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fromAxios
1 hour ago

Inside Democrats' new push to handcuff ICE

Senator Murphy seeks Democratic conditions on DHS funding to impose limits on deportation tactics, ICE firearm use, and agent identification amid shifting public opinion.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 hours ago

NYC pension fund shares in ICE-linked Palantir grew and saw windfalls under former Comptroller Lander, disclosures show amNewYork

City pension funds sharply increased Palantir investments, rising from ~$17.6M in 2022 to ~$56.6M in 2024, with TRS holdings hitting ~$60.8M by June 2025.
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fromTruthout
3 hours ago

ICE Agents Pose as Utility Workers to Detain Immigrants, Oregon Lawmaker Warns

ICE agents have impersonated utility workers to detain people; Oregon utilities issued multilingual guidance to help customers verify legitimate employees and avoid impostors.
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fromAbove the Law
1 hour ago

*Another* U.S. Attorney Disqualified After Failing The 'Actually Appointed' Test - Above the Law

Donald Trump has been appointing interim U.S. Attorneys beyond the single 120-day interim allowed by 28 U.S.C. §546, prompting judicial disqualifications.
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fromTruthout
1 hour ago

GOP Goes All-Out to Prevent Accountability for Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good

Federal authorities barred Minnesota investigators from evidence access and assumed sole control of the probe into an ICE agent's killing of Renee Nicole Good.
#immigration-enforcement
fromTruthout
3 hours ago

Democrat Moves to Impeach Noem After ICE Killing: "A Disgrace to Our Democracy"

Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois said on Wednesday that she is planning to introduce articles of impeachment against Noem, who she calls "a disgrace to our democracy." "Secretary Noem wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area, and now, her rogue ICE agents have unleashed that same destruction in Minneapolis, fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good," Kelly said in a statement, referring to the woman shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent.
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#ice-shooting
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago
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Tim Walz Denounces Trump Admin Effort to Shut State Out of ICE Investigation and Play Judge, Jury,' and Executioner'

fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago
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Tim Walz Denounces Trump Admin Effort to Shut State Out of ICE Investigation and Play Judge, Jury,' and Executioner'

#ice
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 hours ago
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AOC says ICE has become an "anti-civilian, paramilitary" org after an agent murdered a queer woman - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
4 hours ago
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AOC says ICE has become an "anti-civilian, paramilitary" org after an agent murdered a queer woman - LGBTQ Nation

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fromwww.amny.com
2 hours ago

DHS's Kristi Noem visits NYC to address ICE activity, responds to local condemnation of Minneapolis shooting

Kristi Noem blamed New York's sanctuary city policies for enabling undocumented suspects linked to violent crime to remain in the country.
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fromwww.esquire.com
3 hours ago

Minnesotans Are Being Treated to Walz Unchained

Wyoming Supreme Court struck down two near-total abortion bans, affirming a woman's fundamental right to make her own health care decisions.
fromFortune
2 hours ago

3 things Trump did in 24 hours to show that he's in control of American business | Fortune

He's taking an extreme left-wing position which looks like state capitalism,
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fromBusiness Insider
38 minutes ago

Trump says he'll block defense contractor stock buybacks. Here's what his executive order actually does.

Executive order lets Defense Secretary use contracts to restrict contractor buybacks/dividends, cap executive pay, and tie compensation to increased production and timely delivery.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

Minnesota's Pete Stauber Says He Represents a 'Failed State'

Rep. Pete Stauber called Minnesota a failed state, blaming Walz, Ellison, and Frey for failing leadership, sanctuary policies, and alleged $9–11 billion welfare fraud.
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fromBoston.com
1 hour ago

Healey directly calls on 2 airlines to end ICE collaboration

Governor Maura Healey demanded GlobalX Airlines and Eastern Air Express stop assisting ICE with deportation charter flights operating from Hanscom Field.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 hours ago

New Yorkers march against Kristi Noem at World Trade Center day after ICE agent killed Minneapolis woman amNewYork

Hundreds of New Yorkers protested at One World Trade Center against Kristi Noem's immigration stance and Operation Salvo, criticizing ICE and demanding no additional agents in communities.
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fromsfist.com
1 hour ago

The Three Candidates Vying for Nancy Pelosi's Seat Face Off on the Same Stage for the First Time

Nancy Pelosi will retire, opening her San Francisco congressional seat contested by Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, and Saikat Chakrabarti after a candidates forum.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

You Cannot Exonerate Ashli Babbitt and Blame Renee GoodBut That's Exactly What Trump Is Doing

Ashli Babbitt, shot while breaching a barricaded doorway during the January 6 attack, is framed by Trump as a victim of unjust state violence. Her conduct is treated as incidental. Context is stripped away. The asymmetry did not stop at rhetoric. Trump and his White House publicly identified the Capitol Police officer who shot Babbitt, despite longstanding norms protecting officers involved in use-of-force incidents.
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fromConsequence
2 hours ago

Ken Jennings: Candidate Who'll Prosecute Trump Regime "Has My Vote" in 2028

The "prosecute the former regime at every level" candidate has my vote in 2028.
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fromFortune
27 minutes ago

Founder of $30 billion defense tech company Anduril embraces Trump's threat to crack down: It's 'good to scare people sometimes' | Fortune

might not necessarily help the defense space,
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fromAbove the Law
2 hours ago

Judge With Overinflated View Of His Intelligence Blasts Judges For 'Overinflated View Of Their Intelligence' - Above the Law

