Kristi Noem once led a dog to a gravel pit and ended its life with the cold precision of a mafia hit.
On Thursday, the homeland security secretary confronted the grim truth that she, too, was expendable, David Smith writes:
“Anytime Israel or the US is involved in the Middle East, we get this stuff about Christian nationalists who’ve taken over our government, and certainly our US military,” Mikey Weinstein, MRFF’s president, who is an air force veteran, told the Guardian.
FOUNDING FATHERS: let’s create a nationwide network of postal delivery
*one Father from the shadows*: let’s create a line to a window where people bring their most time-intensive, unsolvable problems at the busiest moments of life
"I’m still trying to understand how a country that calls itself 'United' has turned into a nation divided between those who are welcomed, and those who are watched."
Students speak out after the arrest of their classmate by ICE:
Meanwhile Nick Shirley, the dipshit MAGA influencer who started this whole racist panic about fraud at Somali-run daycares, is saying “EXPOSE IT ALL” in response to a deeply antisemitic video about ”New Jersey’s Jewish Invasion”
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
The Trump admin claims they have been arresting the worst of the worst. But the Guardian, working with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the govt for docs that show that isn't true.
77% of people who entered deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal conviction
My latest:
A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.
LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”
In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted
DOJ keeps lying and losing:
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Paco Orozco Verdusco, an organizer and union steward at the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild, was detained by ICE last month during Operation Metro Surge.
His family is collecting donations to help pay for legal fees and support themselves while they fight for his release:
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
From last night's @semafor.com media newsletter: The Guardian is launching a video-first daily news podcast hosted by Kai Wright and Carter Sherman.
It's part of a larger push by the publication into video, and a further investment in the US, where the Guardian now has 200 staffers.
This is a pogrom
Oh yes, that’s correct. I misread your first comment lol they went actively anti-Malinowski, but also were hoping that either Gill or Way won as pro-Israel candidates
AIPAC was backing the two people who are currently in third and fourth — Malinowski drew their ire over his position on Israel:
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This race is a continued testament to the growing power of the Working Families Party in New Jersey, along with the waning influence of AIPAC
The documents have prompted concerns from at least one US senator that Kennedy, who now leads America’s health policy, lied to Congress over the visit.
RFK Jr said during his Senate confirmation hearings that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a devastating measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines." Documents obtained by @us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com undermine that testimony. Details here, by me and @aliswenson.bsky.social ⬇️
If you're not watching NJ-11, you should be
An AIPAC super PAC spent ~2 million on anti-Malinowski ads bc, while generally pro-Israel, he expressed openness to conditions on aid. But they didn't openly attack on Israel; they attacked from left on other issues. Now Mejia, a progressive Dem, may win
This reads like Yom Kippur al chets.
For the sin that Steve Fulop committed against the unions...
For the sin that Steve Fulop committed against the renters...
His mismanagement was so severe, the city once overpaid state and federal taxes by $3.1 million. The IRS let the City know shortly thereafter, but the City failed to request a refund before the deadline - costing the City the full amount. This is not money we can get back. It is gone. The hard-working people of Jersey City labor every day to balance their personal budgets, and they understand the consequences of overspending. Unlike our residents, former Mayor Fulop chose easy ways out of the budget mess of his own creation.
If the Jersey City arts community wants to be bold, someone needs to stage a public dramatic reading of the emergency financial report put out by James Solomon's office.
Absolutely nailing Steve Fulop to a cross of gold and made for accountability and awareness:
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If you have the means to support these workers, please consider donating to this GoFundMe here, overseen by members of The Washington Post Guild:
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Jeff Bezos just laid off hundreds of journalists at The Washington Post — including the Amazon reporter. When billionaires own the news, truth takes a back seat to profit and power. That’s dangerous for all of us.
We must demand better, #SaveThePost: actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
The reporting fellowship that sent me back to Germany last year is now accepting applicants for 2026.
Happy to answer any questions if you're interested!
us.boell.org/en/transatla...
Measles outbreak at concentration camp might take the gold medal for most American story ever
If you're participating in today's protests against ICE and are open to speaking with me for @us.theguardian.com, my DMs are open! you can also reach me at sara.braun@guardian.com
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
As someone just replied to this thread I made: "What does it say when we have to have a social media thread on "how to identify the different types of secret police"
A visual collage of federal immigration agents from Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Patrol, and ICE Illustration: Photos via UCG Credit/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, Scott Olson/Getty Images, Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian Design
Federal immigration officers wear a bewildering array of labels, tactical gear and clothing accessories from different agencies, often wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves.
It's sometimes not possible to know which agency an individual works for.
This visual guide can help ⬇️
From Deutsche Welle's Berlin Briefing newsletter: "Meanwhile, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been celebrating a new closeness with the US Republican Party, also by echoing its policies. This week, AfD politicians in Germany's southern state of Bavaria suggested setting up an Abschiebe-Sondereinheit — a special unit to handle deportations modeled on ICE in the US. And in the small eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, which will hold a regional election later this year and sees the AfD polling at 40%, the party has published a draft election platform that proposes a deportation offensive modeled on the US agency."
Deutsche Welle is also reporting that the party also wants to create a deportation agency modeled after ICE in Saxony-Anhalt, making that an official platform for state elections later this year.
Saxony-Anhalt's chief rabbi told me last year that he would quit if they won
