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Arrests by ICE are once again on the rise. As we continue to fight for much-needed guardrails and demand accountability and transparency, make sure you know your rights and have a plan for what to do if ICE is in your community. Find resources here ⤵️
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Americans know that our strength has always been built on the simple notion that America is a place where many become one. The AFT, as the representative of those who teach and care for our next gener...
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The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Call your Senators and let them know to BLOCK BLANCHE. He's coming for your reproductive rights.
Reproductive Freedom for All@reproductivefreedomforall.org · 2h ago@katiephang.bsky.social lays out how nominee for AG Todd Blanche is saying the quiet part out loud: The Trump admin will use every lever they can to restrict abortion, in every state. Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on Blanche. 📞 888-380-2711 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vXNF98NXAjg
In WSJ's ticktock of the Pirro flipflop, they reveal Pirro was PAYING AUSAs $25K bonuses. To stick around. 👀 Given pretty clear GJ misconduct laid out in Davey Hearn's response to the MTD, that looks really really suspect.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h agoWhat Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...
🧊✈️⛓️ He said he entered a sort of tunnel vision, where his whole world narrowed to surviving the pain one minute at a time, as the plane went from Alexandria to Baltimore, then Romania, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and finally Laos, where he was deported. He was shackled for approximately 72 hours ⤵️
Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?
Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.
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🧊✈️⛓️ “Oh gosh, can you see the shackles? Oh my God,” Laney gasped as a group of women detainees stepped out of the van, their hands and feet in shackles and chains running around their waists. ⤵️
‘The Bird-Watchers’ of Memphis: Tracking ICE Flights and Documenting Detainees in Shackles
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Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Michael Popok on Todd Blanche's tax relief scheme for the Trump family: "How can you settle a case and have a super pardon for Donald Trump when the underlying case was illegitimate?"
Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.
Republicans held a hearing on Medicaid fraud today, so I asked a top health expert: what bill delivered the largest cuts to Medicaid in American history? Yep. Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Seems to me like the biggest Medicaid theft actually happened last year in Congress.
NEW: A quick explainer of Capital One closing hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. PLUS, my cat can be heard in the background so that's cute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv93...
Trump Org Accounts Dropped By Capital One for Money Laundering | Beans Talk
YouTube video by MSW Media
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Biden was replenishing our stockpiles with US manufacturers using US union steel. Trump has sent tens of thousands of those jobs overseas and has crippled our supply chain with tariffs and none of our allies want to help us. Maybe we can buy our arms back from Saudi Arabia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayIn case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”
The Trump admin has been trying to get its hands on everyone's data to help them go after immigrant communities, opponents, and dissenters. Now, the Senate might give them more power to spy on us, under the guise of stopping shoplifters. Congress must block CORCA.
Opinion | A new shoplifting bill obscures a dangerous loophole for ICE
CORCA empowers DHS to collect sensitive personal information from retail shoppers and share that information with agencies including ICE.
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Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.
new, from Renee DiResta: "How Matt Taibbi was groomed by Mike Benz in a Twitter Space, uncritically ate up a truly wild conspiracy theory, and started touting it in a congressional hearing as if he had evidence of “millions" of censored tweets" Read here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz
How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.
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There are a number of planes in ICE's charter fleet that I'm monitoring for potential third-country removals today, but the flight patterns are unusual enough that I'm waiting for more info. This one though? This private jet operated by Talon Air is most likely an ICE flight.
Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
Friday: Capital One reveals they debanked Trump debanked bc he was laundering money. Sunday: Acting Attorney General solidifies promise Trump's tax crimes won't be punished.
Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"
WHY WOULD ANY USA CITIZEN BE EXEMPT FROM A TAX AUDIT??? Especially The President? He is not a KING ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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CATO argues Bill Pulte could not legally serve after Jay Clayton was confirmed, so everything Pulte did in the last week (like firing a bunch of people) can be challenged. www.cato.org/blog/william...
William Pulte Served Illegally as Acting Director of National Intelligence for Nearly a Week
William Pulte purported to act as the director of national intelligence for nearly a week after Jay Clayton was confirmed as his successor. That violates the plain text of the Vacancies Act.
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Two Republican Senators appeared to be holdouts on Todd Blanche's nomination ... until now. Here’s why the so-called "deal" they struck is no deal at all: youtu.be/wC-23PQ1TWg
Art of Blanche’s Deal: Why It Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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Y’all…. Let’s find this guy, Nashville… nobody messes with Dolly… @tizzyent.bsky.social @five_spot
No to any election deniers. No to attempting to hand in FAKE ELECTORAL SLATES. That's a double-edged sword....hurts us all. Hurts the states and the country as a whole. WIN ON MERIT/the people's votes, not cheating. Thankful Mike Pence is loyal to democracy and denied corruption.
