If you ever figure out who is in a position to actually do something about all this stuff that should "never have" happened, do let us know. Perhaps someone in the Senate? RE:

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Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov)

Mayor Ras Baraka has been released, but he should never have been arrested by Trump to begin with.

Yeah, this. RE:

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Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social)

I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. Yo...

Randomly, a couple of weeks ago I changed my default interaction settings so that to reply to me you needed to be following me (or me following you or mentioning you) and at a first pass, it has decreased the amount of drive-by idiocy in my replies by a noticeable amount. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifxuic3mbgnhojzy2teowsaiieucos57lxqwqvlvvox6ujh5z3t54

YES! RE:

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Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social)

Rumeysa Ozturk is free! Video now on MSNBC

DHS's propaganda spin to justify arresting Newark's mayor is quite something. [www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/09/members-congress-break-delaney-hall-detention-center ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreib7sakn5gsc7ypmxlcju573f7gmob6tiqyfqt75aori5s53p5dffi

Just want to point out the Fox chyron there... "Dem Reps who stormed NJ ICE facility..." Stormed? RE:

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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)

Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not...

Eh. ICE HSI also was the group that seized a bunch of websites, including public forums because of a false report from the RIAA that they were dens of piracy. I'm going to stick to my claim that ICE HSI has always been trash. RE:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

ICE HSI used to have pretty good relations with Congressional Dems, as they were seen as a more normal law enforcement agency which genuinely did s...

Wrote about Judge Sessions ordering Rumeysa Ozturk be freed, including the absolutely infuriating events that led up to this, the DOJ's weak defense of what they had done, and DHS's obnoxious response to all this... Oh and the absence of some high profile "free speech warriors" from all this. RE:

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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)

Judge To ICE: No, You Can’t Actually Kidnap Students For Writing Op-Eds There have been so many absolutely crazy stories in the first few month...

Holy shit indeed. RE:

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Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com)

Holy shit. ICE just arrested the mayor of Newark https://pix11.com/news/local-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-taken-into-custody-by-ice-in-new-jersey/

Some bit of good news! RE:

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Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com)

**** Judge Sessions GRANTS BAIL/RELEASE to Rümeysa Öztürk: "The court finds that [Rümeysa Öztürk's] continued detention cannot stand."