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[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people so their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release.

Now that rule has been dropped.

[Sarah Pierce @SarahPierceEsq]

THIS! I am still surprised it hasn't gotten more attention.

Republicans are signing off on the admin doing whatever it wants on immigration for the next two and a half years. They're willingly giving up their last meaningful tool for oversight.

[Dr. Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης @SasanianShah]

گریه‌ام بند نمی‌یاد. آخه چرا؟ چرا؟ این وقایع گند اخیر و جنگ هم حتماً کمک نکرده. ای وای.

[🌬Emory like Memory @EmoryMort]

As long as “scrolling thru instagram ingesting slop” counts as reading we still have lots of very literate people

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The polycrisis expands: https://t.co/jdVtOftaPu

[Brookings Foreign Policy @BrookingsFP]

"Our latest poll brings home the rising public fear that, regardless of the war’s aims, the United States is not perceived to be winning. This view extends across all segments of the public, including Republicans over 35 years old." @ShibleyTelhami writes: https://t.co/Ld1o9empqN

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

All week, administration officials have been saying publicly that the war against Iran is over, and that any military action undertaken against Iran is defensive.

Meanwhile, CENTCOM is posting everyday about actions taken in support of a blockade on Iran. Blockades are recognized as acts of war under international law.

[Nick Turse @nickturse]

Another extrajudicial killing yesterday.

Two more civilians murdered.

https://t.co/14AxBQZqD3

[🌬Emory like Memory @EmoryMort]

“From expenditures made by the U.S. DoD in Sep 2025, the final month of its fiscal year, during which it spent $93.4 billion, 152% more than it had, on average, in the preceding 11 months. These figures were tabulated by J Portnoy at the nonprofit watchdog org Open the Books.”

[Jonathan Guyer @mideastXmidwest]

via @Harpers

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Update: @TriciaOhio has now quietly deleted this post, even though she issued it in her role as @DHSGov comms chief at the time.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

“Our conclusion: the Iran War is worse than a failure. It's a strategic calamity with no notable achievements and potentially trillions in direct and indirect costs to the US and global economy.”

[Cate Brown @catebrown12]

NEW: A Guardian review of thousands of DOJ-released Epstein records found that Ben Black— now the Senate-confirmed head of the $205bn @DFCgov — once invested in the same company as Epstein and maintained social ties with him for years afterward.

https://t.co/SXVZQNJ85Y

[Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel]

Ukraine launched dozens of drones at targets in and round St. Petersburg, where Russia's marquee economic forum gets underway today. A major oil terminal was hit; local governor says various buildings damaged. No casualties reported yet.
(source: https://t.co/Z0Qf3gi45I)

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. https://t.co/ahoPNpCSNd

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:

https://t.co/z9eRSlkwQ8

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

It took two decades, but we’ve gone from a majority of Congress voting for a war of choice to voting against one. It reflects everyday Americans’ broad opposition to the human, economic and moral costs of the reflexive militarism that has long defined the US foreign policy elite.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

The people I've met this week in Iran speak of terrible loss: homes, family members, life savings, but also of the traumatising impact the war has had on children.

Now, economic pressures are robbing them of their hope for the future.

It is vital that we support both the vulnerable Iranian and Afghan refugee population, to prevent a further deepening of this humanitarian crisis.

[🌬Emory like Memory @EmoryMort]

Politics different in every state

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: They tried to run Kemp, but he refused. So we're left with the congressman who's only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman and the coach, who's only a coach because his daddy was a coach.

It doesn't matter which one wins . They're both Trump puppets and we'll beat either one of them in November

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Hezbollah says there’s been a significant development that could serve as a basis for further progress in bringing about comprehensive and full ceasefire … but adds “Rubio attempt to promote formula #Beirut for north Israel didn’t succeed”

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk