BREAKING: Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto, digital tokens and related partnerships in 2025 — appearing to have substantially increased his income after reentering the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DHS handed Fisher Sand & Gravel $2.6B to cut a border barrier through Texas's Lower Pecos Canyonlands, home to 300+ rock art sites, some 5,000+ years old, and North America's oldest buffalo jump. Cultural laws were waived under the REAL ID Act. Archaeologists are sounding alarms. Full story🔗🦂:

UA’s plan to take legal ownership of $70 million in endowment interest from the UA Foundation is inciting mixed reactions from university and community members; some calling it an “accounting trick” to make it appear to have more cash on the books. tucson.com/news/local/e...

SCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Breaking: The Tohono O'odham Nation sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to prevent the construction of a border wall in Southern Arizona, seeking to block DHS from building a so-called "Smart Wall" along the reservation's 62-mile border with Mexico: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

The photojournalist, Angelina Katsanis, 25, dropped her camera bag after she was injured at the protest on Saturday, she said in an interview. The bag contained roughly $10,000 worth of equipment, (cont.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/n...

Tricia McLaughlin earned a reputation for extraordinary, shameless lying. To mark the occasion of her departure, here are five of the most heinous lies McLaughlin told during her tenure at DHS. My latest for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/tricia-mcl...

Oh but tell me again about welfare queens

Now in Maine: ICE watchers say federal agents are coming to their house to threaten and intimidate them. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Amazingly, ICE just told me it couldn't figure out how to conduct a search for records about how it trained agents on how to use the facial recognition app Mobile Fortify.

How do you show you don’t understand U.S. immigration law? Exhibit A: Saying “apply for refugee status” inside the U.S. That’s not a thing. If people are already here, the lawful tool is asylum or TPS. So reopen TPS, don’t invent procedures. #refugeestatus #noem

Here’s an excellent chance to support local journalism. If you donate before midnight tonight, your dollars are doubled by NewsMatch: www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...

An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony. The Post followed 11-year-old Lozen through her Sunrise Dance ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat in Arizona before the area is reopened to copper mining.

“.. The US lost an average of 4k private-sector jobs per month over the last 3 months (ADP data), the first 3-month decline since the 2020 recession.” - Bilello

The magnitude of the change over time is striking. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It didn’t even take 6 hours.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says." “No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.” - Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/politics/mar...

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals! www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

The Trump administration makes it official: The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500. As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

Folks outside of Idaho, the Wilder raid is a big deal

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

“With federal officials changing up COVID-19 vaccination protocols, Pima County residents are facing hurdles as they try to get the new shot this year. And Arizona health officials are warning that more changes may lie ahead as an influential CDC vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet.”

The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Breaking news: A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from rapidly deporting undocumented immigrants detained away from the border without a court hearing, a setback for its mass deportation agenda.

UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.

Update: Lawyers for the DA & other defendants filed a motion asking to seal some exhibits in this case, saying the texts about the alleged "love triangle" (w/the two sisters) & abortion were just media fodder, had nothing to do with the core claims storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect. The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Learned via X account name change that Bovino is no longer the El Centro chief, he’s now “Commander of Operations at Large; California.”

As the Trump administration forges ahead on building a 27-mile border wall across the San Rafael Valley—one of few untouched areas in Southern Arizona—University of Arizona researchers find new signs that jaguars are crossing the border from Mexico: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Oh god, a breach of ECF could be extremely dangerous. Lots of sealed filings.

Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein survivors say history is repeating itself with Trump's DOJ "sidelining them from critical decisions." It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration." Full letter storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...

A USDA spokesperson just told me that out of the 1,400 USFS staffers with firefighting qualifications who took voluntary resignations and retirements this year, they were able to get only 65 back into active duty.

irony has been dead a while but I’m still appalled that the DHS had the temerity to suggest that it’s fine they caged more than 250 people with no criminal records because those people were probably secretly “human rights abusers” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Reup: Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/m...

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.