Democrats have pushed basic ICE oversight for months: visible IDs, body cameras, clear warrant standards, and limits on aggressive tactics.

These are standard across law enforcement. But House Republicans have refused to agree to any of this.

The public deserves to know why ICE is the exception.

I served on a US Navy cruiser with 350 people at close quarters. Flu going to through the ship is as effective as a missile knocking the ship out of action.

221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

“[W]hat opinion is most often cited for this idea that the government is always harmed? A 2012 in-chambers opinion by … Chief Justice Roberts …In other words, Roberts didn’t change his mind sometime between 2016 and 2025; he’s just being a hypocrite.“

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”

The most corrupt regime ever.

Europeans trying to explain to Americans that the fans will just walk to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup due to the transit pricing row is so quaint.

Please do not do that. You will die. There is nowhere to walk on a highway.

Stephen Miller Gets His Own Private Police Force - NewsBreak Stephen Miller has a powerful new tool to help fulfill his goal of carrying out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history: his very own police force. Mi

Gestapo.

Stephen Miller now has his own armed USCIS police force, empowered to arrest immigrants and their lawyers for application fraud. Joseph Edlow defends the move, but advocates call it intimidation designed to chill legal immigration.

Joplin police sniper who killed a 2-year-old girl just became a Missouri state trooper After a two-year court battle, Sniper 1 can finally be identified as Keaton Siebenaler. KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom have confirmed he departed the Joplin Police Department in August and graduated from the MSHP academy last week.

For almost four years, the city of Joplin fiercely guarded the identity of a SWAT sniper who shot Clesslynn Crawford in the head during a hostage standoff. For two of those years, the officer and Joplin have fought KCUR and The Midwest Newsroom in court to hide the officer’s name.

EPA proposes gutting rules for handling toxic coal ash, a move that threatens groundwater The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening rules for the disposal of ash produced by burning coal that can contain hazardous heavy metals and contaminate groundwater.

The Trump Administration just proposed gutting protections on toxic coal ash, a move that could contaminate our groundwater with heavy metals like mercury and lead.  
   
Let’s be clear: this is about letting polluters off the hook.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

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GREEN BLOBS AND RED ARCS: On April 18th, a CIR (co-rotating interaction region) hit Earth's magnetic field, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Some very unusual auroras appeared. Ian Griffin photographed the display from Middlemarch, Otago, New Zealand spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Supreme Leader of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei declares naval victory in the Strait of Hormuz: "We exposed the weakness and arrogance of America and Israel before the world."

Congrats Whittier, right next to my home town 👍

Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids The demand for batteries - for EVs and grid - has surged in the last year and is getting a further boost from the global fuel crisis as countries think energy security.

Oil & gas started the war but batteries are going to be the victors.

China urges travelers to avoid Seattle airport after 20 scholars were denied entry to the US Chinese government officials are urging travels to avoid entering the U.S. through Seattle. They cite ongoing harassment by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel.

"China urges travelers to avoid Seattle airport after 20 scholars were denied entry to the US" apnews.com/article/chin...

Longtime Seattle political columnist dies Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly was a respected political commentator and fierce defender of the Pacific Northwest's wilderness areas.

I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of longtime Seattle political columnist Joel Connelly. Joel dedicated more than five decades of his life to journalism as a quick-witted, insightful reporter in the Seattle area.

Career US prosecutor removed from probe into ex-CIA chief Brennan, sources say A career U.S. prosecutor who had been helping to lead ‌a criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan was removed from the probe, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

Career US prosecutor removed from probe into ex-CIA chief Brennan, sources say reut.rs/3OeifUK

The Donald J. Trump administration cut an $11 million federal grant to Catholic Charities.

Trump probably needs the money for his new Roman ballroom or his 250-foot-tall "Arc de Trump," or for more gold ornaments in the Oval Office.

The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

Scientists have long pulled DNA from water and soil, but they have only just started to see the air as a source of genetic information. Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans: spklr.io/63323EJaY9

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So there's a really important debate on civil liberties and national security going on on the House floor right now. It is shameful that it's taking place at this late hour of the night / morning. But I'm going to at least do something productive & try to explain here:

Suspect alleged to be behind 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant arrested in France Mahmoud Khader Abed Adra, a suspect ​alleged to have ‌been behind a deadly attack in 1982 on a Jewish ​restaurant in Paris, ​has been arrested in France, the ⁠French anti-terrorist prosecutor's ​office said on Thursday.

Suspect alleged to be behind 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant arrested in France reut.rs/3ONWuLz

BREAKING: An ICE charter landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo minutes ago following third-country deportation deal with the Trump administration.

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Ireland: Stop Unlawful ICE Removal Flights through Shannon Airport - Human Rights First Today Amnesty International Ireland and Human Rights First published their joint letter to the Ministers for Transport and Foreign Affairs and Trade urging an end to the U.S. administration’s use of S...

Today, @humanrightsfirst.org & @amnesty.org Ireland put out a joint letter calling on the Irish govt to refuse to facilitate unlawful ICE removal flights through Shannon Airport. humanrightsfirst.org/library/irel...

We will provide an update no later than 10am PDT, April 17.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Thank you Sen. Smith and Klobuchar for standing up for public lands and the BWCA against this rare use of the CRA.

Northern MN’s natural resources and economy have been prized by Minnesotans for generations. I don’t trust Trump or foreign corporations to protect our sacred BWCA.

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

Amid surge in immigration arrests, RI federal judge OKs out-of-state lawyers to represent detainees • Rhode Island Current Rhode Island’s federal court will allow out-of-state attorneys to represent immigration detainees pro bono without joining its bar following a request by legal groups amid a surge in habeas corpus pet...

Rhode Island’s federal court will allow out-of-state attorneys to represent immigration detainees pro bono without joining its bar following a request by legal groups amid a surge in habeas corpus petitions. By @krish-eh.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/04/15/a...