NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

NEW: EPIC and partner organizations just filed an emergency motion in their class action lawsuit to stop the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful creation of “national data banks” containing millions of Americans’ sensitive information. epic.org/press-releas...

American democracy needs grand experiments like those of a century ago: new institutional forms that provide a way for increasingly alienated Americans to connect to one another and to the prosperity of the richest nation in the world.

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Jeffries: "Why don't Republicans want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Is it the Epstein files?"

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Save the date: On Oct. 8, Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a press conference — joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse — to discuss the discharge petition to force a vote on Khanna and Massie's bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.