Scott Shuchart

Asshole is back on duty. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-pushed-woman-video-returns-to-duty/

Worth reposting

Update: somebody fucking did something for a change. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/nyregion/ice-officer-investigation-woman-shoved.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Stock market collapse in ’27 to V-J day was only 18 years. It’s now been 25 years since Bush v. Gore launched us into this dark timeline (or 24 since 9/11 if you prefer).

How many more years do we have of this nightmare century?

It's nice that Comey is worried about law enforcement abuses. Imagine what would have happened if he followed the rules designed to stop those in 2016.

This is wildly unacceptable behavior for a LEO. On January 19th this DO would have face serious consequences from ICE OPR. Now???

Bear in mind there are already visas for athletes, directors, and others of great merit. This is for otherwise-worthless rich shitbags, like Luttnick and Trump themselves.

Ahh, democracy dies in late-nite specifically.

At this point it’s a little offensive nobody is trying to silence me.

When did "worthless pieces of shit shouldn't be murdered" become controversial?

Can #DoorDash / #Uber / #grubhub release data on how martial law is effecting delivery times and volumes in LA, DC, now Chicago vs control cities?
@doordashhelp.bsky.social

Assume they are too afraid of the highly visible mass transit along H

Amen. The way I have tried to put this point lately is that the law is impossible to implement. So either you try and fail utterly (Biden) or you violate it wholesale (T2).

I think Congress thought EWIs ineligible for ER would be arrested on a warrant and so squarely fall within 236(a) and that would be the end of the story but I am not sure they actually thought about it. Yes most laws are done messily; IIRIRA is vomit in typewritten form.

(Btw I am not saying that the new BIA opinion is a correct reading of 236(a)! I just spent 3 years trying to write a 236(a) reg and am confident it is not. But the reason isn’t that the 1996 Congress would have been repulsed by the concept.)

I don’t think the congress that also voted for AEDPA and the PLRA was worried about indefinite detention or gulags. They also tried to remove all court review and have indefinite post-order detention. Yes technically they preferred fast expulsion when available - but so do the new guys.

Is that true? The 1996 congress were idiot monsters. I think this nightmare is exactly what they hoped for.

Dude, we get it, you’re an evil fuck. You don’t have to keep tearing off masks. We got it.

He didn’t, but it’s pretty standard British usage to upper-case initialisms (“CBP”) while (whilst) only upper-casing true acronyms. You’ll see “HIV” alongside “Aids” in British sources, e.g. I expect they also write “Nasa” and “Ofac”? My favorite being “Quango” if you don’t know that one

‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers As Ice expands and standards are lowered, advocates and former US officials warn that misconduct may increase

Great Guardian piece yesterday in which I got to say things like "You don’t have to spend weeks teaching someone immigration law if you’ve decided the law just means the president gets to deport anyone he wants."

If Putin poisoned Trump, would he be able to admit it?

That was my sense, yes. But this time we deserve all the criticism possible.

YouTube video by TRT World ICE in Masks: Policing or Intimidation? | Inside America

You may not have known Turkish broadcasting runs a global English news service - I sure didn’t! - but I think this program does a nice job surfacing issues around new ICE practices (masks and not identifying themselves). With yours truly.

I am not a sports fan - though I am the former head of policy at ICE - but I don't see how watching a match could be worth:
- being abducted on the street by a masked man or armed solider
- detained indefinitely without access to counsel
- deported to Uganda or South Sudan

Do you? #FIFAworldcup

I understand the U.S. is about to host the #FIFAWorldCup and shortly thereafter, the Summer Olympics.

If you are a non-U.S. citizen, you would be INSANE to come here to watch sports.

America is not safe for tourists.

You have not, under any circumstances, got to catch ‘em all.

Is it wrong that every time a #peloton instructor exhorts the class “you were BUILT for this!!” I think “I don’t know about you, but *I* was built for arguing with my customers over a wood fire in the Pale of Settlement.”

I don’t see how that follows. The real risk remains military doing law enforcement work (including removal flights), not driving buses or xeroxing. Puzzling to me why states like Nevada think subsidizing the richest law enforcement agency in the history of the world is a good use of taxpayer money.

ICE has historically wanted states to do its work for free - that’s 287(g) (“force multiplier” = traditional euphemism for “red state taxpayers”). With infinite money now it’s more about supply constraints and expedition. National guard seem to bypass the slow clearance process for contractors.