His dad risked his life for US troops in Afghanistan. His son is a straight-A student. ICE surrounded him outside his home and took him anyway. No charges. No reason. 🇺🇸💔 #FreeRihan #ICE #AfghanRefugees #Cheshire #Connecticut #ImmigrationJustice #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Trump's DOJ sued 30+ states for voter rolls — birth dates, SSNs, license numbers. Goal: check citizenship. Five federal judges said no. 12 red states handed it over anyway. DOJ appealed and is suing 18 more. 🚨 #VoterRolls #Elections #DOJ #TheWashingtonPretzel

Dad of 4 US citizen kids. 20+ years in the US. No criminal record. Detained on the way to school pickup. His kids kept asking where he was. She had no answers. 💔 #ICE #MiguelMendez #Escondido #FamiliesBelongTogether #MassDeportation #ImmigrationJustice #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Federal judge freed him — "not interested in penalizing his wife and disabled daughter." His daughter is quadriplegic, on a feeding tube, US citizen. Wife is too. He's the only income. ICE filed detainer 2 days later. 4 prior deportations. Now in Alabama. 🚨 #ICE #Immigration #TheWashingtonPretzel

Pima County, AZ passed a mask-ban ordinance on April 8. Bans masked groups with tasers, cuffs/ batons. Law enforcement with visible ID is exempt. Masked agents with none are not. 3rd ICE-related action this yr. State AG investigating the prior ban. 😤 #PimaCounty #ICE #Arizona #TheWashingtonPretzel

ICE shot Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez in Patterson, CA. ICE says he tried to ram an agent. Dashcam shows him trying to drive around them. Family says he was on his way to work. Has a 2-year-old. Engaged to US citizen. FBI investigating. 15th ICE shooting since September. #ICE #TheWashingtonPretzel

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill cut food stamps for refugees, asylees, and trafficking survivors. Took effect April 1. 72,000 lose CalFresh in California. 13,000 in San Diego County alone. They were already too scared to go to the grocery store. 🚨 #CalFresh #SNAP #Refugees #TheWashingtonPretzel

Police pulled over a red truck at 3:55 a.m. based on a call about a teen. The girl was home the whole time. No crime occurred. Dad grabbed his son's arm — arrested. After booking? ICE detainer nobody knew existed. Now at Hutto. Three US citizen kids. Disabled wife. 🚨 #TheWashingtonPretzel

A 3-year-old spent 5 months in US government custody while her lawful resident father waited. ORR policy: 10 days. The government said it couldn't schedule his fingerprints. His daughter was sexually abused in a Texas foster home during that wait. 💔 #ICE #ORR #Immigration #TheWashingtonPretzel

MTG's old seat is up for grabs TOMORROW. Dem Shawn Harris finished FIRST in the primary in a 68% Trump district. Runoff Tuesday. Polls close 7PM. Georgia — SHOW UP. 🗳️ #Georgia14 #ShawnHarris #ClayFuller #MTG #CongressionalRunoff #FlipTheHouse #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

GEO Group and CoreCivic donated $2.8M to Trump. ICE gave them billions back. GEO: $2.1B. CoreCivic: $653M. CSI Aviation: $1.1B. ICE detention doubled. Flights up 89%. One Big Beautiful Bill adds $45B more for private detention. 🚨 #PayToPlay #ICE #TheWashingtonPretzel

Lebanon County PA just voted to open a bank account for ICE bounty payments. $100K for vehicles. $7,500 per deputy credentialed. 16 deputies signed up. $220K total. 🚨 #287g #ICE #LebanonCounty #DeportationArmy #BountyHunters #LocalPolitics #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

She called police on her abuser. He was deported. ICE then deported her back to him — he was waiting at the airport. He has her passport. She can't leave. She had a pending U visa. ICE ignored it. 250K+ wait. Class-action filed. 🚨 #UVisa #Immigration #ICE #TheWashingtonPretzel

Trump = ~2% of American history. ~27% of the national debt. $10.7T added across both terms. Second term: $2.9T in 14 months = $7B/day. Interest alone now exceeds $1T/year. DOGE promised $1T in cuts. Spending went UP. 🚨 #NationalDebt #DOGE #TheWashingtonPretzel

Trump's DOJ is suing 30 states to seize voter SSNs, addresses and birthdates. West Virginia said NO — twice. Advocates just intervened in court. 🗳️ They want your data. #VoterData #WestVirginia #DOJ #VotingRights #ElectionIntegrity #ACLU #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Democratic AGs: 100 lawsuits in 15 months. 55 wins out of 67 rulings — 82% win rate. 700+ total suits against Trump. Courts blocked policies in 150+ cases. Republicans control everything else. Courts are the last check. 🚨⚖️ #AttorneysGeneral #Courts #TheWashingtonPretzel

