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Amy Chapman @amyrchapman.bsky.social · 7h
Is he really going to reimburse the Treasury? It sounds like all the times Trump has promised checks to voters...
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro got 47% to Lula's 45% & now face a runoff in 3 weeks. What went wrong? - Concerns about Lula's age (80) & incumbency - Corporate media manufacturing scandals against him - Trump helping Bolsonaro. My look at how Lula could still win the runoff paydayreport.com/what-caused-...
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What Caused Lula's Electoral Setback & How He Could Still Win the Runoff
Bolsonaro received 47%, while Lula received 45% in the first round.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 YearsWorkers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
votebeat.org
Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment
Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
teamster.org
U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is their emblem a bunch of sticks bundled together?
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
School music programs are getting absolutely bodied by tariffs, per @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent last September but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump’s second term.
Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

“It’s hitting the horns, it’s hitting the strings, it’s hitting the percussion,” Mr. Hendrix said. “All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey.”
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
90 percent of his fundraising is from three evil people .
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
America holds the absurd distinction of using partisan elections to decide which party runs its elections—in most democracies, independent professional agencies fill this role. But until Congress or states pass reforms to change that, Dems winning these offices is key to preserving free elections
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WSJ tracks how many local cops are getting rich arresting a single migrant. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
wsj.com
Exclusive | How Local Police Get Paid Big Money for Just a Few Immigration Arrests
The Department of Homeland Security gives local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Dozens of Wisconsin sheriffs have rushed to help ICE's deportation agenda by joining the 287(g) program. In 2 swing counties Trump narrowly won, this has now become a campaign issue. And Democrats are running for sheriff in Sauk and Winnebago on a promise to quit the program:
boltsmag.org
In Wisconsin, Two Sheriff Races Test the Future of Local ICE Cooperation - Bolts
Wisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for sheriff have vowed to quit it if elected next month.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The entire Klan Act lawsuit describes how Stephen sent masked men into Minnesota on the pretext of hunting down Somalis — whom he and Katie had dehumanized for years — to deprive everyone there of their civil rights.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stealing money specifically appropriated for Slovakia and North Macedonia FEELS like a favor to Putin. Stealing money specifically appropriated for Iraq -- from which we've withdrawn a SECOND major base in the Middle East -- feels like a favor to Putin's allies in Iran.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Good Klan lawsuit (as distinct from wrongful death) names Palantir and Clearview as co-conspirators. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
280. At least two private corporations also agreed to and in fact participated in the
conspiracy: Palantir Technologies Inc., the Delaware corporation that designed, built, 
configured, and maintained the targeting application by which the operation’s agents were
directed to the neighborhoods they invaded, and Clearview AI, Inc., the Delaware
corporation whose facial recognition search engine the operation used to identify the
people who observed, filmed, and protested the operation.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ut oh. Whalen forgot Judge Perry was a longtime AUSA. WRONG ANSWER!!!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Attorney Randy Spivey says Gov. Bill Lee’s pause on 2026 executions isn’t enough. “The governor must commute Christa’s sentence.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
9 (1985).
In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tuesday presented a split-screen picture of a Trump admin seeking ever more extreme uses of executive power w/ barely any pushback from SCOTUS contrasted w/ a Trump admin losing power and facing accountability from increasingly aggressive appeals courts supporting the district courts. Law Dork:
lawdork.com
SCOTUS allows quick third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Andrew Bailey, who stepped down as MO AG in hopes of becoming FBI Director, stepped down. REMARKABLY, one report said he routinely told Kash he was violating the Constitution. Today, DOJ did something profoundly corrupt in hopes of politicizing 8th C, which covers MO, MN, and IA.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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LiveSquawk @livesquawknews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta Avoids Billions In Federal Taxes By Classifying Its Data Centres As Experimental - NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling...
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Bernadette Vielhaber @bvielhaber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
theballotbrief.com/state/ohio/l...
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Lorain County Commissioner 2026: Riddell vs. White vs. Lipian
Jeff Riddell (R), Carolyn Y. White (D) and Andrew Lipian (I) for Lorain County Commissioner. See where they stand on growth, jobs and the budget.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reupping for the EU crowd. Trump's DOJ is going to try to veto a DSA judgement against Elon, basically forcing the EU to adhere to US pro-Nazi social media policies.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
courtlistener.com
Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
mediamatters.org
Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grok “apologized” for producing deep fake porn of minors. Bullshit. Grok “apologizing” is the human beings who built and profit off it NOT apologizing, and feeling like they don’t have to.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is why it infuriates me when an AI chatbot “apologizes” or “takes responsibility” for some error. It can’t do any of those things. When it tries, it’s covering for the people who built and run it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't normally post exhibits from my cases, but I want you all to see the evidence. This is an email from an ICE deportation officer to my co-counsel. An SHRC is a "Special High-Risk Charter" flight. Basically ICE's express airline. They were trying to ship my client out before we got our boots on
Subject: RE: Urgent Notice of Habeas Petition filed 09/23/26 Nathan Samudzi v. MUllin, et al, case Number 26-CV-04115- Request confirmation that Petitioner will not be removed from MN today (D.V.D class Protections) A072-414-896

Subject is set for an SHRC today. Are you asking us to halt the removal?

CASE 0:26-cv-04115

Doc. 3-1

Filed 09/24/26

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026
I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
LAWYERS! Here are links to flight data you can put in your filings: Mesa-Ghana-Liberia plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a63864&... Alexandria-Gitmo-PR-airborne to Africa plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a3ec5c&... bsky.app/profile/dani...
globe.adsbexchange.com
ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live
ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Thanks everyone for participating in our extended beta test. We’ll circle back to you with something that works and probably won’t kill civilization after *checks watch* five more VC rounds.”
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p... 🚨🇺🇸
cnn.com
Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Though technically correct as a matter of law, DHS' attempt to shuffle these people off to countries they've never been to before obviously violates the spirit of the law and the court's decision. In the past, the court could have probably relied on the gov't to do the right thing. Not this gov't.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 23/09/2026
“This is pretty simple physics. This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Potash humor. @cnn.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/e...
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 23/09/2026
Julie Kantor, a frequent volunteer court observer, said in the days since the private courtrooms opened, she has found people wandering through the hallways unsure of where to go. “Because of mass confusion, they are missing their hearings."
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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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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
wbur.org
Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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