Reddit has been ordered to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington DC to unmask an anonymous user who criticized ICE — seemingly the first known instance of a major tech company being hauled before one of the secret panels as part of the president’s immigration crackdown
Friday was my last day at Rest of World. I'm grateful to @mvzelenks for bringing me onto his ace team and for the cool stuff I worked on (links below).
Hiring managers: Reporters tell me I'm a pretty great editor, and I'd like to keep editing investigations or other enterprise.
Here in Minneapolis, Trump border czar Tom Homan has announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, the largest immigration enforcement operation in history — with some important caveats.
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This is trend is consistent w/ recent @Reuters reporting that ICE has been referring several people a day in Minnesota to federal prosecutors for charges of interfering w/ law enforcement, storing data on their activities in government databases.
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These efforts also echo reporting by @kenklippenstein , which in recent months has revealed a growing network of government watchlists aimed at what the Trump administration has described as “the enemy within.” kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-s…
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.” interc.pt/3O5sv1a
While much of the chatter around border czar Tom Homan’s takeover of ICE operations in Minnesota has focused on a relatively small reduction in numbers, another trend has emerged in recent days: intense focus on observers documenting the agency’s operations.
On Friday, three observers were taken into custody in three separate incidents in south Minneapolis in a span of less than 30 minutes.
The arrests come as Homan has declared that full federal withdrawal is contingent on an end to “the resistance.” theintercept.com/2026/02/09/…