Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Compassion is no repeal of law: DOJ orders Facebook to remove a group tracking ICE agents in Chicago

A neo-noir tableau steeped in unease and quiet revelation. A blonde woman in a black dress sits at a computer in a dimly lit room, the pale glow of the Facebook logo dissolving pixel by pixel on her monitor. Her expression—pensive, wounded, and faintly distrustful—suggests the dawning recognition of betrayal or surveillance. On the desk beside her lies a newspaper bearing the stark headline “Meta Removes ICE Tracking Group.” Behind the rain-streaked glass, two shadowy figures in suits linger like spectres of authority, their presence both menacing and absurdly bureaucratic. The composition fuses mid-century pulp aesthetics with the paranoia of the digital age: beauty and isolation rendered under the cold fluorescence of contemporary control. Each detail—the stormed window, the dim electric light, the woman’s thoughtful pose—invokes a timeless anxiety: that of the watched, the silenced, the believer learning too late the cost of belief.
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{NYT 15 October} “Meta on Tuesday removed a Facebook group that was used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after the Department of Justice requested that it be taken down.” 

One may rightly condemn the excesses of ICE, and insist that non-violent migrants deserve dignity rather than degradation—and I would concur. Yet compassion, however noble, does not erase law. To obstruct officers acting within their legal remit remains an offence, regardless of intent, and regardless of how unjust the methods ICE is employing these days may be. And, furthermore, if one must broadcast the movements of federal agents, then at least choose a medium less porous than the echo-chambers of social media. #JustSaying —Arthur Newhook, 15 October 2025.

An omen, perhaps: the aircraft bearing ‘Secretary of War’ Hegseth home from the NATO summit in Brussels makes an unplanned descent in Britain—its windshield fractured, as if by prophecy itself. {BBC 15 October}

“Nations that embrace openness and cooperation are surging ahead, while those resting on past privilege are being left behind.” Once the world’s most powerful passport, the US now ranks 12th—its holders welcomed visa-free to fewer shores than a decade past. {WP 15 October}

Trump confers a posthumous Medal of Freedom upon a man whose life’s work advanced Christian nationalism—curtailing freedoms for undesirables, and all who refuse the yoke of Dominionist rule. {The Guardian 14 October}

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