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NEW: Comey has filed his motion to dismiss based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsay Halligan. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Marco Rubio sold out people cooperating AGAINST the gang that Trump claims to be trying to defeat in order to gain access to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp.

Yeah, we know they suck. But this is just stunning.

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Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights." In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.” According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.

RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain.

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ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’ Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a

On top of detaining U.S. citizens, ICE is now fining legal residents for not carrying their papers.

It was never about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about cruelty.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I am no Legal Scholar, but this feels like a terrorist threat to an American City

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Because Kash Patel is such a bastion of truth. I trust this administration as much as I’d trust the Not-sees.

We were thinking about this. We also thought about making it a Puerto Rican flag just to really mess with them.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

I’m so sorry Harry. You deserve better.

Happy birthday!!🎂

How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More - emptywheel There are a lot of pieces of evidence that Durham not only chased a Russian conspiracy theory to frame Hillary Clinton, but did so knowingly. Most telling is the way Durham obscured the timeline showi...

Reupping: How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More

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Comolli says it was common knowledge among inmates that Maxwell didn't aim to serve her full 20-year sentence and instead had hoped to get a pardon from then US President Joe Biden in exchange for information about Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election. 'I heard her tell another inmate that she had dirt on Trump and that it was going to get her a pardon from Biden. I guess Biden's camp just didn't want to go down that route.'

Todd Blanche: The sex trafficker said she didn't SEE Trump doing anything bad.

Ghislaine's former cell mate: Um.

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Ruh-roh.

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades

Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror.

The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.

Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims - emptywheel In his order telling Todd Blanche to actually meet Second Circuit guidelines for grand jury unsealing requests, Judge Richard Berman reminded Todd Blanche that DOJ is supposed to be concerned about Je...

Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims

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This just REEKS of corruption.

Mike Pence has the courage!

"Release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution. ... Anyone who participated or was associated with this despicable man ought to be held up to public scrutiny."
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BREAKING: The single solitary thing that is out of the President's control in the entire US government is whether the Epstein files come out.

🤡🤡🤡

Pam Bondi Fired the Avenger of Sex Trafficking Victims on Donald Trump's Personal Authority - emptywheel Pam Bondi fired Maurene Comey, one of the people who convinced Jeffrey Epstein's victims she would fight very powerful people to win them justice. And Bondi did so in Donald Trump's name.

In firing Maurene Comey, Pam Bondi fired someone who had cultivated the trust of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, she did so AFTER Trump started to go nuts abt Epstein, and Bondi did so invoking Donald Trump's personal authority.

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Why didn’t Dems put Trump in jail over the Epstein stuff? Because Alex Acosta and Alan Dershowitz got Epstein a deal that came with a non-prosecution agreement for Epstein’s clients and coconspirators. Then trump rewarded Acosta with a job as Labor Secretary.

I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately.

He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.

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Gov. Pritzker: ‘This Is Not a Moment To Walk Away’ Read more here.

“I feel like this is not a moment to walk away. When you’re in the middle of a fight you gotta finish the fight. You gotta stand up, and I have to protect the people of my state the best I can,” Pritzker told Elias. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...