Paromania

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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Journalist Georgia Fort, Targeted for Covering Same Protest as Don Lemon, Livestreams Her FBI Arrest: 'Agents Are at My Door' Georgia Fort, an independent journalist based in Minnesota, was arrested by FBI agents while livestreaming on Facebook on Jan. 30. She was targeted by the Trump administration for filming the same pro...

So, WaPo reporter raided before and now this. Reuters journalists are repeatedly pushed to the ground and threatened by DHS agents...and now this.
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This is the scariest f---ing thing. WTF.

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

We tried the carrot. Here’s the stick.

#ICE is ramping up attacks against immigrants and American citizens— and #Palantir is their surveillance backbone.

Go to www.purgepalantir.com/the-palantir-payroll/ for the list of dirty politicians trading our rights for Palantir $$$ — then call them out.

Reality check: Bringing Tom Homan to MN is not a concession over Bovino's misconduct. From what I know and experienced with Tom Homan in ICE years ago, I worry it's going to get worse.

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser

I don't often agree with Axios, but this is 100% true: "The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title."

We have got to get rid of Miller.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Gmail Users Were Automatically Opted In to This Controversial Setting. Here's How To Turn It Off. Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

A reminder for those on google email. It's reading our emails and "improving" AI. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security

AI agents promise to “put our brain in a jar while a bundle of AI systems does our living for us”, writes Meredith Whittaker. “But as in fairy tales, so in life: relying on magical fixes leads to trouble,” she warns

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

As an alternate headline, "How Immigration Agents Avoid Accountability for their Actions." www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

We warned this exact thing would happen. This is why dozens of human rights groups have been calling to BanFacialrecognition.com for years

What’s actually happening

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced civil rights litigator who is passionate about supporting grassroots movements and directly impacted communities. The Co-Director will work in close partnership with JFL’s current Legal Director. www.justfutureslaw.org/jobs

We're hiring! Just Futures Law seeks a seasoned and dedicated Co-Director of Litigation to help lead strategic legal challenges to repressive immigration policies, surveillance practices, and threats to First Amendment rights. www.justfutureslaw.org/jobs

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

Trump threatens to retake control of D.C. police over Bowser’s position on ICE President Donald Trump’s comments, just days after his 30-day police takeover ended, underline his intense interest in D.C. — and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s political predicament.

The emergency has ended, yet the collaboration continues. Bowser’s appeasement of Trump has done nothing but hurt the District. MPD & ICE are individually deeply harmful, together they compound that harm. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Police “can be in many places more than ICE can. They know how to do traffic checkpoints. They can block streets. What you’re giving them is a demographic and cultural map of the city.”

31 Democrats who voted with Trump and against DC

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC.

We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

It was an honor to accept this award on behalf of colleagues at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social and our grassroots partners who partner with us on litigation, policy and research. I admire them so much. And thanks to @eff.org for a hella fun night.

We're feeling pretty honored that we made this list.

EFF Awards 2025 For over 30 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the

Know before you go—EFF Awards:
WHERE? SF Design Center Galleria 🌁
WHEN? September 10 @ 6 PM 📆
FOOD AND DRINK? Yes! 🍺🍷🍕🌮 eff.org/effawards

We can all learn something from these bystanders.

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center “The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

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I didn't anticipate that my DC summer might involve living under a paramilitary occupation. They are disappearing people, assaulting people who are filming them, pulling people off mopeds - all with a sidearm. DC is stop #2 in the Trump war against states.

D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement.

Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.

He wants to throw out decades of home rule in DC, which would endanger hundreds of thousands of residents who live here.

A CBP agent wore Meta smart glasses to an immigration raid:

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