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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 13h
Meet Trent! This poor boy was left behind by his owners and desperately needs someone to foster him. Trent is spending his days locked in a cage, with someone simply stopping by to give him food and water. If you can help, please contact Stray Cat Central in PA. www.facebook.com/share/1J1gjT...
A brown, sad dog in a kennel.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 4h
Come to see Eric Schmitt try to chuckle his way through his obvious humiliation. Stay to watch Amy Klobuchar dunk on Eric Schmitt for a *2nd* time today.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 4h
I want to take Chris's point 1 step further as there's an interaction effect that'll also be in play. At the same time that the decision to remove tenure for civilian faculty at the military schoolhouses, we've got a full on push to use AI for everything. These two together will be disastrous. 1/
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h
God, I had so much fun putting together this 20 min. video on Eric Schmitt and the most embarrassing moment in a congressional hearing I’ve ever seen. Yes, 20 minutes. Full video on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4wvOY...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h
The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.
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The Border Chronicle @theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 9h
$1.1B for 34 miles of border wall, double the old cost per mile. Our reporter found it's being built with rusted, sanded-down 2020 bollards, using funds Congress set aside to protect the Santa Ana refuge. Rep. Cuellar says it could be illegal. Read full investigation 🔗🦂:
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American Rust: The $1.1 Billion Border Wall Built with Salvaged Materials and Few Answers – The Border Chronicle
A newly constructed wall built with old, salvaged material in South Texas is probably illegal; it's also costing twice as much as previous walls. What are taxpayers paying for, exactly?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
This is correct. If you track the process of institutional corruption of states in Latin America in which Opus Dei acts to support the dictators, then judicial channels that approve overreach—starting with the power to run concentration camps beyond the reach of the law—are a consistent pattern.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h
I am told Maeve is now available for adoption. Going to try to take her out for a field trip this week & provide additional adorable photos.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
VICTORY: a unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to stay sanctions on Trump & Co. over his $1.8B slush fund He sued his own govt & his own DOJ agreed to the payout. The court wasn't buying it! @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are proud to rep the 35 frm fed judges who blew the whistle 👇 -TN
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December.
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026
order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of
certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether
the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U.S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h
New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:
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In plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operations
Videos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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TelecomOne @telecomone.bsky.social · 14h
“I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.” “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.” -Jack Smith Sept. 29, 2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: President Trump and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme. They were taking the fact that law enforcement officers had been brutally assaulted at this institution and using that to seek to delay the proceedings
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 12h
Cory Booker calls out Republicans for perpetuating J6 conspiracy theories: "This committee's Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
Pete Hegseth prepares for general purge of all women, Blacks and Hispanics from the general officer ranks of the military service branches. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 13h
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h
NOW: DC Circuit en banc aguments over Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings have now begun at the DC Circuit. Brett Shumate is now arguing for DOJ. www.youtube.com/live/4A1BwFh...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17h
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 18h
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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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 20h
Please don’t sit this one out! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
Tho I actually like this post better. IMO, one smart response to these ads is to taunt GOP MoCs that Trump is still sitting on mountains of $$ and instead using taxpayer dollars to remind voters what a corrupt asshole he is.
The inept White House political propagandists are using our money on government-sponsored campaign TV ads for the sinking GOP. The latest commercial tries to rally the dwindling MAGA base by reminding them that Trump once posed as a fighter against warmongers and a corrupt political establishment, but the recycled ad just sharply reminds everyone that the lying Trump is the war-maker-in-chief and presides over the most corrupt presidential administration in U.S. history. You can’t use our tax dollars to fool us.
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NEW: The Trump admin is airing *another* taxpayer-funded political ad, & this time, it's from his 2024 campaign.

Trump says in the ad: "We will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government... We will rout the fake news media..."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
OAN: "The GOP chair of the GA Peanut Commission backs Ossoff ... Donald Chase said Ossoff has his vote, adding he likes to support people he believes in. Chase said he's still a conservative R, but claims character matters, and he wants someone in the Senate who will take the institution seriously"
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What could drive a man, even one as spoiled and hateful as the congressman's son, Mike Collins, to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district or doubles his own constituents' insurance premiums?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Details on the 26 Articles of impeachment can be found here: cohen.house.gov/media-center...
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Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and an authority on the U.S. Constitution’s impeachment provisions, today introduced 26 Articles of Impeachment ...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TMZ reports that Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
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Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When legacy media compare Orban's treatment of the press to Trump's, do they realize they're telling on themselves? Big corporate media folded. Independent media stood up there and is standing up here. Support Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.
BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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iammenotu @iammenotu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That child was raped for THREE YEARS from age six. He will have to manage trauma for the rest of his lifetime Paxton chose to help the pedophile escape a fitting sentence. Lying scumbag. Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case share.google/CaHlEm6JVPRd...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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@dennis74.bsky.social @dennis74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What has the republicans done to help your salary cover your basic expenses, food, gas, rent, house payment, energy, diesel, fuel oil!!! They average $200,000 a yr salary! They Are on vacation! Democrats wanted to stay in session and work on these issues! If we had the majority we would be!
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm quoted at @reason.com: "Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, says the ads are a 'gross violation of democratic norms, campaign norms, and expectations that government will treat citizens impartially.'...
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Trump's new ads look like campaign spots. Taxpayers are paying for them.
With midterm voting underway, the distinction between public service announcements and campaign ads blurs.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/09/2026
Add the travel industry to the growing list of economic casualties of President Donald Trump's policies, joining farmers and manufacturers as sectors bleeding cash under his trade wars and border crackdowns.
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'Mind-boggling' drop hits as new data shows US massively shunned by travelers: expert
Add the travel industry to the growing list of economic casualties of President Donald Trump's policies, joining farmers and manufacturers as sectors bleeding cash under his trade wars and border crackdowns.Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, laid out the damage in blunt...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct, resulting in needing ambulance transport for him to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, goons posed as police to try and gain access inside. Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them, demonstrating clear collaboration.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 28/09/2026
An unelected political appointee is disobeying the will of Congress & the rule of law by withholding funds for programs approved with bipartisan support. Blatantly unconstitutional. Flagrantly anti-science. The latest example of authoritarianism from the Trump admin.
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 28/09/2026
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found millions of dollars in fraud, waste, and abuse in Trump's mass deportation push. penncapital-star.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration push for immigration detention, including Pa. warehouse purchases • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, incl...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/09/2026
DOJ moves to recruit Aileen Cannon in 'unprecedented' effort to jail Trump foe
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DOJ moves to recruit Aileen Cannon in 'unprecedented' effort to jail Trump foe
The Justice Department has steered its grand jury investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan towards a Florida courthouse with only one federal judge – Aileen Cannon, the Donald Trump appointee who threw out the president's classified documents case.According to The Washington Sun, prosecutor...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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