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Felipe De La Hoz

@felipedlh.bsky.social

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Life’s a bitch, then you die | NY Daily News editorial board member, @newrepublic.com contributing editor, @theverge.com temporary writer, NYU lecturer, half of BORDER/LINES, immigration wonk, other hats | Personal photography at Instagram.com/nycfelipe

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Feb 20

For new followers: I’ve spent about a decade writing on immigration, from explanatory to feature to opinion to investigative. Always looking to talk if you have insight, from inside gov’t, civil society, or if directly impacted. Signal is felipedlh.58, anonymity assured (do NOT use work devices)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

The final argument of someone with no argument left to make. Enjoy your night

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

This is some real war is peace, up is down bullshit, insisting that pointing out that something is unclear is actually the result obfuscation. You know your propaganda, though, I’ll give you that

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

I’m confused about what you’re trying to say. So because this isn’t literally a court of law, we just shouldn’t care about what’s real or not, it’s all vibes?

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not even saying it wasn’t a shock collar, it very well could have been, entirely possible, but I don’t see how people can be like “this happened no doubt” based on what we actually know

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

No it is not! You do not know that. It’s wildly irresponsible for people to just be like “this seems probably true so it is 100% gospel truth” and that mindset is a big part of why we’re in this mess of a post-reality world

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

Literally the only thing I’m saying is that people are talking about this like it’s open and shut and I don’t think it is based on the actual video. Not everything has to be some big extrapolation

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4h

This is an insane comparison to make. On the one hand you have Hitler 2 and a years long campaign of normalizing him and on the other you have me pointing out that the specifics of this one incident are unclear, which is not, by the way, defending him. Some of you really need to touch grass

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h

I say that not as Hasan stan because I don’t really care about him either way, honestly, I just think people are talking with a whole lot of certainty about something that seems to me pretty hazy

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h

I mean he posted the video, but what the video shows is in dispute and he’s denied that it’s what people are claiming

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h

I certainly wouldn’t rule it out but the evidence seems thin to say that it definitively happened. I don’t know that you can reliably identify a shock collar versus, as I’ve seen some people contend, a potential AirTag collar on blurry background footage from a webcam

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h

This is not actually a confirmed thing that happened, though, right? This is speculation and some of it is probably bad faith

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6h

I have to say, I am quite pleasantly shocked by how much the Salt Lake City public transit system fucks

The “I was unfamiliar with your game“ meme

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

This happens to left-leaning media all the time? Since when is this a legal reason to block a sale?

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15h

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote for @theverge.com about how immigration attorneys have no real idea how to comply with the administration’s vague “anti-Americanism” and other speech-targeting standards, how this confusion is probably intentional, and how it will likely use automated tools to carry them out

Trump’s vague and confusing immigration policies are the point

Legal experts are bewildered by what that”anti-American ideologies” are.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge in Chicago has found that ICE conducted numerous illegal warrantless arrests in Illinois and nearby states in defiance of a 2022 consent decree. It also prepared post hoc arrest rationales after the fact based on details agents "did not know at the time they made the arrests". /1

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys argued that the recent arrest of an Albany Park family at Millennium Park violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make warrantless arrests.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

I’m totally a bit of a stickler for accuracy and process questions, I get it!

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

It definitely requires a bit of extrapolation, but it is true that Apple is basing the decision on violation of a rule that is explicitly geared towards safeguarding certain protected classes, so it’s a relatively short leap, in my view

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Zee Roth @zeeroth.bsky.social · 1d

"Our only three options are violence, acquiescence, or economic sanctions. I don’t want violence, and acquiescence is out of the question. So let’s kick them where it hurts: right in the economy."

I don't want violence, either. Good ideas here: economic sanctions, denial of infrastructure, etc.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

The American cities Trump has vowed to invade one by one produce 90% of this country's GDP. We must withhold these funds, and our infrastructure, from the United States Government, until these invasions stop

If you only read one thing I've ever written, please make it this

The Point Of No Return

We Are At War, Whether We Want To Be Or Not

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

It’s insane that they haven’t even tried

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe this is naive of me but I had figured that if the fed gov straight up blew some people up it would *have to* provide an explanation to Congress, statutorily. Is “yeah we did that shit and we won’t answers questions about it” really an option under the law?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t know who this guy was five minutes ago but I’ve never wanted to listen to a podcast less and I’m including Rogan

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to Salt Lake City for a few days to do some field reporting on a story that involves immigration to the city. If there’s anything I absolutely should see or experience in this vein (or really in general) feel free to drop it in the comments or DMs

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