{"id":1057,"date":"2025-10-30T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:09:40","slug":"these-are-all-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/these-are-all-the-same-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"These are all the same thing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When ProPublica emailed questions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court\">a profile of the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court<\/a>, they received a response from the communications director of the state Republican Party. He suggested that the outlet was engaged in a &#8220;jihad&#8221; against the party and issued an unsubtle threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I\u2019m sure they would be interested in this matter. I would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">strongly<\/span> suggest dropping this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>ProPublica also noted that many of those who they&#8217;d contacted about the story requested anonymity out of fear that the chief justice &#8220;or his proxies would retaliate against them through the courts\u2019 oversight system, the state bar association or the influence he wields more broadly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/trump-chief-stephen-millers-wife-explicitly-threatens-cenk-uygurs-citizenship-in-shocking-on-air-meltdown\/\">an appearance on Piers Morgan&#8217;s television show<\/a> on Wednesday, Katie Miller, wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller, lost her temper during a debate with left-wing pundit Cenk Uygur. At one point, she suggested that Uygur, a naturalized citizen, might have his citizenship scrutinized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STEPHEN MILLER\u2019S WIFE THREATENS TO HAVE CENK UYGUR DEPORTED AFTER LOSING A DEBATE<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenkuygur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cenkuygur<\/a> is a naturalized U.S citizen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6alu4tOMFI\">pic.twitter.com\/6alu4tOMFI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaykhSulaiman\/status\/1983738588266426781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;You better check your citizenship application and hope everything was [muddled, possibly &#8220;legal&#8221;] and correct. Because you&#8217;ll be just like Ilhan Omar coming next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Miller has been one of the most prominent voices for wide-scale deportations within the administration as well as one of the most fervent advocates for deploying executive power, particularly against perceived opponents. Katie Miller, however, holds no position with the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement was stopped by sheriffs&#8217; deputies in Florida on suspicion that he was driving while intoxicated. One of the deputies who stopped Scott Deiseroth, Markens Dorestant, is Black, prompting Deiseroth to ask if he was Haitian. Later, Deiseroth raised a similar question with Dorestant&#8217;s partner, Jonathan Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2025\/10\/24\/ice-dui-asks-deputy-haitian\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cYour boy, he\u2019s Haitian, right?\u201d Deiseroth asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lane replied that Dorestant is an American citizen, noting that people must be citizens to work as law enforcement in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to run some checks when I get back,\u201d Deiseroth said. He added that he would have Dorestant deported if \u201cnot legit,\u201d according to the footage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Deiseroth&#8217;s attorney, who said that his client is now participating in an alcohol treatment program, assured The Post that Deiseroth knows his comments about Dorestant&#8217;s nationality &#8220;was just not nice&#8221;, and promised that &#8220;when this is over he\u2019ll be writing a letter to apologize for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three of these incidents were reported in the past few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. When ProPublica emailed questions for a profile of the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, they received a response from the communications director of the state Republican Party. He suggested that the outlet was engaged in a &#8220;jihad&#8221; against the party and issued an unsubtle threat. \u201cI\u2019m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbump.net\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}