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DiDi Turley

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Will ramble to you about social media algorithms for hours with the *slightest* amount of prompting. Proceed at your own risk.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As I wrote this summer, New York has recently become one of the states with a state-level cause of action for violations of the Constitution. If and when Oscar Belga is released (or, potentially, while detained), he could under this law individually sue the ICE agents involved in his shooting
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This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts
One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is going to be a real test of both whether the mayor is willing to take concrete action that is squarely within the city’s power to investigate and, if reasonable, prosecute a federal agent; and whether the NYPD is willing to go through with that. I wrote about the process here
newrepublic.com
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible
To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have literally used this exact formulation, truck and all, to talk about the damage done to public health
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not really loving seeing self-described libs take the tack of "Ha Ha Nicki Minaj is telling people to vote GOP despite being an ALIEN! DEPORT HER!"
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We'll have to wait to see the adjudicative effect of this public charge expansion; like the 2019 version, it may have negligible impact on actual green card denials. That unfortunately doesn't mean it won't have massive narrative and practical impact as noncitizens pull back from public services
newrepublic.com
The Next Front in Trump’s War Against Immigrants
The administration’s changes to the public charge rule is another effort to make would-be citizens believe that any level of participation in civic life is going to bring the state down on them.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Detailed and shocking account of the extent to which ChatGPT helped this shooter strategize and essentially encouraged her to do this mass shooting
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you're wondering what happens now, I wrote earlier this year about contempt and why it's a functionally difficult tool for judges to use, even if it's the only feasible way to force compliance
newrepublic.com
Judges Have One Defense Against Trump They (Mostly) Haven’t Used Yet
Judicial contempt is a tool few jurists have reached for to curb the administration’s misrule—and for good reason. But that may be about to change.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole debate about whether the AI execs even grasp what they're doing has been at least partially settled by the released documents in the NYT v. OpenAI suit, which pretty conclusively establishes that 1) Everyone from executives to individual engineers understood they were engaged in mass theft
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New video of ICE agents ramming into car during traffic stop in Texas. Then shooting man in his back—from several feet behind. Agent who fired his gun does not appear to be in any danger from a "weaponized vehicle."
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My man is losing his grip and just trying to speed run the ozymandias thing, renaming shit, building gilded monuments
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
404media.co
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Several times, people have called in missing persons reports after family or friends disappear, leaving abandoned cars or children and pets waiting. It only became clear what happened when they popped up in ICE’s locator. Now, they’ll simply disappear, potentially to never be heard from again
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s about much more than this, but my story on Utah/Salt Lake begins with the anecdote of Salt Lake City as the first jurisdiction to consider a 287(g) agreement in 1998, and ultimately rejecting it after months of heated debate. It basically killed the enthusiasm in it for years, until after 9/11
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Me, up early: wonder what the admin will do today The admin: we are going to kill the whales
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tunick was charged with an absurd offense downstream from protected activism and is fighting it in court, and now been rescinded two job offers and barred from pursuing an education. Clear signal to the Trump admin that lobbing a spurious charge can derail a life even if the charge never sticks
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is insane. DOJ officials who by law are required to exercise independent judgment appear to have been ordered to overturn torture protections granted to a political opponent of a Trump ally, with a deportation flight fueled up and ready for their preordained decision made in less than 24 hours.
nytimes.com
U.S. Fast-Tracked Deportation of Ecuadorean Politician Despite Torture Fears
The removal of José Serrano, a critic of President Daniel Noboa who has been accused of criminal activity, underscores how the Trump administration has asserted control over U.S. immigration courts.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For @newrepublic.com, I reviewed Mahmoud Khalil's upcoming book No Land to Stand On, which is a memoir that attempts to reclaim agency over his own life story, long before and during his infamous ICE detention, and recentering its locus, which is being Palestinian in a world that doesn't accept that
newrepublic.com
Mahmoud Khalil’s Fight for a Normal Life
As he writes of his childhood in Syria, of protest at Columbia, and of ICE detention, Khalil refuses to be reduced to a “face on a poster.”
