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Felipe De La Hoz

@felipedlh.bsky.social
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Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News ed board, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, NYU lecturer, @flaminghydra.com member, immigration wonk. Work in @slate.com, @thenation.com, @boltsmag.org, etc | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 10m
I’d seen mention of the raid, but Reuters reports it was related to the immigration paperwork her father filed decades ago. This is another salvo in the admin’s effort to indicate to every immigrant, whether they’ve since naturalized, whether they’ve become a member of Congress, that we aren’t safe
reuters.com
US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home
US authorities conducted a predawn Monday raid on the Washington-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar as part ​of an ongoing investigation, the Justice Department said.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I kept thinking the Cuni guy (Bronx shooter) looked familiar and then I realized I saw him last year at the ICE raid in Chinatown, where he was pretty front and center. Dude loves the attention
Brendan Cuni in tactical vest looking kind of disheveled while speaking with another person
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another day of staring longingly at the coats I've waited all year to wear but cannot because it is still 72 in mid-October
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's a good thing this guy is so incredibly unpopular because this is how you start a pogrom
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Star Demands More!
Alt: The Star Wars more, more! Meme
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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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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Even if your assumption is Musk is a net positive for the U.S. (a very shaky premise) he obviously did not receive an H-1B as *today's* Musk, and as has been extensively covered, would have been detained and deported for his unlawful presence and work under policies he and Vance both support now
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
ms.now
Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I also feel like if I were an ME voter I'd be annoyed by the laziness of using a base AI template for your flyer, which is so immediately recognizable and makes it look like any ad for a local sandwich shop or a shitty martial arts studio
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn't a new system btw, they're just doing updates where they're apparently enrolling a huge wave of new people. Here's a bit more context on the program
aclum.org
Continuous immigration vetting: The labyrinth of government databases continues to grow - ACLU of Massachusetts
Under the Trump administration, the federal government has been particularly eager to expand its surveillance and database systems to track noncitizens. This blog post was authored by Technology for L...
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean I'm glad everyone's getting notified at least but I wonder if people realize just how many of their relatives who "came the right way" would have gotten snagged in these systems had they existed then
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lol I just got a notice from USCIS informing me that I along with every other applicant have been enrolled in the Continuous Immigration Vetting program so that the FBI can use my biometric information for real-time persistent monitoring, I love 2 live in modernity
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have now seen a few FB marketplace listings like this and I just have to wonder what's going on. Are these AI generated and no one even checks if the car rendered correctly? are they showing you the underside but for some reason editing it so the car looks flipped?
A listing for a BMW sedan where the lead picture looks like the car has turned over and is upside down
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve had lots of productive conversations with I disagree with. But there are many, many people with whom the idea of a useful discussion of ideological distinctions is dead in the water from the get-go
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
b) values distinctions were like “role of government funding in a nation’s cultural production” and not “should this demographic have civil rights” c) the contemporary right was at all interested in good faith discussion as opposed to weaponized grievance. Unfortunately we don’t live in that world
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe I’m talking the bait but I’ll grant that this is an in theory useful approach in an environment where a) extreme polarization and a degraded information economy didn’t make people entirely resistant to countervailing facts and able to trivially source whatever facts they shared
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Still, that doesn’t mean judges shouldn’t try at all, particularly if they’re interested in retaining some authority as an independent branch of government. They could in theory appoint an outside prosecutor if DOJ won’t take it, and civil contempt could be used to strip officials of immunities
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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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As I found out when I looked into criminal contempt for defiance of the courts, actually pursuing this route is extremely difficult not least because this is a federal crime, meaning a) the judge would typically have to get a DOJ prosecutor to pursue it and b) Trump could just pardon it
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One thing I’ve found striking in recent years is the extent to which I hear Gen Z / Alpha use this algo-speak in real life
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not a naturalization issue per se but I’ve been waiting a year and a half to hear back from USCIS on something relatively routine and my lawyer has let me know I should expect to wait another year based on what he’s been seeing
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guys is it good to be cooking outside in October
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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
404media.co
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
“But why don’t you just pick up the box?” You don’t think I’ve been trying??
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having ADHD is crazy because someone can ask you why you haven’t picked up an empty box on the ground and the answer, completely earnestly, is that picking up the empty box has been on your mental to-do list for weeks
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah a lot of the elements were already in the ether but the specific combination of predictive policing, surveillance capitalism, robot-assisted enforcement, wearable tech, etc has been admirably prescient
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Minority Report is a pretty campy movie in its own ways but kinda wild how many different tech-dystopia things it got mostly right
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luv 2 finish a big draft and then turn to the other big draft that is also overdue
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Oh but she didn't come in the right way!" Newsflash, if you go digging you can find fault with almost all immigration applications because our laws are insane. Also you'll notice that "they didn't come in the right way so we should deport them" is the exact same argument as MAGA makes
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was fucked up when people said it about Melania, it's still fucked up now. You either want a hyper-punitive society in which noncitizens are inherently second class or you don't, and if you don't, then very much undermine your point with this stuff
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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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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
nytimes.com
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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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/...
appleinsider.com
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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 · 28/09/2026
I don't know that the average local GOP elected boosting 287(g) in their jurisdiction understands that the rift with huge swaths of the community will be irreparable, even if the contracts are ultimately wound down. Some percentage of the population will never cooperate with the police again
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s one more manifestation of their approach to everything, which is that their “rationalist” view is sacrosanct, human needs are illogical, there should be shortcuts and “efficiency” for everything, and that there is no collective responsibility
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people will present criticisms as everyone else being a prude but there is a whole separate sex positive / kink community that exists mostly parallel, thinks these people don’t and don’t care to understand the responsibilities inherent in this kind of scene, and mostly detest them
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Matthew Hoppock @hoppock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EOIR quietly issued a new 5-page policy on public observation of immigration court hearings this week. It contains some significant new limitations, most notably for people trying to observe hearings remotely on WebEx. Here are the changes I've noticed. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
justice.gov
Fact Sheet September 2026 | United States Department of Justice
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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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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well I’m glad I left for class early because both trains I’ve been on have been heavily delayed, during rush hour
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
5) They had no real plan for what to do about this, and chose to plow ahead despite understanding that they were going to destroy the basic mechanics of information production 6) They know their models cannot survive without this theft and made a conscious decision to keep stealing
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2) They understood they had to disregard the wishes and evade the defenses of the information sources to engage in that theft 3) They grasped this as an effort to effectively replace those sources and, in all likelihood, kill them off 4) They knew that this would kill their own information sources
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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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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have in multiple editorials invoked “L'État, c'est moi” in relation to Trump and then he just comes out and says this
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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
I’m just going to say that pretty much every genuinely fun queer space I’ve been to seems constantly buffeted by the risk of being ruined on one side by cishet normies who want to glom onto the cool and on the other by tenderqueer therapy-speak aficionados allergic to fun. It’s tragic
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New investigation from @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social & me into the border #SurveillanceTech by #Anduril, General Dynamics, and Israeli co. Elbit Systems that failed to catch 1 in 4 deaths within range. In other words: 1,050+ people dying on camera. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1... 1/x
technologyreview.com
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
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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
He can feel that scythe hanging over him as his popularity craters to nothing and he’s so, so scared
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