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Jeff Boone

@jeffreyboone.bsky.social
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Juarez/El Paso; NYC by marriage; Romania when possible. Social worker/librarian/grad student manqué

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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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Roberto José Andrade Franco @randradefranco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some people wake up as cockroaches and don’t leave their room, Mexicans wake up as cockroaches and go watch El Tri play
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lu @damsorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
keep thinking about the restaurant in Staten Island where there was a "doomsday clock" above the bar and whenever the bartender was particularly disgusted with the world he'd move it forward
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
3. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...
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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect
‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/09/2026
This seems absurdly simple, but: Republicans talk *all the time* about how Democrats are bad. Not this or that individual Democrat, but the party, the ideology, the very idea of Democrats. Democrats almost never do this about Republicans. Not in a coordinated, concerted way.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Why isn’t the facility calling?” the operator asked. “Because they don’t care. They don’t care about any of the detainees. They will not give them medical treatment; they don’t care," said a man from North TX. Friends & relatives of detainees had to call 911 for them to receive medical attention.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/08/2026
This is a great podcast in that it shows how analysis of politics that is grounded in data and empiricism (Bouie) has an uphill battle in DC/NY against ideology and pure uncut reactionary ignorance (Cottle) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Opinion | The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’
As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think French ignores the many aspects of traditional GOP ideology to which Trump has acceded, including the most central, such as tax cuts for the rich, which has been the major legislative accomplishment of both of his terms, climate change denial, conservative judges, deregulation, and so on.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the reported $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign students to remain for a couple years in post-graduate employment. The fee would devastate the program, making the US even less desirable as a destination for the world's best and brightest.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the best part of all of this is that Ossoff just opened the door. He never said anything beyond "travel with Natalie." They're the ones who wandered in like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/08/2026
It sounds like he (or the genAI that drafted this piece) fundamentally misunderstands writing as a tool for conveying ideas. What good writing does is *clarify thought*. Can you be a "thought leader" (shudder) without that process?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Honestly, being an opinion columnist is pretty much “witchcraft” (as the term is being pejoratively misused here) WITHOUT data.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12/08/2026
The Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin is a really great example of why America needs to switch to ranked-choice voting in primaries. As of now it looks like the winner of the race will prevail with <40% of the vote! No good reason not to switch ahead of 2028.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lie. Biden definitely wasn't "maxxing out" on "illegal immigration." Immigration activists denounced his policy as too draconian, and Dems tried to pass a hawkish immigration bill. Similar point re: Starmer. NYT thinks the op-ed page is for publishing lies, at least if the lies are right-wing. 6/x
After 2020 we tried putting this establishment back in charge, but the Biden era just gave us a more left-wing version of meritocratic hubris, replacing experts with interest groups, maxxing out on social liberalism and illegal immigration and then unraveling completely in the end. Something similar could be said about the Keir Starmer experiment in Britain. There is no evidence that the old elite has a blueprint suited to contemporary governance, no reason to expect that it won’t just cycle through the same mistakes and backlash.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just causally referencing Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt, as if it's unremarkable conventional wisdom, the typical basis of a political worldview. And very positive about right-wing populism. And (elsewhere, not in this column) pines for an American Orban. But, you know, not sure where he stands. 9/x
Then, finally, all of these political forces — the unpopular populists, the flailing establishment, the rising left — are displaying their vices in the shadow of the artificial intelligence revolution, which is creating new zones of power in which the friend-enemy distinction is almost impossible for me to parse.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The proposed award comes after legal service providers across the country have said that the administration has withheld $65 million in overdue fees from the previous contract, alleging it is an attempt to force them to turn over confidential information about the migrant children they represent.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The El Paso-based immigration legal aid group Estrella del Paso announced yesterday that they were shutting down their unaccompanied minors defense program. Their decision comes as the contract for the defenses of over 20,000 kids who arrived in the U.S. without legal guardians ends. My story:
elpasotimes.com
Migrant children lose legal aid as El Paso program shuts down
Estrella del Paso is shutting down its defense program for unaccompanied minors as a federal contract ends.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For five years, @marcelaturati.bsky.social, Eliezer Budasoff and Thelma Gómez Durán have investigated forced labour camps run by drug cartels in Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara mountains. This is an edited, abridged excerpt of their shocking report
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/07/2026
I was pulling photos from Getty Images today and this one took my breath away for a second. "Plain clothed federal agents pursue a man through the lobby of the Hennepin County Government Center before tackling and arresting him Tuesday, February 10, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minn."
A watermarked image of an ICE agent wearing a white sweatshirt and gray pants moving in to tackle a guy wearing a black sweatshirt and jeans 

