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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has signed a document asserting “Citizenship is a privilege; Citizenship is a gift”—never mind that SCOTUS *just* ruled that citizenship is a right. ICE’s attacks on US citizens are not errors. They are not crimes solely attributable to individual agents. Trump put his name to this idea.

whitehouse.gov
THE WHITE HOUSE
Section 1. Purpose. The privilege of United States citizenship remains a priceless and profound gift.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

what an asshole

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Oatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026

Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)

On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc.
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting
the Petition.

Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is not a thing judges have to write in free countries.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes. Again, it all should have ended in 2017, when he began openly monetizing the presidency at his hotel two blocks from the White House. We are not a serious country.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They can, & should, also defund the Supreme Court itself, until such point as the Wizard in Robes decide to start following the laws & Constitution again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off

evanstonnow.com

Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now

Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.

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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.

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Scotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/09/2026

x is owned by xai which is owned by spacex which is taxpayer and 401k holder supported so now practically the whole country is guilty of facilitating child sexual abuse material thanks to elon musk

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

Auchincloss (MA) Frankel, Lois (FL) Mannion (NY) Scholten (MI) Titus (NV)
Castor (FL) Gillen (NY) Moskowitz (FL) Schrier (WA) Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA) Golden (ME) Norcross (NJ) Sherman (CA) Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA) Gonzalez, V. (TX) Panetta (CA) Soto (FL) Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT) Landsman (OH) Perez (WA) Stevens (MI) Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX) Latimer (NY) Riley (NY) Suozzi (NY)
Davis (NC) Lee (NV) Schneider (IL) Thanedar (MI)

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Think I give a damn about what this Piker guy is saying when the richest Nazi the world has ever seen is bankrolling the destruction of America via the Republican Party?” — how every Dem should answer questions about Hasan Piker

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026

the thing about every major figure in this administration is that every single one of them is an irredeemable piece of shit and the thing about the next democratic congress and next democratic presidency is that they absolutely must treat these pieces of shit with all of the respect they have earned

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 31/08/2026

I think this is my first time getting a close look at Trey Gowdy and how is this the news, how is this not a Disney movie about a puppy kidnapping ring. His haircut was done by the villain team at Pixar. Come on now. How. HOW?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is what you’d expect in a dystopian film set in the near future. Shitty cyber-esque graphics, insanely dark fucking policy, unbelievably Bratz-ass Homeland Security secretary, maybe put some little flying cars in the background.

Kristi Noem stands in an taxpayer funded ad designed to trick and intimidate people who are likely better Americans than she is.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
X.com
Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If we all just agree to disavow this one guy they are lying about being an antisemite they will be satisfied and stop there.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders…

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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026

US judge declines Minnesota’s effort to force Texas to extradite ICE agent aje.news/3ipkxq

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Once again rules about patient confidentiality are weaponized by evil people - RFK Jr. can lie about his victims with impunity but those telling the truth are barred from saying anything to refute him. Politico (RFK's child murder accomplices) dutifully type it up as "feud"

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