Some context on the organizing + strategy that drove last night’s results — and their significance for US politics more broadly. www.notus.org/campaigns/is...
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...
The Trump administration is trying to hit a reset button on the nation’s complicated 56-year history criminalizing marijuana, but regulating a wild plant without simply making it legal is turning out to be a vexed endeavor. My latest @notus.com: www.notus.org/policy/dea-m...
The DEA Makes the Case to Take It Easy on Marijuana
The federal government's long, strange trip toward meeting Americans where they are on weed.
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A new report from Sen. Durbin's staff on migrant conditions at a family center in Texas is devastating. Guards eat candy in front of kids who aren't allowed to have treats. One kid said a guard slowly savored a lollipop "on purpose" to make them "feel bad." www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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I’m hearing from multiple sources that they believe there is indeed a surge happening in NYC. This incident, in Inwood, happened amid multiple days of ICE in the area, as activity was also reported in Corona (Queens), Bensonhurst, Bushwick (Brooklyn), & Port Richmond (Staten Island) this past week.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d agoMasked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
The feds wanted to arrest this woman and take her to DC in a single day, but it didn't work out that way. I have a @notus.com colleague at the courthouse now. News from the hearing soon. www.notus.org/courts/texas...
Texas Immigrant Is First to Face Terrorist Deportation Court
The case against a woman admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident in 2018 is the first in the 30-year existence of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
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Breaking news: we now know the identity of the person the Trump DOJ is trying to deport with a never-before-used "Alien Terrorist Removal Court." It's Nazira Haji Zada, the mother of one of the Afghan men who were convicted of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day 2024.
ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture
Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention, document reveals
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Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminary injunction filed on Monday.
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This is why people describe so many of these policies as part of a death cult.
Evan Simko-Bednarski@simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 2w ago"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda,” a DOT spokesperson told NPR
The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion
Roughly 1,500 Russian troops die or get injured on the front line every day. Ukraine is getting really effective at this.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2w agoRussian troops launched an assault across open fields in the Zaporizhzhia sector on quad bikes. Ukrainian drones quickly struck the attackers, leaving Russian troops killed. #Ukraine
🚨The moment a Palestinian man seized an assault rifle from an armed Israeli settler who was threatening him during a settler attack on the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus. The Times of Israel, citing an Israeli military statement, said dozens of Israelis... ...More details in the post below ⬇️
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2w ago🚨 Footage captures the moment an Israeli settler opened fire and killed 4 young Palestinians men as they confronted a settler attack in the village of Tel, southwest Nablus, Friday morning.
🚨 Footage captures the moment an Israeli settler opened fire and killed 4 young Palestinians men as they confronted a settler attack in the village of Tel, southwest Nablus, Friday morning.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2w ago🇵🇸4 Palestinians were killed & 4 others wounded, three critically, after Israeli settlers attacked the town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, under the protection of Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The min. said Israeli troops opened heavy live fire on residents who came...
We don’t talk enough about how good ‘Batman: the Animated Series’ looked.
He couldn't keep his name on the Kennedy Center, so now... this? www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/23/f...
Feds look to rename Penn Station, potentially for Trump, in transit priorities letter
In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees, Duffy lists “administration priorities” for the federal rebuilding of the nation’s busiest rail hub.
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Another day in NYC federal court. This time, I'll be in the courtroom for the NY Times fight to stop the DOJ from intimidating reporters and forcing them to give up their sources on this story: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey
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I've unearthed the bizarre backstory behind this Kafkaesque secret court that was suddenly awakened by the Trump administration. I talked to the only living judge who first sat on it. He tells me he got the job by playing tennis with the chief justice. @notus.com: www.notus.org/trump-white-...
A Decades-Old Terrorist Deportation Court Is Being Used for the First Time
Judges on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, created in 1996, have never heard a case — until now.
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When two artists paint the same view: Rue de la Chausée à Argenteuil, painted on the same day in 1872 by Claude Monet & Alfred Sisley, friends and founding figures of French Impressionism, who set up their easels side by side en plein air. Private Collection | Musée d’Orsay
Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s criminal trial in New York City will start in June 2027. https://www.notus.org/courts/judge-maduro-criminal-trial-june-2027
Judge Sets Maduro Criminal Trial for June 2027
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein noted that he would have to spend significant time privately reviewing sensitive evidence behind closed doors.
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New from the courtroom: Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's criminal trial in NYC is set to start June 1 next year. Maduro looked healthy, entering the courtroom at noon in his tan prison uniform & saying "good morning" to the packed room. He made a tight smile under his signature mustache.
I'm about to walk into the Manhattan federal courthouse for the latest hearing in the government's case against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The Trump admin is no longer blocking him from using Venezuelan funds to pay for his lawyers. We'll soon know when the judge will set the trial.
It's history, sure, but Melber had Navarro on his show because I wrote this story first and got Navarro to detail his plan. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-adviso...
Trump Adviser Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden’s Electoral Win
“It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them…”
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litzz11@litzz11.bsky.social · 2w agoRemember when Peter Navarro went on Ari Melber's show and basically described the whole plan? And when Ari said "do you realize you're describing a coup," Navarro couldn't process that information? That was fun. people.com/politics/ari...
New: A judge has unsealed the NYT's request for the court to quash the subpoenas against its journalists. NYT says the subpoenas are "an instrument to chill criticism of the administration" and they "conflict both with the law and fundamental First Amendment principles."
The U.S. is using its military to kill a foreign ally's civilians at sea to enforce economic policies. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/w...
Inside the Deadly U.S. Airstrike on a Shadow Fleet Tanker
Evidence suggests the ship on which three Indian sailors died was not moving when it was struck in the Gulf of Oman, but it had been engaged in risky offshore transfers of oil.
nytimes.com
Oh right, we're in Hudson News now! Get an Onion while your flight is delayed because of the things likely outlined in the paper.
Catesby Holmes@catesby.bsky.social · 2w agoSpotted at LGA @bencollins.bsky.social
