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Shawn Musgrave

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New Bari Weiss & CBS leadership note to staff— “…Americans say they do not trust the press…To win back their trust, we have to work hard.” “Sometimes it means telling unexpected stories…sometimes it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair.”
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I think it's fucking crazy that trump was in office for *four years* and now he owns a third of the ninth circuit. the NINTH circuit!!!!
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
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Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Paging @laurenleharper.bsky.social on a US Attorney using an 8-hour auto-delete on Signal as she conducts PR for her office.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:
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I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Speaker Lucille Bluth.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/10/2025
📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters. 🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Chicago-area modified temporary estraining Order (Northern District of Illinois) -- Oct. 17, 2025

As each DHS subsidiary agency provided their own cover sheet to personnel, it may be useful to print each of the following:

Federal Protective Service Cover Sheet
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cover Sheet
Customs and Border Patrol Cover Sheet
Department of Justice Cover Sheet
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Jake Snow @snowjake.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS. The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups. theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...
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Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy
The survivors are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Some utterly non-historic news amid the constitutional dumpster fires: Today is my last day at The Intercept — and my last day doing my own reporting, at least for awhile. I can't thank my @theintercept.com colleagues enough for the chance to road test this hybrid lawyer/reporter newsroom role.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Last night ACLU NorCal and ACLU PA filed a motion to quash another Homeland Security Investigations administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking online accounts: this time it's a "customs summons" for the "MontCo Community Watch” Facebook and Instagram accounts www.courtlistener.com/docket/71672...
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v. United States Department of Homeland Security, 3:25-mc-80325 - CourtListener.com
Docket for v. United States Department of Homeland Security, 3:25-mc-80325 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
WYD @mayor.lacity.gov ? 🤔
Adam Rose, press rights chair at the Los Angeles Press Club, told LAist in a written statement, “Karen Bass is quick to run to the media for attention to criticize Trump for violating court orders (rightfully so!), but when the media is assaulted by her own LAPD, she never says a word.”

Rose continued: “Instead of holding the department accountable, the city is spending even more money to hire an outside law firm so they can effectively beg a judge for permission to keep assaulting journalists for just doing their job. The mayor of Los Angeles needs to take charge here, and Bass has been completely absent.”
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Release the OLC Murder Memo www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
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Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Kavanaugh stops, quantified.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Student Press Law Center @splc.org · 16/10/2025
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: loom.ly/_aBsitk The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military. theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
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Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).
Good afternoon,

Off the record, we refer you to the following tweet: https://x.com/StateDept/status/1978218112882266594 


Regards,
State Department Press Office
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 10/10/2025
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
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WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
When I was first finding my voice as a reporter, I learned so much from Radley's talent at weaving history, policy, and law into compelling stories. So it was a dream to do legal review for this project. Congrats, @radleybalko.bsky.social + @lauraflynn.bsky.social!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/10/2025
9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now. We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"Congress used to require that DHS compile the reports [on the # of pregnant women in immigration detention], but as of the last funding bill, it had dropped the mandate." Terrible move, especially bc ICE is curtailing congressional oversight of facilities @jesswash.bsky.social @theintercept.com
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The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...
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Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities
An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Yesterday, The Intercept sent a letter to Judge Young, asking him to clarify that certain materials he cited in his ruling are no longer under seal. This includes Homeland Security Investigations reports and State Dept memos about Mahmoud Khalil and others. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 09/10/2025
June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is the lesson of 2025
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Google too! You sniveling cowards. www.404media.co/google-calls...
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Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
To a certain breed of FedSoc lawyer -- namely the ones who tried to get SCOTUS to hand Trump the 2020 election, via the Texas v Pennsylvania case -- "plenary" also means "non-reviewable."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? TRUMP: Suspending who? Q: Habeas corpus TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany." - Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today. Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review. Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.
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Ep. 1 Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.
Podcast Episode · Collateral Damage from The Intercept · 10/08/2025 · 55m
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2025
BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
To put it another way, I have represented thousands of people. I cannot think of a single instance in which the initial police report was entirely correct. Not one. Journalists, please stop copying them down as if they were. Or at least give context re credibility!
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you've been following my six-month quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, huge news: I won. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Switching now to a TRO hearing in the lawsuit below, alleging suppression of 1st Amendment rights at Broadview's ICE facility. DISCLOSURE: I am a member of the Chicago Newspaper Guild, a plaintiff. I'm not an officer and was not involved in the filing: www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Good afternoon. U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for today's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard. A link to the complaint, for those who don't have it: t.co/yaknq55rr8
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NPR @npr.org · 04/10/2025
It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
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Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app
It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.
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