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A Song of FIRE and ICE

First Amendment defenders take on Trump’s goon squad.
# Alt Text Silhouettes of ICE police officers in red and black stand against a backdrop of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, symbolizing tension between law enforcement and constitutional protections.
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

Can we all agree that Todd Lyons is kind of a sissy? 

The former acting director of ICE, the immigration enforcement agency that Donald Trump uses as his personal, occasionally homicidal goon squad, received an email nastygram from the author of Best Bike Rides Connecticut, David Streever, who is exactly the kind of imposing, Jason Statham-esque tough guy you’d figure the author of Best Bike Rides Connecticut is going to be.

Kevin D. Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch and is based in Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 15 years as a writer and editor at National Review, worked as the theater critic at the New Criterion, and had a long career in local newspapers. He is also a writer in residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Kevin is not reporting on the world outside Washington for his Wanderland newsletter, you can find him at the rifle range or reading a book about literally almost anything other than politics.

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