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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

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Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.

Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

03.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5627    πŸ” 2322    πŸ’¬ 315    πŸ“Œ 118
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

02.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12538    πŸ” 4369    πŸ’¬ 649    πŸ“Œ 455
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For the record: I will not send another cent to Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller while the department they run is shredding the Constitution and murdering American citizens in the streets.

A two-week extension is two weeks too long. I’m voting no.

02.02.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5218    πŸ” 1178    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 74

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

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Red state gov candidate claims Don Lemon 'lucky' he wasn't lynched Journalist Don Lemon's arrest and indictment by the Trump administration promoted howls of outrage from press figures around the country on Friday β€” but as far as Florida gubernatorial candidate James...

But they're not racist or violent, right? 1/

Think about what it's like to be Black and hear candidates for office speak so cavalierly about murder.

Extra-judicial murder.

Of which this country is guilty.

Yeah, you feel like an equal citizen.
www.rawstory.com/don-lemon-26...

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My first remarks since being arrested last night.

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β€œNot at all”

For people out here believing Homan is some sort of savior, and acting like anything anyone in this regime says can be counted on

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Q: Do you have comment on the career prosecutors that are resigning in Minneapolis?

BLANCHE: *walks away*

30.01.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6532    πŸ” 2119    πŸ’¬ 490    πŸ“Œ 145
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameβ€”citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

30.01.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13476    πŸ” 7229    πŸ’¬ 659    πŸ“Œ 871

I'm sorry, WHAT?πŸ‘€

The DNI just happened by a FBI raid and jumped into the back of a truck full of seized ballots?

30.01.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6786    πŸ” 2636    πŸ’¬ 503    πŸ“Œ 128

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

30.01.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 15702    πŸ” 5633    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 128

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

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MINNESOTA β€” Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

30.01.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 24687    πŸ” 13551    πŸ’¬ 1825    πŸ“Œ 1133

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

29.01.2026 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6939    πŸ” 1651    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 38
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New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.

NEW: Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

29.01.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1678    πŸ” 1100    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 99
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ICE Masks, Billionaires and the Politics of Anti-Accountability Masks have become the central symbol of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

@joshtpm.bsky.social: From ICE agents hiding behind masks to billionaires concealing their massive political donations, we're living in a world in which the powerful are granted additional rights to shield them from the repercussions of having so much power.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-m...

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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.
β€œThere 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 β€” πŸ‘ 5262    πŸ” 3203    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 310

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

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A pastor searched for a missing congregant. He found a car with the keys on the floor Evaristo Kalonji, an asylum seeker from Angola who has no criminal record, vanished from South Portland. He turned up in one detention center, then another.

Full story here www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/a...

29.01.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 645    πŸ” 275    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 15
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Patriots vs. Broncos snap counts: Mack Hollins picks up where he left off Notes and thoughts on the Patriots’ snap counts from their 10-7 win over the Broncos.

Patriots snap count analysis: Mack Hollins picks up where he left off; Has TreVeyon Henderson hit the rookie wall?; Milton Williams plays his first offensive snap; And more from the AFC Championship Game.

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They grabbed his father at McDonald’s β€” he tried to bring his dad his heart medication and they laughed at him

A heartless, lawless regime

29.01.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4280    πŸ” 2345    πŸ’¬ 208    πŸ“Œ 128
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

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Will Tatum sit out entire season? Forsberg, Abby react to 'surprising' report Chris Forsberg and Abby Chin react to a report that Jayson Tatum is contemplating sitting out the entire 2025-26 season.

SURPRISING REPORT: For the past several months, the question hasn't been if Jayson Tatum will return to the Boston Celtics this season, but when he'll return. But a report Wednesday night has shifted that conversation. on.nbcboston.com/FaAkRG9

29.01.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

29.01.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 15572    πŸ” 6953    πŸ’¬ 799    πŸ“Œ 384

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