Dave Jamieson

Supreme Court To Hear Major LGBTQ Case That Could Have Devastating Effects On Youth A Christian therapist is challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, claiming it violates her right to free speech.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments about Colorado's conversion therapy ban tomorrow. In Chiles v. Salazar, a Christian therapist - repped by the Alliance Defending Freedom - claims that CO's 2019 ban on conversion therapy infringes on her freedom of speech.

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New banner greeting all visitors to the HHS website:

The Trump administration used a VA veterans’ newsletter to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.

I don’t know how many people get this newsletter but it’s a massive audience, obviously.

“Needless to say this really pissed me off,” a disabled vet who received it told me.

Lynn let me know if you'd be open to talking with me: dave.jamieson@huffpost.com

Thanks for flagging. A veteran told me they received this as well and they were quite shocked by it.

Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

"I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me.

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Another day, another Jeanine Pirro case going to shit.

Prosecutors are seeking to drop felony charges they filed against two other D.C. residents accused of assaulting a federal agent. Cases went nowhere.

Judges are clearly exasperated by this stuff:
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Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

It appears ICE is not following its own directives when it comes to the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in detention centers, according to a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.

More regime consolidation of the media. Orbanism.

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled.

Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.”

Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

This School District Is Preparing ‘Lockdowns’ — But Now It’s Not Just For Shootings They’ve spent years preparing for natural disasters and school shootings. Now, they are ready to do lockdowns in response to immigration raids.

Los Angeles teachers are patrolling the streets, linking w immigration/ tenants’ advocates, and repurposing lockdown policies designed to protect students from active shooters or wildfires — all to protect them from ICE

@jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I report

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How The Supreme Court Just Launched A New Phase Of American Dystopia The obvious end point of the Supreme Court’s logic is something normally associated with fascist regimes.

America Is Now A 'Show Your Papers' State

The obvious end point of the Supreme Court’s logic is something normally associated with fascist regimes.

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The DC folk hero who threw a sandwich at a CBP officer was arraigned in federal court today on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal agent. He pleaded not guilty.

Jury selection slated to start Nov 3. Yes, it’s looking like this will actually go to trial. Incredible.

The greatest shadow docket headline you’ll ever see

Trump Just Killed 1 Of The Biggest Progressive Reforms In Years The Federal Trade Commission's lone Democrat said the GOP majority was “choosing the side of controlling bosses over American workers.”

SCOTUS just gave Trump the green light to fire the FTC’s lone Democraric commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, while her case is pending.

Slaughter was the only commissioner to vote against killing the FTC’s historic non-compete ban last week

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No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared Native-born employment hasn’t soared—Population controls and a Jan 2025 adjustment inflated counts. Watch the native-born unemployment rate.

Relatedly, here's a recent piece from @jedkolko.bsky.social calling the so-called native-born jobs boom a "statistical illusion" created by the way the data is collected.
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Shitty jobs report yet Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer boasts that "all job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans."

Really sums up so much of what the administration is doing.

Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)

h/t @joshuajfriedman.com

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They Spent Years Covering L.A.'s Taco Scene. When ICE Raids Began, They Were Ready. "It's very personal to me," Memo Torres told HuffPost. "L.A. is home. So you attack my home, you’re attacking my people."

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Trump Took Over The D.C. Police. Now These People Face Years In Federal Prison. Defendants are looking at felony charges and years in prison for what attorneys say could have been minor disorderly conduct cases in city court.

At least 13 people are charged with "assaulting" or "impeding" a federal agent in Trump's DC takeover.

In several cases, what look like routine police scuffles have turned into federal cases carrying up to 8 yrs prison.

The cases are "horseshit," an attorney said.
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Judge Warns Of 'Lawlessness' In Trump's DC Police Takeover In dismissing a gun case due to an illegal search, the judge declared that “lawlessness cannot come from the government.”

This morning a judge in D.C. Court unleashed a withering critique of Trump's DC police takeover, tossing a case built on "without a doubt the most illegal search" he'd ever seen.

"Lawlessness cannot come from the government," the judge warned.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judge-...

A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

This story demonstrates how even a short convo with an AI chatbot can be dangerous for vulnerable people: “The best way to sustain usage over time...is to prey on our deepest desires to be seen, to be validated, to be affirmed." www.reuters.com/investigates...

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident.

She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like. "This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

Harrowing @mattshuham.bsky.social dispatch from immigration court, where he watched 20 arrests over five days. "This is fishing in a stocked pool," one federal agent said.
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'Sensitive' Memo Reveals How Many Border Agents Trump Is Using For Immigration Raids The president's deportation campaign is pulling officers from U.S. ports and borders, and putting them in operations outside their expertise.

We got hold of a memo revealing how many CBP and border patrol agents Trump has pulled from the ports and borders to do immigration raids with ICE. It's around 2,000.

He's diverting manpower from the ports of entry -- that's where the fentanyl actually comes in.

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A photo of Dave on his birthday last year, wearing a colorful shirt and smiling under a sign that says "Happy Birthday"

I'm turning 37 this week, and to celebrate, I'm offering 37% off a year of Fingers to the first 37 people who upgrade. Or, to put it another way, in lieu of gifts, please buy subscription: www.fingers.email/upgrade?_bhl...

The Teamsters Hired, Then Fired, The Face Of The Infamous Far-Right Rally In Charlottesville A source said the union terminated Peter Cytanovic's employment during his probationary period.

I was able to confirm that, yes, the Teamsters did hire Peter Cytanovic of Charlottesville "Unite the Right" fame, before firing him during his probationary period. I asked Cytanovic about it outside his home and he told me to "get the fuck out of here."
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The Supreme Court Is Offering Up A Scary New Version Of America And the conservative justices don’t think they owe you any answers at all.

The Supreme Court doesn't care about the law or explaining itself anymore www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The VA now says it plans to lose 30,000 employees by October, “through normal attrition, early retirements, deferred resignations and the federal hiring freeze.” Enough people out the door that the agency says it won’t pursue a mass reduction-in-force.

Hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE isn't happy the Senate's big beautiful bill caps the deduction for no-taxes-on-tips.

The union has been a big backer of the idea though most progressive economists seem to think it's bad tax policy