ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations. The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel). "The party of small government,” folks.

National Guard in Oregon ordered to PROTECT protesters! Woot WOOT! Fvck ICE Gestapo n Taco! 🖕🏼😁 #oregon #iceout

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

On top of all of this, and separately: Since we published this story, the Sheriff I talked to and who has been the main figure in this has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his employees and for aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about it

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Every judge who acts like it's 1995, not 2025—like the system can work at exactly the thick-porridge pace it has operated at for hundreds of years, because we're not actually in any sort of emergency—isn't meeting the moment. More importantly, they are not upholding their Oath to the Constitution.

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

There it is

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

So let me get this straight. ICE are the ones doing the “escalation”, but protestors are the ones they want to crack down on??

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

They tried to provoke a riot just minutes after the TRO came down; they had their own video crews on hand to record it. What they failed to take into account was that their targets were people wearing butterfly wings and blowing bubbles, people in chicken costumes, and elderly people with walkers.

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Yes, very weird. 🤷🏼‍♂️

“For the record, Americans are grossly UNDER reacting to what's being done to their country right now. 🇺🇸”

MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized. We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon. She issued that order

Democratic Circuit Court Judge Diana Goodstein’s Edisto Beach home went up in flames while she was walking her dogs. Her husband, former Dem state Sen. Arnold Goodstein leapt from a window breaking several bones. I’ll wager that it was done by a MAGAt. #Pinks #ProudBlue nypost.com/2025/10/05/u...

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

BOOM 🔥: Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

“Judge Diane Goodstein is known for her recent ruling that blocked the Trump regime from accessing all sensitive information about South Carolina voters.” www.live5news.com/2025/10/05/3...

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Reminds me of this for some reason. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head. @kevinhfoster.bsky.social recently visited the ICE facility and spoke with people there and across Portland—and the reality of what is happening on the streets is very different than what the administration wishes to portray.

He’s a senior advisor to the President and deputy to the White House Chief of Staff. People are being shot and gassed and kidnapped and disappeared. Yes, I think this should be taken seriously.

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash. Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

UPDATE: DOJ has filed a notice that it is appealing tonight's time-limited TRO — an order that is generally not appealable — to the Ninth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...