The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection effort as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.
I'm starting to think if I say "ICE has not left Minnesota" (which of course is true!) I should also say "ICE has not left Chicago" and "ICE has not left LA" because I think the point is that ICE wants to occupy a lot of places at this scale so that it just becomes reality, it's not just Minnesota.
Thanks, I hate it!
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
10/ “The complaint alleges that after leaving govt employment, the former DOGE member told colleagues he had a thumb drive w/ Social Security data & had kept his agency computer & credentials, which he allegedly said carried largely unrestricted ‘God-level’ security access to the agency’s systems…”
Where are the phrenology experts when we need them?
California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
Trump: "We knocked out 46. Their terrorist leaders are gone or counting down the minutes until they will be gone. Think of it -- we had leaders, and they're gone. Then we had new leaders, and they're gone. And now nobody has any idea who the people are that are gonna be the head of the country."
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
NYT: Immigration Agents Detain a Reporter in Nashville
By Emily Cochrane and Hamed Aleaziz
"The detention of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez ... raised fears that she had been targeted for her reporting."
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“3,182 individuals were held in at least one of the nine facilities. The oldest was 91-years-old; the youngest was a 1-year-old girl.
they’re tucked into strip malls & industrial parks. officially, the agency lists only one facility in Colorado.
BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon
At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me
See also: tactical
Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
Pending Home Sales have fallen to lowest level ever recorded 📉🏡
New Pentagon estimates reveal the U.S. government is spending $1 billion a day on Trump's war with Iran.
Kash Patel fired FBI counterterrorism agents with expertise on Iran just days before the war began.
@benniethompson.bsky.social and I are demanding that Patel explain himself in front of the Homeland Security Cmte and take steps to protect Americans from Iran-backed terror attacks.
New Epstein documents show DEA investigated Epstein & 14 others for drug trafficking, prostitution, & money laundering in operation "Chain Reaction." Trump dismantled it in 2016. Sen. Wyden (D-OR) found JP Morgan Chase didn't report $4 billion in $$ transfers. TR Sec. Bessent refuses to cooperate.
With the national average price of gasoline up 9.4c/gal today and continuing to climb, it will be another top 10 largest daily rise in the national average- currently #6, following the fourth largest (12c/gal) yesterday.
Ah yes, one of those successful wars that lasts forever
Q: Do we know how the suspect acquired these guns?
AUSTIN PD: The guns were acquired legally
A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet.
This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.
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Political satire is definitely going to be a section in a university history course somewhere because man, it is dead
Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville.
We @lighthousereports.com + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.
"The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again—to force the United States government to comply with court orders," he writes.
NEW YORK — “growing outrage” after a nearly blind refugee father dropped off by border patrol and left to find his way home in the cold was found dead
I look forward to follow up stories on the South African immigrants with details on what they hoped for vs their actual experience. My gut tells me they’re probably in for disappointment
