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It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

Video footage casts doubt on DHS claims about fatal 2025 shooting involving agent Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was fatally shot in South Padre Island, Texas.

Video footage casts doubt on DHS claims about fatal 2025 shooting involving agent

Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was fatally shot in South Padre Island, Texas.
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The irony is physically painful.

Oh.

“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?

I am a realist. And as such I am going to continue to push the things we CAN do to insure our votes get counted rather than focus on shit that will not be changed by phone calls and letters to your Representatives. Winning is what will change that shit.

Why is it that all those staunch UK patriots waving flags and shouting about ‘taking back control’ are urging us to be subservient to a foreign power and join them in an illegal war?

I’d like to skip to the part where everyone acknowledges that the President of the United States is insane. Please.

State Department Bypasses Congress to Send Israel More Than 20,000 Bombs
The sale had been under informal review in Congress, but the State Department declared an emergency because of the war in Iran

If Republicans are so concerned about national security, they’re welcome to make some compromises on body cams and unmasking ICE agents for starters.

But don’t expect Democrats to give another 50 billion to fund the war in Iran . . . .

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

these politicians and american executives are not bothered enough by killing children or heads of state

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

Reminder that Thompson Reuters sells several crucial academic + legal research databases! See @sarahlamdan.bsky.social’s Data Cartels!

"Last May, ICE spent $5 million on a subscription with Thomson Reuters, which sells data to both the public and private sector, to provide what ICE describes as "license plate reader data to enhance investigations for potential arrest, seizure and forfeiture."

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

This dystopian future is here now.

"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.

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ICE may have once been valuable but this administration's lawlessness has destroyed ANY value ICE had. Rotten to the core.
#DefundICE #NoMoreICE

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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Judge orders feds to return ICE detainees' missing property within 30 days A judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen to either return lost property to released detainees unlawfully arrested during Operation Metro Surge or pr...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.

@fetterman.senate.gov @johnfetterman.com

You are supporting this with every "Yae" vote you make for the CR DHS funding bill.

They told me if I voted for Kamala the US would continue to be involved in foreign wars, and they were right!

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

The U.S. men's hockey team is proof.
Everything Trump touches dies.

Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year | TechCrunch The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

Who could possibly have predicted that a company whose slogan is "cheat on everything" would cheat?

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Like clockwork.

Americans Are Angry About Epstein – and They Want Accountability This Navigator Research report covers Americans’ views of the Epstein files.

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So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.

I find it ridiculously concerning 44% of Americans actually support this war right there tells me that the possibility for this ending up in a nuclear situation is entirely too high for my liking… granted I don’t think polls can be taken seriously, but even if that number is accurate, that’s high

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.