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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ICE just posted a new RFP for transporting detainees to/from a range of facilities in Baltimore, Boston, New York, New Jersey and Washington. Daily round trips to airports, jails, hospitals and more with detainees restrained and under armed guard. sam.gov/workspace/co...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I set up a tracker to follow average national gas prices at the pump since the first strikes on Iran were launched. Here's where we're at:

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A ship and buildings can be seen on fire in Bandar Abbas Military Harbour, Iran, in satellite images from today released by Planet Labs

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Last week the DHS Office of the Inspector General released its current plan for oversight reviews. Many areas of inquest where the American public would really benefit from transparency.

Text in image reads:
Ongoing DHS OIG Projects Related to Immigration Enforcement
ICE’s Hiring and Training Program: Our objective is to determine the extent to which U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can surge its hiring and training efforts to meet
operational needs.
ICE’s Oversight of the 287(g) Program: Our objective is to determine to what extent ICE ensures
law enforcement agencies participating in the 287(g) program conduct immigration
enforcement efforts in accordance with program requirements.
ICE’s Use of Expedited Removal Authority: Our objective is to determine to what extent ICE
Enforcement and Removal Operations uses expedited removal for inadmissible and removable
aliens in accordance with Federal law and DHS policies and procedures.
CBP’s Interior Immigration Enforcement: Our objective is to determine whether CBP conducts
interior immigration enforcement in accordance with Federal requirements and Department
policies and guidance.
ICE’s Processes for Investigating and Addressing Allegations of Excessive Force: Our objective is
to determine whether ICE investigates allegations of use of excessive force and holds personnel
accountable in accordance with applicable Federal laws, DHS policies, and ICE directives.
Processes that DHS Law Enforcement Personnel Follow to Prevent the Arrest of U.S. Citizens
During Immigration Enforcement Operations: Our objective is to assess DHS’ processes for
determining U.S. citizenship for individuals detained or arrested during immigration
enforcement operations.
Unannounced Inspections of ICE Detention Facilities: DHS OIG is conducting unannounced
inspections to assess compliance with ICE detention standards and ensure safe, secure, and
humane conditions of confinement.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The FBI wants to build a classified/Top-Secret level biometric identity search system, per this RFI to government contractors. sam.gov/workspace/co...

Screenshot of text reading:
The FBI intends to identify available software solutions to store and search subjects at the classified level. This solution is not intended to replace the Next Generation Identification System Functionality, which was developed and implemented in collaboration with the FBI’s federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. The solution shall reside at the Secret and/or Top-Secret/SCI level with the ability to support data feeds from external systems. The solution must allow the ability to enroll and search face, fingerprint, palmprint, iris, and latent fingerprints, and associated biographic information with a given set of biometrics.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A fairly representative comment on a Reddit thread about the news.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The State Department just announced that it will suspend all visa processing for *75 countries*. The list of countries below was initially posted in the Fox News article but has since been removed. www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...

Text reading: The full list of countries comprises Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This morning USCIS rescinded Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals and gave them 2 months to leave. The State Department currently has a Level 4 "Do Not Travel" advisory for Somalia due to terrorism, kidnapping and violent crime. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Officially a British-American journalist.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The president views energy geopolitics "like the world is a Settlers of Catan board." Incredible quote: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Screenshot of article text reading:
The president views energy geopolitics “almost like the world is a Settlers of Catan board—you kidnap the president of Venezuela and, ipso facto, you now control all the oil,” says Rory Johnston, a Canadian oil market researcher. “I do think he legitimately, to a degree, believes that. It’s not true, but I think that’s an important frame for how he's justifying and driving the momentum of his policy.”

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Operating the search interface for the Epstein files means that the Justice Department has full visibility into all of the queries entered, and could in theory use this to gauge public interest in releasing certain information (or not). Worth being aware of...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I don't usually use Claude Code so I didn't know how fast it burns through tokens 🫣

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The FBI is seeking companies to help them integrate AI into drones, per this request for information. Details specify systems that provide facial recognition, license plate detection, and movement tracking from a live video feed: sam.gov/workspace/co...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Reclaiming my status as an out-of-touch coastal media elite

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On linguistics and foreign policy mostly. E.g.:

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED" Trump seems genuinely panicked about losing the midterms.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

NYC mayor election: with the 9 day early voting period over, the demographic that cast the most votes were between 25-35 years old! This reverses the previous trend from days 1 - 5 only, and in theory, heavily favors Mamdani.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Though it's true there's a 'Boomer bump' in early voters for the NYC mayoral election as reported by Gothamist etc., there's another large but less well-reported peak for voters in their late 20's and early 30's, as the data I got from the Board of Elections shows:

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Trump suggested just yesterday that he could relocate World Cup matches from cities deemed "unsafe" (i.e. Democrat-run), but a contract solicitation posted today by DHS shows the agency is still looking for hotel rooms in the 11 original host cities: sam.gov/workspace/co...

