Felipe De La Hoz

I know Trump has been firing people left and right but this a different scale. If we can no longer trust government numbers at all then we really are well and truly cooked

The Goodfellas assassination of Tommy scene, except Tommy's head has been replaced with Elmo and the mobsters behind him are Mike Johnson and Donald Trump

Trump orders nuclear submarines moved near Russia U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in regions near Russia in response to threats from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Ending the war in Ukraine by starting nuclear WWIII, masterful gambit, sir

The subway is scorching  - Epicenter NYC Subway riders are used to unpredictable delays and service changes, but rarely do you see a meltdown the magnitude of this week’s. Tuesday morning’s collapse of multiple lines in Manhattan […]

I wrote something about how the power outages and flooding on the subways are a manifestation of a broader issue: our urban infrastructure as a whole was designed based on a series of statistical assumptions which climate change has completely torpedoed, and there’s no easy fix

I hear you, in this instance it's more about access to at least one legal argument against, which is essentially foreclosed

As a matter of practice, most people put into removal proceedings have not been detained, but the current administration wants to detain as many people as possible, and just got a massive budget bill that will help it build out the infrastructure to do just that

But wait, the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to a speedy trial! Unfortunately, these aren't trials in the criminal sense, meaning that this constitutional provision doesn't really apply. The government can and will attempt to detain people in advance of hearings a year or more away

Most of the attention has focused on arrests themselves and the eventual deportations, but the administration is also trying to assert through various mechanisms that it has the right and ability to detain adults — and minors — for indefinite periods that could stretch years, even if they win relief

How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

Years of lead intensifies

JUST IN: 12 Democratic members of Congress are suing ICE over its new restrictions on detention faciity visits by lawmakers.

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There's a lot that's chilling here but perhaps what made my blood most run cold was the SV anthropologist saying the DOGE boys would be celebrated no matter what, because even an abject failure that destroyed state capacity and killed millions around the world showed you were a genius risk-taker

Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...

Interesting and exhaustive piece that only reinforces one reality for me: if this country is to survive — perhaps if our global society is to survive — Silicon Valley and its culture, imperatives, worldview, and influence as a whole must be torn up entirely by the roots, and quickly

To restate the obvious, this is not ultimately just about immigration. This is going to be a huge, well-armed, and often unidentified force under direct control of the president that can and has been drawn on for suppression of political speech and activity

It should be a litmus test for any Dem running for Congress, including reelection, whether they would immediately vote to impeach or convict Emil Bove and remove him from the federal judiciary

Really not looking forward to some people trying to make yesterday’s horrific shooting about “crime and disorder in NYC” or whatever when it was perpetrated by a disturbed individual from Las Vegas with a gun they almost certainly could not have been legally obtained here

The google search bar describing Kalief Browder as a "TV personality"

Uhhhh I'm not sure this would be my first descriptor, google

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

“The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department's refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people.”

Behind the scenes*

This is transparently the president and his allies moving to shut down critics in civil society in the same vein as Putin and Orbán and we shouldn’t pretend it’s not so just because it’s a little more being the scenes than in Russia and Hungary

Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Treating Executive Orders as law is another autocratic constitutional amendment that's being effected by widespread fear and judicial surrender

The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/14/1...

I know we are all fatigued about calling out the constant jawboning by the Trump administration. But this really does seem like a classic case of coercing a speaker to adopt the government's preferred editorial policy at the risk of official penalty (see, e.g., NRA v. Vullo).

Well of course, when you pay for protection you at least expect to get it

Jesus Christ

Someone on his staff should make him a plaque that just says "remember de Blasio" and affix it to his desk

Not a single person involved here believes this has anything to do with combating antisemitism beyond that being the most useful tool in the moment to break the back of academia