Andy Sellars

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening

www.404media.co/google-calls...

I'm pretty sure I met her in one of my classes at Northeastern

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

A winner-take-all Game 3 is exactly what this Red Sox-Yankees series deserves - The Boston Globe The compelling best-of-three Wild Card Series will be decided on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, with the winner advancing to face the Blue Jays.

It’s been two amazing days between the Red Sox and Yankees. Of the 145 plate appearances thus far, the lead hung in the balance in 136 of them. On a series that deserves - and is now getting - a winner-take-all conclusion: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/02/s...

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

@johnhawkinson.bsky.social's also spotted a few in Orellana v. Hyde (a habeas case—where I certainly hope courts are denying all of these requests!) and in US v. Google (antitrust)

"TEXT ORDER denying 83 Motion to Stay: The Court is required to continue its constitutional functions, and therefore the Motion to Stay is DENIED. Department of Justice contingency plan states: "If a court denies such a request [to stay or continue] and orders a case to continue, the Government will comply with the court's order, which would constitute express legal authorization for the activity to continue." So Ordered by Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. on 10/2/2025. (Jackson, Ryan)"

At least one court has refused the stays sought in basically every Trump Administration case being litigated right now – this from Rhode Island v. Trump (D.R.I., concerning termination of IMLS funding, presently on SJ briefing). www.courtlistener.com/docket/69844...

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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ICE targeted Leqaa Kordia for protesting the war in Gaza. To keep her in detention for six months and counting, the Trump administration made her get sworn affidavits from family members in Palestine about money Leqaa sent them for food, fuel, and medical bills.

A Sox–Yankees playoff series is coming down to the very last game and, what, I'm supposed to just act like this is a normal workday for the next 10 hours?

A sleek GBH-branded graphic composed of deep blues and purples is displayed on the GBH mural. It reads "Congress told us to 'Go Fund Yourself.' And with your help, we can."

Congress told us to “Go Fund Yourself.”
And with your help, we can.

Our federal funding might be gone, but we’re still here. Public media needs your support now more than ever.

In more Trump vs. universities news, the NSF just voluntarily dismissed its own appeal of an order preventing it from drastically cutting the university overhead reimbursement rate.

Order below: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Appeal dismissal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(If you don't have time to read all 161 pages, jump right down to pages 95–100!)

Stephen Miller pulled analysts off of investigations related to international terrorism and the like so they could go through the Canary Mission list to see which immigrants at US universities were guilty of wrongthink and should be deported.

And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

An enormous congrats to @knightcolumbia.org, @aaup.org, Sher Tremonte LLP, and Zimmer, Citron, & Clarke for their incredible work on this case.

I quite literally gasped at the opening

I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for writing. It shows you care. You should. Sincerely & respectfully, Bill Young P.S. The next time you’re in Boston [the postmark on the card is from the Philadelphia area] stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice. It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive, for it is well said that “Where a jury sits, there burns the lamp of liberty.”

Also he bookends the opening:

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.”

Judge Young—who has been on the bench for as long as I have been alive—calls it the most important case he has ever considered.

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.

Someone please check in with Jeffries about whether he thinks being shot in the street by a platoon of Marines is a kitchen-table issue.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

When I asked Josh Gondelman, our esteemed Boston sports correspondent, to sum up the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, he put it like this: “I moved from Boston (okay, Somerville) to New York City more than 14 years ago, but the ugliest parts of my personality come out when I think of the Yankees. I want them to lose in new and innovative ways. I want their fans, including children, to have a bad time watching.”

I’m mad. Please put it in the newspaper (@gqmagazine.bsky.social) that I’m mad. Go Sox! www.gq.com/story/yankee...

Manager of award-winning Suya Joint restaurant released from ICE detention The manager of acclaimed Roxbury restaurant Suya Joint was granted asylum and is now home after spending more than three months in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

The manager of acclaimed Roxbury restaurant Suya Joint was granted asylum and is now home after spending more than three months in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million Alphabet settles with Trump instead of fighting lawsuit over January 6 suspension.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

In a moment where we have a lot of concern about the use of material support laws to suppress dissent, we just got a very important win by the Associated Press, rejecting a claim that the AP violated the ATA and JASTA by hiring photojournalists in Gaza. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.

You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

A white nonbinary person with a buzz cut stands at the top of a spiral staircase in an Eagles shirt, below them is a tall white man in a red shirt. A third person is also on the stairs but their face is blacked out because I don’t have their permission to share.

As of today, I have officially finished my first walk around all 100+ miles of Philadelphia’s border.

That’s me and JJ, Walk Around Philadelphia visionary, at the top of the Washington Ave pier stairs.