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Matt Cameron

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Stopping deportations since 2006. On mic at Opening Arguments (@openargs.bsky.social), on keys with Scarlet Flannel, on amphetamines (most days). Read my journal at http://deportnation.com

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · Aug 15

"THE BIG FREEZE is [] radical guerrilla tactics. But I also believe that if we can’t cabin immigration enforcement away now as the known province of white nationalist Nickelback fans who are hopelessly bad in bed and never tip more than 10% that we don’t stand a chance of stopping what’s coming."

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP ICE NOW

it's going to take all of us, but we can all do this

deportnation.substack.com

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks. You're absolutely welcome to think the interview sucked and that we sucked for doing it, but on principle I'd rather let people listen for themselves to decide how fair your characterizations of it have been here than fight with you on bluesky

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 12h

What a supremely fucking shitty thing to say

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 1d

the book was written and came out after Trump had already been elected, after an election cycle in which CNN/Tapper spent (as I understand it) hours a day covering Trump. The Biden story was fair journalistic game and I'd rather have had Tapper write it than Piers Morgan or whoever

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 1d

idk maybe I'm just biased bc I don't think that Joe Biden should have ever had a first term, let alone that anyone should have allowed to him consider a second

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly never understood why Jake Tapper took so much heat over the Biden book, especially after I actually read it, but even with all of our reservations about the state of the media rn we thought it was well worth having him on to talk it (and a lot of other things) out. I'm glad we did!

Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · 1d

Good news, Bluesky: we had @jaketapper.bsky.social on to answer for his deeply divisive reporting on the mysterious drama and questions of competency which have surrounded a famous American family beset by tragedy. (We also have a few questions about that Biden book.)

youtu.be/SK27sVty29Q?...

Jake Tapper on his new book, and the controversy surrounding his last one

YouTube video by Serious Pod Network

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 1d

Never stop saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground."

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6d

it is a lot more complicated than that but this isn't the place to get into it

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6d

Not on the merits--they just used it to destroy universal Injunctions on the shadow docket and then pretended that they would reach the merits someday

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6d

To say it yet again and call this shot clearly: of all of the wildly illegal second term Trump policies, the birthright citizenship EO is the one wildly illegal second term Trump policy that SCOTUS--yes, even this SCOTUS--will not abide. It is a layup, and preserves some kind of normalcy somewhere

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6d

"just because we wrote a hundred pages about this nonsense doesn't mean we're actually taking it seriously" is one of the better judicial dunks I have seen in awhile

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 6d

POV: your band is playing a gig at an art museum and decides to do a Taylor Swift song that just came out a few hours ago

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests.

All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 8d

There was a noticeable difference between “feds are in town” and “feds are in town and now being paired up with MPD units.”

They went from bumbling around on the Mall to surgical strikes in migrant neighborhoods & targeting key commuter roads for working class neighborhoods at rush hour.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

this article shows how critical local partnerships are for ICE to hit their numbers, which is why you should keep the pressure on your local city governments to refuse cooperation with them

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 8d

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data.

We detail how that happened:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d

exactly, like most legal analysis these days that "fwiw" was doing a lot of work

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d

very cool and totally normal to not update the standing orders of 2 days prior to let us all know that!

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d

fwiw designating it a "non-international armed conflict" actually takes things *further* from AEA territory because per the Geneva Convention it is explicitly acknowledging that TdA is non-governmental, at least as I understand the situation & controlling law so far

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d

per the 9/29 memo they were only designated that way for detained matters, per usual for shutdowns. Did I miss some superseding guidance?

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 7d

Why are non-detained removal proceedings still happening in immigration courts around the country right now? EOIR's standing orders only allow enough operations to cover detained matters. I'm sure someone is on this, but I would really very much like to know.

www.justice.gov/eoir/immigra...

Immigration Court Operational Status

www.justice.gov

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

I have a severe and intractable sleep disorder, would be the relevant context here

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

the Trump administration has apparently decided to continue operating the immigration court system (an executive department within DOJ) full-speed during a government shutdown despite its own directive a few days ago that EOIR would only be handling detained cases

www.justice.gov/eoir/immigra...

Immigration Court Operational Status

www.justice.gov

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

"Democrats have shut down the government."

This is at the top of the immigration court's website on the DOJ homepage. This is just how the government talks now.

header from DOJ website stating "Democrats have shut down the government" from screenshot taken 10/1/25

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 8d

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Mayor’s Blowout Victory Jilts CEOs Seeking New Direction

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that’s putting city business leaders on edge.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

Good point, and I didn't know that!

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