max green

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

Foreign-born residents and workers around Wells have reacted to the ICE threat by trying to stay out of sight. Many are scared, said a woman from southern Africa who lives near Wells and helps connect asylum seekers with social services and jobs, including in tourism businesses. The woman, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her safety. She said that following the revelation that Wells police officers were working with ICE, some local immigrants would only attend church online and are keeping their children from school.

We've reached the point where a naturalized citizen won't speak on the record "out of concern for her safety."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/t...

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

MEMORANDUM OPINION After "ha[ving] lived safely in the United States with his family for a decade and ha[ving] never been charged with a crime[I" Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U.S. ----, 145 S. Ct. 1017, 1018 (2025), Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia ("Abrego") returned to the United States of America from his involuntary and "improper]" stay in El Salvador. Id. The United States District Court of Maryland issued an order requiring the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General of the United States, the United States Secretary of State, the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), the Acting Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, and the Director of ICE's Baltimore Field Office to "facilitate" Abrego's return. See Abrego Garcia v. Noem, 2025 WL 1024654, at *1 (D. Md. Apr. 4, 2025); amended, 2025 WL 1085601 (D. Md. Apr. 10, 2025); see also Abrego Garcia v. Noem, 2025 WL 1014261 (D. Md. Apr. 6, 2025) (Memorandum Opinion in support of April 4, 2025 order). The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit did not disturb the lower court's order, denying the Government's motion to stay the district court's order pending appeal. See Abrego Garcia v. Noem, 2025 WL 1021113, at *1 (4th Cir. Apr. 7, 2025). Yet, Abrego remained in El Salvador. Even after the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the district court's Case 3:25-cr-00115 Document 95 Filed 07/23/25 Page 1 of 37 PagelD #: 1054

instruction that the Government "facilitate" Abrego's "release from custody in El Salvador, Abrego continued to wait to return home. Abrego Garcia, 145 S. Ct. at 1018. In the meantime, the Government presented its criminal case against Abrego to a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee. On May 21, 2025, the grand jury filed a two-count Indictment against Abrego. When an arrest warrant for Abrego issued, the Government effectuated his return, arrested him on June 6, 2025, and brought him to Tennessee.. The Magistrate Judge has ordered Abrego's release. The Government disagrees and has filed a Motion for Revocation of Release Order (Doc. No. 45), which has been fully briefed (Doc. Nos. 70, 79, 89). The Court held an evidentiary hearing on July 16, 2025. Based on the June 13, 2025 and July 16, 2025 evidentiary hearings, the Court will deny the Government's Motion. (Doc. No. 45). Abrego should be released under conditions to be set by the Magistrate Judge. I. BACKGROUND' At the time the Court issued its Memorandum Opinion and Order denying the Government's Motion to Stay the decision of the Magistrate Judge (Doc. Nos. 55, 56), it only considered the issue of whether the Government was entitled to a detention hearing. Following the Court's ruling, the Magistrate Judge informed the parties at the June 25, 2025 hearing about the conditions of Abrego's release (see Doc. No. 62). The parties have now briefed whether there are conditions for Abrego's release alongside Government's appeal challenging the Magistrate Judge's release order (see Doc. Nos. 70, 79). Accordingly, the record is now complete for the Court to consider both (1) whether the Government is entitled to a detention hearing, and (2) if so, whether there are no set of conditions that warrant Abrego's release pending trial. ' The Court need not extensively recite the background of the instant motion, which has been set forth aptly in the Magistrate Judge's June 22, 2025 Memorandum Opinion and this Court'…

NEW: Judge Waverly Crenshaw orders that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be released from criminal custody.

He refers Abrego’s request to pause the issuance of any release order for 30 days to the magistrate judge

An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files

New: Epstein victim urged FBI to investigate Trump and his relationship with Epstein during interviews with agency in 1996 and 2006. Records of these interviews could be in FBI files that Trump admin now refuses to release. @mikebaker.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...

Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

Trump administration sued by 20 states over FEMA disaster program cancelation The administration acted unlawfully in "unilaterally shutting down FEMA's flagship pre-disaster mitigation program," suit says.

Trump administration sued by 20 states over FEMA funding cuts www.axios.com/2025/07/17/f...

At a press conference last month, the Attorney General of the United States publicized the claim that Abrego played a role in the murder of a rival gang member’s mother.

Today, more than a month later, the government’s own witness admitted that they haven’t been able to corroborate that allegation.

And yet overall approval basically unchanged. Once you get down to the low 40’s people’s approval isn’t really being driven by issues.

This AM, I reported an Indiana public media chief's warning the elimination of federal funds would be close to "catastrophic" for his station.

This afternoon, my chat with Cato's Jeffrey Miron - he argues that Congress should not pay a penny toward it.

Coming up at 4.39/6.39p on NPR

Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.

BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...

people on here aren’t gonna like hearing this, but a sympathetic former ICE agent cutting ads about being forced to drop investigations into child pornographers to arrest gardeners would probably be pretty effective messaging.

Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler' Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

"We need the American press to be at its best right now. But it's not. Not even close." - @sulliview.bsky.social

by this metric non-newsworthy stories can become newsworthy if they generate enough outrage for being not newsworthy. also by this metric you could print an uncensored human asshole on the front page of the New York Times.

trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states

A Trans Pilot Was Falsely Blamed for a Plane Crash. Now She’s Fighting the Right-Wing Disinfo Machine National Guard pilot Jo Ellis is suing a right-wing influencer for falsely blaming her for a DC crash that killed 67 people. A WIRED review reveals 12 similar incidents of scapegoating trans people.

New: Jo Ellis, a National Guard pilot and trans woman was blamed for the DC plane crash that killed 67 people. After being doxed, with her legal name revealed, she was flooded with death threats. Now she's suing the right-wing influencer who amplified the rumors: www.wired.com/story/a-tran...

The Triumph of the American Moron Clarence Thomas's anti-trans concurrence is the culmination of right-wing anti-intellectualism

I wrote about Clarence Thomas's anti-intellectual, anti-trans concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, and what it says about how far the right has fallen into conspiratorialism

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

Voice of America gutted by Trump adviser Kari Lake The Trump administration is slashing jobs at Voice of America's parent agency by 85%. Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for the broadcaster wonder what happens next.

The Trump administration is slashing jobs at Voice of America's parent agency by 85%. Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for the broadcaster wonder what happens next. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

If you, like Casey Newton, use LLMs for fact-checking, that should be disclosed directly beneath your byline

ICE Agent Fled From Angry Residents Outside New York School — and Got in a Car Crash Masked and unidentified ICE agents lurking near schools sparked fear, confusion, and a car crash in Latino-heavy New York suburbs.

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE.

Inside one day on LI:

theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

This sounds like straight-up attempted kidnapping?

This is a good example of the utter degradation of journalism to appease law enforcement. Read and ask yourself whether in any other context a journalist would let “who fired the shot” be so mysterious for so long.

NPR sues the Trump administration, a wolf not in sheep’s clothing "In particular, 'the First Amendment prohibits government officials from retaliating against individuals for engaging in protected speech.' Yet retaliation is the Order's plain purpose."

New by me —>

On NPR, Trump, the First Amendment, and the fashion habits of Canis lupus

www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/npr-...

this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students