Paul Monies
@pmonies.bsky.social
“Bluesky ain’t real life.” 🤷♂️ Native Scotsman. Honorary Texan and Okie. Reporting without fear or favor. #FOI Send me news tips: [email protected].
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Paul Monies
@pmonies.bsky.social
· Feb 7
I’ve been waiting here since September. Just sayin’…. 😉
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Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year.
A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.
Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.
A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.
Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.
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...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Some 600 immigrant kids have been sent to federal custody by ICE this year.
A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.
Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.
A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.
Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.
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Oh just a chill Tuesday in 2025 when the Pentagon press corps is replaced with a disgraced Congressman, a Pizzagate proponent and a 9/11 Truther. Totally normal stuff here.
Scenes from today's first briefing at the Pentagon for the new MAGA influencer "press corps":
⦁ Matt Gaetz, in a "Representative" fleece, 13 months after he resigned
⦁ Jubilation from InfoWars host: "It's like I'm dreaming"
⦁ Podium selfies galore
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⦁ Matt Gaetz, in a "Representative" fleece, 13 months after he resigned
⦁ Jubilation from InfoWars host: "It's like I'm dreaming"
⦁ Podium selfies galore
wapo.st/4owTBdQ @scottnover.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Oh just a chill Tuesday in 2025 when the Pentagon press corps is replaced with a disgraced Congressman, a Pizzagate proponent and a 9/11 Truther. Totally normal stuff here.
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This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
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The CEO of Google admits that Google search provides more accurate information that the company’s AI.
He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."
He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The CEO of Google admits that Google search provides more accurate information that the company’s AI.
He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."
He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."
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get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing
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The #Oklahoma Supreme Court issued two decisions regarding the #OpenRecordsAct, one establishing that jail trusts cannot claim the same privacy restrictions as law enforcement agencies, and another saying the law does not establish a right to #metadata.
nondoc.com/2025/12/02/o...
nondoc.com/2025/12/02/o...
Oklahoma Supreme Court decides Open Records Act cases on jail trusts, metadata
The Oklahoma Supreme Court issued decisions in two Open Records Act cases Nov. 25, 2025, setting precedent about jail trusts and metadata.
nondoc.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The #Oklahoma Supreme Court issued two decisions regarding the #OpenRecordsAct, one establishing that jail trusts cannot claim the same privacy restrictions as law enforcement agencies, and another saying the law does not establish a right to #metadata.
nondoc.com/2025/12/02/o...
nondoc.com/2025/12/02/o...
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NEW: President Trump has repeatedly threatened to bring federal agents, or even soldiers, to San Francisco to battle crime. His administration has actually done the opposite, quietly taking federal law enforcement away from the city to do immigration work instead.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: President Trump has repeatedly threatened to bring federal agents, or even soldiers, to San Francisco to battle crime. His administration has actually done the opposite, quietly taking federal law enforcement away from the city to do immigration work instead.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Uhh. Does nobody fact-check these Oklahoma Supreme Court opinions before they're issued? Outlook was most definitely around prior to 2012.
#FOI #transparency
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#FOI #transparency
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Uhh. Does nobody fact-check these Oklahoma Supreme Court opinions before they're issued? Outlook was most definitely around prior to 2012.
#FOI #transparency
www.oscn.net/images/opini...
#FOI #transparency
www.oscn.net/images/opini...
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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An Oklahoma Watch investigation reveals a long-running, deceptively modest civil action alleging an insidious scheme worth billions of dollars, perpetrated by Oklahoma’s largest writer of homeowners insurance.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
An Oklahoma Watch investigation reveals a long-running, deceptively modest civil action alleging an insidious scheme worth billions of dollars, perpetrated by Oklahoma’s largest writer of homeowners insurance.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
“For many in the Trump White House, that blurring of business and geopolitics is a feature, not a bug. Key presidential advisers see an opportunity for American investors to snap up lucrative deals in a new postwar Russia and become the commercial guarantors of peace.”
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“For many in the Trump White House, that blurring of business and geopolitics is a feature, not a bug. Key presidential advisers see an opportunity for American investors to snap up lucrative deals in a new postwar Russia and become the commercial guarantors of peace.”
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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Sink drug boats and kill the survivors (no evidence offered), pardon drug kingpins convicted in court of law (lots of evidence offered) — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Sink drug boats and kill the survivors (no evidence offered), pardon drug kingpins convicted in court of law (lots of evidence offered) — www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Not sure I've seen a line like this before in the Fed's Beige Book. From the latest Kansas City region summary:
"One firm remarked that now was the best time to get a tattoo, as even top artists have more open appointments than usual."
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
"One firm remarked that now was the best time to get a tattoo, as even top artists have more open appointments than usual."
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Not sure I've seen a line like this before in the Fed's Beige Book. From the latest Kansas City region summary:
"One firm remarked that now was the best time to get a tattoo, as even top artists have more open appointments than usual."
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
"One firm remarked that now was the best time to get a tattoo, as even top artists have more open appointments than usual."
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypoli...
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Oklahoma’s $2 billion tobacco settlement trust just escalated its anti-ESG push — putting five asset managers on notice for not aligning with “Oklahoma values” in shareholder votes.
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Oklahoma’s $2 billion tobacco settlement trust just escalated its anti-ESG push — putting five asset managers on notice for not aligning with “Oklahoma values” in shareholder votes.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Oklahoma’s $2 billion tobacco settlement trust just escalated its anti-ESG push — putting five asset managers on notice for not aligning with “Oklahoma values” in shareholder votes.
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Oklahoma’s $2 billion tobacco settlement trust just escalated its anti-ESG push — putting five asset managers on notice for not aligning with “Oklahoma values” in shareholder votes.
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Proud device hoarder here. Still rocking my pre-pandemic iPhone 11. 🤷♂️
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Proud device hoarder here. Still rocking my pre-pandemic iPhone 11. 🤷♂️
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They made significantly more criminal arrests this year, but the number of people indicted stayed roughly flat. They opened many fewer “significant cases”—like into global crime syndicates like drug cartels—than the previous year. Human trafficking arrests up, but agents helped 20% fewer victims.
Amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown, special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
Internal documents reveal the impact on crime fighting as the Trump administration diverts special agents to its mass deportation agenda.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They made significantly more criminal arrests this year, but the number of people indicted stayed roughly flat. They opened many fewer “significant cases”—like into global crime syndicates like drug cartels—than the previous year. Human trafficking arrests up, but agents helped 20% fewer victims.
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A professor at the University of #Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday, posting- "It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had." okcfox.com/news/local/o...
OU professor with valid visa reportedly released from ICE custody
UPDATE:Dr. Vahid Abedini, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday.Dr.Abedini posted on
okcfox.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A professor at the University of #Oklahoma, has been released from ICE custody after being detained on Saturday, posting- "It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had." okcfox.com/news/local/o...
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.
The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
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Breaking: The six Democrats now confirmed they've been contacted by the FBI.
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Breaking: The six Democrats now confirmed they've been contacted by the FBI.
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
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Missouri AG, seeing petition signature gatherers having success in challenging the latest Gop gerrymandering of the state, baselessly tells ICE the petition workers are illegal immigrants, so they'll go jump them and interrupt their work.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group
The attorney general did not provide any evidence to support her claims, which the campaign called false.
www.kansascity.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Missouri AG, seeing petition signature gatherers having success in challenging the latest Gop gerrymandering of the state, baselessly tells ICE the petition workers are illegal immigrants, so they'll go jump them and interrupt their work.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...