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James Stout

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I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Working on a book about anarchists at war, already wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics. Para todos,todo✌️ https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you’re new here and you’re interested in more of my shit. You can find it at www.patreon.com/Jamesstout and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social . If it’s your first time with the podcast, given current events, I suggest searching “Darién, where dreams die it could happen here podcast”.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 1h

fuck them innocent children, don't they know it was the good guys who murdered them with drones?

JasonArizona @jasonpuckett.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, get those Obama supporters! They really brought this on!! It’s important to remain cynical and never support either party, they are exactly the same

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

This may shock you but some of us have problems with the operation of the federal government that transcends party identification and individual elected officials.

JasonArizona @jasonpuckett.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, get those Obama supporters! They really brought this on!! It’s important to remain cynical and never support either party, they are exactly the same

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

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.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

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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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not saying being mad about it now is wrong. I’m saying that proposing electing the people who also did this as a solution is wrong.

James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

prospect.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 2d

At 10am, Judge Xinis will hold a conference in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas) case. I’ll cover for @lawfaremedia.org. Expected mainly to be about whether to grant Abrego discovery into, e.g., how the govt chose to try to send him Uganda or Eswatini (former Swaziland). ...
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier today there were several FPV drone attacks as well as more shelling. It seems most crossing points between AANES and STG territory are closed and the escalation - while we see encouraging political statements - is still very worrying

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 2d

This is extremely worrying

Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc.bsky.social · 2d

SDF Reports Repelling Multiple Assaults by Interim Syrian Government Forces

SDF Reports Repelling Multiple Assaults by Syrian Government Forces

SDF repelled three pro-government assaults in Deir Hafir, eastern Aleppo, amid escalating clashes. The force also condemned Syrian government shelling of Tishreen Dam and road blockades isolating…

www.kurdistan24.net

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d

I’m going to post one here that just happened that is so upsetting.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 4d

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @jamesstout.bsky.social & Brooke talk with Chip about getting into fixing your car when it feels overwhelming, hard, & expensive. They talk starter tool sets, sourcing parts, & what not to skimp on.
live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/591f...

Chip on Getting Into Fixing Your Car

# Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, James and Brooke talk with Chip about how to get into fixing your car, even though it feels overwhelming, difficult, and expensive. They go...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 4d

man, finding out about this guy is a trip. He seems convinced death from heat stress is an issue of governments making AC hard to get, not climate change. www.thefp.com/p/i-once-tho...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, Wut marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Where to find virgins: go to urban churches - Marginal REVOLUTION

The Man Who Would be Thursday opines: …look for someone at a church in an urban area. For example, evangelicals in downtown Toronto are there because they really believe, while those in rural Alberta ...

marginalrevolution.com

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 5d

not even buried in the story, right there in the Dek. Several people had to read this before it published and apparently they are all deeply unwell.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 9d

Unfortunately there’s been a consenus on that from both parties but Biden set records for dead migrants in the desert

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 10d

At this point, it appears that chain refoulment is the policy aim.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture.

He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 11d

👍 gotcha. Sorry I find this website is very bad for folks explaining shit I already know to me

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 12d

I said CBP defines, not "the statute says"

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 13d

If this is new to you, I'm glad you are learning about it! I highly recommend @memomiller.bsky.social 's book if you'd like to learn more. It may come as a surprise to many of you, but this has been an issue for some time, and many of us have been trying to write about it.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 13d

Because CBP defines each of the great lakes as an international waterway, thus its 100 mile enforcement zone begins at the lakeshore and extends 100 miles.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13d

what border would this Border Patrol say it's patrolling exactly

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 13d

UPDATE — Witness videos captured Border Patrol agents boating down the Chicago River today.

Also, there are multiple anti-ICE protests planned for the Chicagoland area this weekend.

More details ⬇️

thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 13d

an excellent thread on a brutal and increasingly common practice.

Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 19d

1. This (recent) History Thread is about Air Attacks in Myanmar (Burma.) Since Feb. 2021 coup, military regime has constantly deployed bombing & strafing by jet & helicopter, routinely against civilian targets. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21d

Just as a heads up (because I see screenshots from the AF Post account all the time) AF Post stands for America First Post, which isn’t a real news organization, and is affiliated with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 22d

Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.

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