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes Elon’s X is used to generate CSAM and boost fascism but did you know it’s also a vector to openly post and boost nonconsensual content about young women and try to systematically destroy their lives?
wired.com
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hochul sends an interesting letter to New York's towns, counties, and cities reminding them in part that they have a a variety of regulatory tools to curb the establishment and expansion of immigration detention in their jurisdictions
politico.com
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As an aside the border decrim controversy will never stop driving me insane because at basically no point during that entire political discussion did anyone — pro, anti, or even in the media — bother to mention that it would change almost nothing about actual immigration enforcement
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The administration has already pummeled the international student sector to near death, and is now coming for the execution-style shot
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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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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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 10/09/2026
Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. buff.ly/kyaaTUD
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
People will still look you in the eye and say this administration is not a white supremacist project
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can hold my tongue no longer: El-Sayed dresses like a fuckboy
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And before anyone comes on with “well actually we’ve been using Gitmo for migrant detention for a long time” believe me, I know. I’ve been writing about Haiti, the federal government, and Gitmo for a long time. What is happening now is taking those tools and turning them all up to 11
thebaffler.com
No Exit | Felipe De La Hoz
In the 1990s, the U.S. turned back Haitian refugees even as it condemned the country’s military junta. The pattern is repeating itself today.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As people like me sounded alarms about the likely particulars of an unimpeded second Trump term driven by an empowered Stephen Miller, some centrist types shrugged it off with dismissals like “what, is he going to take people’s legal status away and send ‘em shackled to Gitmo?” Well, here you go
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about the modern paradigm of the fortified university. If college is meant as a microcosm and preparation for life, then it is in a way apt for college in 2026 to be a place of surveillance, walls, and ID checks where there was once free movement and interaction
flaminghydra.com
Fortress NYU
I don’t want to over-romanticize New York University’s Gould Plaza, the raised concrete space near Washington Square Park flanked by the Stern School of Business and Courant Institute of Mathematics o...
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kicker here is that after all of this, plus more that’s detailed in the report, they allowed him to resign instead of being fired
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 26/08/2026
TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on what NYU was and has become. “For these undergraduates, the idea that not so long ago the university allowed people (anyone?!) to move freely about its private spaces seems ludicrous, impossible.” flaminghydra.com/r/ca8224b3?m...
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Gated community
Felipe De La Hoz on how NYU used to be
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Watched Poor Things last night and among my takeaways is that it's like if a Wes Anderson film got addicted to benzos (no I will not be explaining)
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
With the administration refusing to process diversity visas, effectively terminating access to asylum, ending almost all refugee admissions, and now refusing to process employment and family based petitions, there does not currently seem to be a mechanism to legally immigrate to the U.S. from abroad
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
USCIS is moving forward with its effort to impose a fee of $103,265 on every single H-1B application, preposterously framed as necessary to cover costs incurred. Needless to say, not a single employer would pay that for any prospective employee, barring maybe a handful of exceptions
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The administration has already been arresting people during domestic travel who it claims are visa overstays, even if they have authorized stay through pending applications. Now, it seems like they don’t even want to wait until the visas run out to detain asylum seekers
apnews.com
US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20/08/2026
the thing is that, as a consumer protection reporter, I think this is just the orchestra warming up the concussive impact of lobotomized regulators is a real slow burn downstream affair that's going to take years to fully materialize across numerous sectors
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not sure I understand the gripe here, so a relatively minuscule number of homeowners got notices that they had to establish whether their NYC homes were their primary residences, then they did, then they were exempted and that's that? Where is the scandal?
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Team Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre No-Show Has Lawmakers Fuming
The city has granted exemptions to more than 2,300 homeowners so far after first asserting they were subject to the new tax on luxury second homes.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I truly don't think the average person understands the extent to which we're coasting into a surveillance future that is basically 1:1 with some of the heaviest mid-century dystopian surveillance fiction with very little public discussion or input. Turns out we did not have to be forced into it
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is great news, and per the laws of contemporary society I must now temper it with bad news
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RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts
The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As the DOJ asks an appeals court to reinstate criminal charges against Abrego García that a district court issued a rare vindictive prosecution dismissal on, it's a good time to read my piece on why the federal government is expending such attention and resources on one normal guy from Maryland
newrepublic.com
Why the Trump Administration Is Obsessed With Kilmar Ábrego García
The White House’s monomaniacal focus on deporting the Maryland sheet metal apprentice is all about control.
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