Dylon Jones
@tdylon_jones
writing and editing features @PoliticoMag / also poems sometimes
The Trump administration dropped criminal corruption charges against Adams bc they said it wasn’t right during an election season and needed his help on immigration. But apparently they can call him an accessory to attempted murder (without charges) even closer to the election.
Make no mistake: a criminal illegal alien pulled the trigger but Mayor @ericadamsfornyc and the sanctuary politicians in this country like him have blood on their hands. I am calling on sanctuary politicians at every level of government to abandon these reckless, lawless…
US-funded contraceptives to be burned rather than distributed to poor nations reuters.com/legal/litigati…
NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell once argued the Epstein saga is so old —witnesses’ memories have faded and corroborating documents destroyed — that it would be hard to unearth anything new and reliable. Now she wants a DOJ that charged her with perjury to believe she has revelatory info.…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession. The Trump administration had intervened on the side of the Catholic clergy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
BREAKING: Andry Hernández Romero IS among the 250 Venezuelan men who was released from CECOT and sent to Venezuela, his lawyer confirms to the Bulwark
Today we published our 2nd story investigating the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to Salvadoran. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum propublica.org/article/venezu…
Donald Trump appears to have written a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 depitcting a naked woman, per the Wall Street Journal. Trump denies writing the letter. wsj.com/politics/trump…
Trump said the immigration detention facility would be for “vicious” criminals. Officials said that alligators and pythons are waiting for anyone who escapes. But hundreds have no criminal record. Others have traffic violations. miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
People detained at Alligator Alcatraz aren’t showing up in a government locator. Families and attorneys are struggling to find them. We obtained a list of 750+ names, and are publishing it here: miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
“They basically said they’re no longer considering Washington, D.C., or no longer considering the United States.” tinyurl.com/m3yv4kzd
59 Palestinians in Gaza are killed by Israeli airstrikes or shot dead while seeking aid ow.ly/YJvR106fCv9
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
“I think Elon is exploring the space of, how much I can manipulate the model and what happens? I think he’s trying to see how much he can shape what Grok says, and he’s also already experimenting with having Grok be part of the conversation. It’s now part of the texture of X, and…
"I mean, even Elon Musk, who's probably warmer to Hitler than I am, doesn't really want his LLM to say stuff like this. He might want to tilt it to the right but he doesn't want to tilt it to explicitly supporting the Nazis." tinyurl.com/yuz7wfyp
... the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. tinyurl.com/388257fy
I wrote about a very 2025 DC dillemma: An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? politi.co/4eHIHPq
As the first detainees settle into their flood-soaked tents, the Miami Herald reports that children may be among those headed to Alligator Alcatraz. miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants Trump administration's request to lift order blocking deportation of 8 men stuck in Djibouti to South Sudan. Apparently 7-2. Sotomayor bitterly dissents with Jackson saying admin has #SCOTUS on "speed dial." Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/2598…