Sean McCarrey @MccarreySean

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come. This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

We are all Jay Powell.

In the congressional debate over the 14th amendment, the opponents denounced the idea of granting citizenship to the children of those who "invade our borders" and "settle as trespassers". But Congress did that anyway. Sorry @StephenM. Ethnic cleansing is off the table.

holy mother of god, have mercy on their souls.

WendyFry @WendyFry_

11 months ago

ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…

34 268 441 128K 61

Jose Hermosillo is a US citizen who was detained for more than a week by ICE. The government has insisted that he confessed to illegal entry and that's why they held him for a week. He says that he told them all along he was a US citizen and was pressured to sign a document he couldn't read. I think the facts point overwhelmingly towards a single, obvious conclusion and anyone looking into it in good faith for fifteen minutes will reach the same conclusion. Here are the established facts: Hermosillo is a 19yo from Albuquerque. He was visiting family in Tuscon when, his family says, he had a medical emergency and visited the ER: when they discharged him he tried to walk to the place where he was staying, got lost and encountered Border Patrol. Hermosillo's account is that he told them he was from New Mexico and they accused him of being from Mexico, demanded his ID he didn't have on him, and arrested him. Everyone agrees that two days later he told a judge he was a US citizen, but was still kept incarcerated for 8 more days until his family tracked down where he was being held and brought proof of his citizenship. The government's sworn account in the criminal complaint against him is that agents found him "at or near Nogales, Arizona", 70 miles away from Tuscon, which they later admitted was false. After his story was widely shared, the government asserted that he walked up to Border Patrol and confessed to being an illegal immigrant from Mexico. They released a document signed by him, purporting to be a confession he gave during an interview, in which he claimed to have entered illegally through the desert on April 8 and been picked up by Border Patrol later on April 8. Hermosillo's family says he is intellectually disabled and cannot read. The signature on his confession is clearly that of someone who struggles to write his name. Hermosillo says he was told to sign documents he could not read, but that he never told ICE he was from Mexico, because he isn't. He says he told them he was from New Mexico. So the government account is that an intellectually disabled man wandered up to Border Patrol in Tuscon and falsely claimed to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico. At that time they filed paperwork claiming under oath to have arrested him in or near Nogales, 70 miles south, but they assure us, they otherwise accurately filled out the paperwork in which Hermosillo claimed that his parents were Mexican citizens and that he had snuck across the border through the desert alone the same day he was arrested in Tuscon. (his confession does not explain how he got from Nogales to Tuscon if he entered by walking through the desert alone, probably because when the confession was extracted ICE was claiming he'd been arrested in Nogales.) The government says that after telling this lie at great length on April 9th, swearing to its truth, he then on April 10th at his first court hearing told a judge that he was actually a US citizen and had not entered illegally. And the competing account is that he told them he was from New Mexico all along, they had him sign something he didn't read confessing to illegal entry, and on April 10th he repeated the same story to a judge that he'd said on April 8th and April 9th, which was that he was a US citizen from New Mexico. Now, Border Patrol is well established to files affidavits saying that a person confessed to illegal entry when we know this is untrue. Here, for example, is a case where they claimed a baby was going to Kansas to seek employment:

I'm pleased to announce that over 150 economists and scholars in adjacent fields have signed a declaration opposing the economically harmful, constitutionally dubious tariff policies of the United States. Please add your name at the link below. anti-tariff.org

Threaten to take the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. Insult the EU. Break treaties. Surprise everyone with massive, historic tariffs based on dumb logic so they can’t negotiate. Then, when every country hates you, demand they partner with you against China Art of the deal

@chamath Update?

Reposting this newspaper editorial that a Mississippi court ordered taken down, for the simple reason it was ordered taken down. Don’t mess with the first amendment.

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh

a year ago

Wow: The City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

392 2K 6K 1.8M 870