It is outrageous that Nashville Notacias reporter Estefany Rodriguez was detained and taken out of state because of ICE reporting.
We are proud to join 40 other press freedom, civic and media orgs to call for her immediate release.
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Now we live in country preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with events that will resemble, in content and organizers, the rally that led to the only attempt in US history to stop the peaceful transfer of power. More here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Event Strategies featured in this piece I wrote a few years ago on all the Trumpworld operatives who cashed on January 6 and Trump's election fraud lies. Most of those people suffered no consequences and are now up to similar stuff. www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/january-6-money-fancelli-wren/
Me and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social last year revealed the federally-funded group planning America's 250th anniversary events had hired the firm that organized Trump's 1/6 rally. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Wired now notes that firm has won $10s of millions in anniversary-related contracts.
Walters has been a vocal Trump backer who in Oct '24 gave $10K to a Noem PAC. That PAC is connected to a Noem nonprofit that secretly paid Noem more than $200K in '23-'24.
Noem once said DHS agents were in Minn, killing protestors, to find "the true corruption." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Another Walters firm won a DHS contract worth up to $915m, despite lacking relevant experience. In court filings, DHS said that firm's extensive comms with DHS officials before the award created an "appearance of favoritism." But they gave them the biz anyway. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Another Walters firm in the same building is reportedly selling six 737s to DHS for $140 million. Lawmakers, and a senior DHS official, told us they are concerned that DHS is overpaying for those planes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The "Big Beautiful Jet" Noem and Lewandowski reportedly used was provided to DHS by Valkyrie Aviation Holdings Group, a Delaware LLC. That firm shares an office with more than 20 nominally separate firms recently launched by William Walters, a former State Dept official now seeking DHS contracts.
"Trump family-linked financial group [Dominari Securities] probed by congressional committee over Chinese stock scams"
GOP-led committee.
And Dominari is central to so much of Don Jr. and Eric's latest business, um, endeavors.
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NEW: Kristi Noem's exit doesn’t undo the massive deals that DHS struck with a vast array of contractors - incl. one where DHS acknowledged "an appearance of favoritism"
the latest @pogo.org/@motherjones.com collab by me & @dfriedman.bsky.social
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Come for the "fuck plane" innuendo we just dutifully denote. Stay for the court filing in which DHS admitted an "appearance of favoritism" in giving a huge contract to a firm seemingly involved in providing that aircraft. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How taxpayers are *still* getting screwed on Kristi Noem’s big fancy plane. And maybe via related contracts revealed here. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New footage analysed by Bellingcat shows two of the world’s most wanted crime figures, Christy and Daniel Kinahan, appearing openly at a mixed martial arts event in Dubai, despite US sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to their arrest.
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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
Attempted federal prosecutor Lindsey Halligan sent me a screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post which featured a screenshot of a Pam Bondi X post which said Lindsey Halligan “did a great job!”
I was hoping to see Noem get a note from an aide and then pretend to be overjoyed she'd landed her dream job running the Shield of the Americas.
I'd have liked Rep. Kamlager-Dove to also ask if they fucked in the plane. Still, she elicited a classic non-denial denial from Secretary Noem.
"I've been on it once," Noem told Whitehouse about the 737 luxury jet with a private cabin reportedly used by her and Lewandowski -some call it the "fuck plane"- that DHS is buying for $70 million. Really? Only once? Seems to warrant checking.
Questioned by Durbin, Noem wouldn't retract her false claims that Alex Pretti and Renée Good were domestic terrorists, but didn't repeat the claim and claimed she got that information from "agents on the ground," ie blaming them for the lies.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Noem repeats the lie that 450,000 children went missing or were lost under Biden. It's been widely pointed out that's false. She's just citing the number of unaccompanied kids who crossed the border from FY '19-'23. But she's saying it under oath.
“We are being undermined by a clown show of greedy billionaire priorities that are not of service to the parks or country.”
"If you want to be a celebrity or a social media star, get your own security." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Calling for Iranians to overthrow their rulers while we drop bombs on them is not a plan to get a nicer Iranian regime. It's just a cynical use of neoconservative bullshit that's likely to lead to more repression or anarchy, and a terrible, worse situation for Iranians Trump's claiming to help.
This article is worth reading to get to the hilarious joint statement the FAA, CBP and the Pentagon issued. apnews.com/article/mili... I touched it up.
The administration in fact ordered parks to post QR codes to let visitors report signs they found too woke. But the main mechanism is that Interior ordered park superintendents to self-report any signs that might run afoul of Trump's executive order. Then DOI sent orders to remove lots of those.
Interior has told Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyo., to replace a sign about a funeral the Army held for the daughter of a Lakota chief because the sign quotes an Army Colonel's 1865 letter describing the Lakota as "swindled, ill-treated and abused." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Interior has also ordered Glacier to replace a sign titled "Blame it on the Grain," which explains that a reservoir partly in the park was created to support agriculture, because: "’Blame’ has negative tone to it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Some striking federal sign censuring: NPS' deputy director personally removed a sign in NW DC about senator's racism, apparently on White House orders.
The Interior Dept told Glacier Nat'l Park to alter a movie shown to visitors due to “scientific inaccuraries." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You've likely heard about NPS removing signs about slavery and climate change, but it's also censuring hundreds more placards around the country, often due to seemingly noncontroversial language, to comply with Trump's wish to have only "uplifting" signage.
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WATCH: Gregory Bovino asks journalist Amanda Moore to bake him a pie.
“Perhaps you could make the pie for us,” Bovino tweeted at Moore.
Then it got even weirder.
