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Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

ICE officer training is ‘deficient’ and ‘broken,’ former agency lawyer tells congressional forum | CNN A former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer who was responsible for training new deportation officers warned Monday that the agency’s training program for new recruits is “deficient, defect...

When ICE leadership prioritizes speed over safeguards and denies problems instead of addressing them, the consequences are predictable: constitutional violations, escalating confrontations, and collapsing trust.

It is Congress’s responsibility to rein in ICE and hold those at the top accountable.

Democrats push for tariff refunds, daring vulnerable GOP lawmakers to join them A new Senate bill would require reimbursements to businesses within 180 days. House legislation calls for even quicker action.

Three top Democrats are proposing a 180-day deadline for CBP to pay refunds for all of the Trump tariffs the Supreme Court just invalidated. The 180 day timer would kick off once the bill became law.

It directs CBP to prioritize refunding small businesses.

FBI’s “Stand Down” Directive to NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein Investigations, and More The most comprehensive timeline to date of the publicly available record on New York law enforcement authorities’ action and inaction with regard to Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and other potential co-c...

Just five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019, federal authorities “directed” the New York Police Department to “stand down” its investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show.

www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

At what point does this become murder? How many people do these teslas hve to kill?

Calling it "a lethal kinetic strike" doesn't reduce the wrongness, immorality, & illegality of blowing up boats & killing people just because Trump & Hegseth want to play wartime bossman.

There is a LEGAL way to identify, capture, arrest, & charge drug traffickers.

This is NOT the way.

Increased ICE weapons and training spending out of Columbus ICE spent $160 million in 2025 on weapons and training, with much of it going to its Ft. Benning training center in Columbus, Georgia.

"$30 million for soft body armor kits. $15 million for ballistic helmets. $7.8 million for tasers and cartridges. $1.7 million for Glocks, magazines and [.] accessories. $313,000 for less-lethal weapons. $77,000 for a mini-caliber tactical robot."
#Georgia #USA #Weapons #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"An innocent man fights with facts, not tantrums "

I believe the survivors
Thank you Sassy ..well written piece

Air pollution, acid rain, black lung disease, respiratory issues and in PA we have Centralia. The town has been burning underground since the 60's.

Nothing beautiful about it.
We had a coal burning furnace growing up. Mom died of emphysema, and 6 of 8 children had respiratory problem.

It's bad enough that everyone knows that Trump is a needy toddler who thirsts over meaningless participation trophies, but saying "clean coal" is like saying "fragrant raw sewage."

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Trump opens vast Atlantic marine monument for commercial fishing - Oceanographic Trump issues proclamation reopening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing.

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-o...

RFK JR is at best committing manslaughter at this point

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Christ this is grim.

Wow!! If you have a Ring doorbell, please watch this video.

FEMA denies disaster aid for 2025 flooding, leaving NEK towns scrambling - VTDigger Towns including Sutton, Burke, Sheffield and Wheelock must find other ways to fund their recovery, which could include raising taxes for residents.

This is the stuff people need to remember when Republicans claim they care about working class and rural people

ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.

ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two ICE officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations.

Who needs any more proof that this man is COMPLETELY DEMENTED?!

OK I've been on team "he's always ranted incoherently" (after all I posted the crazy Bananas dictator speech regularly during his first term) but this one seems a fair amount more so.

Lawmakers say some Epstein files remain redacted despite DOJ's pledge Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Moskowitz told reporters key documents retained redactions despite the DOJ's pledge that members of Congress could view the full files.

Breaking MS NOW:

Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise.

Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Epstein file review yields 6 new "likely incriminated" men, lawmakers say Rep. Thomas Massie told reporters that one of the men is "pretty high up" in a foreign government.

www.axios.com/2026/02/09/e...

Wake up, America and Repost 💙

The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.

Super Bowl ads - can fk off with that MAHA crap.

NEW EPSTEIN SURVIVORS AD: “3 million files still not released — stand with us. Tell AG Pam Bondi to release the files. It’s time for the truth.”

This years Super Bowl ads are all sponsored by the buy nothing movement

Yes, this IS pure evil.

It’s crazy to me, how many Americans still think Puerto Rico is a foreign country. And insulting them.

Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. And when any of them move to the mainland, they are able to vote for the president of the United States.