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‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’ An account of bodycam footage, submitted in a recent court filling, provides new detail about a confrontation outside a New Jersey immigration facility.

The federal officer who arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention center in May suggested that he was following the direction of the DOJ's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, according to bodycam footage.

The seventies sound magical!

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor, with a blanket, pillows and a book

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

VON DER LEYEN: Every single child has to go back to its family. This should be one of our main priorities in these negotiations.

TRUMP: I was just thinking we're here for a different reason but we just a couple weeks ago made the largest trade deal in history. Congratulations.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit

Grimly amusing to have this drop the same day Trump is re-hyping garbage vote-fraud conspiracy theories.

It’s wild to think about how people feel that MeToo, Black Lives Matter, etc went too far as we watch the rights of women and the safety of Black people being further stripped away.

It is just part of the same pattern as we’ve always seen: any inch towards equality is seen as an existential danger.

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.

Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

It’s a pretty neat trick to come after every civil liberty but easy access to guns when battling violent crime.

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Best and brightest.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

Scum of the earth. Need to be identified, fired, stripped of benefits, and prosecuted at first opportunity.

Pretty wild to think that Trump did this whole red-carpet summit for Putin, and he had jack shit pre-agreed. Absolutely nothing to present to the public as a show of his diplomatic prowess and American might. Just blind confidence in his magical deal-making voodoo. And now, nothing to show for it.

Putin and Trump ride in the US President's limo. Putin smiles. Post reads: "Throw some Simon & Garfunkel on it, and it's the last scene in The Graduate."

Throw some Simon & Garfunkel on it, and it's the last scene in The Graduate.

Кремль. Новости Двусторонняя встреча Владимира Путина и Дональда Трампа началась В беседе также принимают участие Министр иностранных дел России Сергей Лавров, помощник Президента России Юрий Ушаков, Госсекретарь СШ...

The Kremlin’s Telegram channel released footage of Trump & Putin sitting down for the start of the summit. Curiously, their video doesn’t have sound, which means viewers can’t hear the U.S. reporters asking if Russia will stop killing Ukrainian civilians. t.me/news_kremlin...

> @heathmayo.bsky.social

It looks like someone knew about the Intel, $INTC, possible government expansion.

JUST BEFORE THE NEWS, LITERALLY TODAY, there were huge call volumes, with more calls trading at the ask.

$INTC has had several days in a row of consistent bullish flows.

These traders made millions.

Unusual.

Might be better he isn't working?

The D.C. Police Stopped January 6th — Now They Belong to Trump Plus, he's building a loyalist paramilitary in ICE.

In all seriousness: "ICE new-hires receive a $50k signing bonus over the next three years — a distribution schedule ensuring those who enlist today have a monetary interest in ensuring Donald Trump’s political program continues through the 2028 election.'

www.joewrote.com/p/trump-inva...

Talk about a cheap date

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.

Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

/2 Although many traditional conservatives have become staunchly anti-Trump, traditional conservatives will still stubbornly present some people as normal conservatives when they were in fact pants-on-head extremists.

ICE detained a teen with disabilities outside a Los Angeles school "The trauma will linger."

On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by ICE outside a Los Angeles Unified School District high school at 9:30 am when he was registering for classes.

He was only released after both school staff and the Los Angeles Police Department intervened.

Put a useful idiot in charge of economic statistics and we suddenly get a reason to suspend our most valuable and reliable measures, just as the economy is slowing. It's cooking the books by erasing inconvenient numbers. Indefensibly destructive, economically harmful, and markets will hate it.

So she definitely blackmailed Trump right

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

I've driven land route betw White House and Trump's NoVa golf course. (And he often takes chopper.)

That route DOES *NOT* take you past areas of DC w "homeless encampments." W possible exception of one place by Watergate/ Whitehurst Fwy/ Rock Creek Pkwy.

Apart from all else, this is just BS.

Not for nothing shouldn't the President have to see homeless encampments? Their existence says a lot about him, too.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back