“When body cameras got rolled out to C.B.P., the technical capability of the camera got rolled out,” Rodney S. Scott, the commissioner for Customs and Border Protection, said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “But the funding for the personnel to support the programs and the data, that can drain basically all your other operations. So fund the entire program.” Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was more explicit. “We’re still in the process of deploying body cameras for all law enforcement officers,” he said in a Fox News interview in January. “Unfortunately, in the last administration, we didn’t have the funding.”

A few news cycles later, and Trump's ICE and CBP are already using the ludicrous Democratic Party push for body cameras to talk about increased funding.

this is just a description of what she is doing

Statistically speaking, you are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement officers than undocumented immigrants.

And it’s not particularly close.

Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism. An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries. This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats. This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available. 12:41 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 51.2K Views

DHS's first official statement is out, and they call the woman who was shot a domestic terrorist who they claim was trying to kill an ICE agent.

As a reminder, Tricia McLaughlin's post-shooting statements have been proven to be false MULTIPLE times in the past. They are simply not trustworthy.

A screenshot of a post from a guy named Jon Scott who says, "How to tell a Maine Coon cat from a Norwegian Forest cat: the Maine Coon cat looks like Ron Perlman. The Norwegian Forest cat looks like Linda Hamilton. If you weren't watching Beauty and the Beast in 1987, I see no value in further elaboration." Below this are two pictures of cats. One looks like Ron Perlman. The other looks like Linda Hamilton.

@stephenaryan.bsky.social IKYKWIM!!!!!

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Legitimacy is not a substance. Legitimation is a process. Things become illegitimate because you treat them as such.

38 under 15

Sneak peak at a fun (if ambitious) project I'm working on:

There are 38 GOP House members who won by less than 15 points *and* whose districts Trump either lost or won by less than 15 points.

I'm plugging in net #ACA premium hikes for enrollees living in all 38 of their home towns.

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Food influencer Michael Duarte shot to death by Hill Country deputy While in Castroville, Duarte charged at a Medina County sheriff's deputy and threatened to kill her, officials say.

Ppl justifiably dislike masked law enforcement, but cops hiding the identify of bad actors in their ranks goes well beyond that. E.g., this press statement doesn't name the officer who shot this social media influencer, but accuses the dead man of multiple felonies.

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.

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This is what's happening in Austin. Doesn't help folks w/ leases locked in, but supply expansion has mitigated what were for a while outlandish and untenable rent hikes. Real estate folks are calling it "oversupply," but IRL it's a much-needed correction following an extreme, unsustainable shortage.

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*

Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

I forgot to note that this was a thread, so: Here is a 🧵🧵 on the direct connections between Heritage Foundation, Nick Fuentes and the far-right Texas billionaire who is fueling the rise of Christian nationalism. If you do not already know a lot about Tim Dunn, I recommend changing that.

At sundown, the new Jewish year begins. It will be 5786. This is the start of our High Holidays. The new year in Judaism is complicated. It’s not about being excited for a new year, but rather teshuvah, repenting on the things we’ve done wrong, collectively and
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

For the record, if you pick 1 cause - just 1 - and fight for it, I think that’s cool as hell. No part of me is gonna go “wow, you picked y vs x? Clearly you don’t give a shit about x.” That’s not how human energy works. You can care about many things, but you can’t throw yourself at all of them.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Because a transfem friend was harassed at a gas station in Texas over the weekend by a security guard who told her that she had to use the men's bathroom now, a reminder that 1) Texas Senate Bill 8 has not gone into effect yet and 2) It does not apply to private businesses

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

Trey is such good people. Help him by helping his family

“The removal of hormones from prisons is a deliberate act of cruelty that strips trans people of medically necessary care and basic dignity," said Dr. Christy Perez, a formerly incarcerated trans woman who advocates for trans people behind bars.

The rhetoric Sen Perry used is part of a campaign to dehumanize immigrants so that Texans will accept that violence against them is ok. Whining about not getting forgiveness when he sent up this test balloon is outrageous. He's the one normalizing murder. #txlege

Miners at the end of their shift Gilded Age

This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized.

A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.

‘Do some ungodly things’: Details of lewd allegations against Johnson Co. sheriff “Back in my younger days, you wouldn’t want to know what I did to women wearing white pants,” Sheriff Adam King told a female employee, according to an indictment.

Nuther one. Under HB 15 at the #txlege, Sheriffs, constables, etc. can make records about misconduct allegations against themselves secret simply by declining to punish ... wait for it ... themselves. So stuff like this will continue to happen, but who knows if we'll continue to hear about it?

“I heard the bill author say they weren’t sure if they were here to protect trans rights, but we are. I don’t want anyone to go home today thinking that they are not wanted or loved. Because that is not where we stand. Not in Texas.”

Thank you, Rep. Nicole Collier. #txlege #SB8

There's always been "scum and villainy" at the #txlege, but until 2017 or so, the democratic processes still largely functioned, and if you engaged, you cd affect them. That began to erode in 2019 and, by 2021, the old norms were gone and I openly began calling the new regime "fascist" on Grits. 🧵