Pam Fessler

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve? The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

As the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters and squandered millions of taxpayer dollars, Anne Applebaum and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez report.

Affidavit includes NO new info to warrant the involvement of DNI Tulsi Gabbard in seizure of Fulton County ballots.

Mostly a rehash of old allegations that certain things "looked" suspicious. No evidence that what likely were disorganization/human errors were intentional efforts to manipulate vote.

“.. Its amazing how small they are,” he wrote, adding that they could record for 64 hours. “I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I’ll bring them by later today.”

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‘The Trust Has Been Absolutely Destroyed’ Some state election officials say they no longer trust their federal partners.

"Some Republican campaign consultants have warned that [Trump's election interfering] effort could backfire on their own midterm efforts by decreasing turnout among the president’s base and increasing turnout among Democrats."

Yup.

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They're cured of leprosy. Why do they still live in leprosy colonies? Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled.

Leprosy is one of the least contagious diseases around — and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. The colonies are relics of a not-too-distant past when those diagnosed with leprosy were exiled. n.pr/4r3LmYM

He was disinvited at the same time Trump posted racist meme depicting the Obamas as apes.

Believe it or not, there are still about 750 leprosy colonies in India, although hardly any colony residents have leprosy any more. The disease can be easily cured, but the centuries-old stigma persists.

"Roughly 20 percent of Buchanan County residents have no teeth at all."
Having to go to public gyms to get free dental work by volunteer doctors should not be happening in the richest country on earth. It's not a partisan issue, it's a matter of human dignity.

Did you know there are still 750 leprosy colonies in India today? The disease is easily cured, but the stigma persists. The “leprosy affected” are pushing back. My story here.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

I can’t express how incredibly rare it for cabinet members to be impeached. We’ve only had two in our history. It’s also rare for doctors and scientists to call for HHS secretary to be impeached. But well deserved. 🩺⚕️💊 #rfkjr

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

Heads up.

Wrecks everything he touches.

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

Federal immigration officers across the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill that transformed ICE into the country’s most highly funded law enforcement agency.

Here’s a look at their arsenal:

"In theater"

The journalist explicitly identifies himself and attempts to stay on public land, but is threatened with arrest to prevent them from using their first amendment rights. They are breaking absolutely no law. This isn't even a close case.

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

Reminder: the "alleged voter fraud" is "alleged" by the FBI's boss.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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A headline reads: "How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History." An individual in a brown puffer coat stands with their back to the camera, taping notes onto a board on a brick wall. Each note says "learn all history." Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times.

National Park Service workers across the U.S. are removing materials about slavery, climate change and labor history to comply with an order from President Trump. In some of the first legal pushback, the city of Philadelphia sued the Trump administration on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ NEW: Since yesterday's deadly shooting in MN, I've talked to more than half a dozen federal sources involved immigration enforcement, including several in senior positions, who all tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated w/ some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting. Specifically, I'm told there is extreme frustration with DHS officials going on TV and putting out statements claiming that Alex Pretti was intending to conduct a "massacre" of federal agents or wanted to carry out "maximum damage", even after numerous videos appeared to show those claims were inaccurate. While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation, there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm. These sources say this messaging from DHS officials has been catastrophic from a PR and morale perspective, as it is eroding trust and credibility - comparing it to when Democrats falsely claimed the border was closed or that Haitians were being whipped at the border. Some of these sources have described DHS’ response to the shooting as “a case study on how not to do crisis PR”, one said they are so “fed up” that they wish they could retire, another said “DHS is making the situation worse”, and another added that “DHS is wrong” and “we are losing this war, we are losing the base and the narrative." These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a “bad shoot”, a “shitty” situation that happened in seconds where agents likely heard “gun!”, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow motion angles - and had to make split second decisions. All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is …

Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.

Attorney General Bondi Reprehensibly Ties End of ICE Actions in Minnesota to the State Releasing Its Voter Rolls to DOJ #ELB AG Bondi sent this letter to Minnesota officials. Among the things that Bondi says “will help bring back law and order to Minnesota and improve the lives of Americans” is for Minnesota to release its ...

Attorney General Bondi Reprehensibly Ties End of ICE Actions in Minnesota to the State Releasing Its Voter Rolls to DOJ electionlawblog.org?p=153962

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Greenland Pension Fund Mulls Divesting US Stocks on Trump Threat Greenland’s pension fund is mulling whether it should continue investing in US stocks, in what its chief executive says would be a symbolic stand against US President Donald Trump’s push to seize control of the Arctic island.

Greenland’s pension fund is mulling whether it should continue investing in US stocks.

Some voters who backed Trump say ICE is going 'too far' A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela.

A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela. n.pr/4jPCNy0

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

This video is one of the most disturbing I've seen so far. Listen to this mother. What justification is there to terrorize this family, including these kids?

And most, if not all, are not “professional” agitators.