SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly.
Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs.
By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.
At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at Camp East Montana, a hastily constructed tent camp in El Paso where more than 3,000 immigrants are imprisoned.
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
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.
This ghoul has finally been fired. But make no mistake, Stephen Miller is still in charge of DHS and especially ICE.
Congress has to stop attacking our #PublicLands.
The latest: Senator Mike Lee is weaponizing the Congressional Review Act resolution in an attempt to wipe out protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
We have to stop this plan! Please submit a public comment ➡️ bit.ly/3N6OOmP
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
A thing about illegal wars of aggression is that they're just murder
We understand this with Putin's war in Ukraine, we understand it with the Caribbean boat strikes. It's no less true here. Our government is engaged in a policy of murder, basically for fun
Running list of lawmakers opposed to the US and Israel's illegal war with Iran.
If your elected official isn't on this list, make note, and primary the F out of them.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...
and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university
love to be looted by our criminal president
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
The Senate is expected to vote soon on H.J.Res. 102 to blow up the DC tax code.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Since 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Correction has been sending people exiting state prisons directly into ICE custody. Massachusetts is the only state where Democrats have full control of the state government with such an agreement.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
New reporting: A single 1,500-bed ICE detention facility like the one in Hagerstown would cost ~$300K/day, $110M/year. And that's the low estimate. I contractor I spoke with says difficult sites — where locals cause trouble — "will easily be double or more of that cost."
"Each and every Palestinian that enter these camps will suffer severe torture... close to 100 people that got killed within these detention centers."
Yuli Novak on B’Tselem’s report ‘Welcome to Hell’ on systemic torture in Israeli detention centers.
Full episode here: zeteo.com/p/yuli-novak...
"We have no way of reconciling what these cases will do to water supplies."
New from Miranda Williamson: The world’s largest artificial intelligence data center complex is being built in Amarillo, and it’s almost seven times the size of Central Park.
“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights.”
Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
"UN experts say the bill, which would impose a mandatory death penalty for Palestinians convicted of certain crimes, would be a clear violation of international law."
Read the latest from @minnahfarshad.bsky.social on Israel's death penalty bill: zeteo.com/p/entrenchin...
6/ Here's a story about the magic of hobby losses:
www.propublica.org/article/when...
Here's our story about billionaire tax avoidance:
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
On January 16, researchers with @bellingcat.com wrote about EZ-17's (Vazquez’s) behavior at just one scene in Minneapolis where he was counted firing his 40mm launcher at people five times within five minutes:
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
"Two clients Lawyer Eric Lee visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center....The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months."
