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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago proper is about 3.5x the size of DC physically and has 4x more people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

one thing worth noting: the total number of National Guard troops deployable to Chicago is 700 (400 from TX, 300 from IL). that is compared to about 2000 in DC and 4,700 in LA at the height of both deployments.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

FPD for Sydney Reid (a woman accused of assault after cops manhandled her for filming an ICE arrest) say that the government did not preserve video that one of the officers watching took, which she claims is exculpatory.

They're moving to dismiss the case.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Other law enforcement officers were present, including Officer Jason Klepec. Officer
Klepec told Ms. Reid that he was filming her, in response to her filming the agents. After Ms.
Reid was arrested, she was put into the backseat of a car driven by Officer Dinko Residovic.
While Ms. Reid was sitting in the backseat, Officer Residovic viewed a video of the incident,
captured by cellphone. Ms. Reid recalls that the video clearly showed what the government has
alleged was an attempted knee to the groin. She recalls that the angle of the video shows that the
knee was not directed at any law enforcement officer but was a reactive movement.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

bit.ly

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7h

And so it begins

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 7h

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss "without prejudice" the charges against Huburt Mazur, who faced a misdemeanor charge stemming from ICE protests in Broadview.

Mazur's preliminary hearing was set for Wednesday morning.

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 9h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 11h

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

Trump wants to see troops in American cities. To him, the factual and legal rationale behind those deployments is unimportant.

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h

Today, Josh Hawley -- who voted to overturn the 2020 election after fanning the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Trump, the same lie that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection that Hawley was egging on -- is outraged the FBI reportedly analyzed some GOP senators' phone records in its Jan. 6 probe.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h

Chuck Grassley is currently complaining about Nellie Ohr in the year of our Lord 2025. Does anyone even remember who Nellie Ohr is

News
Legal Bombshell: Mueller Flipped Trump’s Confidant’s Lawyer’s Friend’s Associate Gorpman (Who Could Testify Against Bleemer!) And It’s Not Even Lunchtime

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

based on the standards set by hegseth and others in the administration, this clearly means that hegseth should be fired

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 16h

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

anecdotally, though, FBI and HSI agents working on complex investigations have absolutely been pulled away from those in order to work as beat cops

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

I did some initial poking around here (www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...) and reuters had a good story a few days ago (www.reuters.com/world/us/did...)—though the question of whether this undermines other investigations will take a while to bear out

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

I think it's more in the opposite direction in DC—ostensible crackdown on petty crime is pulling resources away from more involved long-term investigate work

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

When you are arguing that Schmitt has not been influential in your thinking

As I have pointed out many times, the friend-enemy distinction is fundamental to politics,

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I think this may be because the officers in question in LA/Chicago were ICE/CBP interacting with protestors, while in DC it was various agencies tasked with acting as beat cops

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, based on reviewing the dockets, LA seems worse than DC in terms of aggression by federal officers, and I agree that drawing a gun and actually shooting someone is an escalation beyond what we’ve previously seen

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Same thing happened in LA, same thing happened in DC: prosecutors charged people with assaulting a federal officer and then furiously backpedaled when the evidence didn’t support it

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

just noticed this little detail in Illinois's complaint

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state;
CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

No remote access in this afternoon's hearing in Illinois v Trump—Chicago-based legal journalists, we are counting on you

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

One bad thing I expected to happen, but has not (so far) is a sustained, federal-level assault on reproductive rights, using FDA to relabel mife and miso, and perhaps the Comstock Act to prosecute. Maybe this is just waiting until after midterms, but either way I'd love to see reporting on why

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d

Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

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