CJ Ciaramella

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getting public records, calling people up and asking them questions ... you know, they should make this a real job and have someone do it in every town.

A Minnesota Police Chief Said ICE Was Harassing Residents. Here Are Some of Their Stories. Residents of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say in interviews with Reason that encounters with ICE left them afraid and angry.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents?

I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

'Constitutional trainwreck': Florida lawmakers seek surveillance crackdown The legislation, which has come under fierce criticism from civil-rights and free speech advocates, represents another expansion of Florida’s security apparatus under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

NEW: A package of bills advancing through the Florida Legislature would empower the governor and Cabinet to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations” based on secret evidence.

floridatrib.org/2026/03/03/c...

Picked this up from my library a bit ago, and it's one of those books where you finish a chapter and then have to put it down and go take a walk. Just gut punch after gut punch.

I don't know if its officially part of the sub-genre, but I submit Cocaine Country Dancing by Paul Cauthen, which really nails its intended vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RlK...

"Is Goofy The Buddha" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

the student asked the great zen master, "does Goofy have Buddha nature?"

The master replied, "gawrsh."

I like it when the kid gets banished (presumably to a hell dimension) for losing

If I go postal one day, just know it was always the leaf blowers.

Look at me, I'm an antisocial dipshit who owns a vacation house in Florida. I pay landscapers to blow leaves out of my yard once a week because I can't tell the difference between money and toilet paper.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

The government is facing a lot of skepticism thus far in US v. Hemani oral arguments. Tough questions from Sotomayor, Jackson, Barrett, and Gorsuch. All focused on Hemani's marijuana use in particular rather than the broader drug prohibition.

Video shows border patrol threaten legal observer in Key Largo for following him Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.

CBP and ICE have been running all over the Florida Keys for months. This is the fourth instance I've seen of someone getting harassed or detained for filming them. Previous coverage here: reason.com/2026/01/12/v...

Video: 'You're not free to leave.' US Border Patrol agent puts bystander in handcuffs. After arresting a local man on Stock Island, a US Border Patrol agent stopped a bystander who’d been recording the incident and demanded his ID without first offering a reason.

Blatant retaliatory detention in Key West for filming a Border Patrol agent gwenfilosa.substack.com/p/video-your...

falconmaxxing on the falconer, gyremogging on the rough beastoid

LucasArts was wild for this one

Anyway, my latest story is "The Trump Administration Made Habeas Corpus Great Again." reason.com/2026/02/27/t...

petition for writ of are you sure though?

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

"tripe, gizzards, offal, trotters, things such as that"

It’s the @cjciaramella.bsky.social “my boxes” theory but with hundreds of billions of dollars of American taxpayer’s money.

send this to a millennial today to cheer them up

when you and the boys get a little too rowdy

Trust me, you don't want to see "too casual" for the Margaritaville in the Tampa airport.

In honor of Student Press Freedom Day, here's a throwback to the time a Kentucky high school paper used public records requests to reveal that the state police used Hitler quotes in their training slides manualredeye.com/90096/news/l...

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.