Jacob Rosenberg

Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.

"However, after initially declining to comment, Parikh proceeded to hold forth for nearly two hours."

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"“If the city of Atlanta was really invested in elevating the voices of its residents, they would at least be ready,” said Analilia Mejia, the co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action, a national network of 50 organizations, three of which are local to Atlanta, that is supporting the referendum effort. “They wouldn’t be running a clock.” "

" “By September (2021) it is clear that there’s organized money and organized special interests pushing this,” said Mejia. “It then becomes clear to us that we need organized people and some organized money to counter it.”"

I just realized Bolts had interviewed Analilia Mejia, @analiliafornj.bsky.social, in the past... just not in connection to New Jersey, so I didn't connect the dots.

It was about her national work that made her part of organizing against Cop City in Atlanta.

See below. boltsmag.org/cop-city-ref...

Finally read this story. Horrifying. And the poor guy has had to endure being a Tottenham fan, too

Yeah, I bet that did draw attention

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The ‘Melania’ director was behind that Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad Brett Ratner faced #MeToo allegations and now he’s in the Epstein files, but the MAHA movement turned to him for its big moment.

Good one from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/the-mel...

ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.

ICE's collaboration with local cops has helped it deport immigrants—but that very collaboration could also make it more vulnerable to civil rights lawsuits.

This new case in Idaho is worth watching www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A really important piece: The government brought a Blackhawk helicopter into Chicago for... a few immigrants squatting in an apartment...and then called everyone terrorists with no evidence

John Yoo (torture memo guy) in this WSJ piece says Jacob Frey, and other Minneapolis politicians standing up to ICE, are modern day Bull Connor

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Norwegian biathlete wins Winter Olympics bronze and then tells TV interview of affair Sturla Holm Lægreid broke down in tears after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon and apologised for having an affair

I'd watch another Force Majeure but about this www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today

We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com

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Who paid for the Super Bowl ICE ad? The group behind Sunday's bizarre commercial has a sparse paper trail.

maybe you saw a pro-ICE ad during the Super Bowl and wondered: who made that?

me too.

here's an attempt to find some of the people behind it

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE’s Aggressive Urban Tactics Were Forged Along the Southern Border The convergence of two historically distinct agencies is redefining how immigration law is enforced inside the US.

"these practices are not new...they’ve migrated from border areas to the middle of America’s densest neighborhoods. They’re being circulated in viral videos for the world to see, instead of being relegated to deserts and dead-of-night operations."

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He fled torture in Uganda. ICE is trying to send him back. "People like Pastor [Steven] Tendo are exactly who our asylum system is meant to protect."

ICE  "brutally" detained a minister in Vermont. The Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda—where he was tortured.

"I’m so scared, I cannot go back," Pastor Steven Tendo told @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social.

He fled torture in Uganda. ICE is trying to send him back. "People like Pastor [Steven] Tendo are exactly who our asylum system is meant to protect."

a heartbreaking story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social

“I followed the rules. I’ve done great in the community. I’ve never abused any of the conditions of the stay or of my supervision...I'm so scared, I cannot go back."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From a 2013 book on the Minutemen, the vigilante group that tries to help Border Patrol:

"This is our Gaza"

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Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

(Also the potential of a faux Southern lib in the tradition of Sanford and Dean Smith et al does get the heart a flutter if you’re from NC, no matter what logic tries to stop it)

great piece. as always, pitch perfect and fascinating—weaving together the real hangs up with pritzker with what makes him different:

Jason I feel like you will understand the profoundness of this statement: in my career as a journalist, Jon Scheyer was the dumbest person I’ve ever interviewed.

Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike Minneapolis organizers weigh in on how to make the movement go national.

Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by Luaka Bop Tunji Oyelana and the Benders – Ifa (Official Audio)

sheesh www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve62...

sounds lovely—very excited for this record outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-th...

I just learned that The Post fired Marty Weil. I wasn't in the newsroom much, but when I was, he came in for his evening shifts, he would come through and say hello to literally everyone there. A really great guy, and a true sign of what The Post is giving up.

At the end, we discuss the most enjoyable discovery I have had in some years: Finding out via his mom's book that Steph Curry got a fake bar mitzvah

(From Sonya Curry's "Fierce Love")

Into The Research Triangle Of Sadness, With Jacob Rosenberg | Defector Hopefully you have not already heard, but the Charlotte Hornets are one of the hottest teams in the NBA. LaMelo Ball is for once an aptonym, Brandon Miller is playing like Paul George (laudatory) inst...

I had a very fun time on @defector.com Nothing But Respect talking (way too fast, and frenetically, and I am sure at times horrifically incorrectly) about the greatest time in the history of the Charlotte Hornets

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How Congress Could Start to Reform ICE and the Border Patrol This week’s post is co-written with Deborah Fleischaker and Claire Trickler-McNulty, former DHS officials with deep experience working to reform immigration detention and enforcement.

Democrats now have 2 weeks to negotiate w Congressional Republicans on a set of measures to begin to impose checks on systematically abusive conduct by ICE & CBP. Here's a valuable primer on some things that shld be on the table. Via @andreaflores.bsky.social arosaflores.substack.com/p/how-congre...

Riveting News for All of America—rolls off the tongue nymag.com/intelligence...

finally good NIMBYs

small but hopeful: you can see protests, and boycotts, against ICE are having an effect

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