Colleen Kelley

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say Some early decisions by the homeland security secretary, including to divert Coast Guard resources from a search and rescue mission to the deportation of immigrants, set the tone early.

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff

The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items

When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms The case for being vigilant without panicking.

Trump can't steal the midterms.

I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands.

Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has.

Me, in @thebulwark.com:

DHS paid a Russian oligarch, Andrey Sharkov, $130,000,000 for a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia, a town of 5,000. The Russian paid $29,000,000 for the property in 2023 & last year its assessed value was still $29,000,000. ICE paid 4 TIMES the assessed value for the property. Don Jr kickbacks?

WATCH: “That’s not America. That’s not Tennessee. I’m ashamed of those sons of bitches.”

A decorated veteran from a family of soldiers warns Republican anti-immigrant Stephen Miller bills are creating a “Gestapo”.

(Bonus: turns out this patriot is a Holler fan 🎉)

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To be clear, CBS refusing to air Stephen Colbert’s interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico after they received threats from the MAGA regime to bury it isn’t only censorship, it’s full blown fascism.

Propaganda CBS aren’t a reliable news source, they are state tv.

South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.

SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times

How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Simply not true in any way.

Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.

HELL yea

Trump's "Receptionist of the US" Deletes Her Trip to Russia - emptywheel The woman reported to be the Trump aide who had classified documents in her possession deleted a LinkedIn reference to travel to Russia.

In honor of Chamberlain Harris being appointed to greenlight Trump's gaudy bunker, a reminder of how she deleted her Russian ties when it became clear she had copied classified records for Trump.

emptywheel.net/trumps-recep...

This is insane. The stories coming out of these camps is gonna be the worst shit you've ever heard.

ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps | Moira Donegan The Trump administration has bought warehouses across the US that could hold thousands. But resistance is growing

Let me fix that headline for you: ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into concentration camps

MAGA are terrified of James Talarico because he exposes them for the frauds that they are. As a true Christian Talarico advocated for policy that reflects the teachings of Christ, loving your neighbor, welcoming the foreigner, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick and sheltering the needy....

I really hope this experience teaches Dems that people aren't anti-immigration. They're anti "border crisis"

Making it super easy to immigrate is a political, social, and economic win.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.

It’s affirming that the good people of the United States have so clearly rejected Trump’s terror campaign and mass deportation. New data from Reuters:

CBS pulling @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is alarming and nothing short of censorship. Full breakdown on my Substack page (link below).

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Insanity. They are laughing at us.

European security contractors should carefully scrutinize this and other tapes of the Palantir CEO, who exhibits all the physical characteristics of a dangerous drug addict, before signing any contracts with Palantir.

'Monstrous cruelty': Outrage erupts as baby in ICE detention falls ill and 'unresponsive' News broke this week that Juan Nicolás, the two-month-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, was hospitalized over an episode of bronchitis that at one point rendered him "unresponsive."Dilley has become infamous as a facility that warehouses la...

News broke this week that Juan Nicolas, the two-month-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, was hospitalized over an episode of bronchitis that at one point rendered him "unresponsive.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

The link to the Colbert Talarico interview.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.

This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025 The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

Trump's "Receptionist of the US" Deletes Her Trip to Russia - emptywheel The woman reported to be the Trump aide who had classified documents in her possession deleted a LinkedIn reference to travel to Russia.

I knew that named seemed familiar.

26 year old… longtime… ok.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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