Shawn Musgrave

I think it's fucking crazy that trump was in office for *four years* and now he owns a third of the ninth circuit. the NINTH circuit!!!!

Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately.

DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

Paging @laurenleharper.bsky.social on a US Attorney using an 8-hour auto-delete on Signal as she conducts PR for her office.

I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.

The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.

Details:

A truly extraordinary dissent from a judge who basically never writes like this. bsky.app/profile/stev...

Speaker Lucille Bluth.

Chicago-area modified temporary estraining Order (Northern District of Illinois) -- Oct. 17, 2025 As each DHS subsidiary agency provided their own cover sheet to personnel, it may be useful to print each of the following: Federal Protective Service Cover Sheet Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cover Sheet Customs and Border Patrol Cover Sheet Department of Justice Cover Sheet

📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters.

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We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.

The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.

Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy The survivors are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.

EXCLUSIVE: Two Survivors of Caribbean Boat Strike Are Held by U.S. Navy

They are being held on a warship and are believed to be the first prisoners of Trump's undeclared war against "narcoterrorist” groups.

theintercept.com/2025/10/17/c...

A couple years ago, I pitched this hybrid role to a few different outlets. Some thought it sounded interesting, most gave me only blank stares or asked if I'd ever seen it done before. Only The Intercept took it seriously — and I'm so grateful we showed this is a viable model.

Some utterly non-historic news amid the constitutional dumpster fires: Today is my last day at The Intercept — and my last day doing my own reporting, at least for awhile. I can't thank my @theintercept.com colleagues enough for the chance to road test this hybrid lawyer/reporter newsroom role.

This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.

This is what we documented.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.

Lately, DHS agents have been using a different variant of administrative subpoena to target anonymous accounts that share info about ICE raids and agents. Those subpoenas are also being challenged in court theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...

The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers TRAC, a little-known database, logs hundreds of millions of wire transfers sent to or from Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.

In 2022, Senator Wyden found that ICE/HSI used customs summonses to suck up data about millions of global wire transfers (which was then fed into the TRAC database). The agent who did it later got a White House award theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

How ICE used an obscure rule to pursue the owners of a Korean porn site How did US customs officials get involved in taking down a South Korean porn site?

A few years back, @sarahjeong.bsky.social and I wrote a bit about the history and dubious uses of the customs summons (aka "1509 summons," for its legal citation: 19 USC 1509) www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/15...

How Customs and Border Protection Illegally Tried to Unmask a Rogue Twitter Account A CBP agent demanded that Twitter turn over all its records on the @ALT_USCIS account. Problem was the order had no legal justification.

I've been watching for signs ICE/HSI was still abusing customs summonses, one of their go-to tools — despite a 2018 DHS inspector general report that determined this species of administrative subpoena is basically only good for merchandise inspections theintercept.com/2018/05/07/c...

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Last night ACLU NorCal and ACLU PA filed a motion to quash another Homeland Security Investigations administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking online accounts: this time it's a "customs summons" for the "MontCo Community Watch” Facebook and Instagram accounts www.courtlistener.com/docket/71672...

WYD @mayor.lacity.gov ? 🤔

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

Release the OLC Murder Memo

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Kavanaugh stops, quantified.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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

This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk

The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

The perfect coda to this story: after publication, the State Department's press office responded to my questions about the legal basis for revoking visas based on speech. Their response, in full (we were NOT off-record).

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.