Easter Sunday: F-15 shot down over Iran — both crew rescued — Trump had just said Iran has zero air defenses. 4 US aircraft hit. Army Reserve wife freed from ICE after 4 months. Baldwin WI: 50+ taken in a town of 4,000. Congo takes US deportees. 🚨 #IranWar #ICE #TheWashingtonPretzel

No Texas anti-immigrant laws via Legislature. Abbott bypassed it. 1.7M people impacted. 18.5K students lose tuition. K-12/ DACA/ non-English folks/ refugees/asylum holders lose access. CDLs/purchasing/registering cars impacted. From electricians to speech pathologists/ dog breeders, licenses blocked

Your police dept may have already entered a 287g ICE deal in 2025 — paid for each arrest, paid extra per arrest of unaccompanied migrant child, etc. with YOUR tax dollars.🔥 Do this NOW. #287g #ICE #DeportationArmy #KnowYourRights #HoldThemAccountable #CivicAction #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

F-15 down. A-10 hit. F-35 hit in March. Iran claims ANOTHER F-35 today. Bridge bombed — 8 dead civilians. Oil $112. Half Iran's missiles intact. Trump on the contrary said we won. #IranWar #F15 #F35 #A10 #CivilianCasualties #StraitOfHormuz #TrumpLied #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Breaking! 10,000 more Americans shipping to the Iran war zone. 7,000 already there. Army's top general just fired for opposing ground invasion. These are somebody's kids. 🇺🇸💔 #IranWar #GroundInvasion #RandyGeorge #Hegseth #AmericanTroops #BringThemHome #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

BREAKING: Two more lawsuits filed TODAY against Trump's mail-in voting EO. 23 states + PA Gov. Four total in 3 days. Trump voted by mail last week. ⚖️ Courts will stop this. #BreakingNews #MailInVoting #VotingRights #Midterms2026 #TrumpEO #23States #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Pentagon banned the AI company that refused to build autonomous weapons. Greenlit Musk's AI instead. China just warned this leads to a Terminator future. 🤖 They're not wrong. #Anthropic #AIWeapons #Pentagon #Hegseth #MilitaryAI #AutonomousWeapons #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

BREAKING: Iran shot down a US F-15 fighter jet. One crew member rescued. One still missing on Iranian soil with a bounty on his head. Trump said Iran couldn't stop us. 💥 #IranWar #F15 #OperationEpicFury #BreakingNews #USMilitary #TrumpIranWar #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Trump's 2027 budget is a ransom note. 💸 Pay the arms dealers. $1.5T military. Cut Job Corps/ EPA/ NIH/ Clean water/ HBCUs/ NASA/ Clean Energy cut. Housing cut. K-12 cut. Senior employment cut. Food assistance cut. The List goes on! WAR ON AMERICANS!! #Trump2027Budget #DefundPeople #MilitarySpending

ICE leaked ledger exposed: local cops paid per arrest as a deportation army. Blue states get ZERO. One Tennessee cop: $1.8M. They're buying your police department. 🚨 #ICE #287g #DeportationArmy #BountyHunters #KenKlippenstein #ImmigrationEnforcement #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

74.3% tax hike on people making under $15K. 20.6% on under $30K. Billionaires get a quarter of ALL tax cuts. Rep. Gomez asked: did you make a mistake? Answer: NO. 🤯 #BigBeautifulBill #TaxTheRich #JimmyGomez #TaxHikes #WorkingClass #BillionairesTaxCuts #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

32 years in Milwaukee. Zero US convictions. Salah Sour was pulled from his front door by ICE. His community says he was targeted for speaking up for Palestine. 👁️ #SalahSour #ICE #Milwaukee #IslamicSociety #PalestineAdvocacy #ImmigrationJustice #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Kristi Noem crusaded against drag shows & trans rights. Then the Daily Mail dropped photos of her husband. Her own dominatrix says Kristi KNEW. 👀 The mask came ALL the way off. #KristiNoem #BimboGate #Hypocrisy #MAGAHypocrisy #TransRights #DragShows #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Tina Peters: GUILTY. Pam Bondi: FIRED. John Mitchell did 19 months in federal prison. History has a pattern. ⚖️ The law is slow. But it keeps moving. #TinaPeters #PamBondi #JohnMitchell #DOJ #ElectionDenier #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

They bought the rain. They bottled the rivers. Now they're selling your survival back to you. 💧 This is the corporate water grab. And it's been the plan all along. #WaterIsAHumanRight #CorporateGreed #WaterPrivatization #Nestle #DefundOligarchs #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

BREAKING: Trump fired AG Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche (Trump's former personal lawyer) is acting AG. Why: botched Epstein files + failed to prosecute enemies fast enough. Her April 14 congressional deposition subpoena still stands. Second Cabinet firing this term. 🚨 #PamBondi #TheWashingtonPretzel

