Ali Winston
@awinston.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
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Awinston.17 on Signal
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
[email protected]
Awinston.17 on Signal
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Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement. From @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge
Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.
www.thecity.nyc
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Until a few weeks ago, most immigration arrests in NYC were happening at appointments in the Manhattan federal building or immigration offices. That's over: we're now in the randomly-grabbed-while-out-getting-coffee stage of lawless enforcement. From @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
Big ? If this is new or formalizing existing policies/initiatives
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Big ? If this is new or formalizing existing policies/initiatives
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This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This being named a NYT Notable Book of 2025 seems to prove it's thesis
Black Mirror doesn’t have shit on your local DA
So we’re just experimenting with AI in criminal cases huh
“The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
“The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Black Mirror doesn’t have shit on your local DA
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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Gregory Bovino’s deposition is out. Check here and @chicagotribune.com for highlights. Throughout, Bovino was evasive and combative. In this, while being asked about a photo showing him throwing tear gas, Bovino said: “You said canister. I threw two. That’s plural.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gregory Bovino’s deposition is out. Check here and @chicagotribune.com for highlights. Throughout, Bovino was evasive and combative. In this, while being asked about a photo showing him throwing tear gas, Bovino said: “You said canister. I threw two. That’s plural.”
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Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August ~ L.A. TACO
Immigration raids by the numbers, broken down by month, week, and city.
lataco.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
It’s hard to balance a story when one party - the government - lies as it breathes
NEW on Press Watch: DHS’s pack of liars; Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says
presswatchers.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It’s hard to balance a story when one party - the government - lies as it breathes
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The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The change in ICE detentions over the past year. From the newsletter: www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/f48ddd93?m...
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Film harder. Gotta pump those numbers up.
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Film harder. Gotta pump those numbers up.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
TPUSA *are* the folks you’re gonna have to fight if there is a Civil War. That’s how they view the world - just have a clear understanding of why that org is
This is the Turning Point USA spokesperson responding to a recent Islamophobic assault against students at the University of South Florida’s Muslim Student Association where several men associated with Warriors for Christ spit on students praying and waved bacon in their face.
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
TPUSA *are* the folks you’re gonna have to fight if there is a Civil War. That’s how they view the world - just have a clear understanding of why that org is
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I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
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Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
wrd.cm/49u9pdF
wrd.cm/49u9pdF
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A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
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After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
www.ice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
After more than two months with no updates, ICE has finally released new detention statistics.
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
ICE reports a total of 65,135 detainees as of Nov. 16, 2025.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
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if you've never seen the doc "1971," now's a good time
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
if you've never seen the doc "1971," now's a good time
Hate to say it but Charlotte slashed tires, hounded ICE mercilessly and got them out far faster than Chicago did
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hate to say it but Charlotte slashed tires, hounded ICE mercilessly and got them out far faster than Chicago did
New update at Bleeding Edge: The Border Patrol's Highway Dragnet; Bosnian Sniper Tourism; Border Patrol Gone Wild in SoCal; ICE's TX Gulag; Endangered Species Rollback; Tech's Trump Bump; Rikers Violence Spirals; LAPD Bankrupts LA bleeding-edge.ghost.io/november-21-...
Nov. 21 Update: The Border Patrol's Highway Dragnet; Bosnian Sniper Tourism; Border Patrol Gone Wild in SoCal; ICE's TX Gulag; Endangered Species Rollback; Tech's Trump Bump; Rikers Violence Spirals; ...
Zohran Mamdani completed his inexorable ascent to power earlier this month, beating Andrew Cuomo for a second time in six months and becoming the first New York City mayor to win more than a million v...
bleeding-edge.ghost.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New update at Bleeding Edge: The Border Patrol's Highway Dragnet; Bosnian Sniper Tourism; Border Patrol Gone Wild in SoCal; ICE's TX Gulag; Endangered Species Rollback; Tech's Trump Bump; Rikers Violence Spirals; LAPD Bankrupts LA bleeding-edge.ghost.io/november-21-...
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BREAKING: L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman is moving to drop charges against Torrance officers in the 2018 fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, undoing a signature case filed by ex-D.A. George Gascon www.latimes.com/california/s...
D.A. moves to drop charges against Torrance officers in fatal shooting of Black man
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman moved to dismiss a manslaughter indictment against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed Christopher Deandre Mitchell in 2018. Mitchell, a car ...
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
BREAKING: L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman is moving to drop charges against Torrance officers in the 2018 fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, undoing a signature case filed by ex-D.A. George Gascon www.latimes.com/california/s...
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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There was a massive concerted propaganda campaign from the people who control the platforms with the largest audiences in the country to rewrite history and attribute to Trump everything people missed about the pre-Covid world and economy
The baffling part is how many people were giving him the benefit of the doubt in January and now don't approve. They got new information and changed their mind. But he was already president before! How did you not already know he sucks??
Presidential approval polling average approaching Hungry Ms. Pac Man Territory.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There was a massive concerted propaganda campaign from the people who control the platforms with the largest audiences in the country to rewrite history and attribute to Trump everything people missed about the pre-Covid world and economy
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM