Stephen Petrey

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.

"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."

Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

can confirm, pottery classes did in fact fix me real good. now I have a new problem. too many pots in the apartment 😆

I do want to note Mamdani's transition specifically calling attention to like, people applying for city jobs and how many CVs they got in the mail, etc, because when was the last time you saw a politician actually talk about expanding state capacity other than hiring more cops?

fuck yeah

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

what on earth could go wrong

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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...

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio.

i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

Nuclear testing isn’t something you greenlight in a post, but turning national security into a fear show is how authoritarians rule.

I think about this a lot.

after Fetterman and Polis, it’s hard to think of a Dem politician who has torched their own career as much as Whitmer has over the past year

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

THIS

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

> The fake video […] shows the plane dropping a brown liquid resembling feces onto the heads of protesters, who appeared to be gathered in a city.

i cant wait for this loser to bite the dust. Im going to take the whole week off and celebrate his death

It was Ms. Ghasemzadeh who sent a reporter the text saying “only a miracle can save us.” She said she was an English teacher who, in Iran, had converted to Christianity in an underground church. According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death. She left Iran in December, she said, hoping to build a new life in the United States. She knew that Mr. Trump was deporting migrants, she added, but thought, “I’m not a criminal, I am educated, I will show them my qualifications, my conversion to Christianity papers.” Ms. Ghasemzadeh took a series of flights to Mexico, she said, and then headed for the southern border, paying a smuggler around $3,000 to help her climb over the border wall. She was soon picked up by border officials. After five days in federal custody, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all the deportees except for the children had their hands tied and their feet shackled by U.S. authorities.

Her group was placed on a gray military airplane — more than 100 people from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and other nations, according to the Panamanian government. Once on board, an Uzbek women who was with her two young children fainted, according to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and a couple who were sitting next to them. The children were crying. A member of the U.S. military who was on board came to Ms. Ghasemzadeh and asked for her help in translating, because she was asking questions in English. He asked why the Uzbek woman was so scared. “I said it was because we had no idea where we were being taken — can you please tell us?” Ms. Ghasemzadeh said. “He hugged me gently,” she continued, “whispered into my ear that we were going to Panama, and asked me not to tell anyone about it.” On Sunday morning, after another deportee attempted suicide at the hotel in Panama, Ms. Ghasemzadeh said, all glass and sharp objects were confiscated from the rooms.

A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration said the group was “facilitating returns where safe to do so” and was not involved “in the detention or restriction of movement of individuals.” According to a senior U.N. official who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the U.N. was providing Panama with humanitarian and technical support, but the Panamanians were tightly managing the deportees and the process they were following was not entirely clear. The deportees at the hotel will soon be sent to a camp at the edge of a jungle called the Darién Gap, according to Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino. Built just a few years ago to house migrants headed north to the United States, the camp will now handle a reverse migration wave. It is unclear how long the migrants will be held there. In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside. Dengue fever is a common danger in the region. At the Decapolis hotel, a man in his 50s with the surname Wang wrote “China” on a window. In a phone call, he said he had come to the United States alone, “for freedom.”

He’d left behind his wife and children, he said. Just a few days before, he had crossed into the United States, where he was detained, cuffed and put on a plane to Panama. “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.” As far as his home country went, he said, “I would rather jump off a plane than go back to China.” On the military plane ride from California to Panama, Mona, a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert, said her 8-year-old son cried, terrified to see his parents shackled. To calm him down, she told him that this was like overcoming the challenges in a video game, and that once the plane landed they would be free. Her son asked if she would make his favorite Persian dish after the plane landed. Her husband, Mohammad, 33, said that throughout the flight, when his wife and son cried, he reminded them about a Christian teaching they often recited. “Jesus has said, ‘If you don’t take your eyes off me, I won’t take mine off you.’ So I was constantly signaling that to my wife, saying, keep your eyes on him,” he said.

I don't know how we're going to be able to share a country with the people who shackle Christian refugees in front of their children and send them to camps in a foreign jungle.

#NOKINGS

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Lawmaker resigns after involvement in racist chat Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass will resign after intense pressure from top Republicans in the state.

A Vermont lawmaker stepped down following revelations regarding his involvement in a racist, pro-Hitler chat associated with the Young Republicans. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The New York Times and Anti-Anti-Fascism On the burdens of solidarity.

"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

How a Local New York Official Became Ken Paxton’s Most Wanted The Ulster County clerk has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states.

Taylor Bruck, a county clerk in upstate New York, has been pulled into a legal battle that will test whether Texas can enforce its abortion laws in other states. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-new-york-abortion-lawsuit/

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

lmao I love this so much

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This is the energy we need.