The Hound | Oct. 9

Hi there,

Please note that due to the federal holiday on Monday, Oct. 12 there will not be a newsletter. We’ll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, Oct. 13! Have a good long weekend!

It’s Friday. Yesterday afternoon in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, just as a nearby school was letting out, ICE agents — at least one posing as a construction worker in a high-visibility vest — surrounded a man in his car and shot him. ICE has not responded to questions. This is at least the 25th person shot by federal immigration agents this year — in a residential neighborhood, in plain clothes, outside a school, with a child in the car.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover ICE’s pattern of shootings not as a series of isolated law enforcement incidents, but as what it plainly is: an agency operating without accountability, in disguise, in American neighborhoods, shooting people at a historic rate.

This is not an isolated incident requiring routine coverage. ICE agents have now shot 25 people in 2026. They routinely operate in disguise. They have killed people during mistaken-identity vehicle stops. They have shot a DoorDash driver in the back. They have left eyewitnesses in detention. The public deserves reporting that connects every one of these 25 shootings into the single damning story they form.

In addition, JD Vance announced investigations into nine universities — including Ivy League schools. And a look at Gen Z voters and candidates as they expand their role in elections.

Read about these, and more, in today’s stories:

ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says (The Intercept)

Trump made ‘clear’ that media ban was due to critical coverage, court told (The Guardian)

Crude Awakening (The American Prospect)

ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say (NPR)

Gen Z at the ballot box (The 19th News)

JD Vance Announces Investigation Into Nine Top Universities (The New Republic)

The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem (Inside Climate News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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