The agents doing the zip tying appear to be from the DHS Federal Protective Service. I wrote this summer in TIME how the agency is integral to DHS’s efforts to crackdown on dissent: time.com/7307963/trum...

NEW: Internal report reveals DHS intelligence portal was accidentally opened to tens of thousands of users for months, exposing sensitive intel about Americans. @brennancenter.org obtained the docs. @wired.com has the story. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

At 26 Federal Plaza today, ICE agents detained a man after his immigration hearing, leaving behind his wife and children. His wife broke down outside the courthouse with her young child. Their 7-year-old will return from school to find her father gone.

A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country. #protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

NEW: A FOIA doc obtained by the @brennancenter.org shows a misconfigured DHS platform left sensitive natsec intel—including info about surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of unauthorized users. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop. (No paywall bc FOIA) www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

NEW: Internal report reveals DHS intelligence portal was accidentally opened to tens of thousands of users for months, exposing sensitive intel about Americans. @brennancenter.org obtained the docs. @wired.com has the story. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

A DHS data-sharing platform used for sharing restricted intel among government agencies, law enforcement and fusion centers was misconfigured to allow access to "everyone" including tens of thousands of unauthorized government staff, contractors and foreign nationals. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

I grew this perfect sugar pumpkin that is now for dinner. 🌱#gardening

It’s stunning that even in a federal building ICE agents refuse to wear uniforms and insignia. They’re on their own turf! Building security let them in and everyone knows they’re ICE! This is about intimidation.

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head... Giant puffball! 🧪 🌍 🍄

Remember when DOJ’s civil rights division demanded voter rolls from states? Well now they want to turn them over to ICE to hunt down mythical noncitizen voters and prop up lies about systemic fraudulent voting: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Worst poetry slam ever

THREAD: This morning, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that President Trump's use of National Guardsmen and Marines to support federal law enforcement in and around Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act. (1/22) www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-t...

Border Patrol out there arresting firefighters actively fighting a wildfire. An agency drunk on its own power. “It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.” You don’t say. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

DC has a dizzying array of federal police forces you’ve never heard of: Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Government Printing Office Police US Mint Police Armed Forces Retirement Home Police Library of Congress Police, right across the street from the Supreme Court Police

Back in April, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it was going to begin looking for "antisemitic activity" in the social media of applicants for a range of immigration benefits, including foreign students and most green card applicants. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

Once federal immigration or counterterrorism agents get ahold of data, there are few if any meaningful restrictions on how they can use it. If you’re worried about abuse like this, the key is preventing them from getting it in the first place. That’s one of the main lessons of post-9/11 government.

The Social Security Act built the foundation of America’s safety net—unemployment insurance, retirement, disability, and more. It remains one of our most effective, trusted government programs. #ProtectSocialSecurity rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-is...

Using the military for civilian law enforcement should be a "break-glass-in-case-of-emergency kind of tool," Joseph Nunn tells @npr.org. Instead, we're now seeing "the normalization of military involvement in routine law enforcement."

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

Stunning levels of obfuscation and misdirection from the federal + DC task forces about basics like: * Who was arrested? * Who did the arresting? * Why? wapo.st/45XIQez

One Week of Trump’s Attempted DC Takeover @sreynolds.bsky.social and I look at how the admin has abused legal authorities to deploy the National Guard, surge federal law enforcement, and attempt to commandeer the local police in the nation's capital. www.justsecurity.org/119227/trump...

The past week’s actions in DC "illustrate the dangers of an administration willing to exploit emergency powers and disregard the limits on those powers." New analysis by the Brennan Center's @josephanunn.bsky.social and @sreynolds.bsky.social.

🚨 One Week of Trump’s DC Takeover 🚨 @josephanunn.bsky.social and I look at the last week in DC: How the feds commandeered the local police, deployed the national guard and federal law enforcement. We go behind the legal abuses and explain what’s next. www.justsecurity.org/119227/trump...

One Week of President Trump’s DC Takeover Attempt An analysis of the president’s use of U.S. military, DC police, and federal security services in the nation’s capital By @josephanunn.bsky.social and @sreynolds.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/119227/trump...

Despite the president's threats, most of what the Trump admin has done in DC this past week is not repeatable anywhere else. Those concerned about federal military intervention in other U.S. cities should instead look to the Trump admin's actions in Los Angeles as a model for what is likely to come.

President Trump’s entry bans are not about national security. They exclude people from more countries than his first-term Muslim ban and target populations he has publicly disparaged. bit.ly/45zhGJM

Who gets banned this time? Muslims, Africans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, all people the president has stigmatized. Doug Rand and I explain why the government's own data doesn't support its claims. The picture tells the story.

Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.

There's Greg Bovino, who runs border patrol ops in California. Is this going to end up a slick propaganda video like the MacArthur Park and Sacramento raids? Is the guy in the white shirt recording the footage? USBP appears to stand in the way of other media while he does an interview.

For the first time since its founding over 400 years ago, New York City soon won't run its own jails. Instead a federal judge will. My latest for @brennancenter.org unpacks the road ahead for the troubled jails — including Rikers Island. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Practices DHS cops have visited on rural people for decades now turned on congressional staff, lobbyists, and others in power. How will this play out?

The military should not be deployed to police our neighborhoods. bit.ly/4fvKgA4

Surveillance cameras are no longer just recording our comings and goings — they're using AI to decide whether we should be reported to law enforcement. An algorithm can't be trusted to determine who is a threat. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Sleeping mats, those radical federal judges!

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Horrific and cruel.

THREAD: This morning, President Trump and members of his cabinet announced a set of sweeping, unprecedented, and unwarranted actions to impose federal control over local policing in Washington, D.C.

Proud to see @brennancenter.org joining in defense of this strong, sensible policy and the state’s Tenth Amendment prerogative to opt out of assisting federal immigration enforcement.

Last week, I explained in @time.com how DHS police descended on Los Angeles. Right now the President is announcing a takeover of the DC police department and moving to flood the city with federal law enforcement, including DHS. See below for part of what may be in DC's future. 👇

The Federal Protective Service has broad policing authority and a troubling track record of going after protestors. It was active in LA during the immigration protests. @sreynolds.bsky.social in @time.com on the little-known but powerful law enforcement arm of DHS.

Amid chaos this summer from the national guard and Marines, Homeland Security used a little-known police agency to lead its protest response in Los Angeles. TIME has my analysis of images & video—and solutions to prevent future DHS abuse. 🧵 time.com/7307963/trum...

Lawless: Since Friday’s decision upholding the TRO, federal agents raided a car wash in Lakewood, detaining two workers; a Superior Grocers in Lynwood; another Home Depot in Hollywood, taking at least two individuals; and the Magnolia Car Wash in Fountain Valley, where agents detained four workers.

@amostoh.bsky.social explains what the new AI EO is really about: “These restrictions feign a commitment to truth and impartiality while expecting tech companies to fall in line with the administration’s version of reality.”

This Machine Kills Fascists www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... via @the-independent.com

My dudes

CBP is supercharging border surveillance and, as @sreynolds.bsky.social points out, there is significant risk that those efforts will bleed into the rest of the country.