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Federal agents use pepper spray, rubber bullets on Durango protesters More than 24 hours of peaceful protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango culminated Tuesday with pepper spray and rubber bullets being used against protester...

More than 24 hours of peaceful protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango culminated Tuesday with pepper spray and rubber bullets being used against protesters.
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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?

What?

We’ve got money for the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom no one asked for but not enough money to help feed the kids of people who work at Wal-Mart.

Only in America.

The Oligarchs have definitely invited the voting pitchforks, if we survive this current totalitarian grab, that will likely define the next couple of decades.

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

I think you could put the Supreme Court into this as well. The idea of zero repercussions for terrible acts that effect so many people only makes them more troublesome; and that kind of power needs to have a check, wherever it comes from.

ICE will arrest anyone—even a 16-year-old who just wants to get back to class.

Joel Camas may be the first unaccompanied minor detained by Trump this term.

a crowd of people are gathered in front of a building holding flags ALT: a crowd of people are gathered in front of a building holding flags

I'm still confident the guy who used to bull's-eye womp rats back home will join with all of us to stop this insanity.
Hopefully before we have to get to the barricade stage of the movie.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Withholding money for food and finding money for every unnecessary thing is what sparked the French Revolution. Literally.

Trump Demolishes White House East Wing to Build His Ballroom Associated Press photos show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Trump moves forward with construction of a ballroom.

The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble.

Trump just does not care about voters at all anymore. He is assuming 2024 was the end of democracy in the United States. I'm still hopeful he is wrong, but it's not looking good. Too much of America is snoozing towards dictatorship.
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Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters After Trump’s handling of disasters boomerangs on MAGA country, the author of a piece on his retribution against blue America explains how this saga reveals MAGA ideology’s deepest depravities.

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points.

On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss:
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It gets crazier. Source in Maryland Gov Wes Moore's admin tells me they informed Trump officials that the ailing counties were in Appalachia, and the Trump people were surprised to hear this!

(Supports @jamellebouie.net's point about MAGA's Balkanized vision of US)

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Your daily reminder that Trump keeps failing his cognitive test, every time he thinks it is an IQ test.
Donald has NOT gotten the animals correct, even once, and he reads "Person, woman, man, camera, TV" from a cue card every test, even though the words are different now.
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It's clearly unconstitutional coercion by the DOJ, but our Constitution is now hanging by a thread thanks to zero oversight by Congress & a complicit SCOTUS Republicans.

In a sane world, Bondi, Blanche & Trump would all be impeached for the illegal targeting of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Abrego's attys protest that the new designation comes 2 weeks after a 10/10 hearing on whether to release Abrego due to govt's sluggish/chimerical efforts to remove him to Uganda, Eswatini & Ghana. Abrego's motion is here:
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At 2pm Judge Xinis is holding a 'virtual' hearing on govt's new stated plan of sending Abrego Garcia to Liberia by 10/31. Abrego says it's too late to switch again & govt must 1st try Costa Rica (already offered, but only if he'd plead guilty). I'll try to live blog here for @lawfaremedia.org .
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Illinois state Rep. Hoan Huynh accuses Border Patrol agents of pointing gun at him in Albany Park Illinois State Rep. Hoan Huynh (D-Chicago) has accused Customs and Border Protection agents of pointing a gun at him and his staff on Tuesday in the Albany Park neighborhood.

4/ ICE is waving guns around like this is a war zone, not a peaceful American city.
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It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

A poorly dressed toy chihuahua.

Roger Stone & @RogerJStoneJr X.com ABC Lies ! Classic disinformation! Likely illegal leak of grand jury information' @AnnaBower has difficulty distinguishing her derrière from her elbow,

like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse, that’s how much it hurts

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Immergut concludes this part of today:

"I'm going to have a decision by Monday, if not before."

She's now discussing merits trial preparations with them.

Unreal to hear Yaakov Roth try to explain away why DOJ didn't appeal the second TRO.

I've watched DOJ appeal amended orders, subsequent orders, second orders, extensions of orders, and more. It's unreal to say that DOJ thought it shouldn't appeal a TRO with a different, expanded scope.

Am I reading this right?
Did DOJ really lie this flagrantly to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals?
Am I misunderstanding something?
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SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 10:00 a.m. on October 24, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut, on Defendants' Motion to Dissolve, or Alternatively, to Stay this Court's October 5, 2025 Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 97 . In addition to all the other issues raised by the parties, this Court requests that the parties be prepared to discuss the effect of the sua sponte en banc call of the Ninth Circuit's stay order. Order, Oregon v. Trump, No. 25-6268 (9th Cir. Oct. 20, 2025), ECF 63. Ordered by Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing on October 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 373876354#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference. For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. (iy) Modified on 10/22/2025 (jy). Modified on 10/23/2025 (iy). (Entered: 10/22/2025)

The hearing on DOJ’s motion to dissolve/stay the second TRO in the Oregon case — covering deployment of any National Guard in Oregon — is beginning now.

Call-in information is in here:

Thank you for this.
Even following a group of great court reporters, I was getting confused with so many cases & hearings going on.
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A guide to what is happening in the challenges to Trump's National Guard deployment efforts Expect significant rulings from the courts — including the Supreme Court — in the coming weeks. Also: The Supreme Court won't stop an eighth execution by nitrogen suffocation.

At Law Dork, I wrote a guide to what is happening in the challenges to Trump's National Guard deployment efforts.

Expect significant rulings from the courts — including the Supreme Court — in the coming days and weeks. There are two key hearings set for today.