Andrew Thrasher

I'll just note that SOUTHCOM's Commander Donovan + Marco Rubio have both used the same exact phrase, "Now is the time", in messages supposedly directed to the Cuban people since Friday.

Re-upping this after seeing @mattyglesias.bsky.social imply that it's bad to have a rooting interest in other countries' elections.

There's something very broken in a worldview that is more inclined to wonder about the "practice of democratic self-government" via the reaction of random members of the public to foreign election results than say...the VP of the US flying to Hungary to stump for Victor Orbán.

Re-upping this after seeing @mattyglesias.bsky.social imply that it's bad to have a rooting interest in other countries' elections.

Heavener, OK: "Police Chief Joshua Butler said the department will no longer participate in any programs tied to ICE or Homeland Security Investigations, a reversal that comes less than two months after the department joined the federal 287(g) task force model."

"The operation led to multiple detentions and several arrests for state-law and local-ordinance violations, Butler said, after reviewing what happened that day. Butler and city leaders agreed that same night to terminate the task force agreements..." hoodline.com/2026/10/heav...

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

Also really enjoy this new exhibit in the "What's the difference between being arrested and being detained?" saga.

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

And I expect these types of detours are growing increasingly common, especially In states where municipal PD participation is high, like Texas and Pennsylvania. cc: @willbunch.bsky.social

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

"They abolished Ingram’s city administrator position and took direct control of the Police Department, cycling through chief after chief. Five former city employees say Hawkins regularly used racist slurs for Mexicans."

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

As a white man who has met thousands of older white men in my time, I'll go ahead and generalize here to say those six white men on the small town council in Kerr County, TX are the type to be violently and erratically hung up with hearing neighbors jokingly refer to Ingram as mini Guanajuato.

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

As the article explains, Ingram was hit hard by the devastating flash floods that killed over 25 people at nearby Camp Mystic over the July 4th weekend in 2025. In fact, ingram's elementary school was a reunification center for families of kids at Mystic and other nearby camps.

Ok, toddler is down for a nap + the dog is walked, so let's do a quick thread on what stood out in this story. "Whole neighborhoods had emptied out, and residents noticed fewer drivers on the streets. In part because of the money from ICE, the Police Department had hired two additional officers."

First, a glimpse into how Ingram's PD ended up in 287(g): "...was under pressure from the City Council to do more: more traffic stops, more citations, more arrests, more numbers. Alexander says he told the chief that the sheriff’s office had a deal with ICE and that Ingram should look into it..."

Btw, connecting with the @propublica.org team for this piece was a major confirmation of the rigorous effort that goes into their work.