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A fun thing about this story is that DHS told Dell "Any allegation that DHS adopted a policy making Privacy Threshold Analyses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act is FALSE,” even though Dell had already reviewed emails showing that is absolutely not true.
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
Oil was $65.21 on Feb 28.
Today: $108.62.
+66.6% in 9 days 🤯
Biggest price spike since 1983. Paid at the pump. Paid forever.
$11,500/sec. 1,650 civilians dead. 194 children.
The meter is running.
Funny how violence always seems to
Accompany far right media figures and “activists”
The NYPD is a corrupt institution—one that, as @awinston.bsky.social writes, the city’s new mayor seems hesitant to challenge.
Chris's conviction was overturned & he's been out of Angola since November, but the state is *still* trying to reinstate his guilty verdict & death sentence. The family of the girl he was accused of killing now believes deeply in his innocence & has filed a remarkable amicus brief:
ok this is lowkey one of the funniest Onion headlines in recent memory
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Dollar store Andy Ngo, who directly benefits from anti-antifa hype, kicking it off.
Zohran Mamdani is still less than a hundred days into his mayoralty. But so far, writes @awinston.bsky.social, he seems prepared to maintain the NYPD’s wretched status quo.
thebaffler.com/latest/cedin...
My latest piece runs the rule over the NYPD's *operational* reality under Tisch - in particular, the unabated stop & frisk program, overtime bloat, lax or nonexistent discipline for violent cops, & more. It's quite clear that she takes zero direction from Mamdani thebaffler.com/latest/cedin...
The current NYT editor in chief Joe Kahn said a few years ago that it was a partisan position to be pro-democracy
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Polis keeps company with Network State proponents. He’s a real piece of work
When this regime is out, ship Hegseth et al to The Hague www.bbc.com/news/article...
Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to ***declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms***
www.propublica.org/article/elec...
That’s the rub today. All this mayhem to distract from the files
“In one instance last year, two recruits were flagged as suspected members of the MS-13 gang based on their tattoos while attending the training academy in Georgia. At least five other trainees were fired when ICE learned they had active warrants for their arrest” www.reuters.com/world/ice-st...
Truly the dumbest news cycle possible
New York billionaires who call themselves liberals and moderates are currently spending their time figuring out how to punish the people of New York City for electing Zohran, while doing absolutely nothing to stop the demented Nazi in the White House.
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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-...
The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.
Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc
just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike
New update over at Bleedingedge.press: Billionaires Panic at Calif. Wealth Tax; LA DA's Police Amnesty; Brazil's Police Massacre Exposed; ICE Snubs Courts; The CIA's Nordstream 2 Connection; Wagner's Sabotage Ring; Palantir's Federal Billion bleeding-edge.ghost.io/february-19-...
Please read our latest on how Israel's Cellebrite is being used to break into the phone of a prominent pro-democracy activist. This time, in Kenya. Guess who else has access to this tool? (with Carlos Mureithi) cc @rondeibert.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.
