Eagles after signing with them on Sept. 5.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 6h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, that is a fair point. Even if this significantly reduced crime, and it doesn't seem like it did in DC, there's still good arguments it's not an appropriate use of troops.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of using crime to justify deploying troops, my podcast this week is a nuanced look at what preliminary data tells us about the DC takeover effort. @jeffasher.bsky.social joins us to explain what the data shows. Reload members can listen today. thereload.com/podcast-did-...

Podcast: Did Trump’s DC Takeover Lower Crime? (Ft. Jeff Asher) [Member Early Access]

Plus, Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman and I break down the lack of consensus among prominent Second Amendment scholars on SCOTUS’s new gun case.

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 1d

Crime is down everywhere. Has been declining for a few years now from pandemic highs. In fact, the murder rate is approaching record lows this year. Does the Vice President think everyone is lying? If deploying troops to the streets is justifiable now, when wouldn't it be?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 1d

They go to a double box and play the audio from the ad.

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