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“This is a very different situation than anything we’ve seen in the past in terms of just the routine and really brazen use of force in violation of people’s rights.”
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“This is a very different situation than anything we’ve seen in the past in terms of just the routine and really brazen use of force in violation of people’s rights.”
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After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
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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.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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Federal prosecutors dismiss charge against Charlotte ICE protester | By @oehrli.bsky.social
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Federal prosecutors dismiss charge against Charlotte ICE protester
The CMS bus driver recently released footage from the protest at the Tyvola Centre Drive ICE office where she was arrested.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Federal prosecutors dismiss charge against Charlotte ICE protester | By @oehrli.bsky.social
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To try to avoid the Trump administration’s ire, Duke has instructed faculty not to speak to reporters dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Duke has sought to tighten faculty media engagement to minimize federal scrutiny
The messages reflect a broader University strategy: keeping Duke out of the national spotlight by exercising caution at the faculty level when it comes to politically sensitive topics.
dukechronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
To try to avoid the Trump administration’s ire, Duke has instructed faculty not to speak to reporters dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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Pretty amazing that former Meck sheriff (and ICE official) Jim Pendergraph acknowleges—while defending Trump's CBP operation in Charlotte—that he hired unauthorized immigrants to cut his lawn www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol’s Charlotte sting reaches into country clubs, upscale shops
As undocumented immigrants stayed home and federal agents swept through the city, even the wealthiest neighborhoods got a glimpse of what life without migrants might look like.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Pretty amazing that former Meck sheriff (and ICE official) Jim Pendergraph acknowleges—while defending Trump's CBP operation in Charlotte—that he hired unauthorized immigrants to cut his lawn www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“The ‘Fight Club’ group does not plan to target incumbents, or the two Democratic candidates widely seen as Mr. Schumer’s strongest recruits, former Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio and former Gov. Roy Cooper in North Carolina”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“The ‘Fight Club’ group does not plan to target incumbents, or the two Democratic candidates widely seen as Mr. Schumer’s strongest recruits, former Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio and former Gov. Roy Cooper in North Carolina”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
“It’s absolutely shocking and illegal. And it fits this Administration’s general pattern—draconian, cruel processes that create a spectacle and coerce people into leaving of their own accord.”
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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
“It’s absolutely shocking and illegal. And it fits this Administration’s general pattern—draconian, cruel processes that create a spectacle and coerce people into leaving of their own accord.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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def too early for this from a state Supreme Court justice
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
def too early for this from a state Supreme Court justice
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NEW and IMPORTANT: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEW and IMPORTANT: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
“If the agenda is to deport people and you want people to give up and agree to it, threatening them with jail time is one way to do that.”
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US criminal immigration cases overtake drug and fraud prosecutions
Threefold increase comes as Trump reshapes law enforcement, FT analysis of court filings shows
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November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“If the agenda is to deport people and you want people to give up and agree to it, threatening them with jail time is one way to do that.”
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So, get this: Louisiana has made it nearly impossible to get parole. Except for undocumented immigrants. Now the state is rushing to release some of those prisoners to deport them. 🤔
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So, get this: Louisiana has made it nearly impossible to get parole. Except for undocumented immigrants. Now the state is rushing to release some of those prisoners to deport them. 🤔
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
By @richardawebster.bsky.social and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick @veritenews.org
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One of many reasons I think that people should read/support the Times despite very valid (and oft grossly inflamed, imho) critiques is its photojournalism, which is outstanding. Very very very few outlets do anything like it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
One of many reasons I think that people should read/support the Times despite very valid (and oft grossly inflamed, imho) critiques is its photojournalism, which is outstanding. Very very very few outlets do anything like it.
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Another day, another candidate filed w/ the FEC for #nc11
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November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Another day, another candidate filed w/ the FEC for #nc11
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1/3 🤏🧵
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Agents of course have been breaking many car windows -- with kids inside, and leaving people bloodied and traumatized.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Agents of course have been breaking many car windows -- with kids inside, and leaving people bloodied and traumatized.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
update: "it sounded like a bomb went off."
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November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
update: "it sounded like a bomb went off."
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Weird Stephen seen convulsing and shrieking through the West Wing
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Weird Stephen seen convulsing and shrieking through the West Wing
"Reports of ICE and CBP in Asheville have been disproven as advocacy organizations and tip lines have kept a close eye on the area."
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Immigration actions: What is happening in Western North Carolina?
Immigration enforcement activity has heightened across North Carolina this week, beginning with U.S. Border Patrol and ICE operations in Charlotte that caused business closures and widespread communit...
nclocal.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Reports of ICE and CBP in Asheville have been disproven as advocacy organizations and tip lines have kept a close eye on the area."
nclocal.org/2025/11/20/i...
nclocal.org/2025/11/20/i...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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The most comprehensive story yet about Fernando Vazquez, the 18-year-old U.S. citizen who was abducted by federal immigration agents from a construction site in Cary, North Carolina. @ncnewsline.com #ncpol
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The most comprehensive story yet about Fernando Vazquez, the 18-year-old U.S. citizen who was abducted by federal immigration agents from a construction site in Cary, North Carolina. @ncnewsline.com #ncpol
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Thom Tillis wants answers from Homeland Security on Operation Charlotte’s Web #ncpol
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Thom Tillis wants answers from Homeland Security on Operation Charlotte’s Web
Sen. Thom Tillis used a Senate hearing Thursday to demand answers about what’s happening to NC residents apprehended by Border Patrol.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thom Tillis wants answers from Homeland Security on Operation Charlotte’s Web #ncpol
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DHS now saying more than 370 arrested in NC so far
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
DHS now saying more than 370 arrested in NC so far
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An update on Fernando Vazquez, the U.S. citizen who was hauled away from a construction site in Cary, North Carolina. From Willie Daniely at WRAL. www.wral.com/news/local/f... #ncpol
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
An update on Fernando Vazquez, the U.S. citizen who was hauled away from a construction site in Cary, North Carolina. From Willie Daniely at WRAL. www.wral.com/news/local/f... #ncpol