Travis J. Tritten

First images of ICE migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.

Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

Army Puts Political Operative in Charge of Public Affairs, Stoking Concerns of Creeping Partisanship While it's not unusual for political hands to manage messaging at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the ongoing change to military public affairs marks a broader institutional pivot.

Political operatives are likely set to take over much of the Pentagon's communications, even on the service level, as its public messaging has become overtly partisan during the Trump administration.

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Ozzy Osbourne wrote the closest thing we have to a GWOT anthem "War Pigs” was aimed at Vietnam but rang through all 20 years of the Global War on Terror as the war machine just kept turning.

Ozzy Osbourne wrote the closest thing we have to a GWOT anthem https://trib.al/sAUXmQE

Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US Tent camp with 5,000 beds would be the largest such facility in the country, fueling fears of advocates who say they often don’t meet basic needs

"Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US

Tent camp with 5,000 beds would be the largest such facility in the country, fueling fears of advocates who say they often don’t meet basic needs"

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Additional Military Bases in New Jersey, Indiana Set to Host Migrant Detention Camps Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, colloquially referred to as "Fort Dix," in New Jersey and Camp Atterbury in Indiana, both relatively low-profile installations, have been identified as housing sites.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to house migrants at two new military installations as the Trump administration increasingly turns to the armed forces to bolster its aggressive immigration crackdown.

Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Eurofighter Typhoon Canopy-Shattering Bird Strike Captured In Amazing Images A photographer snapped the instant a Spanish Eurofighter impacted a bird during an aerobatic demonstration.

Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero took some of the most amazing shots you will ever see of a combat jet striking a bird during high-speed aerobatic maneuvers.

The pilot survived. The bird? Not so much.

he's also a former marine

New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that causes painful razor bumps and scarring to be kicked out of the service -- an is...

The Army is set to follow the Marine Corps by creating a new shaving policy allowing soldiers with a chronic skin condition that mostly affects Black men to be kicked out of the service.

Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to "prioritize and broadly advertise" opportunities troops who are nearing separation or retirement from the military have with either Customs and Border Protection or Imm...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to take steps to encourage troops to consider being part of the agencies that handle immigration enforcement and border security though a new policy unveiled Thursday.

Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech Ahead of President Donald Trump's rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised alarms over a vendor planning to sell Trump-branded merchandise on site.

They sold MAGA merchandise on Fort Bragg before Trump's speech. The Army complained. They were overruled.

I'm feeling the need to be very LA here.

The Marines are at the Wilshire Federal Buidling, where there ain't nothin' goin' on.

Right now, it'd take like an hour for them to get to downtown. Maybe 45 minutes if they're lucky.

The Marines Are in Los Angeles Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and the ability to temporarily detain civilians arrived in the country's second-...

The troops are not allowed to conduct law enforcement. But authorities to temporarily detain citizens and accompany federal law enforcement blur the line between forces meant to police the public and those that fight the country's wars.

Story by @dflawrence.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

Army Officials Pushed Back on Pop-Up MAGA Shop Ahead of Fort Bragg Trump Speech Ahead of President Donald Trump's rally-style appearance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Army officials raised alarms over a vendor planning to sell Trump-branded merchandise on site.

On Tuesday, the vendor, 365 Campaign, was on the Army base anyway, and soldiers purchased clothing and items like "Make America Great Again" chain necklaces and faux credit cards labeled "White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything."

Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

Missouri governor activates National Guard ahead of anti-Trump protests Mike Kehoe’s order triggers a state of emergency due to civil unrest, even as no evidence existed of riots or other widespread violence in Missouri.

NEW: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe activates National Guard, declaring a state of emergency due to civil unrest ahead of anticipated anti-Trump demonstrations this weekend

Early story w/ @kacen.bsky.social
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WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard members already have temporarily detained civilians in the Los Angeles protests, commander says.

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Hegseth Suggests LA-Style Troop Deployments Could Happen Anywhere in US 'if Necessary' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added that "hopefully" governors in other states would mobilize their Guards themselves and took a swipe at California Gov. Gavin Newsom for "playing politics."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Wednesday that the Trump administration could send troops to any city in America over the objections of state and local officials, as it is doing now in Los Angeles.

Story by @kheel.bsky.social

Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Soldiers who cheered Trump's political attacks were filtered based on support for the Trump administration and physical appearance.

One unit-level message bluntly saying: "No fat soldiers."

Story by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social and @ktoropin.bsky.social

Trump Deploys Hundreds of Marines to LA in Growing Military Response to Immigration Raid Protests The deployment marks a sharp escalation in the military's role in domestic unrest in the city caused by immigration raids by the Trump administration.

A battalion of active-duty Marines -- around 700 troops -- based out of Twentynine Palms, California, received deployment orders to Los Angeles on Monday.

Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social, @stevenbeynon.bsky.social and @dflawrence.bsky.social

MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!”

ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed.

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"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional."

I've seen enough. We can confidently declare the Trump administration to be the biggest collection of assholes in American history.

Big scoop - Hegseth orders renaming of USS Harvey Milk, intentionally timed during Pride month according to a defense official.

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show.

The USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed on the orders of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

Hegseth Starts Evangelical Prayer Services at Pentagon with His Tennessee Church Pastor The defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.

In a move that pushes the boundaries of Constitutional prohibition against a state religion, Hegseth hosted an evangelical prayer service in the middle of the day at the Pentagon in which a pastor praised President Donald Trump as "sovereignly appointed."

Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social

Pentagon Committee Created to Direct Book Banning in Service Branches The Pentagon dramatically expanded efforts to censor and remove books with topics such as diversity and anti-racism by ordering all military branches to scrub libraries of "divisive concepts and gende...

New Pentagon committee will direct which books are banned from military shelves.

ICE Agents Are Targeting DC Restaurants Millie's and Pupatella were among the restaurants to get a visit today.

Breaking: ICE agents are targeting DC restaurants in what is shaping up to be one of the city’s most high-profile examples yet of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Millie's and Pupatella were among the restaurants to get a visit on Tuesday.

U.S. knew of Austin Tice's location for years, his mom tells Club at Press Freedom Center event A bombshell revelation by Debra Tice, mother of Austin Tice, the only American journalist detained abroad, at a luncheon May 1  kicked off two days of events at the National Press Club sounding the al...

“We were always told we [the federal government] didn’t know where Austin was,” Tice said. “Finding so much truth after so much untruth was exceedingly painful. I don’t know if I ever will recover from that.”

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Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the Pentagon's top civilian leader during his first months on the job, casting himse...

"He seems too preoccupied with his personal brand," one Army captain told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This is the 'vet bro' Pentagon."

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm.

These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

Migrant Torture at Guantanamo Authorized by Trump Administration Memo If you haven't been to Gitmo, you might not recognize the implications of a brief reference in a recently revealed Pentagon/Homeland Security document

Make no mistake. That Guantanamo memo CBS recently reported on is a blueprint to torture migrants without ever having to directly, explicitly approve torture. Here’s why.