Loren Drummond

Precisely the fear I raised on my latest pod.

That’s 10 out of 24 warehouses they’ve purchased:

- 3 of 8 “large scale” warehouse detention centers which will hold 7,000-10,000 people for weeks/months
- 7 of 16 “regional processing centers” which will hold people for days before transfer to a “large scale” warehouse.

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An obvious, demonstrable lie.

But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

U.S. Southern Command: On Feb. 23, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptoWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered three more people in boats today

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.

A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.

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

This was a great convo. @polphilpod.bsky.social pushed us into deep territory: The theoretical underpinnings of Miller's worldview, how Trump's unpopularity on immigration gives Dems a big opening, and why we must drive home the point that the GOP should never be trusted on immigration ever again:

There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

No working bathrooms for weeks. Not enough food. Denied access to an attorney. Tortured if you refuse to volunteer to be deported.

These are concentration camps. Shut them all down.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Democrats criticize cost of National Guard deployment in D.C. and its results in new report The Trump administration deployed National Guard members in August. More than 2,000 are still in Washington.

The Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard to the nation's capital has cost taxpayers $330M and delivered little in the way of measurable results, per a new report from Democrats on the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Make It Easier to Fire 50,000 Federal Workers A rule issued on Thursday would create a government-employee category that offers fewer job protections.

Trump has already fired or forced out nearly 200,000 workers. Now they are slashing protections for thousands more.

Federal workers keep our gov’t running and ensure the American people get their Social Security, VA benefits, and Medicaid. This is ridiculous.

https://on.wsj.com/3OqTBQ8

Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas

The U.S. measles outbreak is out of control. What’s happening in South Carolina - and at Dilley detention center - could happen anywhere the vaccination rate dips too low. “It’s not a matter of if, but more likely when.” My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ooh cannot wait to read.

Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5

newrepublic.com/article/2060...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is important to us because what’s happening right now in Congress could permanently change protections for a beloved wilderness area. With everything else going on, this quietly moved forward while most people weren’t paying attention and it should concern all of us.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students. On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...

One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)

Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story

www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

The $79 Trillion Heist - The American Prospect We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.

'In 1947, workers captured 70 percent of the total national income; today, that has fallen to roughly 59 percent, while investment income has gained at workers’ expense.'

The Ohio grandma racing to help Haitian parents protect children as more deportations near In Springfield, a city transformed by Haitian immigrants, Casey Rollins says she feels like the “town crier” warning of a looming family separation crisis.

There is a family separations crisis that has already begun in Springfield, Ohio.
19thnews.org/2025/12/spri...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.

In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.

Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.

www.propublica.org/article/usai...