Tyler McBrien

Managing Editor, @lawfare. Writing in @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @TheAtlantic, @Slate, @MotherJones, @newrepublic, and more.

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[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

Do you like cool maps? Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a Bloomberg Terminal for life? Do you sometimes have trouble suppressing an irresistible urge to “monitor the situation”?

If so, my new essay in @thebafflermag on OSINT slop and vibe coded dashboards is for you!

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Woman at the cafe just told the barista she was at the Knicks game last night and everyone surrounded her all misty-eyed asking her what it was like to be there like she witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall

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God i love new york. Where else in the world can you watch a basketball game

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Link to the full GAO report, "Immigration Detention: Waste and Performance Issues at Camp East Montana Provide Valuable Lessons for Future Facilities," here: https://t.co/EmZaCieosH

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Wild: to meet senior leader demands to sharply increase detention capacity, ICE & Army turned to a pool of contractors w/ no "prior experience providing detention services" to run Camp East Montana—then awarded a contract but "did not review the contractor's approach" beforehand

[Kevin McNellis @kevin_mcnellis]

GAO just published a must-read report on East Camp, Montana, the 5,000-person ICE camp outside El Paso. The Army and ICE rushed to build this facility in 2025.

The report documents repeated financial waste and violations of ICE's own detention standards. Including a detainee homicide where the contractor destroyed evidence related to the event. (1/3)

[tanvi @Tanvim]

"even soft-on-crime DA Bragg would find him guilty"

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If you were thinking that surely the body of the article will shed some light on such an incomprehensible headline, you would be absolutely wrong!

[New York Post @nypost]

Rubio and UFC will sign deal to use cage fights for diplomacy https://t.co/sHWn5DSvPU

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link: https://t.co/4a16vUybl5

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Unfortunately for all of us, @jason_koebler's line "the Depravity Economy has no bottom" continues to age like fine wine

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Let's check in on how this product is going! (thread)

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Read the full text of the Senate version of the Right to Record Act here: https://t.co/5R5uRMPGnB

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Senate version of Blumenthal/Frost's bicameral Right to Record Act (below) would add new legal consequences for federal/immigration enforcement officers who prevent (already constitutionally protected acts of) recording/observing/peacefully protesting law enforcement activities

[Benjamin S. Weiss @BenjaminSWeiss]

🧊RECORDING ICE: I got the text of @RepMaxwellFrost’s bill making it illegal for federal agents to stop people from recording their activities.

Notable: Bill would bar feds from threatening a person filming them w/ adding their info or “biometric characteristics” to a database.

[Benjamin S. Weiss @BenjaminSWeiss]

🧊RECORDING ICE: I got the text of @RepMaxwellFrost’s bill making it illegal for federal agents to stop people from recording their activities.

Notable: Bill would bar feds from threatening a person filming them w/ adding their info or “biometric characteristics” to a database.

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.

Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.

https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI

[Erik Uebelacker @Uebey]

The man who allegedly drank 48 beers and then threatened to shoot and kill any ICE agents who came to his door has been found not guilty of threatening a federal officer.

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Read the complaint in full here: https://t.co/788xli2Ahg

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NEW: Watchdog @weareoversight submitted a complaint to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleging Kristi Noem may have violated the Hatch Act by taking a taxpayer funded trip to a Republican event in June 2025 and DHS's use of its official Flickr to publicize Noem's attendance.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

At least 97 people Trump gave clemency for Jan. 6 have been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crimes unrelated to Jan. 6 since that day five years ago.

(via @lawfare)

https://t.co/rjgc26zXZD

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Link: https://t.co/WAuz4FVN14

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Read @lukebroadwater's @nytimes coverage of @lawfare's Jan. 6 clemency study below:

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NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

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Read it on @lawfare here: https://t.co/QBnXqQnLtI

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.