Patrick G. Eddington
@pgeddington.com
Out now: The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley through Eisenhower. Order direct from GU Press & use code TGUF to get 30% off: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Triumph-of-Fear
Views mine alone.
Views mine alone.
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Attorney General Dan Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Justice will open a formal investigation into the Border Patrol shooting that left two people injured in Portland.
January 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Attorney General Dan Rayfield says the Oregon Department of Justice will open a formal investigation into the Border Patrol shooting that left two people injured in Portland.
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What if we covered Trump’s America the way Western media cover “authoritarian regimes” abroad?
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
January 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
What if we covered Trump’s America the way Western media cover “authoritarian regimes” abroad?
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
@premthakker.bsky.social reports on an unarmed civilian killed by state agents — and the propaganda campaign that followed.
Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...
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"I Married a U.S. Citizen!" Screams Man as ICE Agents Drag Him Away While He Was Working At Minnesota Target 1/8/26
January 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"I Married a U.S. Citizen!" Screams Man as ICE Agents Drag Him Away While He Was Working At Minnesota Target 1/8/26
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- House committee votes to subpoena Seth Harp for Venezuela reporting
- @johncusack.bsky.social wants to talk about paywalls
- The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
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- House committee votes to subpoena Seth Harp for Venezuela reporting
- @johncusack.bsky.social wants to talk about paywalls
- The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
- Plus, what we're reading...
Identifying government officials is not ‘doxxing’
FPF lawsuit sheds light on ICE surveillance
freedom.press
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):
- House committee votes to subpoena Seth Harp for Venezuela reporting
- @johncusack.bsky.social wants to talk about paywalls
- The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
- Plus, what we're reading...
- House committee votes to subpoena Seth Harp for Venezuela reporting
- @johncusack.bsky.social wants to talk about paywalls
- The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
- Plus, what we're reading...
In politics, we rarely experience moments that offer true clarity on a given issue. This is one of those moments. The choice: lethal tyranny v. validating human lives and individual freedom.
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
In politics, we rarely experience moments that offer true clarity on a given issue. This is one of those moments. The choice: lethal tyranny v. validating human lives and individual freedom.
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4th Cir. holds that it violated the First Amendment to convict Virginia man of soliciting treason for his inflammatory, disturbing, and deeply offensive post-9/11 statements which urged no concrete criminal plan or provide assistance to crime.
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
January 9, 2026 at 7:27 PM
4th Cir. holds that it violated the First Amendment to convict Virginia man of soliciting treason for his inflammatory, disturbing, and deeply offensive post-9/11 statements which urged no concrete criminal plan or provide assistance to crime.
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
Huge case.
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/144...
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
Awesome they did this PSA. Horrific that they had to do so because of the violent, unwarranted lethal actions of agents acting on the orders of a would-be dictator in the White House.
If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
January 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Awesome they did this PSA. Horrific that they had to do so because of the violent, unwarranted lethal actions of agents acting on the orders of a would-be dictator in the White House.
Reposted by Patrick G. Eddington
If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
If you are a small business or property owner, you have the right to not allow ICE onto your property without a signed judicial warrant. Please come out to Central Ave to support our immigrant owned businesses and look out for your neighbors.
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
Know your rights: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...
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I promised you some good news after a bleak week.
Here it is. This is one of the most wrenching wrongful convictions I've ever written about.
It is wonderful to see Charlie out and off to his new home.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/after-35-y...
Here it is. This is one of the most wrenching wrongful convictions I've ever written about.
It is wonderful to see Charlie out and off to his new home.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/after-35-y...
After 35 years in prison, Charlie Vaughn is free
Vaughn, an Arkansas man with a severe intellectual disability, spent decades in prison for a murder he did not commit. He was finally released on Friday.
radleybalko.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I promised you some good news after a bleak week.
Here it is. This is one of the most wrenching wrongful convictions I've ever written about.
It is wonderful to see Charlie out and off to his new home.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/after-35-y...
Here it is. This is one of the most wrenching wrongful convictions I've ever written about.
