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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn

@arielglenn.bsky.social
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Queer, trans, non-binary, etc. Our existence is not up for debate. No time for that crap anyways, too busy trying to build a better world in the face of all odds. Current project: sand in the gears of tyranny. Follow ≠ support.

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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahrB... χωρίς άλλα σχόλια
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Naked Gun - Epic Facepalm [1080p]
YouTube video by BusterPrime1
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The Trump admin just cut the time that a refugee has to submit a formal response or an objection to a Notice of Intent to Terminate refugee status from the current period of 30 days to just 10 days. This new rule, issued without the normal notice and comment process, goes into effect tomorrow.
Screenshot of the first page of the Federal Register pre-inspection copy of the interim final rule. Text as follows:

This document is scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register on 2026-10-14 and available online at [links]

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
8 CFR Part 214
[CIS No. 2870-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0529]
RIN 1615-AD26
Removing Deference to Prior USCIS Determinations of Eligibility
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS), proposes to remove 8 CFR 214.1(c)(5), which generally
provides that USCIS gives deference to a prior approval involving the same facts when
adjudicating a request to extend a petition for an alien’s employment or stay. This change
would better align DHS regulations with the statute, which places the burden of proving
eligibility for all immigration benefits on the petitioner, applicant, or beneficiary;
strengthen adjudicatory review; and support agency priorities to improve the integrity of
the immigration system and better protect the interests of U.S. workers.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
5th Cir. issues a rare Saturday order. Holds that the Supreme Court's stay in D.V.D. forecloses a stay of removal for a Senegalese man with witholding of removal to Senegal who DHS intends to immediately deport to Sierra Leone. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Separately, the Supreme Court has effectively ratified third-country removal of the sort that Gakou faces when it granted certiorari in a case raising the issue while still explicitly permitting the government to continue with third-country removals unabated pending full resolution on the merits.  See DHS v. D.V.D., Nos. 26-426, 26A406 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2026) (per curiam).  As a result, Gakou’s claim to an injunction against his removal to a country besides Senegal is unavailing and cannot be used to support the stay he currently seeks. Because Gakou has not demonstrated any meaningful probability of success on the merits, he is not entitled to a stay.  The emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is DENIED.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This thread is worth reading to the end; we should understand how bad the news really is.
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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lawyers representing Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old father of two shot by ICE officers in the Bronx on Thursday, say they can’t find their client in the aftermath of the shooting. @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: Judge Sorokin upholds magistrate judge's order requiring discovery to be produced by the Trump administration in Kseniia Petrova's vindictive prosecution claim, among other discovery and grand jury instructions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Because the government has identified no legal or factual error in Judge Dein's analysis
of Petrova's entitlement to discovery concerning vindictive prosecution— and because the record and the law plainly support her conclusion in the circumstances presented the government's third and final parry fails.
Accordingly, the government's appeal (Doc. No. 63), ably briefed by both parties, is
DENIED. The parties shall meet and confer and shall notify the Court by October 23, 2026, whether a further ruling is needed as to the scope and timing of the discovery to be produced
pursuant to Judge Dein's order, affirmed in full here. If so, those issues shall be raised before
Judge Dein at the final status conference, presently scheduled for November 30, 2026. See Doc.
No. 84.
SO ORDERED.
Is/ Leo T. Sorokin
United States District Judge
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JUST IN: A judge has blocked ICE's policy "to stop collecting biometric information" from detainees that they need to pursue lawful status, like visas for human trafficking survivors and other crime victims. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. 1/
We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. All encounters with federal agents should be recorded and documented if it is safe to do so. Witnesses can reach out to us to share what they see or to seek help.