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/plain-clothed-federal-agents-pursue-a-man-through-the-lobby-news-photo/2260946195?adppopup=true
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social you might find this particularly disturbing/enraging
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.
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@Harris CountyDAO
We can confirm the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van tested negative for narcotics/ illicit drugs.
We are not commenting further on the test results, as the investigation is pending.

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We have notified Salgado Araujo's family because we felt they had the right to know.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm not a Christian, but as a Jewish person, one of the things I have always appreciated about Christianity is the imagining of God's quite literally suicidal empathy for God's own creation.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.
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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar has introduced legislation to protect Mount Cristo Rey from the Trump administration's plans to use eminent domain to strip 1.2 miles of land from the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico for the construction of the border wall. My story:
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US Rep. Veronica Escobar introduces bill to protect Mount Cristo Rey
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar introduced legislation to protect the sacred symbol on the U.S. border with Mexico from plans for Trump's border wall.
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
one of my favorite charts
chart showing how almost all americans think we need more factory jobs, but almost no americans actually want to do them
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tradition is the preservation of fire, not the worship of ashes. — Gustav Mahler
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
would hogwarts hire a velociraptor? do you have to let a vampire inside your home - if he's your landlord? is a cop who fights crime as a werewolf by night technically a K9 unit who - deserves overtime? if they become partners, can they literally go anywhere and pull over whomever they want?
its some guy from the atlantic asking "What about a pro-life ethicist whose work argues that abortion is murder, and who believes that bodily autonomy arguments do not override moral duties to the fetus? Would they be hirable in any Gender Studies department at any elite (non-religious) university in America?"

at once an innocent philosophical hypothetical, its also a trenchant question that goes to the heart of actually existing conditions in american colleges and universities in the year 2026
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Many more disturbing details in here about David Brouillette, including alleged physical violence against two ex-wives and his daughters, telling his ex all women in her bloodline should die, and throwing boiling water at her while holding a child.
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16/07/2026
Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.
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Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
i was just about to say this. a century ago some WASP failson was saying the exact same thing about people *like Wurman*
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
half of this was already Biden policy (does anyone genuinely believe the Dems were not enforcing the border? or somehow weak on crime?) and the other half is just accepting the conservative side of the argument without question
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i'm deeply fascinated how much of this essentially comes down to Edsall wanting Dem cultural politics to be Trumpism with a human face
The hard-edge character and language of what I am proposing is specifically designed to function as a public renunciation of the Democratic Party’s liabilities, its ties to special interest groups and its readiness to succumb to progressive orthodoxy.
The proposals amount, then, to an ideological exorcism.
On immigration, I would suggest — with plenty of room for amendment — the following:
Democrats will firmly enforce laws on illegal immigration, including tough border enforcement and deportation of unauthorized immigrants who commit crimes.
Unauthorized immigrants with no criminal record who have been in this country for at least five years, along with Dreamers, should be offered green cards with a path toward citizenship. More recent arrivals should be deported.
On crime:
The Democratic Party supports aggressive prosecution of those accused of violent crime, those who engage in crowdsourced “teen takeovers” of stores, as well as all forms of child abuse.
The party backs restoration of bail requirements in the case of felonies, lifetime sentences for offenders convicted of multiple violent crimes, tough enforcement of child support laws and the death penalty if supported by the voters in a state and endorsed by a jury.
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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@iammilliam.bsky.social Lovely to get the Backlisted newsletter today, just placed a library hold on the Willy Vlautin. I’ve not read him; would you also particularly recommend any of his earlier books?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Yes, Trump made them worse. But refusing to recognize the toxicity of the pre-Trump Republican Party that made it so easy for Trump to take over will undermine efforts make REAL change when Trump is gone. Case in point: Lindsey Graham. This was in 2010!! www.politico.com/story/2010/0...
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Graham eyes 'birthright citizenship'
The South Carolina senator wants to end automatic citizenship for kids of immigrants.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.
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