Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.
For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...
25.02.2026 12:15
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
24.01.2026 17:37
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
23.01.2026 17:32
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Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
09.01.2026 21:17
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Face shot closeup of ICE agent removing a PC from Ross's home
same ICE agent
NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ.
This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"
10.01.2026 01:23
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The Language Processing Lab at the University of Arkansas is recruiting a PhD student to start in the fall of 2026. Our lab examines the basic cognitive processes involved in understanding written text, mostly fiction while being read by skilled adult readers, with an emphasis on reference comprehension, inferences, and negation, among other topics. We use multiple behavioral methods, including priming tasks, reaction time, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking. The University of Arkansas PhD program has a growing group of cognitive psychologists, with several labs in the department investigating memory, creativity, and other aspects of cognition. Funding is through teaching and research assistantships. The university also has generous fellowships available for competitive applicants.
My lab is recruiting PhD students for fall 2026. Please reach out if interested!
19.11.2025 16:37
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this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
14.11.2025 15:04
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Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
05.11.2025 00:16
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Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
01.11.2025 12:00
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
13.10.2025 15:48
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The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
13.10.2025 03:27
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President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
09.10.2025 11:36
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It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
06.10.2025 22:27
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you).
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.
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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.
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Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?”
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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.
Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.
They want us all eradicated.
19.09.2025 01:19
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A screenshot of a repost by Elon Musk of a tweet from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog). The tweet reads: “Transgenderism is a death cult. The largest, most well funded, and deranged death cult that this country has ever seen.”
They're going to keep going until they get trans people killed. They want trans people murdered en mass.
14.09.2025 22:28
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
12.09.2025 14:17
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Putin is an authoritarian who won his last election with 87% of the vote and murdered his main political rival.
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Ensuring evidence-based health care for children and teenagers identifying as transgender:
The state of the scientific literature regarding optimal care and support approaches for children and teenagers identifying as transgender and those diagnosed with gender dysphoria is described in the recent HHS review of treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria
. In accordance with these data, there are clearly more promising avenues of research that can be taken to improve the health of these populations than to conduct studies that involve the use of puberty suppression, hormone therapy, or surgical intervention to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence in minors. By contrast, research that aims to identify and treat the harms these therapies and procedures have potentially caused to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence, and how to best address the needs of these individuals so that they may live long, healthy lives is more promising.
Well, it's Fustilarian Friday again and the NIH director does not disappoint with his new Statement of NIH Priorities. Despite a cover letter promising that his has made it his lifelong mission to resists any form of political influence on science, the document includes this abomination.
15.08.2025 21:42
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DC police are using excessive force against Black people
14.08.2025 11:47
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I spent about 1/3 of my waking hours as a kid across the street at the Irving Park Y and had no idea that this building had an interesting history. My excuse is that I was a kid. Thanks for posting this!
11.08.2025 21:07
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Same. It's so weirdly calming.
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I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!
06.08.2025 21:38
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I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.
Don't print lies in the newspaper
04.08.2025 04:13
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He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.
03.08.2025 14:18
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Needed to last night. The lavatories didn't work. Way to go, American. Enjoy the social media chuckles.
31.07.2025 17:01
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
27.07.2025 22:49
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* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED
@reuters.com
25.07.2025 11:48
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