engaged in yet another hachette job I see

Plenty of time to do Truman numbers by November

ICE Is Planning New Fast-Track Construction Contracts An RFI released this morning details plans for a nationwide network of flexible construction contracts

ICE has been using a Navy logistics contract to outfit detention warehouses with minimal oversight. New documents show it may want its own construction contracting vehicle — one that's faster and less transparent.

@em-knepp.bsky.social, @ripest-plum.bsky.social, and @mwriston.bsky.social report.

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Even setting aside the spending cuts needed for this, a 25% across-the-board cut to state income tax gives $0 to the senior living on Social Security and would give $189,000 to a health care executive earning $8.5 million (for example). #mepolitics

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

'Unaccompanied': Migrant kids spent months languishing in foster care as their parents fought to get them out Inside a New York Cayuga Centers foster facility, six children who crossed the border to reunite with their families say staff used threats of deportation to discourage them from misbehaving — or comp...

NEW: In a Harlem foster home, migrant kids say staff threatened to deport their parents if they misbehaved.

I talked to a family of six kids, ages 3-15, who say HHS unlawfully kept them in the foster center, refusing to release them to their parents.

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article

Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help

Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...

this shit is maddening—invoking the 25th is very clearly a worse option than impeachment, but impeachment wouldn’t allow Congress to sublimate their responsibility for removing Trump like cowering behind a turncoat cabinet and VP would! they *still* think there are personal electoral consequences!

‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center

"What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said."

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

things are going great in the BOP as always, i see!!

We're not "extra" dysfunctional on the Lefts. We're just much less resourced. This assessment puts me in the minority on my side of the political spectrum.

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

The Largest Gang Raid in NYC History Swept Up Dozens of Young People Who Weren’t in Gangs The prosecution of the Bronx 120 raises serious questions about due process and the abuse of federal conspiracy charges.

I think if you spend like, 20 minutes reading about the basic facts of "precision policing" in NYC, you start to have real questions about how "precise" its targeting is. If you compare it to interventions in other cities, NYPD looks to be running a dragnet.

theintercept.com/2019/04/25/b...

It’s a brilliant tax because when they say “but the billionaires will leave” you get to say “they already don’t live there”

Judge Compares Federal Bureau of Prisons to “Soviet Gulag” In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical neglect.

Judge Compares Federal Bureau of Prisons to “Soviet Gulag” theappeal.org/federal-pris...

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One January 2025 legal filing on behalf of a man stopped and searched by police in Harrisonburg, a rural city on the edge of Shenandoah National Park, describes how the state’s probation and parole department has provided monthly lists of people with waivers to the Harrisonburg Police Department. According to the legal filing, city police officers regularly make calls to the dispatcher to ask whether a particular person is on the list. The man, who was searched during his stop because his name was on the list, ultimately had his case dismissed after it was revealed that police were relying on an old list when they searched him. Aaron Cook, a Harrisonburg attorney and president of the Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told Bolts that prosecutors have used the waivers in every felony plea deal in the city for more than a decade. Some of his clients have had their waivers extended along with their probation because they were unable to pay court costs. “It was so ingrained that you had to sign it or you didn’t get your deal,” he said. “There’s a lot of issues with it.”

Virginia’s governor vetoed a bill that would’ve blocked prosecutors from forcing people to waive 4th Amend rights during plea deals

@laurengill.bsky.social reports how some VA police depts turn these waivers into a sort of dragnet for warrantless searches boltsmag.org/virginia-fou...

This was seventeen years ago today. Can’t help wondering how different things would be now if rhe architects of the torture program had been held accountable in some way rather than honored and appointed to more presigious posts. www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/u...

the first time i saw a $60 alibaba drone loitering above a $7 million APC i knew my student loans would never be forgiven

For The Marshall Project, Kwaneta shared her experience going through menopause in prison. It involved months of pain, waiting, and uncertainty.

I honestly don’t like Platner but I get why everyone here does. And it’s not because they’re stupid and uneducated, as you implied

Your comment wasn’t about him. It was about Mainers in general. you’re backtracking

And if they do, all Mainers are dumb racist hicks right?

conditional solidarity with the poor and working class is no solidarity at all

this kind of seething contempt toward Mainers, which promoted ignorance and caricatures of people who live here and what they’re dealing with, is gutter behavior and speaks poorly of self identified ”social democrats”

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on