It is wonderful to see Charlie out and off to his new home.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/after-35-y...
Assisting a failed president & failed candidate in attempting to stay in power in violation of the Constitution and other applicable law is not the kind of thing for which people should receive a pardon or any form of clemency unless the person is terminally ill.
Gov. Polis tells CBS that Tina Peters' sentence is "harsh" and he's considering clemency for her. Peters, sentenced to 9 years on 4 felonies, has never disavowed her role as county clerk to breach her own election system to prove Trump's lie that he won 2020.
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
January 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Assisting a failed president & failed candidate in attempting to stay in power in violation of the Constitution and other applicable law is not the kind of thing for which people should receive a pardon or any form of clemency unless the person is terminally ill.
@evacide.bsky.social is one of the most experienced & knowlegeable anti-electronic surveillance activists in the country. Pay very close attention to this 🧵
Some more thoughts on ICE protests and the tools described in this 404 article: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
@evacide.bsky.social is one of the most experienced & knowlegeable anti-electronic surveillance activists in the country. Pay very close attention to this 🧵
None of it was justified & it violated long-standing DHS policy in this area:
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
January 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
None of it was justified & it violated long-standing DHS policy in this area:
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...
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JUST IN: Reps. Massie and Khanna say "DOJ cannot be trusted" to release all of the Epstein files, urge a federal judge to appoint an independent overseer to make it happen. khanna.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
January 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident.
@startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
@startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.
ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis is identified
Jonathan Ross, a Minnesota-based agent, was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing motorist.
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident.
@startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
@startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
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"It doesn’t give me much comfort in reading news reports that someone described as a legal observer was shot yesterday in Minneapolis"
Judge cites fatal ICE shooting in declining to immediately dismiss lawsuit over use-of-force tactics in Chicago
Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/08/l...
Judge cites fatal ICE shooting in declining to immediately dismiss lawsuit over use-of-force tactics in Chicago
Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/08/l...
Judge cites Minneapolis shooting by ICE agent in declining to immediately dismiss lawsuit over use-of-force tactics in Midway Blitz
A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday cited the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis in declining to immediately dismiss a lawsuit that led to her landmark injun…
www.chicagotribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
"It doesn’t give me much comfort in reading news reports that someone described as a legal observer was shot yesterday in Minneapolis"
Judge cites fatal ICE shooting in declining to immediately dismiss lawsuit over use-of-force tactics in Chicago
Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/08/l...
Judge cites fatal ICE shooting in declining to immediately dismiss lawsuit over use-of-force tactics in Chicago
Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/08/l...
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Every.Last.Word. 💯👇 #Minnesota
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Every.Last.Word. 💯👇 #Minnesota
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🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
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This would be a lot funnier if it weren't true.
DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This would be a lot funnier if it weren't true.
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Charlottesville, remember Heather Heyer
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Charlottesville, remember Heather Heyer
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My Cato colleagues have long spotlighted how the presumption of regularity skews outcomes toward the Executive in unjustified ways. Two years ago, in FBI v. Fikre at SCOTUS (challenge to inclusion on No-Fly list), our @pgeddington.com said the presumption should not excuse gov't gamesmanship. /2
FBI v. Fikre
The voluntary cessation doctrine ensures that defendants cannot avoid a judgment on the merits by strategically mooting a case.
www.cato.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM
My Cato colleagues have long spotlighted how the presumption of regularity skews outcomes toward the Executive in unjustified ways. Two years ago, in FBI v. Fikre at SCOTUS (challenge to inclusion on No-Fly list), our @pgeddington.com said the presumption should not excuse gov't gamesmanship. /2
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[butterfly meme] is this the party of federalism and the 10th Amendment?
Noem on Minnesota officials: "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
January 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
[butterfly meme] is this the party of federalism and the 10th Amendment?
In 2024, the House passed the "Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act" offered by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) & Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH). The Senate never took it up, and this is result.
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
In 2024, the House passed the "Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act" offered by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) & Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH). The Senate never took it up, and this is result.
Reposted by Patrick G. Eddington
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...