2/ by @wapopitchbot.bsky.social. @wsj.com, @apnews.com @cnn.com @nypost.com #ChicagoTribune, #BostonGlobe & @latimes.com collectively published dozens of articles about Kushner’s diplomatic role in the #Iranwar w/o mentioning the conflict.
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3/ “more than two dozen people,” including “current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
2/ intoxicated.” Further, “[s]ome of Patel’s colleagues at the FBI worry that his personal behavior has become a threat to public safety” because “Patel is often away or unreachable, delaying time-sensitive decisions needed to advance investigations.”
The story is based on interviews with
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#KashPatel “is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C.” He has also allegedly been seen drinking “to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas; members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly
Fifteen times a year’s wages. Raised by strangers who saw a two-month-old baby and recognized what the government had done to him and decided they weren’t going to look away. open.substack.com/pub/migranti...
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5/ then cross-references the results with public databases & social media accounts.
Hours after Skinner announced plans to publish the new names, ICE List went dark.The List is an open journalistic project, created by Crust News, aimed at collecting/sharing info that can hold ICE members legally
4/ under the Trump administration’s second term, already had the names of 2,000 immigration enforcement personnel. The new leak more than tripled his database. The site uses facial recognition AI—trained on video footage of masked agents during raids—to unmask and identify federal officers,
3/ “It is a sign that people aren’t happy within the U.S. government, clearly,” Skinner told me in an exclusive Q&A this week with Migrant Insider. “The shooting was the last straw for many people,” he added.
ICE List, which Skinner founded in June 2025 as mass deportation operations accelerated
2/ the personal information of roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol personnel—2,000 frontline enforcement agents and 2,500 support staff. The leak, which Skinner received in mid-January, represents one of the largest breaches of federal law enforcement data in recent history.
....A week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good three times in her car on a snowy Minneapolis street, a Department of Homeland Security employee had seen enough.
The whistleblower gave Dominick Skinner, a 31-year-old Irish immigration activist living in the Netherlands, 1/
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On this day in 1964, a Black man named Louis Allen was ambushed and killed in Liberty, Mississippi. Mr. Allen had suffered violence, intimidation, and threats since providing evidence against a white man for killing a local Black activist.
FCK! I have an update for you, and it’s not good. Fulnecky, who had already had the failing grade removed, has become a right-wing media darling. Curth was fired, and another instructor from the University of Oklahoma was placed on leave for a related controversy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
On this episode of The Joy Reid Show, we track the connections between the Minneapolis "ICE church" and the nationwide white Christian nationalist movement (including their media defenders like Tucker Carlson). www.youtube.com/live/K6ukzdH...
“Their claim was self-defense, sir,” Springsteen sings of the Trump administration’s justification for the shootings. “Just don’t believe your eyes / It’s our blood and bones / And these whistles and phones / Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
“This was an act of violence,” she said in a statement. “It was frightening, intentional and completely unacceptable.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
27/ ; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
26/ goal of those regimes, but nothing that followed would have been possible without it.
The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality
25/ Adolf Hitler had an estimated 150 to 200 members of the SA’s own leadership arrested and its top generals executed in the ultimate demonstration that no one was immune from the state’s deadly violence. Stalin regularly carried out similar purges. Terror itself was not the end
24/ of people would be designated an enemy of the state next.
In Niemöller’s day, terror was carried out by the secret police and the paramilitary forces — especially the SA, more commonly known as the Brownshirts — whose job it was to instill fear in the population. In 1934,
23/ totalitarian leaders had an extermination to-do list and worked their way through it methodically. This, I think, is how most people understand Martin Niemöller’s classic poem “First They Came.” In reality, though, the people living under those regimes never knew which group
22/ probably would not. A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.
When we think of the terror regimes of the past, it is tempting to superimpose a logical narrative on them, as though
