10.03.2026 17:36
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So much new info on Kristi Noem’s airplane scandal — that is very much not going away even if she does — in this @dfriedman.bsky.social, @schwellenbach.bsky.social banger.
With a WTF appearance by one Melania Trump.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.
“Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.”
The law firm that challenged U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino in federal court last fall signals a forthcoming bid for a special prosecutor to "investigate crimes committed by federal agents under Operation Midway Blitz."
Press conference Thursday:
www.themercury.com.au/news/world/s...
“Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial.”
This whole story is so horrifying at so many levels. It should be a seismic scandal but it will probably barely make a ripple.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”
Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail
Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her
Because I’m that guy: Here’s the published order: media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/...
Trump judge Justin Walker, whom I’ve profiled, includes a lengthy footnote in dissent assuring us that judges like him aren’t hacks.
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.
My best friend’s sister, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, her phone just got turned back on. She is a US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, they said she was not transferred to Broadview, and now she's in a detention facility in WI.
🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡
Over and over, the patterns repeat
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
freeing you up to impeach Stephen Miller!
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Actuary, nabisco salesman
First Bovino, then Noem, then Miller, then….
Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.
i keep coming back to a line from this piece when martha, part of the team that took over for their local tamale vendors as feds ravaged chicago, offers some advice:
"start little,” she says. “if you’re able to collaborate with people, literally do what you can. there are no rules.”
Not in our database: Corey Lewandowski.
Lewandowski has a special status as a "volunteer" DHS.
Yet he is also signing off on contracts and policies.
Here's one of 'em!
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
UAE being second?
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
In January, we went inside the Dilley detention center. Children shared letters describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives: propub.li/4cUHm8L
After publishing that story, we learned about Edison, a 13-year-old from Chicago detained for 2+ months. Listen to Edison in his own words 👇
Thousands in Iran attend burial of children killed in bombing of school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
"Beyond the criminal investigation, Cuffari says in the letter that ICE revoked the inspector general’s access to its Enforcement Integrated Database."
I guess in some sense it's reassuring that it's not just the general public being denied their statutorily entitled timely access to this data.