TODAY: Rubio says citizen parents needed for birthright. His weren't. Trump called his SCOTUS picks "stupid." Bondi killed Presidential Records Act by memo. Poland rejected Patriot request. Hegseth broker: defense ETF before Iran. GOP: cut healthcare for $200B war #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

100 billionaire families spent $2.6B on ONE election. That's not democracy. That's an auction. The donor class bought the system. Working people need to take it back. 💥 #DefundOligarchs #BillionaireClass #CitizensUnited #TaxTheRich #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

5 stories today: Blind refugee dropped at closed shop by ICE- HOMICIDE hypothermia. DeSantis signs Florida SAVE Act: sued same day. S&P down 0.8% after Trump said "stone ages." RFK: eat liver. Tafoya: skip Starbucks. Husted: poor = can't navigate. #ShahAlam #DeSantis #IranWar #TheWashingtonPretzel

Trump wants to end birthright citizenship & chain migration — the man himself born a birthright citizen, to an immigrant mom, he had two immigrant wives and four birthright kids. Peak hypocrisy! #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Trump today at Easter lunch: "Don't send money for daycare. US can't take care of daycare." Medicaid/Medicare are state problems. Only federal job: military. White House posted this, then made it private. Context: judge blocked daycare freeze yesterday #Trump #Daycare #Medicaid #TheWashingtonPretzel

BREAKING: House Republicans caved on DHS. Johnson drops objection to Senate bill. TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard funded. ICE NOT funded. CBP NOT funded. SAVE Act NOT included. All 3 were Trump's demands. All 3 gone. Schumer: we held the line and won. 🚨 #DHS #Shutdown #TSA #TheWashingtonPretzel

Trump: 1st president to attend SCOTUS oral arguments. Left halfway through. Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett: 3 of his own picks, all skeptical. Roberts: "new world, same Constitution." Then Trump posted false claim. Decision this summer. #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #TheWashingtonPretzel

6 stories, 1 day: TN abortion execution bill dead: 0 votes, 5 male sponsors. Dallas No Kings: security officer arrested, Oath Keepers+Proud Boys there. Israel death penalty for Palestinians 62-48. MayDay May 1. Mail-in EO: unconstitutional. Alex Jones dumped Trump #TheWashingtonPretzel #USPoliTickle

Three Trump losses, one day 🚨 Powell gets JFK Courage Award. Italy/Spain/France all block US Iran war flights — NATO fracturing. Bush 43 judge halts $400M White House ballroom: "He is not the owner." #Powell #NATO #IranWar #Ballroom #TheWashingtonPretzel

TPUSA hid donors. FEC fined $18K. GOP blocked $1.4M more. Arizona: $500K to their own PAC, zero disclosure reports. Third documented offense. $389M raised under Kirk. Most donors still secret. This isn't a mistake. It's a business model. 🚨 #TPUSA #DarkMoney #TheWashingtonPretzel

Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday: "Your hands are full of blood. God does not hear those who wage war." Days after Hegseth prayed for "overwhelming violence" in Jesus's name at the Pentagon. 🚨 #PoppeLeoXIV #Hegseth #TheWashingtonPretzel

AP got 130 emergency 911 calls from ICE's Camp East Montana. Guards bet $500 on which detainee dies by suicide next. 3 deaths in 6 weeks. 1 ruled homicide. ICE called it suicide. This is documented. 🚨 #CampEastMontana #ICE #TheWashingtonPretzel

Post & Courier corroborated ~16 details from a Trump accuser's FBI testimony. She gave 4 interviews. Estate paid settlement. DOJ withheld her interviews. White House: "sadly disturbed woman." 🚨 #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #TheWashingtonPretzel

Gulf allies want a ground invasion. WSJ: Trump willing to end the war with Hormuz still closed. Iran's parliament just passed a $2M/ship Hormuz toll law. White House: not a core objective. 🚨 #IranWar #Hormuz #TheWashingtonPretzel

36 Republicans quitting Congress — most in nearly 100 years per Brookings. In 2018, 34 retired and Dems flipped 40 seats. Dems need just 3 seats to take the House back. 🌊 #Midterms2026 #TheWashingtonPretzel

Iran war damage: Gas +$1/gallon in a month. Mortgages hit 6.38%. Nasdaq in correction. Recession odds 40-50%. Feb jobs: -92,000. Pentagon wants $200B from Congress. Trump: "Not that bad." 📉 #IranWar #TheWashingtonPretzel

2 pilots dead at LaGuardia. Air Canada hit a fire truck with no transponder. Radar never alerted controllers. ATC audio: "I messed up." FAA is 3,500 controllers short of target staffing. 🚨 #LaGuardia #TheWashingtonPretzel

While bombing Iran, Trump was secretly deporting Iranian asylum seekers back to it. Court docs: flights paused due to "airspace closures." 175 already sent. Gay men facing execution if returned. 💀 #IranDeportations #TheWashingtonPretzel