Jose Pagliery

Foreign nationals fleeing Iran through neighboring Armenia shared their memories of the first moments of the US-Israeli strikes as they queued at the border.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

We are not treating this, war, the murder of people for arguably legitimate and just ends, with the solemnity it deserves.

The Trump government has adopted the flippant media tactics we saw from ISIS recruitment videos a decade ago.

It was damning for jihadists then.

How about now?

www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

State Department Hotline to Americans in Middle East Now Says Help Is Available As of Tuesday, the hotline said Americans could not “rely” on the U.S. for evacuation plans, despite the administration’s claims that it was organizing travel.

UPDATE: State Department is finally offering travel help for people stuck in Middle East — 5 days into war.

I just spoke with a woman stuck in UAE. She's been registered with State since Saturday, but only got a crisis form this morning. No chartered flight info yet

A video from Admiral Brad Cooper, who's leading US Central Command, says that the American military is using suicide drones on Iran — based on the very same design as the Iranian Shahed drone.

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DOJ Revokes Rules Restricting Partisan Activity by Political Appointees A new memo obtained by NOTUS claws back the stricter rules for political employees issued during the Biden administration.

I got a leaked memo.

DOJ is reversing rules on its top officials — including one that says they can't "use their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an election."

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/courts/pam-b...

The Ballad of Briscoe Cain, the MAGA Legislator Whose Dreams Were Squashed by Trump Briscoe Cain could only exist in the Texas Legislature. He was tragically tempted to run for U.S. Congress.

A+ writing

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Deepfake Spotter – Deepfakes Tracker Deepfake Spotter: A Guide to Spotting Deepfakes in the Wild Practical Human Judgment – Your First Line of Defence Technical and Visual Signs of Deepfakes – Your Second Line of Defence Big Picture Rule...

Journalists have been asking us again and again about how to spot deepfakes.

Here’s our best advice for now, though it may evolve quickly, as AI advancements are happening in weeks and months rather than years. deepfakestracker.org/deepfake-spo...

Senators Demand Answers From Kristi Noem on Her Leadership of DHS Noem faced criticism, including from her own party, over her management of the Department of Homeland Security amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Lawmakers from both parties criticized DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s handling of immigration enforcement in a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. https://www.notus.org/immigration/kristi-noem-hearing-dhs-immigration-shutdown

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Minnesota Police Chief Said ICE Was Harassing Residents. Here Are Some of Their Stories. Residents of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say in interviews with Reason that encounters with ICE left them afraid and angry.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents?

I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

Heading back in. Update later.

But the judge this morning drew a hard line at stopping the protesters from even claiming self-defense against an officer who drew his gun when chasing down an unarmed protester.

Those monitoring say this trial has the potential to criminalize dissent in a way that harkens back to the Red Scare.

This case is a real fork in the road for this Trump Administration. The feds are trying to pin the injuring of a cop on all the protesters, even the ones who just showed up to set off fireworks on the residential street.

Unclear how the jury is responding to that.

A few thoughts during this extremely short break from a very cramped courtroom:

1. The FBI is making a lot of the anarchist and leftist "zines" they found at people's homes.

2. Answering questions, FBI agents keep admitting there's nothing illegal about this literature or the guns they seized.

I am in Fort Worth, Texas, covering the Justice Department's first trial against antifascism as "terrorism."

The "Prairieland 9" protesters are accused of attacking an ICE facility last summer ... but there's much more to this story than that.

Writing a story in the coming days.

Slowly pull out cigarette, light it, and stare at you all.

"My brothers and sisters..."

And yet so many Americans want traffic cameras on every street corner.

Same FBI agent, now in September 2025, claiming he's not aware of any government officials who use Signal.

This was six months after Signalgate.

I want to believe that the smartest, most capable people are defending us all from legit threats.

But how can you trust someone with subpoena power, or access to surveillance, or the authority to yell commands, or hell — even carry a Glock 19M Gen 5 9mm — if they're this dense? Or dishonest?

This is actual sworn testimony from a current FBI agent — who is the lead investigator in an ongoing trial about... you guessed it... protesters.

Thanks for all the recommendations! I'm trying to really get into the heads of pilots in that theater. These look great.

Every reporter in America should ask Kirkland & Ellis and all the other surrender firms for their reaction, and keep asking.

Is there a book you would recommend about American pilots in the Pacific? I'm doing research for a fiction project.

If US protesters have ever wondered whether it's worth using Baofeng radios to coordinate demonstrations, here's the FBI a few months ago claiming that the US government isn't actively capturing ham radio traffic.

Oh?

A hacked list of ICE contracts?

ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...