@jongrover.bsky.social
Dad. Antifa. Love comfy chairs & snacks. Long COVID retired. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
14 strikes. 61 dead. “But the administration does not know their identities.” 🤷🏼 🛶 💣
theweek.com/politics/pen...
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
31.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 6601 🔁 4195 💬 1002 📌 821
An image of Tasneem and her family with the words: "I'm Tasneem, a mother of three children. I used to live a simple life, full of love despite its simplicity - but everything changed on October 7. Our home was completely destroyed, we've been displaced more than 15 times, and now we live in daily hell. My only dream is to secure a safe life for my children outside of Gaza. Any support - even just €5 - could change their future and give them a sense of safety. Help us build a new hope for them. ❤️"
A message from my friend Tasneem in Gaza. They are in great need, as are all the displaced and hungry civilians. They rely on our donations to survive.
Please give to Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️
tinyurl.com/Tasneemo
Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.
This plan, which becomes official today, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
23.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 16409 🔁 9554 💬 1269 📌 683“This is a moment, if he wants, to do right by Virginia and the rest of us.”
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer speaks to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social and calls on Prince Andrew to provide information on “what he saw” in Epstein’s mansions and on his jet.
#Newsnight
Watch the full roundtable with Annie Farmer and Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov on YouTube:
19.10.2025 21:02 — 👍 55 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 0Q: Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Could he demolish this building or the Jefferson Memorial?
LEAVITT: Only for vertical construction will a submission be required.
Q: So it sounds like the answer is yes
Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"
* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
WTF? DOJ owes a lot of people a lot of things but this ain't even close to one.
21.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holy fucking shit
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The pattern of "religious" men abusing children is real and documented. It's infuriating that LGBTQ+ people bear the brunt of moral panic rhetoric while the actual harm to children is coming from the very people doing the loudest screaming about "protecting" them. #NotADragQueen
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Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel reut.rs/48GiDmO
21.10.2025 02:30 — 👍 158 🔁 87 💬 14 📌 24shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
20.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 9898 🔁 2614 💬 304 📌 116Yup.
A few months ago, I pointed out that part of the reason for ICE employees covering their faces, was that some of them were likely government contractors and not law enforcement, and so has no legal authority to detain.
People that know nothing about criminal justice reform yelled at me.🤷🏿♂️
Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
19.10.2025 01:24 — 👍 8253 🔁 4607 💬 391 📌 1116
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
It’s become crystal clear, Speaker Johnson doesn’t want Congress to come back in session because they don’t want the Epstein files released.
Stop the shutdown - release the files!
