With Ohio's Haitian refugees losing protected status Monday, Springfield's large population has begun being terminated from their jobs, a pastor who works with them said Tuesday. Now they face being returned to a country facing a humanitarian crisis ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/w...

Ohio Haitians lose jobs, face terror — and impossible choices • Ohio Capital Journal

As thousands of Haitian immigrants lose protected status in Ohio, they face terrifying conditions back at home, pastor says.

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"If I can forgive him, why can't everyone else? I am the one who got shot." Bolts telling the stories others ignore, again boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

In North Carolina, a Shooting Victim Pleads for His Shooter’s Release After 30 Years - Bolts

Ramulus Mason was sentenced to life without parole due to North Carolina’s three-strikes law. The man he shot insists that he shouldn’t still be in prison.

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NEW: The LAPD announced just became the largest police department in the country to drop its Flock contract. This came after an audit found that, in a two-month period, the LAPD improperly "investigated" 161 people whose cars were flagged as stolen in their ALPR system but were not actually stolen.

LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.

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They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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For about 20 minutes, DeWine laid out his own personal history with the death penalty, and various ways he thinks it no longer accomplishes the goal of deterring murder. "I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty."

"Gov. Mike DeWine asked the Ohio General Assembly to abolish executions, and said it should go before the voters, if lawmakers choose not to do so. “'The moral justification I had,' DeWine told reporters, 'no longer exists.'"

WOSU Public Media@wosupublicmedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gov. DeWine plans to make announcement on death penalty in Ohio

Governor Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty. www.wosu.org/2026-06-16/g...

Gov. DeWine plans to make announcement on death penalty in Ohio

As DeWine gets ready to leave elected office, the longtime Republican official has been hinting at publicly opposing capital punishment for some time.

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Editor Brian Lyman writes that last week's battle over Alabama's death penalty underlined an absurd situation: A Constitution that bans cruel and unusual punishments, and a judiciary that almost never acknowledges clear instances of cruelty in capital punishment. https://ow.ly/FUqk50ZblUy

With this outbreak, the Trump administration is finding out that effective government is the only thing preventing serious disruptions to commerce, if not terrible hardship for farmers, consumers, and everyone else. prospect.org?p=139536

So: *Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish. *The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position. *The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law. cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...

“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”

Andy Kim: Nothing's improved since Minnesota—except private prison profits

We spoke to the senator pepper-sprayed outside ICE's Delaney Hall detention center.

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Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

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Judges can scold lawyers or they can issue opinions finding that agents are not engaged in actions necessary to performing a legitimate federal function, clearing the way for state criminal prosecutions. More should consider (b).

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New from me: The first post of a series documenting the brazen lies DHS has told after abuse and violence by ICE and Bordrer Patrol officers. First up: The bumbling, illegal raid on ChongLy Scott Thao and his family.

You can't hide your lying ICE

Documenting DHS lies about ICE and Border Patrol abuses: The illegal raid on ChongLy Scott Thao

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Story on the death of a 19-yo in ICE custody. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/body-ca...

Body Cam Video Shows Rough Arrest of Teen Who Died in Florida ICE Custody

The 19-year-old told police he speaks Tzotzil, an indigenous language from Mexico.

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In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Please share information about #HB249 with people you know online and off, in and outside of Ohio. Lawmakers are counting on people not paying attention.

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#HB249 just passed committee. “A bill that Ohio Republicans say will protect children from indecent exposure counts among its cosponsors a lawmaker whose own conduct toward a minor was described as “concerning and suspicious” by the prosecutor who reviewed an investigation into his behavior.”

Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Trump seems to be saying he’ll send ICE agents to replace TSA officers. “…I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before…”

Texas keeps failing to release people from jail when their time is over, leaving people languishing there unable to be released www.texastribune.org/2026/03/19/t...

Texas jails’ failure to free inmates on time costing counties

The state does not track the prevalence or provide guidance on the issue, leaving inmates to languish in jail and eventually sue counties for damages.

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Heavy-Handed Probation and Parole in Pennsylvania Prevents People from Moving Forward | The Keystone State has the highest incarceration rate in the Northeast and the nation’s second highest percentage of persons on probation and parole, reports @patlamarche.bsky.social.

Heavy-Handed Probation and Parole in Pennsylvania Prevents People from Moving Forward - Bucks County Beacon

The Keystone State has the highest incarceration rate in the Northeast and the nation’s second highest percentage of persons on probation and parole.

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We’re quickly learning that our checks, balances, and separation of powers were always dependent good faith, and therefore incapable of preventing destruction wrought by the very sort of shameless, arrogant, mad president they were designed to contain.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 5mo ago

“largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market”

This is a very important report from @davidkurtz.bsky.social, who was in court for this shocking hearing today. And, Judge Gallagher has, in an order, made clear what she expects tomorrow: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

David Kurtz@davidkurtz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

At @thebarbedwire.com, we’ve been covering Leqaa Kordia’s case since Oct 2025. After a year in custody, including the loss of 50 pounds and a 3-day hospitalization, she has finally been released on a $100,000 bond. Weeks ago, Texas lawmakers called her a “political prisoner” in an “internment camp.”

The Barbed Wire@thebarbedwire.com · 5mo ago

After a year in ICE custody, 33-year-old Palestinian woman Leqaa Kordia has finally been released. Kordia, who Democrats had called a “political prisoner” of the Trump administration, was detained in the Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas.

Sick thing to do to young people fleeing abuse

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 5mo ago

Abused youth were granted special immigration protection. Now some are being detained and deported. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start. so, let me help: here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!) 🧵:

this local election i posted about here is happening in 48 hours. this one is less interesting for what the outcome will be (it's a Trump +50 district) than the fascinating rhetoric of the campaign (see below), but i'm still very interested in seeing how it ends up.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

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By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...