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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 9h

These fights over Trump's troop deployments will inevitably make their way to the Supreme Court.

And when they do, Trump's conservative justices will have to face Perry's observation that placing soldiers on American only worsens a situation the White House started.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 10h

Summary: it's hard to trust ICE at this point!

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 10h

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 13h

Looking scared when confronted by masked armed secret police is officially a reason why they can now detain you.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago"

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

Quote:
Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 19h

Marco Rubio co-signed a letter in support of the nomination of María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s the letter he and several other GOP lawmakers sent to the Nobel committee last year. Mike Waltz also co-signed the letter. www.rickscott.senate.gov/services/fil...

www.rickscott.senate.gov

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21h

Damn straight.

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21h

Bien hecho.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela – as it happened

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

One way to deal with the threat of overwhelming force and violence is to... laugh in its face.

🐸🐸🐸🐸🦄🦝🐻‍❄️🦈🦚🐼🦖

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Lost amid the revenge indictment shuffle today:

Rep. Jamie Raskin has launched a congressional investigation into that classified DOJ OLC memo authorizing Trump government killings in Caribbean waters.

www.notus.org/congress/ras...

Top Judiciary Democrat Wants Congress to See Secret DOJ Memo Green-Lighting Caribbean Boat Strikes

Trump “does not have the power to assassinate civilians on his say-so,” Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote to the DOJ.

www.notus.org

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

It's utterly infuriating.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

I watched it immediately and holy crap

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Quite the moment in that Chicago courtroom where a federal prosecutor tried to convince a judge that it's okay for the Trump White House to deploy Texas soldiers as an anti-crime force in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

She was indicted for bank fraud & lying on financial documents.

It was a conscience-shocking act of poetic revenge, with the Trump-run DOJ accusing New York's AG of essentially doing the same thing Donald Trump *actually* did — but on an infinitesimally smaller scale.

www.notus.org/courts/letit...

Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Indicts NY AG Letitia James

James oversaw a civil case concerning Trump's real estate empire in 2023.

www.notus.org

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking news: Court records now show that the indictment against NY AG Letitia James has been filed.

It's in the eastern district of Virginia, and once again Lindsey Halligan is the only listed prosecutor.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

I can't stop thinking about this.

You and I have "Miranda rights" that require cops to notify us of our right against self-incrimination.

Will the Supreme Court someday use this case to establish "Miranda 2" rights against unexplained and violent abductions by masked secret police?

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 2d

We've all seen that movie scene. It's usually written that way to indicate who the antagonists are.

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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