Judge Holden Caulfield

Judge Holden Caulfield

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Independent as a hog on ice

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Hot tip: The No. 1 way to keep ICE and other nosy neds out of your phone is to keep it updated and ✨turn it all the way off and on✨ everyday.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com

"DHS, flush with funds and new hires, is now Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing... [unseen] since the fed govt’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the 60s/70s anti-war mvmt"

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For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

daylightsandiego.orgICE detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San DiegoPrivate prison company CoreCivic confirmed that someone in its custody died on Oct. 24 in one of the housing units.

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Alex Pretti's father delivered a message to U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Dan Rosen and Attorney General Todd Blanche: “Look in your heart and do what is right, share the evidence now so prosecutors can follow the facts and hold these men accountable. Do your job and stop shielding Alex’s killers.”

bit.lyLive: Alex Pretti family holds first public event since fatal shootingPretti’s parents are scheduled to hold a news conference on Tuesday, around nine months after Pretti was killed by federal agents.

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“America has no culture” ummm what do you call crashing the global economy every 20 years?

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Related: A joint venture between SK2 and Rudiarius LLC — two firms associated with ICE's infamous warehouse scheme — was recently awarded $655 million to build new detention infrastructure at Gitmo, among other things. The work also includes secure holding cells in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

projectsaltbox.comFirm that brokered ICE's warehouse deals wins $655 million contract to build at sites from Honolulu to Guantánamo BayThe joint venture pairs SK2, which helped the agency buy warehouses for detention, with a company tied to a Boston developer whose name appears on ICE's property deals.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

In a phone call from Mogadishu, one of the Somalis who was sent to Guantanamo Bay before deportation said the ICE agents guarding the prison told him they would bring all of the Somalis they arrest to Gitmo.

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In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

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⭕️Mayor Mamdani’s NYPD's planned deal w/ Israeli firm Cognyte for an AI-powered phone tracker builds on nearly 2 decades of secretive cell-phone surveillance. 🔹The dep't used "Stingray" devices, which pose as cell towers to force nearby phones to connect, 1,016 times b/w 2008 & 2015 w/o a written...

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com

⚡️ Mayor Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a 3-year, $750,500 no-bid contract w/ Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones & can be mounted on police cars & drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported. Cognyte...

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Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its ads focus on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign website never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

propublica.orgMissouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans SentimentTwo years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

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Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

independent.comICE Detains Special Needs Student, U.S. Citizen Near Santa Maria High SchoolRapid Response volunteers witnessed the student being tackled and left with injuries requiring surgery.

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It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

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NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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Feels important to share with Bluesky that Dude Wipes, the Houston Dynamo's 'Official Back of Jersey Partner and Exclusive Disposable Wipes Partner,' has coined the bespoke tagline "Space City has Uranus covered" and splashes it across the pitchside advertising boards at Shell Energy Stadium

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This guy opened his speech with “Good Moleman to you”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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AIPAC-linked Empowering Black Americans PAC drops $778,000 on ads attacking Abdul El-Sayed on behalf of Mike Rogers. The group has previously spent heavily in support of Rep. Wesley Bell and has also spent $10,000 attacking Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

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Half a page for a random golf tournament and a tiny spot at the bottom of the page for the historic #allforcity Open Cup win?!?! Post-dispatch, what the heck are you even doing??

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"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

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SCOOP: I've obtained documents showing an ICE flight is scheduled to land Thursday or Friday in Equatorial Guinea -- where Ahmed Soliman is still imprisoned and seriously ill, despite a federal judge ordering his return to the US more two weeks ago. prospect.org/2026/10/21/i...

prospect.orgA Rescue in Equatorial Guinea, or Another Immigrant Expulsion? - The American ProspectDocuments show an ICE flight is expected to land in the African country where immigrant Ahmed Soliman, who a federal judge ordered to be returned, is currently imprisoned.

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I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

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Under previous admins, a green card holder reentering the US who had a flag for a possible fraud issue re: an arrest which occurred TWO DECADES in the past would have, in most cases, been released with a Notice to Appear. But the Trump admin mandates detention. So a man is dead.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

radleybalko.substack.comHer fiancé and caretaker was murdered by a far-right extremist. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned the killer. My interview with Whitney Mitchell.For my new podcast, The Watch With Radley Balko, Mitchell and I discuss Abbott, the coming election, and the legacy of Garrett Foster, her late fiancé

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

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We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

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ICE goons in Long Beach intentionally hit U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez with an unmarked vehicle as he rode his bike, tased him twice and then broke his arm while they pinned him face down in the gutter. Lawless fascist thugs.

lbwatchdog.comICE assaulted a Long Beach resident, causing serious injuries, family saysRicardo Gonzalez, a U.S. citizen born in California, was reportedly hit by an unmarked federal vehicle, tased twice and then handcuffed while face down in the gutter screaming that his arm was broken.

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A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

texastribune.orgMigrant found dead at Laredo Processing Center run by ICEThe death was confirmed by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, who said the 56-year-old Mexican national was found unresponsive in his cell. He’s the seventh person to die while detained by ICE this year.

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Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

This is a really striking tweet.

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We live in a white supremacist country run by white supremacist fascists. This is inexcusable. It's everyone's job to fight this bullshit the rest of our lives.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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