In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening.
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What is ICE doing with all of that taxpayer money? Although they’re off the front pages, there are substantial problems — but you have to be willing to look across the country & also at policy and personnel changes. I put some of those pieces together here. joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-and-th...
AMA will be tomorrow - I’m curious to see how (if) the negotiations go tomorrow
Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴
Scott MacFarlane, after leaving CBS, has one of the hottest new indie news Substacks around. He joins us tonight to give us a peek at his new world—and how he manages to cover all the news, all the time. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
For any DC folks interested, I'm going to be speaking at St. John's Church on Lafayette Square this Sunday. My goal, if I can manage it, will be to give an overview of what's happened in the last year with immigration, putting it in historical context, and arguing why it should matter to all of us.
Jan Crawford @JanCBS X.com BREAKING: Justice Samuel Alito NOT retiring. Sources close to Justice Alito confirm the Fox News report that he has decided not to step down this year. In addition, sources close to Justice Thomas tell me he's not retiring. That indicates that this year, with the midterms on the horizon, Trump will not be making his 4th nomination to SCOTUS.
Huh.
Barely more than a decade ago, Florida proudly and with a bipartisan vote passed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who had been brought here as children and grew up in Florida. DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor was actually a champion of the bill.
Things changed fast.
EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants
Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Dept & defense join forces to vacate the cases
MS NOW confirms: The Trump DOJ has removed the lead prosecutor overseeing the investigation into John Brennan.
Maria Medetis Long told colleagues that she had recently told her superiors that there was not ample justification to bring criminal charges against Brennan.
Don't let our reality become background noise or a "show" you've grown tired of. Please help us amplify the truth. Every life taken was important and irreplaceable. These are not just statistics; they are unspeakable crimes.
Even as I try to share what’s happening in Kharkiv, I have to fight the algorithms. I have to get creative with my phrasing because the app flags "explosions in Kharkiv" as spam because of how often i post this same thing.
Every day, I write the same story: Russian strikes claiming lives. One person here, five there, a child, a grandparent... These tragedies have become so routine that the world is growing numb.
CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.
Just to recap: the man who illegally shared YOUR tax data with ICE & stole our PPI- data thru DOGE is suing to collect $10B because someone shared HIS. Rules for thee, not for me has never been this expensive. GRIFTERS!
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...
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And there it is....
Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records
Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"
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TODAY: ICE agent charged with felony assault in MN, impeachment articles filed against Hegseth, Montana Supreme Court says the state constitution protects trans citizens, and the Saudis back out of Trump's LIV golf scheme. News with swearing: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com
It's so funny to me that Trump pushed the GOP to extend FISA after bitching for years that it was used to "spy" on his campaign. Surveillance on thee but not on me! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
I am disgusted with the one Democrat who voted for Trump's war. But, I am also disgusted with every Republican who voted for it. They are ALL traitors to this country.
Back on Feb 18, I interviewed Jocelyn Benson, who told me Dem Secretaries of State were running table-top exercises for these types of scenarios. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Congratulations Tom Steyer for receiving the most highly coveted endorsement a California Democrat could hope for.
On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored. 07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red. 08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.
The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit.
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