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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 19d
New release for ICE Detention Facilities scraper v 1.1.0-alpha1, a python script greatly enhanced. Now can collect prisoner data on each facility, carefully matched addresses & more. new contributor overhauled everything in detail. Volunteers tested!
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...
Release 1.1.0-alpha1 · Open-Security-Mapping-Project/ice_detention_scraper
Large rewrite of the ice_detention_scraper, many thanks to @johnseekins and a couple volunteers who tested the many new refinements and additions. This brings us up to more than 190 facilities, man...
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2h
Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech.

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Texas’ attorney general compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

My latest for @thebarbedwire.com

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/08/k...
Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech
Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Ken Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h
Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 4h
one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h
Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h
I would actually point out that the level of resources, the number of members of leadership that are involved, etc. in Chicago demonstrates just how little bandwidth they actually have for this.

They can do a city or two with token forces AT MOST.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 4h
that's right Kash and all we have are Mids
Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h
This is almost as bad as the infestation NYC saw in the 1970s, in which violence would often break out between the Baseball Furies and the Gramercy Riffs or you'd be caught in a rumble between the Lizzies and the Boppers. Terrifying times.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 4h
that's right Kash and all we have are Mids
Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h
Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...
“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute. Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.” Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues. “I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration. “There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
CNN’s Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalists—including two New York Times reporters—serving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel's Likud regime win its “information war” against Palestinians.
Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”
Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.
www.dropsitenews.com
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d
It sure looked like Greg Bovino was in charge of the Illinois State Police yesterday in Broadview. Still waiting to hear back from Pritzker's office on this.
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Andrew Lopez @andrulus.bsky.social · 1d
the fact that there's an energy source responsible for life on earth that will just keep stably emitting tons of energy for another five billion years and that the most powerful country in the world has an administration that wants to wholly reject harnessing it is crazy
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 5h
You cannot be fucking serious
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
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Hexadecimal @bobtheguardian.bsky.social · 3h
Allowing tech companies to control app distribution was a mistake in 2008 and it’s a mistake today.
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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 2h
another filing in DC military case
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Trump Litigation Bot @trumplitigation.bots.law · 2h
New filing: "District of Columbia v. Trump (Deployment of National Guard in D.C.)"
Doc #63: Joint MOTION for Protective Order by PAMELA J. BONDI, DANIEL P. DRISCOLL, PETER B. HEGSETH, GADYACES S. SERRALTA, DONALD J. TRUMP,…

[full entry below 👇]

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The entry's text: Joint MOTION for Protective Order by PAMELA J. BONDI, DANIEL P. DRISCOLL, PETER B. HEGSETH, GADYACES S. SERRALTA, DONALD J. TRUMP, UNITED STATES ARMY, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE. (Attachments: # 1 Stipulated Protective Order)(Azimpoor, Kian) (Entered: 10/08/2025) Thumbnail of page 1 of the PDF linked above. Thumbnail of page 2 of the PDF linked above. Thumbnail of page 3 of the PDF linked above.
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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 2h
homeland security barber investigations
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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 5h
“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂
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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 3h
Israel has been ripping off 3d models from Scotland for its propaganda videos theferret.scot/idf-scottish...
The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d
The MAGA #SCOTUS is enabling "Trump engage in a spree of autocratic vandalism that broadly corrupts" the fed. govt but will likely shut down those "king-like" powers if Ds are positioned to take over.

@brianbeutler.bsky.social ▶️ why GOP operatives in SCOTUS robes have made court reform essential. ↘️
"Thus, over the first months of his second term, the court has settled into a new rhythm: When Trump needs freedom from injunctions and restraining orders imposed by lower courts, the Republican justices race to his rescue, typically without explaining themselves. Then, they hit the brakes, giving him plenty of running room to engage in illegality before issuing decisions on the merits. This is dirty pool, and the justices aren’t even really trying to conceal it. But I don’t think most Democratic critics of the court have thought through how this approach can be used to give Trump a one-time only pass to break laws and steal spoils that will never apply, under their eventual precedents, to future administrations. Perhaps the Republican justices simply think there will never be another transfer of power. But their approach is consistent with another strategic objective, too: allowing Trump to engage in a spree of autocratic vandalism that broadly corrupts the federal government, before shutting down his claims to king-like power in a way that prevents Democrats from quickly fixing things in 2029."
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Andrew Notarian (he/him) @anotarian.bsky.social · 3d
I used to be the guy on Twitter reminding people that contractors like me do not get back pay. “And then also contractors experience permanent economic harm because they don’t get back pay.” Thanks to OMB Circular A-76 far more of the federal workforce is contractors than you know.
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The 51st @51st.news · 3d
ICYMI, the federal government is still shut down.

Here's what that means for the people of D.C.
The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for D.C.
You can’t legally get married, for one, and the city’s economy will take a hit.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d
Her explicit reason for leaving, by the way, was that when she live-tweeted a staff meeting and accused her colleagues of hating free speech and they publicly pushed back, management refused to discipline them for arguing with her. You can understand most contemporary media dynamics from that alone.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d
It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d
As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d
Gasoline sells at a DEEPLY subsidized rate of 12.3¢ per gallon in Venezuela, but costs more than $4 per gallon in Trinidad which is just six miles away from the coast of Venezuela. There’s a much greater chance that Trump murdered people bootlegging gas than drugs.
globalpetrolprices.com C ① GlobalPetrolPrices.com Countries Gasoline prices Diesel prices LPG prices = Venezuela Gasoline prices, liter, 01-Sep-2025 Venezuela Gasoline prices Liter Gallon VEF 0.840 3.180 USD 0.035 0.132 EUR 0.030 0.114 Venezuela: The price of octane-95 gasoline is 0.84 Venezuelan Bolivar per liter. For comparison, the average price of gasoline in the world for this period is 30.93 Venezuelan Bolivar. The chart below shows the price of gasoline in the country relative to other countries. Use the drop menu to see the prices in gallons. On the graph, the prices for the countries indicated with a * are updated on a weekly basis. The prices for the other countries are updated on a monthly basis because these countries have regulated fuel markets and prices do not change frequently. The subsidized price of 0.1 USD on the chart is for the first 120 liters a month only for people with a valid Fatherland Card. Purchases above 120 liters per month are charged at 0.50 USD per liter. Also, the price listed on this page is the official gasoline price. However, during times of fuel shortages in Venezuela, there is a black market for fuel with prices that can exceed substantially the average international price levels. Download data API Forecast
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hongpong @hongpong.bsky.social · 1d
he just stops talking on a dime after "plenary authority" and stands there blinking bsky.app/profile/lega...
i assume its the same as "plenary indulgences" in Dogma
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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d
miller’s handlers reigned him in quick after he mentioned “plenary authority” live on cnn re the national guard debacle
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