Matt Szafranski

2 Teen Mariachi Musicians Released From ICE Detention

Breaking NYT:

Two teenage brothers and mariachi stars who visited the White House last summer were just released with their family from ICE detention centers in South Texas — immediately following the visit of a delegation of Democratic lawmakers who pressed for them to be freed.

The Curtains Close on the Kristi Noem Show As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was obsessed with cameras, and her downfall began when ICE abuses, including the killing of two American citizens, went viral.

"She will be remembered not only as the most incompetent Secretary in the department’s twenty-three-year history but also as the person who succeeded where many progressive activists had failed in discrediting much of the D.H.S.’s institutional legitimacy."

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Chicago law firm leading push to appoint special prosecutor to target ICE, Border Patrol agents The firm, Loevy and Loevy, said 200 individuals and organizations are supporting a petition to appoint an outsider to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who has spent wee...

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.

@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Town Responds to Kraft Group Commitment Letter

Town of Foxborough (yes that’s the proper spelling) to Krafts re: World Cup security money: Quit lying.

I’m loving this. www.foxboroughma.gov/news/what_s_...

Here is one Democrat already saying the very easy and obvious thing to say in response to comments like Ogles'

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Paxton's threat is serious.

This post is like the stages of grief except acceptance all rolled into one.

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.

A senseless, criminal waste

According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...

MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.

This is not intended with any approval, but at least Israel's Lebanon policy—alienating Hezbollah from Lebanese society—has some sense to it. Its headless horsemen policy for Iran is totally batshit (and probably based in politics far more than military strategy).

Lololololololololololololololol

I appreciate it much because this guy is a huge asshole and more people need to see it and know it.

i am not religious but true religious belief can translate into awe-inspiring levels of self-sacrifice and commitment to a cause

strategically, it is folly for the left to give that up to the right

the NPC thing was the canary in the coal mine, they have reached a depth of solipsism where they're incapable of functioning in the world

This will go great in Brightline's territory.

The left’s housing civil war is ending For a decade, progressives argued over whether greedy landlords or blocked construction caused the housing crisis. Zohran Mamdani and Nithya Raman say the answer is both.

The split here was between people who got into leftist politics because they wanted to deliver material improvements to people's lives and those who got in because they wanted to foment a communist revolution. Glad to see that the leftism that actually makes the world better is winning.

Big day! @jay.bsky.team will remain deeply involved as CIO and I'm personally excited she's dedicating more time on the future of atproto.

I'm also very pleased that @toni.bsky.team is joining us as the interim CEO. He seems like a thoughtful, experienced person who cares about the open internet.

If this is actually the new set of strategic goals, the Trump administration is admitting that they have strategically failed and this has been a disaster.

Trump admin effort to claim Kari Lake had power over Voice of America was illegal, judge rules "The Court declines Lake’s invitation to do such violence to the statutory and constitutional scheme," Judge Lamberth ruled on Saturday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on Saturday that the Trump administration effort to install Kari Lake as the “acting CEO“ of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the parent organization of the Voice of America, was unconstitutional and violated federal law.

At Law Dork, I dive in:

indeed... there's no "bind" here... there's an illegal religious war that the crazy, diaper-addled orange guy has started with his co-criminal Benny

[Putin turns to Finance Minister] Don't say I never do anything for you.

Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding.

I had a reply the other day who said that Biden was they guy who said to bleach people's lungs for COVID. They really thought that was Biden

every once in a while i remember how Yoon cooked his brain on various radical Korean youtubers/influencers

Americans do not want more forever wars.

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

It also speaks these people's own political illiteracy and disinterest in advisers who will tell them the truth.

Wow

No.

Ahead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-free The bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid.

At first glance this idea may SOUND good, but the truth is that no poor person will benefit from it, middle class people will benefit from it only marginally, but the well-to-do would benefit substantially. This is a perverse policy disguised as a middle class cut

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