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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Immigration agents departing from the scene of the shooting

FBI investigators are on the scene of the shooting

In Willowbrook, CA in the aftermath of a shooting by immigration agents.

DHS says the person they were attempting to arrest “was not hit and attempted to flee on foot.”

DHS claims he “weaponized his vehicle and rammed law enforcement.”

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use

A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child.

A 16-year-old citizen

DHS calls this "utmost professionalism"

w/ @mckenziefunk.com

The situation had deteriorated so dramatically that the San Benito district attorney, Joel Buckingham, found himself worrying about the people his office was trying to send to prison. Their attorneys didn’t contest the evidence Buckingham’s prosecutors presented, no matter how it was obtained. Each year, they filed an average of just 10 motions to suppress evidence based on violations of constitutional rights — including unjustified stops and searches, illegal interrogations, and arrests without probable cause. “Police officers must make mistakes sometimes,” Buckingham told a researcher conducting the evaluation. The sheriff, Eric Taylor, was also alarmed. If his deputies were never challenged in court, how would they know when they had crossed a line? What would stop them from doing it again?

You know things are bad when both the DA and Sheriff are concerned that their side is winning in court TOO much.

Another great one by the great Anat Rubin:

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Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Watching this sport is like standing around in the waiting area of an emergency room

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

ACLU argues Border Patrol broke court order with high-profile Sacramento raid Border Patrol agents were supposed to stop indiscriminate raids in LA and the Central Valley. Then they moved to Sacramento.

ACLU argues Border Patrol broke court order with high-profile Sacramento raid w/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social
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CA DoJ wrote in Newsom vs Trump briefs that federal troops' arrival brought out more protests. Also, the protests after Paramount were limited to like a 5 or 6 block area in downtown LA, maybe .2 sq miles in a city that's 500 sq miles. The protesters were largely focused on federal troops and ICE.

The Trump Administration just asked the Supreme Court to let federal agents in LA target people based on race or ethnicity.

Here’s exactly what that means

W/ @evidentmedia.org

Los Angeles City Council member Ysabel Jurado on the Border Patrol raid outside the Japanese National Museum where Gov. Newsom held a press conference calling for a special November election

5 things to know as Newsom and Trump go back to court over the National Guard in LA Gov. Gavin Newsom alleges the Trump administration broke a 19th Century law when it sent troops to L.A. with military security perimeters and alleged apprehensions of civilian protestors.

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta say yes. Trump’s DOJ says no. The three-day trial to answer this question is scheduled to commence today at 10 a.m. with implications for the country as Trump continues to signal a desire to deploy troops to patrol domestic city streets.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift temporary ban on roving immigration stops in L.A. The federal government has filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to lift a ban on roving immigration sweeps.

“The federal government has now gone running to the Supreme Court asking it to undo a narrow court order—applicable in only one judicial district—that merely compels them to follow the Constitution.” Said the ACLU

W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Trump administration asks #SCOTUS to lift federal judge's order barring "roving" immigration raids in Los Angeles area. Filing says 1 in 10 residents of the district are undocumented immigrants. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"What you're basically doing is deconstructing ICE and DHS and their strategies and letting viewers, readers, listeners see for themselves." Thank you to Latino USA for hosting @sergioolmos.bsky.social and featuring our latest reporting in collaboration with @calmatters.org and @bellingcat.com.

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A Times investigation: As west Altadena burned, L.A. County fire trucks stayed elsewhere Vehicle locator data obtained by The Times show that most L.A. County fire trucks didn’t shift into west Altadena until long after fire ravaged the area. How much of the town could have been saved, re...

“A Times investigation: As west Altadena burned, L.A. County fire trucks stayed elsewhere.

…only one L.A. County fire truck was west of Lake Avenue, where nearly all of the deaths took place.”

Via @rellis.bsky.social

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A Times investigation: As west Altadena burned, L.A. County fire trucks stayed elsewhere Vehicle locator data obtained by The Times show that most L.A. County fire trucks didn’t shift into west Altadena until long after fire ravaged the area. How much of the town could have been saved, re...

"In west Altadena — where thousands of structures would burn and all but one of the 19 deaths from the Eaton fire would occur — there was just 1 county fire truck as the flames spread at 3:08 a.m., according to automatic vehicle locator data obtained by The Times."
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Very nice shoutout for @calmatters today for our FOIA work from @nickmiroff.bsky.social in his excellent profile on Bovino in @theatlantic.com. W/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social

Hey Jenn, fwiw, Nick credited CalMatters in the piece, which was kind. I thought the reporting was excellent, stuff in there I haven’t read before. I’m a fan of Nick’s work overall, and I felt like this profile was unique and well done.

Bonus: this 2018 email to Bovino from his friend, the Border Patrol official he hired to be his #2 in New Orleans, from the court files of a discrimination lawsuit DHS lost storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you 🙏

Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in Kern County. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees Border Patrol said it had a list of targets for its high-profile January raid, but it had a record for just one of the 78 people it arrested.

H/t to @sergioolmos.bsky.social and @calmatters.org for their stellar coverage of Bovino's rise calmatters.org/economy/2025...

The Hype Man of Trump’s Mass Deportations Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.

NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Hype Man of Trump’s Mass Deportations Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.

“Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.”

Via @nickmiroff.bsky.social
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‘There is no sanctuary anywhere:’ Border Patrol raids come to California’s capital The Border Patrol began conducting operations in Sacramento on Thursday, less than a week after a judge halted its wide-ranging LA raids.

Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward to Ca’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, more than 500 miles away from the border. 

W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social

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DHS secretary Noem on federal court ruling blocking roving immigration patrols in Los Angeles:

“He’s an idiot” referring to federal judge(who’s a woman)

“Our operations will continue, we will be in compliance with all federal judges orders.”

Judge says immigration agents must stop ‘roving patrols’ that have upended Southern California A court ruling Friday orders a halt to a chaotic and relentless 36-day immigration crackdown that’s upended life across Southern California.

A federal judge says the LA immigration sweeps must stop.

Because agents can’t just approach Latinos without a warrant or reasonable suspicion.

And they can’t deny detainees access to a lawyer.

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