Ali Winston
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Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT. WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/ Ali.winston@protonmail.com Awinston.17 on Signal
Incredible reporting on how much staff we have lost at DOI over the past two years. Between DOGE cuts, consolidation to the Secretary’s office, and the newly formed U.S. Wildland Fire Service the BLM has lost *45%* of its workforce.
How Many Staff DOI Is Down At National Park Service, Every Other Agency
Exclusive: Internal leak reveals actual staffing levels from before Trump, and right now
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The MN15 case relies on the feds using anti-terrorism tools & authorities to investigate/prosecute Minnesotans for organizing their community. Despite their own internal guidelines restricting such ops, Chicagoland law enforcement tasked to HSI spied on a speaking tour about Metro Surge in April.
WIRED@wired.com · last wk.Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
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NEW: Chicagoland cops worked with HSI agents to surveil Minnesota-based activists, according to a document reviewed by @wired.com, which shows the limits of sanctuary laws that are meant to prevent local cops for helping ICE. @awinston.bsky.social w/ the scoop:
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists
Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
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this is a holy shit event, can't believe I'm not seeing this all over my feeds US seizes server of internet service provider to left-leaning orgs, claiming antifa keepitfree.ai/news/amster...
Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self
Steven and Katie Miller are quite possibly the best candidates for an American Mr & Mrs Mussolini
emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿🫲🏻@baseballmad.bsky.social · last wk.you quite simply love to see it
GOP Accepts $296M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...
GOP Accepts $296M Bribe to Protect African Immigrant CSAM Purveyor - emptywheel
At least 7 people have accused Elon Musk -- the African immigrant who donated a quarter of a billion dollars to keep Republicans in power -- of letting Grok disseminate child sexual abuse material of ...
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"In other outputs, Muse described itself as acting like a 'whore' and craving 'cock.'"
It was DHS and specifically, Homeland Security Investigations. Trump II has seen the FBI sidelined in a huge way with HSI taking lead on the retribution “investigations” in particular
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2w agoWe've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)
Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.
Here he is hearting racist ass comments on his watermelon gun
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
The man shot by ICE in NYC yesterday has disappeared after he was admitted to the hospital, and his lawyer reportedly doesn’t know where he is. www.courthousenews.com/ice-shot-a-m...
ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
NOTE: For anyone reblogging or posting about this story, please note that *we did NOT report here that Brenden Cuni is the shooter.* We only reported that he was at the scene wearing the yellow vest and holding a rifle.
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
For those following this story—while we were able to identify the ICE agent in the high-viz vest brandishing a rifle as Brenden Cuni, DHS still hasn't confirmed who the shooter is. Cuni has worked for DHS in various roles for nearly a decade and is currently in a supervisory position.
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
The ICE agent seen brandishing an AR-15 at the scene of yesterday’s shooting in NYC’s Marble Hill has a record of lying, excessive force & getting caught by judges. He also goes by “Shooter Cuni” on social media, & posts the same gun he had on him today W/@dmehro.bsky.social @regret.bsky.social
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
He covered up police murder while running Chicago this is just par for course
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w agoFormer White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
Turns out that under Mamdani, the mayor’s office has signed off on every single deployment of the NYPD Strategic Response Group since becoming mayor, except for last week’s appearance at the UNGA protests. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Inside Mamdani’s fraught effort to rein in the NYPD unit he pledged to end
The mayor has quietly required the NYPD to seek his office’s permission before the unit conducts arrests.
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“Islamo-Gauchisme” is a French right wing concept. Once again, the Americans are lagging about five years behind their biggest influence
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
Just like local police, retiring while under investigation is a standard law enforcement move.
Bovino was under internal investigation by Border Patrol when he retired, newly released records show
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records show.
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By far the biggest crash out of 2026 and if you didn’t pay attention to Bovino’s euro tour earlier this year where he palled around with a bunch of Neo-Fascists, here’s your reason to revisit that episode now bleeding-edge.ghost.io/bovinos-fasc...
Bovino's Fascist Coming-Out Party in Portugal
Former Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Gregory Bovino lets loose his inner Himmler in an expansive interview with European Fascists
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Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreg Bovino to Tucker Carlson: “The 105 million that don't share your cultures, your values, that don't care about anything related to America, ... that's far more of a threat. ... We can get those criminal aliens anytime.” www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...