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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks, John Roberts.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Critical reporting by @theguardian.com: The SS goes stealth. Their quiet crimes are all around us. Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever 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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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grandpa’s brain is broken.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seen any hateful anti-immigrant videos lately? There’s a decent chance they’re AI slop, targeting US/UK viewers, but produced purely for profit in Sri Lanka or Cambodia. youtu.be/zCvPPaIN5Ew
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How to rage bait Americans
YouTube video by Christophe
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We literally created things like the UN to end that concept.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Fozzy Bear's Facepalm Moment
ALT: Fozzy Bear's Facepalm Moment
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine if a court found that the government was violating your right free speech, but they don't have to remedy it for three years? Or imagine if a court found the government was violating your right to vote, but they don't have to let you vote again until 2029?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An FBI investigation into Susan Collins' pay-to-play racket was shut down on Trump's orders. Probe: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) and a top donor, records and emails show. Confession: The donor, an ex-
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Does he understand that “to the victor belong the spoils” is just, like, a saying? It’s not a rule of international law or a moral principle. Pretty close to the opposite on both counts, really.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.
An adorable female Rottweiler named Maeve
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Again, what even is the theory of the case here? Someone is paying premiums for phantom people and… not filing any claims? To what end?
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Takes my breath away every time I think about it. Not that the architecture was so great or would last forever. But the speed. Just non-believable except we all watched it live on truth social.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 19/09/2026
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses. @juliacurlee.bsky.social explains how states and nongovernment organizations can fight back. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/laun...
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Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses.
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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It can be hard to believe it’s real, but the reason Voight and others really and truly want to destroy universities and the liberal arts is because they know how completely outclassed their weird, stripped-for-parts Christian Nationalism are when it comes to real history & social science.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I can’t think of a single prominent political position which has been more thoroughly refuted by ensuing events than the notion that liberals were overreacting about Donald Trump" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/not-...
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Not just a river in Egypt - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A couple of commenters reminded me of something I’ve been inchoately puzzling over now and again: DamnYankeesLGM: The question that keeps coming up – obviously, what did people think they were voting ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Photoonist @photoonist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump Renovation Plan for
The Kennedy Center
Phase 1: Intact,  Phase 2: Demolish, Phase 3: Gilt in Gold
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I were still in the wh press pool, it would be such a no brainer (tho it’s not like I ever was granted decision making power): no one go until this is lifted and if you do, you are no longer a member of the WHCA
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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morpheme enthusiast @anderswo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what will be stronger: $100 trillion in GOP advertising, or Americans looking at $100/gallon gas? guess we'll find out
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hard to overstate how fake this "national security" justification for the Arch is. If we need new defense structures and capabilities for the nation's capital, there are large military bases very close by in DC and Northern Virginia that can host them. wapo.st/4hojaMW
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Trump says planned arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers
The president's post about the arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/09/2026
The one word Trump hates most of all is "loser." We should say it more.
Infamous New York Magazine cover with an extreme close-up of Trump looking piggish under the brand LOSER
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Which is why Congress created a compensation fund for legitimate injuries from vaccines, rare as they are. Where is the fund for parents whose kids die so RFK can feel superior?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYT - Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/wo...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Literally false.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I had to check but yes, it’s real. MAGA has been reduced to telling people to eat veggie burgers.
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jpjk.bsky.social @jpjk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He tells so many lies, does he believe them himself? Well, mostly it doesn't matter, because he doesn't care. He just says those things to make the sale. He doesn't care if they're true or false. But there are a few things he really believes. And they're notably the cause of his biggest disasters.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A good example of the problem of centering Trump’s emotions and aggression rather than substance. Trump’s response to the Fed rate increase may have been “fiery” but, for more importantly, it was ignorant, demonstrating his deep cluelessness about basic economic facts. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump offers fiery response to Federal Reserve rate hike
President Trump offered a fiery response to the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates on Wednesday, demanding instead that rates be drastically lowered quickly.  “Interest Rates i…
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In upside-down world, Justice Alito blames "the plaintiff States and the courts" for causing the late timing of USPS' attempt to interfere in mail voting by suing to stop it. Unmentioned by Alito: USPS issued the rule in violation of an injunction. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Second, the plaintiff States and the courts bear a substantial share of the blame for the rule’s timing. In April, the plaintiff States sued to challenge the President’s internal directive to subordinates mandating a rulemaking. For months, this litigation cast a cloud over the Government’s ability to issue a final rule. The District Court entered several injunctions months later prohibiting the Government from undertaking that rulemaking.  Not only was the Government subject to months of premature litigation and a series of injunctions that this Court later determined were likely issued without jurisdiction, the Government had to wait nearly another full month for this Court to issue its decision so holding.  Indeed, this Court spent from late July to the end of August drafting nearly 40 pages of opinions, including two dissents, despite the Government’s public notice that it would not publish a final rule while subject to the injunctions, see 91 Fed. Reg. 44880, and its representation that it had a strong interest in issuing its rule in early- to mid-August to allow time to implement it.  The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spinning back to this to note that, notwithstanding the majority decision, Justice Alito's determination to blame, in part, the lower courts is another example of the TERRIBLE job the justices are doing mistreating the lower courts, especially district courts.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
By statute the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is required to "maintain and administer" the Kennedy Center. There could be a no more obvious violation of their duty to maintain and administer the Kennedy Center than to hold its renovation hostage to adding the rapist Trump's name to the building.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The timing is damning. Less than 24 hours after the briefing was submitted in his appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Board overturned Mr. Serrano's torture protections, despite extensive evidence. Five hours later, he was on a deportation flight, with the Ecuadorean media tipped off.
Then, at 4:06 p.m. on Aug. 27, the Homeland Security Department filed its written argument to the immigration appeals board, court records show.
At 3:12 p.m. the next day, a panel of three appellate immigration judges unanimously reversed the lower court, saying they did not find it likely that Mr. Serrano would be tortured in Ecuador.
The judges said that the physical harm suffered by Mr. Glas did not qualify as torture because it had not been shown to have been “intentionally inflicted with the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering.” They also noted that the Ecuadorean government had not been proven responsible for the deaths of the other suspects in Mr. Villavicencio’s assassination.
The judge who wrote the opinion, Keith Hunsucker, has close ties to the Trump administration. For several months, he served as the acting chief judge for the immigration court system.
Mr. Hunsucker did not respond to a request for comment.
Within five hours of the appeals board ruling, court records show, Mr. Serrano was on a plane back to Ecuador, where his arrival was broadcast online. Mr. Noboa said that Mr. Serrano was being held in El Encuentro, a prison modeled after El Salvador’s notorious CECOT detention center.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Over a week later, & not a single major media outlet has referred to the GOP as a “far-right party” the way they all did immediately when the AfD finished first in the Saxon-Anhalt election in 🇩🇪. A maddening, deeply unserious double standard approach to covering politics.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/09/2026
THIS IS ELDER ABUSE‼️ We are officially in weekend at Bernie’s territory folks.
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can't be corrupt, I love my girlfriend.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A305
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ET AL. U.
CALIFORNIA, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 14, 2026]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is denied. The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court's preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U. S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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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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