Arrested, transferred, lost, dismissed: One Chicago resident's journey through ICE detention U.S. immigration authorities have moved one young man so often over the last month that even the Department of Homeland Security has had trouble keeping track of him.

ICE agents detained a 19-year-old immigrant in Chicago on June 12; in the month since he's been shuffled across 3 Kentucky jails.

His story so far is a look into the legal and logistical strategies being used to defeat immigration cases nationwide.

My latest: djbyrnes.substack.com/p/arrested-t...

Why so quiet, JD?

Top Democrats Demand Release of All Epstein Files Naming Trump House Democrats are taking action after seeing the MAGA fury over Trump’s Epstein conclusion.

Top Democrats Demand Release of All Epstein Files Naming Trump newrepublic.com/post/197718/...

Donald Trump Jr in 2024: How is it that my father could be convicted of 34 crimes, but no one on Epstein's list has even been brought to light? I'm trying to figure out how that's possible. It's almost like they're trying to protect those pedophiles for some reason. I can't imagine why.

meanwhile, after the FBI announces an investigation of the Obama era CIA and FBI directors, the conspiracy right is asking about Epstein

FBI: Quick, distract them from the Epstein files!

This can’t be true. They would never keep classified documents in the WH bathroom. He most likely read it in the Mar A Lago bathroom.

I’m still curious how he knows so much about what’s in the files.

Wow -- Trump jumps in to try to shut down a reporter who attempts to ask Pam Bondi about the missing minute in the Epstein jailhouse tape

Trump refers to Epstein as "this creep."
Trump was Epstein's buddy. Everyone at that table knows this. Every reporter in that room knows this.

The Epstein files were a big story when people thought maybe some Democrats were in them. But now that Trump is refusing to release them, possibly because of his own appearance in them, it's not such a big story anymore.

OH MY. 😳

"Bannon is in the Epstein files." -- Elon Musk

The ultimate betrayal stings like a hidden blade. DOJ’s Epstein memo is a shameless whitewash, denying a client list or murder. It’s a grotesque curtain drawn over elite corruption, shielding predators while justice bleeds out in plain sight.

Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."

DHS was a massive mistake and always had a huge potential for tyrannical abuse.

My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?

It's Veep now, every day. They have become completely untethered from reality. It's all a show, a terrible Trumpian shitshow every day.

Trumpism is very Maoist. I’ve thought the same thing myself.

This from a senior U.S. government official reads like a translation of a statement by a Soviet apparatchik from the 1930s, or a Maoist one from the 1960s.

Ghislaine Maxwell should be charged with additional crimes since she apparently was the mastermind, seller, buyer, rapist, transporter, and recruiter for a child sex trafficking operation. Who would have guessed the WHOLE LIST is just her?
#BondiIsLying
#EpsteinClientList
#BondiCoverUp

FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members: 1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual. 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160 Filed 07/07/25 Page 2 of 4 The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned. Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

Pete Hegseth just blocked weapons aid to Ukraine without telling the State Dept, Congress, or our allies. The weapons were already on trucks headed to Kyiv when he stopped them, claiming it endangered... Pete Hegseth just blocked weapons aid to Ukraine without telling the State Dept, Congress, or our allies. The weapons were already on trucks headed to Kyiv when he stopped them, claiming it endangered...

Pete Hegseth just blocked weapons aid to Ukraine without telling the State Dept, Congress, or our...
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This. Right. Here.👇

To reiterate an obvious point: The military operation in MacArthur Park was farcical. But it also reveals a habit of thinking and acting by major government organizations dangerous to a free society. What starts as farce can end as tragedy.

Your Medicaid is cut. Your health insurance is not safe. Your tips are still taxed. You pay the tariffs. There’s no trade deals. No wars have ended. Gas isn’t $2. Eggs aren’t cheaper. There isn’t $10 trillion in investment. The Epstein files are buried.

It’s. All. Lies.

All the time.

Man, if you’re getting dunked on by a Doocy, just give it up

Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece when the deadly Texas floods broke out. His office says he took the first flight home. Texas’ junior senator was visiting Greece Friday when the Texas flood turned deadly. Cruz, who did not return until Sunday night, communicated with officials from Athens.

When millions of Texans were freezing and without power Ted Cruz was poolside at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun.

When Texas authorities were searching for children's bodies swept away in a flood this week, he was strolling the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. #FledCruz

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Here in California we need our state and local leaders to tell us exactly what our rights are when we are confronted with armed masked men claiming they have the authority to disappear our fellow citizens. Now.