Right that’s how we make decisions right?

I think it is very clear that congress can issue their own lethal finding and obligate T10/T50 forces to carry it out.

I find it funny just how much training material for everyone's masters in Homeland securities covers WMD's because the field is stuck in 2005, but when you see what is an incident of concern everyone just goes nah.

"protocol" the law, who really can tell the difference? I mean the grand jurry that should be empaneled can!

TBH with how cheap those ryobi battery powered air compressors are ... you could just go all the way to full on pneumatic horn.

The iron triangle of NATO since 1949 has been to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down. With the Americans looking like they are tiptoeing towards the door, but the Russians being too actively hostile not to keep out, the system equilibrates itself by letting the Germans up.

Between the AG here in Arizona say "sure the law says you can shoot ICE" and now the local DA in Tuscon preparing indictments, were doing very well I would say.

He is a noted fabricator, and should be blacklisted.

It's shit like this when BoP has personnel down in front that tell you both morale has broken, so has any sort of control over them.

What about all those MS degrees in Homeland Security Studies?

Yeah that sounds about right. Whole industry overwhelms with grifting and gold rush esq wishcasting.

Everyone aspires to be the famous “Summertime Patriot”

Everyone knows a good guerrilla curls up in a basement somewhere when the weather gets as cold as it currently is in Minnesota and that is why we should all have mad respect form them being out there. Guerrillas spend very little time actually fighting most of it is spent hiding, or hiding.

It is a lot closer to a police riot then a single leader having given orders to do evil being carried out.

I'm not a political strategist, but a number of Blueskyers dispensing strong political advice have the strategic vision of a drunken grizzly bear

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Who among us hasn't thought we ought to return to succession crises every 4 years, bordering on national civil war if the quadrennial palace coup doesn't go smoothly? We could be like the late stage ottomans without the harems or the hash hookahs.

yes correct voting is the one and only way citizens in a democracy directly wield political power unless you are firebombing a walmart anything else you are doing in the political sphere has an effectiveness that ultimately functions via voting

I true do not believe if you are willing to today violate the NFA you are preparing for violent confrontation in the next 6-12 months. Like that is a bear minimum crime to get you into the arena in terms of arming, training, and equipping volunteers to close with an armed adversary.

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

So one thing that people advocating for single payer don’t seem to grapple with is that a GOP HHS secretary would be deciding what care you can get roughly half the time

“Ugh, just say ‘Stanford’. This is taking forever.”

Guns and now whistles, what else is the Republican party wanting to ban.

To explain why I think this is a gay factor band on border patrol being able to build up these 3 to 4K strong force concentrations, a sector commander has only limited abilities to be able to prevent his forces from getting dragged away, particularly his BORTAC and BORSTAR units.

It is actualy very common to send HSI to international events like these, at the request of the host country. They often times have as close or closer working relationships with them and HSI was in a lot of respects better then the FBI at international ops. And would generally not go crazy like fib.

I love this scene. You got three choices, guess it’s blue, go big and say there isn’t one, or give up and cry like a little baby, and the portrayal of the third is great!

CBP stays at border would be absolutely devastating for state capacity to engage in repressive terror. Even with ERO’s hiring spree they have so much less capacity than BP does.

It’s only 42 days to get an ICE badge and gun! That’s even shorter than AF basic traning! What excuses does he have?

Remarkable investigatory work from Hunterbook.

Oh good don’t look at the deputy secretary of homeland security.

there's some kind of slow motion freaky Friday exchange happening between Will and Ahmad Al-Sharaa. Will, the onetime sensible center left policy lawyer, is being memeified as a Syrian warlord. Al-Sharaa, the onetime Syrian warlord, is being memeified as a sensible centrist. signs & wonders

Want to get back to having posting time for this meme.

Well I mean counterintelligence has a higher opinion of Homan… that he is at least an interesting target, and worth a giant wad of cash to test.

In 21 days •Venezuela •Renee Good •Greenland •Alex Pretti

Who controls the largest present group of federal tactical teams and has them in the field is not something you normally have questions about in a well functioning country.

More of my thoughts on the topic of Tiny man with a very dumb rifle getting sent back to SoCal to do what he was already doing. Also the movement of the BORTAC units back to home station is what to watch.

A fun fact is that you can still be charged with crimes and go to jail after you retire :)

While the very public face of the traveling road show of Border aptrol atrocity, his operational control vs it just being a police riot has not been made clear (see Maine operations being similar even w/ out him or his BORTAC interior troops.)

How bad does the HR problem have to be in the Administration when you have to send in your previously shelved bribetaker (who can't tell anyone where the money is that he took from the FBI sting) to shelve your SS cosplaying rogue border agent?

SEC Def is going to get the brilliant idea to put Dort in charge on the ground one day and it is going to go so predictably bad.

We can break there morale even more.

The marines having a toll free number to headquarters that's just headquarters NOW! is on brand and much better then everyone else.

They don't have the manpower for secret police activities so are left with this.

Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Stancil be like.

that the guy who different points ran JSOC & was AD/MA at CIA is saying “this is what illegal use of force looks like”—two of three organizations inside USG that are most aggressive when it comes to pushing ROE boundaries (the third being Special Activities at CIA)—is a step beyond losing redditors

I do wonder if today’s news is indicative that the gnome of psych hospital (seriously DHS’s headquarters was originally a psych hospital) has lost power, and this is the CBP commissioner exercising his control over his forces vs a white house led decision. The thing is Stephen Miller’s control…

Working on Book 2 research today, and it strikes me that the most messed up part of leftist reactions to 9/11 as treating it as an act of protest against neoliberalism, which effectively cast Al Qaeda as a spokes-organization of the Global South. Here's sociologist Saskia Sassen from 9/12:

I think I have mentioned repeatedly, my hatred of cowards and how I find cowardice to be like the worst possible thing you can do barring some real crimes against humanity shit. I hate them and their cowardice so fucking much.