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Matt Drollette

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Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸@decius.bsky.social · 2w ago

Important context for this story is that this appears to be a case where the border search exception was used pretextually to go after someone for political reasons.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w ago

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 3w ago

Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday. “He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.” She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.” “In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4w ago

Social media thought the Trump summoned Patel to rebuke him for his jet-skiing adventures. Silly social media! Trump doesn't care about corruption. He summoned him to direct a lawfare campaign against the NYT. Remember friends, this isn't a soap opera. It's fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting (Gift Article)

The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 4w ago

Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com

Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One | CNN Politics

Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet repor...

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Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lawsuit alleges that ICE beat a man, causing his existing disabilities to worsen and get new ones. Once he was in ICE detention, the lawsuit says, he was mocked by detention staff and didn't regularly get his medication. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abuse a disabled detainee

Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him — telling him he'd never walk again — while withholding the medication he needed.

motherjones.com

CNN@cnn.com · 4w ago

Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet reported Friday. https://cnn.it/4f7Jjyb

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 4w ago

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend@johnb78.bsky.social · 4w ago

The people calling this a whites only refugee policy are importantly wrong, in that none of the Boers are refugees come on. It's a zero refugee policy and an insultingly stupid whites only special migration program

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · last mo.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 7mo ago

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · last mo.

Head Minneapolis precinct election judge here: Relevant section of the Minneapolis elections manual. Would note ICE agents ARE NOT police. Will keep you posted on our training this year about what to do in this situation, but I would ask them to leave and have other judges call head office.

Authorized visitors GET YOUR HEJ/AHEJ Only authorized people can be in or near the polling place. Your HEJ/AHEJ is responsible for questions about who is allowed in the room. See also discussion of the buffer zone on page 132. • Someone assisting a voter • Children accompanying their parents • Someone vouching for a voter • Observers with written authorization from the state, county, or municipal election office. Common visitors in this category may include trained volunteers checking the accessibility of polling places, U.S. Department of Justice observers, and international election officials here to learn how we run elections. • Challengers Must be appointed in writing by a party or nonpartisan candidate. See page 129 more. Media Can observe the voting process. See page 128 for more. Exit pollsters Exit pollsters can be in the buffer zone or the building, but not in the voting room. See page 129 for more of the rules. Someone making a written complaint See page 114. • Police officers (if requested by election judges to keep order)
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...