Chaotic, warrantless immigration raids and roving patrols spread fear and disrupt lives and livelihoods. They do not belong here; hard working immigrants do.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Folks, I get why y'all are sending around some of these Hegseth quotes, and yes, it's important to know what he's saying. But also I don't love reading trans slurs every third or fourth post, even if they are quotes from that asshole. So maybe could ya ease up, or mark as sensitive content? Thanks.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/politic... Here's the background on requirements for the troops that would be in attendance.
yahoo.com
Pentagon demands only fittest and most ‘impeccably’ groomed troops attend Hegseth speech: report
Department of Defense email reportedly invites Army commanders to nominate soldiers to appear alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – but only if they meet the approved ‘physical standards’
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.c-span.org/event/public... it's this. Audience: troops selected in order to meet a certain image, if I recall correctly.
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Aegean Boat Report @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NORWAY REFUSED TO SURRENDER ME TO GREECE. On 15 May, the Norwegian Court of Appeal unanimously refused my surrender to Greece. Today we publish the judgment — including its findings on dual criminality and freedom of expression. Read it here: aegeanboatreport.com/2026/09/30/n... #TheGreekFiles
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Link: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
and... here's the immediate effect.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I missed this yesterday for various reasons. A great development. And...
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The injunction applies only where it can, i.e. to the NY facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... But the judge's language of condemnation is sweeping.
storage.courtlistener.com
Permanent Injunction – #187 in Barco Mercado v. Mullin (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-06568) – CourtListener.com
FINAL JUDGMENT OF PERMANENT INJUNCTION: The Court having considered the full evidentiary record and the parties' submissions and arguments in support of and in opposition to converting into a permanen...
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Black Site Dockets’ are the latest source of confusion and alarm for advocates and immigrants attending hearings at 26 Federal Plaza. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/22/i...
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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza
A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nature, nurture or the wrong question: an argument for strict controls and constraints during the early developmental period of Force-sensitive individuals
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think I haven't been aware of the translate button at all, but then again, I get the offer to translate from my two languages in so many apps it's just something I filter out automatically. But again, good to know, thank you!
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks a lot for this explanation, it gives useful context. I think the answer to the original question is going to be "some users will want the primary language to be default always, and some will want the language of the last post to be default for the next one". And I might switch between those!
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been baffled by the language selector overall, since it doesn't seem to give me any features one way or another (using blue sky in the browser). I post in two languages, and it doesn't impact character count; what should it do? Until I know that, I can't make a recommendation.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/09/2026
If you're mad as hell about this and have some $ to spare, immigrant support activists on the ground here in Austin told me that the Immigrant Support Fund is the best donation destination; Wilber's family (and others) are helped via this stream: givebutter.com/ZkFxFu
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For folks following along: if lawyers don't know where someone's being held, they can't know which court would have jurisdiction, which means that they can't file a habeas petition, so there's no effective means of seeking relief. I can only imagine there will be lawsuits about this ASAP.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
9th Cir. holds that it violated due process to deny bond hearings for asylum seekers who entered without admission/parole, were screened for expedited removal, and who were found to have a credible fear of persecution or torture. Thuraissigiam does not apply. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
In sum, the government’s strictly circumscribed detention authority, a pillar of our common law tradition for almost a millennium, stands in contrast to the political branch’s “plenary authority to decide which aliens to admit.” Thuraissigiam, 591 U.S. at 139. Thuraissigiam was an admission, not a detention, case. For that reason, as well as because it was specifically limited to noncitizens at the “threshold of initial entry,” it has no application here, the government’s fervent pleas for its vast expansion notwithstanding. Id. at 107. Noncitizens who arrive illegally and are found away from the border well after arrival are protected from arbitrary detention in violation of the Due Process Clause.16  III. Conclusion The district court correctly concluded that (1) it has jurisdiction over this dispute and (2) Thuraissigiam does not bar the bond hearing class’s due process claim. The district court’s order denying the government’s motion to dismiss is AFFIRMED.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#killahp
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New: @apnews.com today sued the U.S. federal judiciary to challenge the constitutionality of a rule that has restricted reporters' ability to easily access lawsuits by people detained as part of President ​Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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AP sues to challenge limits on access to US lawsuits by immigration detainees
