ICE's sociopathic tactics makes it easier for criminals to pose as ICE agents - obviously. Great article that's not paywalled because of @wired.com's commitment to making FOIA-based reporting free (and great work by @propertyofthepeople.org).

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intel doc we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

After months in the coming - Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List www.wired.com/story/hack-e... #DDoSecrets Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...

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anyone with cash looking to help the cause—and I can't emphasize enough how badly you're needed right now—i'd seriously recommend funding @propertyofthepeople.org. we desperately need people with a specific set of skills strictly focused on gathering inside knowledge of the admin's plans.

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

US law enforcement agencies cannot tell truth from bullshit. This has been happening for years and I really think it’s a big problem.

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. by me @ wired:

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: Law enforcement spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats, bolstering Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in intel documents we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

seems like a short skip and a jump to calling it a private army. was not expecting to have to file so many FOIAs at 4 pm on a Friday.

NEW: police depts across the US spread a false story that Venezuelan gang members were planning to kill officers. Records obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org and shared with @theguardian.com, reveal that the FBI quietly acknowledged a widely shared rumor about Tren de Aragua was false.

BIG: Federal and local law enforcement agencies spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats, bolstering Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in new intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UPDATE: The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source.

BREAKING: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Our executive director @rshapiro.bsky.social discussing our latest: Law enforcement surveillance technologies used against No Kings protesters, as detailed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @gizmodo.com. #FOIA gizmodo.com/no-kings-pro...

Law enforcement surveillance technologies used against No Kings protesters, as detailed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @gizmodo.com. #FOIA

Our executive director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: Law enforcement surveillance technologies used against No Kings protesters, as detailed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @raphae.li / @ajvicens.bsky.social / @reuters.com. #FOIA www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

Intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @raphae.li / @ajvicens.bsky.social / @reuters.com contributed to this piece on surveillance technologies used against No Kings protesters. #FOIA

"Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials." "Google told 404 Media it removed apps because they shared the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group." #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Good times. #FOIA

‪ Our executive director @rshapiro.bsky.social discussing our latest: US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have removed the "T" from "LGBT," as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...

Fed and state law enforcement were already aware of Discord as a site of youth violent radicalization, well before C Kirk's alleged killer used it to discuss the shooting, as revealed in intel docs we obtained & shared w/ @kevincollier.bsky.social / @nbcnews.com. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Shoutout to @propertyofthepeople.org & @rshapiro.bsky.social for their invaluable FOIA backup on this story. Give them a follow!

US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have removed the "T" from "LGBT," as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-disap...

Fed and state law enforcement were already aware of Discord as a site of youth violent radicalization, well before C. Kirk's alleged killer used it to discuss the shooting, as revealed in intel docs we obtained & shared w/ @kevincollier.bsky.social @nbcnews.com. #FOIA www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Talking points leaked to me show US diplomats instructed to call accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza "politically motivated and categorically false" as well as a "propaganda campaign"

NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive. analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

Law enforcement training documents we obtained and shared with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social contributed to this big new piece on Trump and the FBI's coming war on transgender people. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: Law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence docs we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i say "actual DVEs" because the FBI also has a tendency to exploit that brand for political reasons, to manufacture conspiracy narratives, or simply to satisfy powerful special interests.

In a reversal that just underscored the administrative chaos created by all these priority shifts, many counterterrorism agents—pulled away to focus on immigration, which is not the FBI's forte—had to be abruptly recalled in June after the US strike in Tehran inflamed concerns about domestic terror.

The law enforcement briefings + counterterrorism training materials were obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org / @rshapiro.bsky.social and shared with @us.theguardian.com. Experts say US officials’ claims linking emojis to the Venezuelan gang are “ludicrous,” “baseless,” “uneducated” + “absurd”

Law enforcement training documents we obtained and shared with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social contributed to this big new piece on Trump and the FBI's coming war on transgender people. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US law enforcement officials have claimed the use of certain emojis could signal affiliation with Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang, according to internal records reviewed by the Guardian and obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit.

NEW: US law enforcement have claimed the use of certain *emojis* could signal affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang, records reveal. The "ludicrous" claims, like assertions about tattoos, could further fuel false gang labels + deportations. W/ @propertyofthepeople.org emoji docs excerpted here ⬇️

"The emoji claims, repeated by the New York police department (NYPD), were made in four reports disseminated among law enforcement in 2024 and 2025 and obtained through records requests by @propertyofthepeople.org, a government transparency non-profit." nice work @rshapiro.bsky.social

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

NEW: “Gaza is burning,” says Israel’s Defense Minister as Israel starts their ground invasion of Gaza City after bombing over 50 residential towers in the biggest Palestinian city in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. [Videos] unicornriot.ninja/2025/israel-...

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Our work contributed to this piece on Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter, including a document we obtained revealing earlier FBI concerns regarding the possibility of political violence at a Kirk speaking event. #FOIA @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/charli...

9. In 2023, the country declared LGBTQ+ organizations to be “extremist” in nature, closely tracking with some of the rhetoric used by the administration and its supporters in the wake of Kirk’s killing. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

8. The latest escalation tracks closely with similar steps taken by Vladimir Putin in Russia to target nonprofits and LGBTQ+ organizations and other left-leaning NGOs in recent years. In 2016, the country banned NGOs deemed a threat to public order by creating a new “undesirable” label.

7. The weaponization of laws against non-profits is something that Republicans have been exploring for some time. In late 2023, Republicans in Florida heavily pushed a bill that would have essentially outlawed LGBTQ+ groups from being considered nonprofits. www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-bi...

6. Later, the New York Times confirmed that the administration was reviewing various ways they can further crack down on left-leaning non-profits, stating it would focus on designating some groups as aiding domestic terrorism.

5. Trump used a press conference to escalate the threat. He floated the idea of designating “Antifa” a terrorist organization and said he was exploring RICO charges against “some of the people you’ve been reading about that have been putting up millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”