Ethan Corey

Judge: Response, DOJ? Hegseth memo doesn't seem to identify events.

DOJ: President's determination last weekend reflected in Truth Social posts indicate that DHS had made request. He talks about his decision, explains that conditions have deteriorated into "lawless mayhem."

I mean, the GOP _is_ lying as well--undocumented immigrants can't receive Medicaid--but no one should struggle to afford healthcare just because they don't have the right passport!

I'm not sure accusations of healthcare are the same as accusations of pet-eating... The "healthcare for illegal aliens" line seems like it's more about attacking public goods that just happen to benefit outgroups.

It's like the cities that shut down public pools instead of desegregating them.

Court Appointee Takes Over Hinds County Jail After a decade-long court battle, receiver Wendell M. France takes the reins.

Today, a receiver took over Hinds County's Raymond Detention Center. People detained there shared stories of being held in cells covered with mold and feces and sleeping on floors. At least 6 died there this year, including a murder & drug overdose. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/01/m...

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kentucky has kicked people off of food benefits using data that doesn’t tell the full story With food insecurity rising, Kentucky continues to aggressively investigate individuals on fraud allegations, with some legal experts claiming they rely too much on faulty evidence.

“It is draconian to take away SNAP benefits from a single mother without clear and convincing evidence that intentional trafficking was occurring during a time when food scarcity is so prevalent,” Franklin County Judge Thomas Wingate said in his 2023 decision.
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New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes Deportation Data Project Data Accessible to More People New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes ICE arrest data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Smart move by two young upstate NY reporters: they filed a FOIA for body cameras worn by the sheriff’s deputies at an ICE raid. These are almost always civil raids so there’s no ongoing criminal investigation that would require that footage to stay confidential. Replicable by any media outlet.

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff.

“This place is built to break us”

Does any other song more reliably get people in their early 30s dancing like fools (myself included) like "Mr. Brightside"?

Feds indict three women for alleged 'doxing' of ICE agent in Los Angeles Three women are accused of following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to their home in Los Angeles County and broadcasting the address on Instagram, according to a federal indictment u...

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have indicted three women for allegedly 'doxing' an ICE agent. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter.

Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Grady Judd: ‘Operation Fool Around and Find Out Again’ human trafficking investigation nets 246 arrests Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says nearly 250 suspects face serious charges after a weeklong multi-agency undercover investigation targeting human trafficking and illegal immigration.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation.

Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision

It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

More Meta creeper glasses on the goon squad

Small point of clarification: The 740,500 hours figure is the estimated amount of additional work required from respondents (in this case, colleges and universities), not the Department of Education.

Your broader point about capacity still stand! public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15536.pdf

They’ve won in court, but ICE is still detaining and trying to deport them Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can't be sent home.

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing

Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings

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Klein also misses the fact that there is an entire infrastructure dedicated to helping right-wing college students get people like Kirk and Shapiro to speak on campuses. The right exploits universities' openness to spread their message. It's much harder to do that with evangelical churches!

E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

If we can’t measure pollution, we can’t protect our air or our future.

Ending the EPA greenhouse gas reporting program means flying blind on emissions and leaving communities, businesses, and national security in the dark.

America should lead on clean energy, not hide the facts.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters."

Uhh, hello??????????

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Deaths in NYPD Custody Nearly Doubled in Recent Years Forty people died while in police custody in 2023 and 2024 — the highest two-year toll in nearly a decade. With at least nine more deaths this year, though a downward trend, advocates are calling for ...

“Deaths in NYPD custody have surged to levels not seen in at least a decade, with 40 people dying in 2023 and 2024 combined — roughly double the toll of any two-year period since at least 2016.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/d...

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.

House lawmakers voted to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults and to treat young people more harshly in the D.C. justice system — fulfilling a top request from the Trump administration despite universal opposition among top D.C. elected officials.

Why would you use a Mercator projection for a map like this, lmao

The Prison Next Door - Bolts How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered residents in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

"“They thought we were just white trash rednecks & that we would just roll over & take it & not say anything." Remarkable new feature by @laurengill.bsky.social about the doubts & resistance that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' mega prison project has spurred in rural Arkansas: boltsmag.org/arkansas-pri...

A Campus Mourns Charlie Kirk Students at Texas A. & M. organized a vigil for the conservative activist, just months after he visited the university.

Texas A&M is one of the biggest schools in the country, but alarming events there receive a fraction of the attention given to Harvard. I wrote about a campus vigil for Charlie Kirk, and how TX Republicans plan to honor his legacy by cracking down on speech
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‘No Arrests’: In New York, Some Police Can Drink, Drive and Avoid… Officers in New York State crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded…

NEW: Some police officers in New York State drove drunk. They crashed their official vehicles and hit other motorists. They arrived at work reeking of alcohol.

And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation by The New York Times and New York Focus found.

Bill de Blasio was so damaged by the NYPD's disrespect that he **checks notes** won re-election in a landslide two years later