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Remember when nativists pretended to care about the costs that one city was choosing to incur to house immigrants who were unable to work because their nativist laws? Now they're paying all that and more to arrest, detain, and house people who were working and paying taxes.

submitted 10 minutes ago • 1 comment

This case is quite a choice. DOJ's follow-up move here is a request for recusal of all judges in the district and assignment of another judge/transfer. Motion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 hour ago • 16 comments

New York City: where apparently it's a grand conspiracy theory when the immigrants are replacing the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the Native Americans.

submitted 16 minutes ago • 9 comments

So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was the political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.

submitted 30 minutes ago • 39 comments

Main takeaway from Emil Bove confirmation hearing: He perjured himself when he said it was pronounced "BOH-vee" and not the way I've been saying it for two years.

submitted 46 minutes ago • 18 comments

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

submitted 3 hours ago • 123 comments

Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 71 comments

when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.

submitted 1 hour ago • 300 comments

If he wins in November, he's going to need many competent progressive people who wouldn't touch city government with a ten foot poll to join city government. A long bench is needed. that's a lesson from Chicago.

submitted 4 hours ago • 31 comments

Ah yes, the guy who shrugged it off in 2023 when I informed him the AI "Harriet Tubman" his company is peddling to schools claimed Tubman said some anti-Black bullshit she never said. And even helpfully explained the racist and ahistorical meaning behind the totally fake quote!

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

To be clear, this “web app” does not allow for the uploading of photos. It’s simple a crypto scheme. There is no reporting element (it’s not even in the alleged app)

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

A Close Look at ICE Arrest Data from the Deportation Data Project (Part 1) In Part 1 of my series on ICE arrest data made public by the Deportation Data Project, I discuss the context for this data and the importance of validation. austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-close-lo...?

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Pam Bondi has got to be lying.

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

Chuck Grassley, responding to Erez Reuveni's complaint, is 1) Attacking a whistleblower 2) Conflating Devlin Barrett (whose past journalism he has adored) with Reuveni

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

“Make America Healthy Again” has a simple premise: Americans don’t need more access to medical care. They just need better nutrition and exposure to fewer environmental toxins. Unfortunately, Trump is A) taking away nutritional assistance and B) expanding use of environmental toxins.

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

Watching this from the UK is so strange because it's pretty much an exact mirror image of how the right here responded to Sadiq Khan.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

It is notable how often the Trump Admin demands apologies, rather than simply changes in policy, etc.

submitted 5 hours ago • 49 comments

Quick reminder: Federal law prohibits marijuana possession in the United States. It’s not exactly legal even in states that allow it. I keep seeing people say that someone traveling to the US admitted using cannabis in a state where it’s allowed. I would not admit that to federal agents.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Good morning from Nashville. I'm headed to federal court this afternoon for a hearing where a federal judge will consider Kilmar Abrego Garcia's pre-trial release conditions. My thoughts on live court coverage, plus Bove's confirmation and today's schedule. www.allrisenews.com/p/bove-whist...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

These are pretty pathetic numbers for Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Procedurally unusual but not unprecedented. The US suing itself is also unusual but it happens. The substantive claim that US courts lack authority to issue a temporary 2 day stay to allow consideration of a habeas petition before the US deports someone is pretty extreme

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 14 hours ago • 232 comments

This is so procedurally weird. The Executive Branch suing a court isn't unprecedented; in fact, one of the most impactful natsec cases was officially called U.S. v. U.S. District Court. (You may know it as the "Keith" case because it involved Judge Damon Keith.)

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: 2nd federal judge, Donato/SF/Obama, blocks Trump effort to end collective bargaining by federal employee unions at several major agencies. Friedman/DC/Clinton also blocked but DC Cir stayed. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."

submitted 15 hours ago • 42 comments

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists say they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

submitted 16 hours ago • 97 comments

Mamdani leads Cuomo by roughly 70,000 'first-round' votes. There are likely fewer than 250,000 ballots left to count.

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

If Mamdani were to pull this out, what’s the over-under line for how much outside SuperPac money comes in to the general to try to stop him? $100 mil? $200?

submitted 16 hours ago • 384 comments

Mamdani has actually increased his lead a bit in the latest update, to 8.3%. That's roughly 826K ballots... roughly 75% of the expected vote. Mamdani leads Cuomo 43.9% to 35.7%.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

not the first person to make this observation but its incredible how drudge is the only news outlet in the country, including ostensibly liberal ones, that actually, for real, thinks trump is a bad president and wants him to fail

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

lmao, this is escalating

submitted 16 hours ago • 77 comments

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

submitted 17 hours ago • 62 comments

I’m sorry, but this is a literally laughable argument from the Department of Justice. They cannot seriously be arguing that they couldn’t get DHS not to deport him during the course of the criminal proceedings.

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

What the actual FUCK, blueskis. It looks like NARA I is open and functioning normally. What is the point of closing NARA II to everyone but "visitors with a legitimate business need" - whatever that means? The fascism is the point, apparently.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 22 hours ago • 59 comments

Pause for a moment to process this; ICE is arresting literally 1,100% more immigrants with no criminal records than in his first term.

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 20 hours ago • 66 comments

Florida is taking steps to build its own immigration detention center in the Everglades calling it “Alligator Alcatraz." People will be held in a facility "surrounded by alligators and snakes in dangerous heat with NO oversight," our Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social says in @npr.org ⤵️

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

Took me a second to work backwards what's happening here, but holy fuck is this stupid. To get the merger approved, US Steel amended its incorporation documents to give Donald Trump effective personal control over the company so long as he's President. When he's not, that power transfers...

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

They were innocent. But police lied, raided them, and killed them in their own home. The drug war made that possible. Tonight in DC, I’m debating why it needs to end. Howard Theatre at 7pm. Join us.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return a Salvadoran man who was deported from the US in early May as a result of what the government has admitted was a "a confluence of administrative errors" buff.ly/0TbuPwl

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

This assessment is about to be heavily politicized, as we see in the story below.

submitted 23 hours ago • 42 comments

VEO 3 is why I said you should now view any video with no cuts under 8 seconds to be inherently suspicious unless proven otherwise.

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

Florence, Arizona never lost its prison vibe. To this day it’s a major hub for the carceral industry, with state and federal criminal detention centers and an ICE detention center. Here’s the Google Maps, which features some questionable reviews.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

So, this happened. The article, published in 1950, describes a concentration camp bill that was enacted, funded, and ready to go into effect and would have been used to detain suspected communists without trial. It never did, and Nixon bowed under movement pressure to sign its repeal in 1971.

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments