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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

Breaking NYT:

The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

10 shots in 5 seconds. I'm not sure there's any training manual that will condone that.

Hindsight's 20/20. If you're Jason Miyares and you get that Jay Jones text exchange, you absolutely use it.

But Miyares had been running a sort of non-partisan tough-on-crime campaign and switched to nonstop ads about the text messages. Looks like the juice ran out.

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Who knows, maybe nothing would have stemmed the losses given tariffs, shutdown, and the upheaval caused by job losses in NoVA.

The Miyares campaign also had a lot to run on, if you believe the AG is a crime fighting office.

In October, VCU released a report finding that an AG initiative brought down violent crime in Virginia's most dangerous cities.

But the texts sucked up all the oxygen in the ad drive.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

In spite of the Jay Jones text scandal, its easy to find voters at the polls in the Richmond suburbs who are voting blue all the way.

Two voters tell me his texts are basically a drop in the bucket compared to what they've heard from Republicans, particularly gubernatorial candidate Earle-Sears.

Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!

"The tariffs are paid by the companies."

You know it’s serious when corporates begin to complain.

$DAL

ACA premium increases for counties in Virginia.

It's a small scandal, but this remains to me the most interesting part of the Jay Jones texts news cycle: How did he get away with a lesser penalty for his reckless driving charge?

FWIW: This is from a news blast from his opponent.

What the heck is going on

Well, the Truth that was supposed to be a DM to Bondi has made it into the court filing seeking a dismissal of the case against former FBI Director James Comey.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

This is staggering. “The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

Portsmouth woman admits to stealing more than $1.5 million from state government’s charity drive Federal prosecutors say Linda Natelle Brown stole over $1.5 million from Virginia’s state employee charity campaign, using the funds for luxury expenses. She pleaded guilty and faces sentencing in Feb...

An insider stole at least $1.5 million from Virginia's Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, a state-run charity drive that collects donations from state employees.

She spent the money at a fish pedicures spa in Vegas and a $10,000 plastic surgery job.

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JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

The man, identified as "M.H," was released in September after two months incarceration at ICE's Farmville facility in central Virginia.

The case was argued by @legalaidnyc.bsky.social sky.social and the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights.

Judge orders release of Bangladeshi man detained in Farmville Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled ICE unlawfully detained a Bangladeshi asylum seeker, finding due process was violated and clarifying that noncriminal immigrants under supervision can be released on bond.

A federal judge found ICE violated the Fifth Amendment rights of a Bangladeshi artist and asylum seeker in Virginia by refusing to release him on bond.

Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered his release, calling ICE's arguments "an unequivocal violation of due process."

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Streamable? 🤞

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Feels prescient for journalism

Richmond firefighter says his gear gave him cancer. Now he's taking companies to court. Richmond firefighter Jonathan Clarke is suing major chemical companies, alleging PFAS in his turnout gear caused leukemia. His case is one of many tying firefighting equipment to cancer.

Richmond firefighter Jonathan Clarke is suing America's biggest chemical companies, alleging that PFAS in the gear he wore for ~20 years caused his Leukemia.

PFAS made turnout gear waterproof and flame resistant, but have since been linked with cancer.

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Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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Incredible pairing of text and chart

BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Prisons just terminated its union's collective bargaining agreement this afternoon, according to this letter posted online by the national union president:

Trump administration fires more immigration judges Nearly 20 immigration judges received emails this month informing them that they are being let go, NPR has learned, the largest single month of firings since the process began in February.

(NPR) - Nearly 20 immigration judges received emails this month informing them that they are being let go, NPR has learned, adding to the over 80 judges that have already been cut by President Trump so far this year.

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Did a Brooklyn Couple Kill a Neighbor’s Trees for a Better View in Maine?

Did a Brooklyn Couple Kill a Neighbor’s Trees for a Better View in Maine? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...