When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
@radleybalko.bsky.social has written some absolutely essential confirmation hearing questions for Markwayne. Who in the Senate will have the courage to ask them?
radleybalko.substack.com/p/questions-...
The GW, Baltimore-Washington, Rock Creek and Clara Barton parkways are convenient for commuters and others who want to get around D.C. But take due note that they're patrolled by the Park Police, a federal agency that works with ICE.
BROKERING THE DEAL is when my brain melted, if you want to know.
I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools.
High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence zurl.co/0L00F
It’s just a video game to them so they burn through real world supply like it’s replenished after earning enough game stats.
It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.
If I were Hegseth, I'd close every war college before they had time to add him to the curriculum.
i think that it is plainly obvious that we should bankrupt Palantir on day one by cutting all of its contracts and declaring it a supply chain risk.
"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
Trump officials moving onto military bases is a ridiculous, absolutely inappropriate thing, and the NYT story that credulously credited claimed threats as justifying such a move is also ridiculous.
This is it.
UPDATE: Judge Elkins — in light of this amicus brief (and the defendant’s reply) — gives DOJ a sur-reply on the Posse Comitatus challenge to JAG lawyers prosecuting in Minnesota, due by March 24, and sets argument on this issue at a previously scheduled April 3 hearing.
Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.
JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.
Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say
Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so
www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
But don’t his have custom lifts? That give him the centaur standing tilt? How does that fit into this domineering obsession?
So, Wurman has gone beyond his brief to make a completely unsupportable, flat-out and obviously false claim about a source he considered pivotal to ongoing constitutional litigation, in a hearing dedicated to the meaning of the crucial clause at issue. 7.
This is the logical endpoint of the Pentagon‘s current “lethality“ fixation - destroying things is the point.
It also reflects its civilian leaders’ disregard, if not open contempt, for strategic thinking and the skills & intellectual preparation that support it.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
War profiteering off your own war.
Please help me share the post below. I don’t have a huge following, but this nomination is a bit under the radar and deserves more attention. His committee vote is this Thursday.
Fowler: we believe this was a solid brief with solid arguments made
Judge: solid except for the fabricated quotations?
lol the clerk just said "the hearing starts when the judge comes in, the clock does not matter"
This is my first time doing this in-person so it's a bit of an experiment
This is a threeeead.
Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social