Screenshot of a table in DHS request for contract opportunities, showing text:

Location Stadium/Zip Codes Start Dates End Dates # of Days
Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field
19148, 19130 13 JUN 2026 16 JUL 2026 23
Atlanta, GA Mercedes-Benz Stadium
30303, 30313, 30034 14 JUN 2026 16 JUL 2026 33
East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium 12 JUN 2026 20 JUL 2026 39
Boston, MA (Foxborough) Gillette Stadium 02035,
02119, 02111, 02203, 02110 12 JUN 2026 10 JUL 2026 29
Miami, FL (Miami Gardens) Hard Rock Stadium
33056, 33178, 33132, 32308 14 JUN 2026 19 JUL 2026 37
Houston, TX NRG Stadium
77054, 77091, 77061 13 JUN 2026 05 JUL 2026 23
Dallas, TX (Arlington)
AT&T Stadium
76011, 75201, 75210,
75215, 76115
13 JUN 2026 15 JUL 2026 33
Los Angeles, CA (Inglewood) SoFi Stadium
90010 11 JUN 2026 11 JUL 2026 31
San Francisco, CA (Santa Clara) Levi's Stadium 12 JUN 2026 02 JUL 2026 21
Kansas City, MO Arrowhead Stadium 15 JUN 2026 12 JUL 2026 28
Seattle, WA Lumen Field
98134,98202, 98158 14 JUN 2026 07 JUL 2026 24

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Due to the government shutdown, CBP claims not to have enough money to update its website, though it *does* have the money to keep hiring more border officers.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Oh nice, also available as JSON www.opm.gov/json/operati...

Screenshot of JSON API showing status of Federal Agencies as "Open"

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today I learned there's an XML feed that just tells you if the US government is "Open" or "Closed" www.opm.gov/xml/operatin...

Screenshot of XML feed labelled "CurrentStatus" describing status of US government as "Open"

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A Paris court has ruled that X must share the data with @afp.com, allowing the news agency to calculate how much it is owed for the use of its content.

Article that reads:

The Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday confirmed a preliminary ruling from May 23, 2024, which ordered X (formerly Twitter) to provide AFP with all the statistical data needed to calculate how much compensation the Agency is due under neighbouring rights.

The dispute concerns the application of a copyright law established in France in 2019. This law guarantees news agencies, including AFP, payment when digital platforms use their content online.

AFP had sued X in August 2023 to obtain the disclosure of the data needed to calculate this payment. In May 2024, the Paris Judicial Court ordered X to provide this information. The US company appealed on October 9, 2024, but the Court of Appeal rejected all of its arguments.

X had argued that AFP accepted a free license by signing up to the platform's general terms of use. The court rejected this claim, recalling that neighbourhood rights were specifically set up to make large platforms pay agencies and publishers, given how much more powerful they are. It emphasized that this right cannot be circumvented by simple non-negotiable subscription contracts.

The court also upheld a penalty payment of €2,000 per day of delay, noting that X has tried to avoid handing over the data since Spring 2023. It also threw out their request to postpone the starting point of this penalty payment until the signing of a confidentiality agreement, finding no justification for this.

The court said there was no doubt that the data requested was needed to work out how much is owed to AFP.

In addition to upholding the order of May 23, 2024, it ordered X to pay an additional €50,000 to AFP in appeal costs, in addition to the €50,000 already awarded at the first ruling.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Just a normal headline from a healthy society

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I want to be charitable and not insult anyone's intelligence, but I have questions about how it's possible that half of Americans are still unaware of OBBB. Are people really so tuned out, so totally detached from political decisions that shape their lives?

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Data from Flightradar24 shows inbound planes to Dubai being diverted as UAE airspace is closed

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reading about the Marine Corps "warfighting philosophy", wondering whether these are the kind of people you send to de-escalate a protest

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

TIL that the LAPD lists the number of active duty officers in MALE, FEMALE and NONBINARY categories

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

As the United States vetoes another Israel-Palestine ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council, here's a graphic I made for @afp.com showing every veto on a similar resolution since 1970.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Canada goes to the polls today with the liberal party heavily predicted to win. According to CBC polling, the conservative party was projected a *97-99% chance of winning* throughout 2024 and the start of 2025 (see chart). Then Trump's tariff impositions completely realigned Canadian politics...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

From tomorrow a 25% tariff on all cars and light-duty trucks take effect. Of all car manufactures in the US, Tesla is the least affected – because its vehicles are overwhelmingly manufactured and assembled here.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Work crews are starting to remove the Black Lives Matter mural in D.C. this morning. Photos via @afpnews.bsky.social.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I've walked past this plaque many times, but somehow today it hits different.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

For thos reporting on federal domain disappearance: I did a (very) quick probe into which domains were available at 11am ET this morning. Here's a snapshot of the results from that time. Total domains: 1374 Unreachable: 350 Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Trump threatens to cut aid to South Africa because of SA govt's plan to rectify land ownership disparity. The latest audit found that Black South Africans owned just 4% of the country's land. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Fascinating data analysis here from the USDA

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

TFW your French colleagues start taking their Christmas breaks

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"But why does everyone hate us?", asks UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty, who dumped millions of dollars of stock before disclosing to the public that his company was part of a DOJ antitrust investigation.

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm looking at data on shootings in New York City and it's amazing how consistent the seasonal variation is. The streets really do get hot in the summer...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"Trade war incoming," says China's Ministry of Commerce...

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you've ever wondered, this is what me 'doing journalism' looks like

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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

An honest reading of the Project 2025 document has to account for the fact that it contains what would (in a different context) be seen as very progressive policy ideas

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