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Reminder: You can watch the DOGE bro depos on YouTube!

(I’ve seen a lot of clips compiled by news orgs, but some of them don’t link to the full videos.)

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.

Damages awarded: $42 million.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

I wasn’t intending to argue really. It is completely messed up.

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans.

Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is kind of a fact of life at synagogues and JCCs. I wish it weren’t but it is. bsky.app/profile/beco...

D.C. Gears up for First Ranked-Choice Election with a Citywide Voter Education Effort - Bolts Election officials and community groups are holding education campaigns ahead of Washington D.C.’s first use of ranked choice, with many focused on older and low-propensity voters.

New: It's the first collab between @boltsmag.org & @51st.news.

Need I say more? OK, fine, it's about ranked-choice voting coming to DC:

Update: ICE has switched contractors at Camp East Montana and said the facility will stay open: wapo.st/415gawR

I corrected my earlier story, which incorrectly said a document showed ICE was taking steps to close CEM. Actually, the document only said ICE planned to terminate contract.

Maryland man detained for a month says DC police lured him into ICE custody A Maryland man detained by immigration officials for a month says D.C. police coordinated with immigration agents to lure him to a police station and take him into custody. Late last year, after 37-ye...

A Maryland man says he was called by D.C. police to pick up his recovered stolen car but was met at the station by federal agents and taken into ICE custody. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/m...

It looks like they’re working on a cheer

How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered How are states restricting ICE activity? Can local prosecutors charge federal officers? How can local leaders prepare for ICE deployments? We provide answers about local responses to the immigration crackdown.

How are local and state officials responding to the federal immigration crackdown?

Our team answers nine reader-submitted questions about local leaders’ responses to ICE, from whether zoning rules could apply to ICE to what powers local prosecutors have.

The Preschool Teacher Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist” When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...

Shot by Border Patrol, then called a 'domestic terrorist.'

The @newyorker.com on Chicago's Marimar Martinez, via Ruby Cramer: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

remembering our comrade Marla Ruzicka just now. We miss you and fight on in your name, forever.

Trump yelling at kid lawnmowing meme

YOU WEAR SIZE 14 SHOES, RIGHT?

Don’t get me started on Sam’s park and shop. (It’s a cool sign! Just preserve the damn sign)

Emphatic co-sign.

Some law is complicated, and benefits from judicial explication.

But it’s a category error to think that all law is unknowable until a court steps in.

Unraveling the Corporate Ties to DHS's “Big, Beautiful Jet” The luxury 737 that recently ousted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flew on is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

www.pogo.org/investigates...

How taxpayers are still getting screwed on Kristi Noem's Big Beautiful Jet The infamous 737 is connected to a DHS contractor who received “an appearance of favoritism.”

So much new info on Kristi Noem’s airplane scandal — that is very much not going away even if she does — in this @dfriedman.bsky.social, @schwellenbach.bsky.social banger.

With a WTF appearance by one Melania Trump.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.

Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.”

The law firm that challenged U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino in federal court last fall signals a forthcoming bid for a special prosecutor to "investigate crimes committed by federal agents under Operation Midway Blitz."

Press conference Thursday:

www.themercury.com.au/news/world/s...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

“Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial.”

This whole story is so horrifying at so many levels. It should be a seismic scandal but it will probably barely make a ripple.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

Because I’m that guy: Here’s the published order: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...

Trump judge Justin Walker, whom I’ve profiled, includes a lengthy footnote in dissent assuring us that judges like him aren’t hacks.

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

My best friend’s sister, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, her phone just got turned back on. She is a US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, they said she was not transferred to Broadview, and now she's in a detention facility in WI.

🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