Jake Laperruque

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Only remember this because of the hilarious “my summer abroad as a mailing it in essay for my creative nonfiction class” style op ed about Australia

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

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During an exchange with Senator Kennedy on DOJ subpoenas for Senators' phone records Attorney General Bondi claims that such records require probable cause to be seized?

That is incorrect, and a pretty shocking lack of knowledge on the law regarding a very important and basic Fourth Amendment issue

Happening amid efforts underway in Congress to abolish its own authority for Senate confirmation of the CIA General Counsel.

Techmeme front page:

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Great piece from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com about ICE's newest foray into social media monitoring: the agency is putting out feelers for contractors who can do on-site, open source intel 24/7 for ICE's Targeting Operations Division (TOD). 1/ www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Ironic considering Leahy spent his Senate career was one of the greatest champions of privacy in the digital era - I expect he'd be appalled at the idea of ICE pushing forward with pervasive social media monitoring

"You cannot protest, specifically because you will be at risk of violence by government agents"

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

New from @eileenguo.bsky.social:

“Trying to blunt these efforts to hold federal officers accountable” has the effect of “chilling speech and activism,” says David Greene, the director of civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

-Be proactive about personal health and personal finance
-Treat your free time as precious and worth using well
-Don't let your friendships fade as folks move/marry/have kids
-Be proactive in keeping up with hobbies, art, passions, and little things personal to you that bring joy
-Stretch daily

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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They arrested a rabbi in Illinois for protesting ICE.

“Federal officers were flanked by videographers, toting professional equipment and wearing high-visibility vests. They filmed from behind the lines of officers, capturing the show of force. At least two drones swept over the scenes.”

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.

the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...

Clue

COMMUNISM WAS JUST A RED HERRING!

Looming over this story: Apple is paying over a billion dollars each quarter in tariffs, from which the President can exempt them on a whim.

It's an incredibly coercive power, and extremely dangerous to free speech rights.

FAA has issued MASSIVE temporary flight restriction which prohibits drones (i.e., photography) over Chicago.

They did similar around federal buildings in Los Angeles since June protests, but really no comparison...

Chicago's TFR covers 900x more area than ones in LA! 🧵👇
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ICE now conducting “Kavanaugh stops” on entire buildings at once:

They don’t even look alike, do all dogs look the same to these people Darth?!!

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

the real innovation here seems to be in moving ai slop from a banal, low quality, and mostly stupid digital pollutant to something that's potentially very dangerous

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

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CDT’s Fellows program is an opportunity for academics to engage directly with + inform our policy work and represents a wide range of academic fields & disciplines:

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And it's not just that movies streamed and sold as digital goods - they're built on production funding from range of studios/investors (often international), filmed across locations (often international), and require tons of materials for set/costume/filing (sourcing: you guessed it, international)

this is a great one because no-one seems to know how the fuck you apply a tariff to a digital good but trump desperately wants to do it anyway so just keeps re-announcing it

Not the point of this piece exactly but a great example of how chatbot validation could increase polarization

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...