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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 is also a magnificently strange statement to make when our primary partner in the illegal war is Israel!
Has anyone confirmed whether Kristi Noem gets to keep her blanky if she’s leaving DHS?!
All the best people
The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.
Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.
Three or four of these despicable group chats have become public, but here's the thing: It's absolutely certain that there are HUNDREDS of group chats just like them that we'll never learn about. There's an entire generation of groyper Republicans, and in a few years they'll be running the party.
They’re still lying to us.
www.startribune.com/close-to-650...
One of the reasons I feel so ambivalent about age-gating and various moves to limit 230 is that the version of the internet at risk was designed to have, like, companies that felt shame and tried to do the right thing?
Every time I read a new Chotiner interview I think of how easy it would be for other journalists to do what he does. Just do your homework, ask follow-up questions and don't move on until you get a response. It also doesn't seem to have cost Chotiner that most precious journalistic resource: access.
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
This is not the way serious leaders talk about war.
We have lost all sense of proportion. Every one of those lives deserved to live. It is shocking to me how the idea of killing and the tallying of Trump’s kills has vanished into the fog of confusion that Trump seems to send out. We don’t seem to be able to record, number, and grieve this massacre.
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Judge requiring ICE officials to declare in writing they are aware of court orders barring migrants from being transferred out of state
“ICE leaders must square up to the serious problem in their midst of noncompliance with judicial orders”
🎁 @nytimes.com
In a world where insiders place corrupt bets on still-secret US military actions before they are initiated; & the FBI fires Iran counterintelligence specialists days before the domestic terrorism threat rises to its highest levels in years, the old notion of “insider threat” is well and truly dead.
But other than that, things are going great!
It's an extremely weird thing, the implications of which are not commented upon often enough, that three of the four men who have/will* rule the US in the 36 years between January 1993 and January 2029 were born within 66 days of each other.
*unless, etc.
Also! Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney? Born in 1947. He’s the *youngest* person (by birth year) the GOP has ever nominated for president.
“In order to connect with young men in America, we need to support those systems most effective as taking their money.”
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
It’s not really supposed to be on display so I assume they keep it covered with curtains most of the time for historic preservation purposes.
Refreshing to see a real subject matter expert! Highly recommend you follow @marieharf.bsky.social on Iran.
what kind of asshole would write something like th—ah, ok, i see
In a normal country, this level of corruption would generate huge headlines across the media landscape.
At some point we will have a conversation about the bogus claim that running a financially successful company equips you for leadership more broadly.
AND WHO'S FAULT IS THAT MARCO
WHO'S SUPPOSED TO PLAN FOR THAT MARCO
I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.
