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Kristi Noem: Trump VP hopeful outlawed on six Native American reservations Six Native tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their reservations over remarks she made.

Link: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

The outgoing secretary was of course banned from several Native American reservations.

Senator Markwayne Mullin is on track to become the first ever Native American secretary of homeland security.

Who Blew Up the Guidestones? A new podcast from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and host Tyler McBrien investigates the 2022 explosion that destroyed the Georgia Guidestones, uncovering new evidence in the search for who was res...

Subscribe now on the podcast platform of your choice, and visit www.ajc.com/guidestones for more...

With a HUGE thanks to @goatrodeo.bsky.social and the @ajc.com

After months of following rabbit holes into granite quarries, graveyards, and fringe corners of the internet...

WHO BLEW UP THE GUIDESTONES? trailer is out now

It's a fever dream road trip through the American South, with some Satanic panic and explosives along the way. Eps 1 & 2 drop MARCH 17

This time around, we have to worry not just about whether they're lying, but about whether they're lying specifically to cash in by swaying the stakes on Polymarket and Kalshi bets.

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The White House has submitted its War Powers report to Congress for the attack on Iran.

The justification for military action rests on 1) Iran's supposed continued quest for nuclear weapons and 2) the threat Iran's missiles pose to US forces, vessels, civilians and those of partners. 1/n

It’s giving… “special military operation”

Robert A. Pape on X: "Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:" / X Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:

Link to his post on the other site here: x.com/ProfessorPap...

Robert Pape—a leading IR scholar in aerial bombing—offers three historical lessons from his seminal "Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War":

1: "Air power rarely produces friendly regime change."

2: "External attack fuses regime & nation."

3: "Retaliation is often delayed & asymmetric."

Lest we forget @lawfaremedia.org !

Important piece @inkstickmedia.com by @tylermcbrien.com on the ever-worsening drive to profit off deportation and immigrant incarceration in America.

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

inkstickmedia.com/the-us-immig...

Great point, ok how's this for illustrative purposes: New York state requires cosmetologists complete a 1,000 hour course in order to get certified

dos.ny.gov/become-cosme...

Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE.

Here's that Atlantic link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The whistleblower docs seem to confirm what @nickmiroff.bsky.social reported in @theatlantic.com, that ICE cut training hours for ERO officers "roughly in half, partly by eliminating Spanish-language courses"

To put ICE Enforcement Removal Operations officers' 6-week, 334-hour training into context here's roughly what others get:

- FBI spec agents ~20 wks 800 hrs
- DEA spec agents ~18 wks 720 hrs
- Secret Service ~30 wks 1,200 hrs
- ATF spec agents ~27 wks 1,080+ hrs
- CBP ~19 wks, 720 hrs

At the time of posting (1:00 pm ET), the Department of Homeland Security and ICE have not responded to a request for comment.

View the ICE whistleblower documents here: www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

The docs seem to suggest that ICE ERO cadets receive 334 hours of training—far fewer than before—which appears to counter Acting Director Lyons’ sworn testimony to Congress on Feb 12. This is also far fewer training hours than other law enforcement officers.

A comparison of syllabi pre-hiring surge in July '25 vs. Feb '26—appears to show ICE also cut many classes from ERO officer training, incl Use of Force Simulation Training and legal ones on topics such as US govt structure, ERO Authority, and criminal vs removal Proceedings

Docs from July 2021 vs Oct 2025 seem to show that ICE eliminated over a dozen exams previously required by ERO officers, including:

- Judgement Pistol Shooting
- Determine Removability
- Encounters to Detention
- Detention to Removal
- Criminal Encounters

NEW: Documents from two anonymous whistlebowers obtained by Sen. Blumenthal's office shed light on how DHS has lowered training & testing standards for new recruits to meet ambitious hiring targets for ICE Enforcement Removal Operations officers ahead of public forum today 🧵

ICE Flight Monitor: January 2026 Report - Human Rights First Twelve Months Under Trump 2.0: Year in Review of a Cruel and Lawless Deportation Campaign Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportatio...

from @humanrightsfirst.org's recent @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social report, "Twelve Months Under Trump 2.0: Year in Review of a Cruel and Lawless Deportation Campaign" available here: humanrightsfirst.org/library/ice-...

This striking @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social visualization of the uptick in both scale and reach of domestic transfer flights between the Biden and Trump admins raises serious concerns about moving ICE detainees far from their families and lawyers—amplified by reports of harsh conditions on flights

"Coalition of the shilling"?! NYPost headline writers eat your heart out!

(via @politico.com — www.politico.com/newsletters/...)

(5/5) Read the entire complaint, including its call for "the special procedures mechanisms to spur the U.S. to implement major recommendations" here: www.law.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

(4/5) The Trump admin's embrace of "punitive detention and transfer practices" especially in cases of family separation, "often amounts to short-term enforced disappearances"—with the complaint noting ICE's locator tool, often the only way track detainees, is frequently inaccurate or non-functional

(3/5) The complaint further alleges that the Trump admin "systematically dismantled the independence and impartiality" of immigration courts thru "mass firings, forced transfers," and pressure "to align their decisions with executive policy"—undermining the rule of law