Dan Friedman
@dfriedman.bsky.social
Mother Jones reporter. Covering corruption, foreign influence. Derrick White enthusiast. Signal: danfriedman.67
“The Trump administration opened the floodgates for these predatory companies to come in and profit off of detaining human beings.” By @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, @schwellenbach.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
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There's a nasty fight between DHS contractors battling each other over deportation dollars and accusing each other of benefitting from a rigged system. Caught in the middle are immigrants, as @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, and I detail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
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A few overlooked details from my July 18 piece on Rep. Max Miller—threading them below. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Haitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.
“the 2-year-old daughter of a congressman and granddaughter of a US senator wound up with a broken collarbone. ‘The bruising surrounding the clavicle fracture made the injury suspicious,’ wrote one of the detectives who summarized the Zoom meeting.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "I've been portrayed as an abusive husband, an abusive father, and a violent man…Let me begin with the most painful accusation of all — I have never abused our daughter."
Throwback to when I was living at the reflecting pool.
Trump is losing his war on algae
A weird weekend of pond scum, lots of cops, and no antifa at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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NEW: DOJ now says it was was snookered by Interior Department into indicting Olympian David Hearn when officials "clearly" knew of multitude of issues w/reflecting pool renovation by Trump's 'pool guy.' @USAttyPirro drops the case. More via @eperezibarguen www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Exclusive: Katie Miller has called for Anthony Fauci to be jailed. But since-redacted excerpts from his diary suggest the two had a close relationship in 2020. www.notus.org/health-scien...
Redacted Fauci Diary Entries Depict Him Personally Helping Katie Miller
Katie Miller, who has since called for infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci to be jailed, has said Fauci’s diary entries are self-aggrandizing.
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Following my 7.18 reporting, the Democratic Women’s Caucus will call for a House Ethics investigation into Rep. Max Miller. “The recent reports of domestic violence & child abuse against Representative Max Miller are deeply disturbing & Congress can’t ignore them," -Reps. Fernandez, Sykes & Scholten
Thread of updates on an unusually busy day in ICE flights. This Omni ICE flight just landed in Laos. Passengers have been shackled for 25+ hours. There is likely at least one more stop. 1/
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.Overnight this Omni ICE removal trip refueled in Anchorage and is now likely headed to its second refueling stop in Guam. It’ll be another 10 hours at least before it makes its first removal stop. The people onboard have been shackled for at least 14 hours so far.
The Trump administration is sitting on more than $7 billion meant for big transit construction projects around the country: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Congress Budgeted Billions for Big Transit Projects. Trump Isn’t Spending It. (Gift Article)
“It’s hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants.”
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I talked to On the Media’s @micahloewinger.bsky.social and their amazing producer Molly Schwartz Rosen, about my ICE flight reporting, third-country removals, and the professional pickle I am in. Starts at 34:00: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
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March in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department
Trump orders the National Park Service to post signs attacking the Smithsonian. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
We've reached "the President wants you to call the federal government to have your disfavored neighbors forcibly removed from the country" stage of "small government conservatism," articulated in the "hip" youth culture idiom of "maxxing."
(Repeating from a few months ago): “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the most unfortunate owner of a paper factory
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agocult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
At the same time Jonathan Burkan is working to make Pete Hegseth richer, he also acts as a high-level advocate for Israeli interests. Don't miss @dfriedman.bsky.social's new report on the far-right Israeli interests circling top Trump officials.
This weird claim reminds me of Trump's bizarre fiction that criminals used to regularly hold up DC restaurants. Feels like he's closing on combining hysterias by saying trans swimmers were knocking over urban steak houses across the land, and sending the proceeds to ISIS, until ICE CECOTed them all.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "We had transgender for everybody. Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."
Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com
Interesting suggestion here that bitterness drove Woolsey's move from Clinton Democrat to neocon Iraq War fan and Trump backer. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
You know the ICE officer who killed someone in Maine and was then accused by two ex-wives of abuse? Turns out he was likely eligible to skip a significant portion of training after ICE hired him, due to a policy change under this administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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The problem with the administration making this claim is that it would require asserting their humiliating loss to the Reflecting Pool Algae was secretly a win for Cuba.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 2w agoAntifa put algae in the Reflecting Pool and Havana is behind antifa therefore Cuba sabotaged the Reflecting Pool.
As Hegseth, a key backer of the Iran disaster, testifies in the Senate, recall that his personal wealth manager also acts as a lobbyist for group working to influence him to “promote pro Israel policies." Hegseth won't comment substantively on the relationship. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
He’s Hegseth’s wealth manager. He also pushes “pro-Israel policies” like war with Iran.
How the man working to make the defense secretary rich helped lay the groundwork for Trump's disastrous attack.
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It's funnier that DeChambeau supposedly did this in England. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
DeChambeau accused of threatening to call Trump in row over Open penalty
Bryson DeChambeau has been accused of threatening to call Donald Trump during a row with senior R&A officials over his two-stroke penalty
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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
During a probe into possible child abuse, the ex-wife of Rep. Max Miller accused him of throwing hot water at her, shoving her, and holding a gun to her head. He denied the claims. But court records show Miller has faced allegations of getting physical with a woman before. ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Maybe Trump has "concepts of a plan" to steal the midterms. Which is sorta similar to mid-2020. Back then he had an intention to falsely claim victory if he lost, with loyalists then hustling to flesh that out. And by election day that become a plan. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump's speech last night mostly confirmed my suspicion that he doesn't have some grand plan to steal the midterm elections. Not that folks shouldn't be vigilant. He's putting his desire for others to attempt to steal local elections out there, and some people will listen.
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