The Associated Press sued the U.S. federal judiciary on Tuesday to challenge the constitutionality of a rule that has restricted reporters' ability to easily access lawsuits by people detained as part...
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 15/09/2026
"most of the deportees who agreed to be interviewed won legal protections in American immigration courts, preventing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from deporting them to their home countries because of concerns they could be persecuted or tortured there."
cbsnews.com
Latin American migrants deported by ICE to West Africa describe being stranded "on the other side of the world"
CBS News traveled to Liberia to speak to some of the Latin American deportees banished to Africa under President Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I somehow missed this yesterday. What can one say, when the government itself interferes with the ability of a petitioner to present their case to that very same government?
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) temporarily blocks Trump admin drive to impose a 4-year limit on student visas now issued for length of study. Calls the rationale for the new rule "exceptionally weak." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great coverage below of a hearing on mandatory detention/bail/transfers out of jurisdiction for ICE detainees. Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71384...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 14/09/2026
DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
nbcnews.com
DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...
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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Judge Subramanian has docketed his order that the US Attorney's Office should file proof of release of Portillo by the end of the day. As of 6 pm, they have not filed.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Instead, deliberately amplified from the very highest levels of government, hate and fear reign supreme. But history does not stop there. It is not frozen in amber. Even now, we can choose to turn away from the road of the jackboots. It will be incredibly difficult. But we can do it. And we must.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I won't talk about where I was or how I reacted then, except to say that I naively believed that we, as a nation, would overcome the ensuing fear and despair and rage. I thought that the events of that day would unite us, that we would grow stronger as a people. Our diversity is our great strength.
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Patriot Act, the DHS, ICE, the CBP, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (torture), extraordinary renditions, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, broad NSA surveillance of US citizens, widespread anti-Muslim propaganda: all of these came about after the 9/11 attacks.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The maj. op. compares the Trump administration's desire for mass arrests to precede mass deportations to World War II internment camps.
e government ordered the mass detention of all individuals of Japanese descent present in the United States during World War II. Nearly 120,000 people were sent to internment camps within our borders. United States v. Hohri, 482 U.S. 64, 66 (1987). The stain of these detentions on our nation—and the judiciary’s abdication of its obligation to protect basic freedoms—continues to haunt us. See, e.g., Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667, 710 (2018) (stating that the Supreme Court decision affirming executive policies on Japanese internment “was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—‘has no place in law under the Constitution’” (internal quotation marks omitted)). Those shameful and abhorrent past detentions were limited in scope in comparison to the mandatory detention that the Government urges us today to find that Congress established thirty years ago in an ambiguously worded statutory provision. We decline to do so.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
4th Cir., 2-1, holds that federal law does not permit the detention without bond of noncitizens who were arrested within the United States while their immigration cases are pending. Joins the overwhelming majority of circuits on this question. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/257...
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Ariel "Transgender for Everybody" Glenn @arielglenn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a PSA which I missed a couple days ago when it was posted. Summary: votesafe dot org is unsafe, use vote.org instead The votesafe dot org site harvests and shares your data to target you for specific political ads, among other things. Read all about it: electionlawblog.org/2026/the-hid...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bananas video out of Equatorial Guinea, where 31 immigrants deported by the U.S. to a country where they have no ties have been locked up in a hotel with no travel documents. Local police threatened to shoot them. @gillianbrockell.com reports. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile, the 2nd circuit agrees to rehear Mohsen Mahdawi en banc! That's very good for him and I guess his judicial headcounting analysis in the en banc petition played well or was at least correct. (He and Ozturk drew an esp. bad panel.)
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CNN reports that Christian Castro—ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in leg in Minnesota—has been federally charged with lying about events that led up to the shooting. Castro is also charged at the state level and was subject of extradition fight between TX and MN. www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...
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ICE agent federally charged with lying over shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant | CNN Politics
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been federally charged with lying about the events leading up to his shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg earlier this year, according to mult...
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