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Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

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PSA: if you need to, say, watch a man invite certain doom like a journalistic vampire (positive valence) entering his home, but you don’t have a twitter account, you can catch all the action without having to login by changing the domain to xcancel.com instead of x.com
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Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack

Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.

Protesters marched to demand shut down of Krome Detention Center — and then got arrested for trespassing The protesters marched and blocked the entrance to the immigrant detention facility to protest the aggressive deportation policies of the Trump administration. Krome is a federal government facility…

Protesters calling for Krome’s closure ended up arrested for trespassing. Advocates say it highlights how protests near ICE facilities are increasingly policed.

Read: www.wlrn.org/immigration/...

Oversight Immigration Enforcement Dashboard To fulfill our oversight and legislative responsibilities to protect and defend the Constitution, Oversight Committee Democrats are compiling a verified public record of possible misconduct incidents ...

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“The University of Oklahoma said it had no comment.”

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

PSA: if you need to, say, watch a man invite certain doom like a journalistic vampire (positive valence) entering his home, but you don’t have a twitter account, you can catch all the action without having to login by changing the domain to xcancel.com instead of x.com
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Ben Smith @semaforben Meaning -- I am dumb?

Not really familiar with this new Chotiner fight but I will be using this treasure in the replies from time to time

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It’s so funny that there’s one reporter that all the other reporters are also scared of

Isaac Chotiner: "I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting." Chotiner, with the kill shot: "Come on Ben. I refuse to pretend that both of us are dumber than we are."

If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ

Is this mostly performative? Ofc. Is this probably self-interested? Sure. But they’re finally starting to say out loud that Schumer represents a failed brand and I just love that for him

Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them. Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.

NEW: Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before.

Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.

Remember when I said something about how The Heritage Foundation was giving money to Mexican radfems to support their anti trans rights efforts?

The money went through an anti-surrogacy org, more specifically: Heritage Foundation -> Early Institute -> FEMMVA (Mexican Feminists Against Rented Wombs)

Just realized I hit two years of covering local politics, specifically the Spokane City Council! Here’s a few things I’ve learned:

1. Everyone hates declaring an emergency to bypass the regular public process until it’s for a thing they personally like.

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

I don’t believe in capital punishment but playing music without ear/headphones on a plane should be punishable by death

Fuckin finally

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

Beat me to it

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE.

That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.

Consultation Service Owned By Patrick Bet-David Profits From Calling Neo-Nazis “Experts” Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect lets neo-Nazis and violent extremists sell “expert advice” for profit. Listed alongside mainstream figures are Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and others...

Patrick Bet-David’s app Minnect is profiting from hate, selling “expert” advice from extremists like Nick Fuentes, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer, and Martin Sellner alongside public figures such as Chris Cuomo—normalizing far-right ideology as legitimate expertise.

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