DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting
Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
13.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 13068 🔁 3566 💬 479 📌 234
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”
A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.
The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
13.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 10548 🔁 5370 💬 857 📌 2374
We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.
14.02.2026 00:29 — 👍 20741 🔁 6023 💬 978 📌 482
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
08.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 19563 🔁 5048 💬 1864 📌 650
If it was a staffer, it was someone who is very close to Trump. Someone he trusts enough to let him post in his name. Someone he knows extremely well and spends a lot of time with. Which shows yet again that the people Trump trusts the most are racists because that’s who he is.
06.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 2009 🔁 386 💬 192 📌 20
Can we not know the name of the alleged staffer posting racist shit from Trump’s account, or would that be “doxing” too?
1. What is this person’s name?
2. How many of Trump’s posts, which impact the markets & foreign policy, are being made by this person?
3. Have they been fired?
06.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 2975 🔁 683 💬 252 📌 35
please watch:
04.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 5364 🔁 2280 💬 228 📌 175
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
03.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 8774 🔁 3801 💬 68 📌 64
#ProudBlue Gives a whole new meaning to “don’t mess with Texas”!
These kids aren’t having it. Mr. MAGA needs to rethink his strategy….
03.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 521 🔁 252 💬 77 📌 23
Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!
03.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 3201 🔁 673 💬 43 📌 41
A non-lawyer might miss that Johnson carefully dodged the question.
The question was about HOMES. He just spoke about ARRESTS.
Those are two VERY different things for warrants.
ICE is trying to undermine that distinction, which motivated the question, but Johnson bounced around it.
03.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 637 🔁 180 💬 23 📌 2
Nothing brings you closer to the truth about Trump than watching him live & on video. Print coverage has never captured the reality that we see everyday via @atrupar.com's diligent clipping. I honestly don't know how Aaron does it but I'm sure glad he does. My head would have exploded by now...
03.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 500 🔁 88 💬 6 📌 3
Massive attack on Ukraine tonight.
03.02.2026 06:50 — 👍 838 🔁 514 💬 50 📌 44
"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].
So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90
Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination).
Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.
Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.
Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem
has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]
Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly
scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously
does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs
will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to
take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section
IV.B.2.b.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not
cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains
unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959
lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our
economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into
the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn
the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of
them.
For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under
5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
03.02.2026 01:06 — 👍 4493 🔁 1754 💬 143 📌 152
Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
03.02.2026 00:48 — 👍 3387 🔁 981 💬 58 📌 100
👇👇👇👇
02.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 23030 🔁 8754 💬 509 📌 412
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The highest Poll Numbers I have ever received. Obviously, people like a strong and powerful Country, with the best economy, EVER!
the president is psychotic. in reality, his numbers are near all-time lows.
03.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 7310 🔁 1511 💬 661 📌 173
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
01.02.2026 03:10 — 👍 11519 🔁 3448 💬 202 📌 156
UTAH auto body shop owner: “You guys broke the fucking window to get in here! Where is your warrant??”
Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔
Rights are gone under this regime.
(From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)
31.01.2026 13:30 — 👍 5739 🔁 3225 💬 443 📌 291
I love MN
31.01.2026 03:57 — 👍 9022 🔁 1192 💬 182 📌 62
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
31.01.2026 04:54 — 👍 37370 🔁 11240 💬 826 📌 716
The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024.
If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!
31.01.2026 12:12 — 👍 9904 🔁 1896 💬 478 📌 202
(Multiple tweets combined, in order)
Tweet by Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin): "My office is committed to supporting adult literacy services. Please contact my office for assistance."
Quoted tweet by Paul Truess, Regional Director for Office of US Senator Ron Johnson: A photo posted by Rep. Moore showing her standing with protesters in the snow as she wears a placard reading "HATE WON'T MAKE US GREAT" over her blue down jacket.
Truess misread the sign, and comments "Only our Congresswoman
@RepGwenMoore would wear a sign on her chest with the words Hate Make US Great."
Truess's tweet has a community note attached, reading "The sign worn by Rep. Moore reads 'Hate Won't Make US Great,' not 'Hate Make US Great.'"
Hello, I'd like to report an evisceration.
(Rep. Moore is a Wisconsin Democrat; Ron Truess is "Regional Director for Office of US Senator Ron Johnson")
29.01.2026 20:31 — 👍 305 🔁 66 💬 5 📌 4
Trump launched an affordability-focused midterm campaign for Republicans this week, traveling to Iowa to give a speech about how good his presidency has been for the cost of living.
That's going about as well as you'd think. Here POTUS is saying he is going to keep housing prices high.
29.01.2026 19:53 — 👍 1371 🔁 340 💬 92 📌 12
Trying to purchase a home?
Trump says “I don’t want to drive housing prices down.”
Millions of hardworking folks can't afford to buy—and the President’s tariffs are making it even more expensive.
29.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 515 🔁 191 💬 39 📌 8
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
29.01.2026 18:05 — 👍 5258 🔁 3200 💬 132 📌 309
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