For my money, judicial arrogance and an "overinflated view of their intelligence and their abilities" would look like basing a politically motivated, but legally dubious Second Amendment opinion around a bunch of cases that conclude the opposite way if the judge bothered to read them. Or maybe using their perceived clout to blackmail a law school for not disrespecting student speech enough.
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fromAdvocate.com
1 hour ago

Feds freeze Minnesota officials out of probe around killing of Renee Nicole Good

Good was shot to death by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Wednesday on a Minneapolis street. She was in her vehicle and was driving through an area where ICE was conducting a sweep. The Trump administration has been spinning the story to claim that Good was a threat to the ICE agents, "weaponizing" her vehicle, but video shows her trying to drive away from the scene when she was shot.
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fromFortune
2 hours ago

Trump's former surgeon general: One year in, the war on vaccination is undoing the Trump administration's health agenda | Fortune

RFK Jr.’s health policies improved food safety but undermined vaccine confidence by replacing experts, rescinding recommendations, and canceling mRNA contracts.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 hour ago

Minnesota and federal officials are no longer cooperating in ICE shooting investigation

Minnesota and the White House clashed over control and characterization of an ICE agent-involved Minneapolis shooting that killed a woman and sparked investigation disputes.
#war-powers
fromAxios
3 hours ago
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Senate votes to curb military action in Venezuela in rare Trump rebuke

fromAxios
3 hours ago
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Senate votes to curb military action in Venezuela in rare Trump rebuke

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fromBusiness Insider
1 hour ago

Trump wants to cap defense CEO pay. Here's how much they make now.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to limit defense contractor executive pay, ban buybacks and dividends, and tie compensation to on-time production and performance.
fromwww.amny.com
46 minutes ago

Noem' room for us?! amNY, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams denied access to Homeland Security Secretary's press event amNewYork

amNewYork was denied access to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's Lower Manhattan press conference on Thursday, following months of detailed coverage of ICE in the Big Apple, as even Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was met with police for protesting the snub.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

JD Vance Wildly Claims Video Backs Up His ICE Shooting Claims: What You See Is What You Get'

Vice President JD Vance asserted the victim deliberately tried to run over an ICE agent and labeled her a deranged leftist after the shooting.
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fromPoynter
2 hours ago

A brief history of the media through political convention pins - Poynter

Political convention pins chronicle three decades of media proximity to power, shifting resources and hierarchy, reporters' camaraderie, and an overall decline in media influence.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
3 hours ago

GOP senator slams Stephen Miller as "stupid" over his comments about Greenland - LGBTQ Nation

Sen. Thom Tillis condemned Stephen Miller's rhetoric about invading Greenland, warning such actions would threaten NATO and could provoke war with European allies.
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fromWIRED
1 hour ago

MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Federal officials and MAGA allies immediately characterized the Minneapolis incident that killed Renee Nicole Good as an act of violence and shifted blame onto her.
fromDefector
3 hours ago

ICE Is Modeling Its Brutality After The IDF | Defector

Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society's trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday's news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, then watched the federal government flatly lie about the sequence of events, the indignant language and informational smokescreens felt nauseatingly familiar. It was as if someone had taken Israel's playbook for Gaza and tested it out stateside.
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fromKVPR | Valley Public Radio
3 hours ago

Former Fresno councilmember used $30K in taxpayer funds for Facebook ads during election year

Former Fresno councilmember Luis Chavez used taxpayer-funded city contracts and consultant services to boost his 2024 supervisor campaign, including social media ads and attack mailers.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

JD Vance Declares ICE Agent Involved in Fatal Shooting Has Absolute Immunity'

ICE officers lack absolute immunity; Supremacy Clause immunity protects federal actions only when officials act within lawful federal duties and does not cover misconduct.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
37 minutes ago

We Take It All Back': Laura Ingraham and Trump Cabinet Member Retract Michelle Obama Criticism

Access to healthy foods is the primary barrier to cost-effective healthier eating, and food deserts are a real problem the administration acknowledges.
#jd-vance
#spotify
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours ago

This is not normal': Minneapolis on edge and angry after ICE killing of woman amid federal surge

Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis a person was shot by ICE at 34th Street and Portland Avenue. He jumped into his car to head to the scene. Torres DeSantiago manages the Immigrant Defense Network, a group that monitors ICE activity and responds to community needs after someone is taken.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Fox News Reports Live From Minnesota Anti-ICE Protests

I will walk you over here with these protesters, McAdams said. And the reason that the border patrol moved back was because they had to retreat after they just made a few arrests. But it's kind of slimmed down a little bit in terms of protesters, but this is what it looks like from a different angle. They called these agents killers' and also for people listening, they will hear some cursing, McAdams warned.
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frominsideevs.com
47 minutes ago

The War On Electronic Door Handles Just Came To The U.S.

Vehicle door handles must open quickly and intuitively in emergencies, including after power loss, requiring conspicuous labeling, mechanical redundancies, and standardized designs.
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fromThe Nation
6 hours ago

The Ugly Beast of American Authoritarianism

The Trump administration's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro reflects a 'might is right' neo-imperialist impulse rooted in historical denial and anti-immigrant white supremacy.
fromFast Company
2 hours ago

Who needs AI deepfakes when the Trump government can dispute video evidence that we can plainly see?

On Tuesday afternoon, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman driving an SUV in a Minneapolis suburb. Amid a crowd protesting the agency's recent incursion into the Twin Cities, legal observer Renee Nicole Good was stopped in the middle of the street when federal vehicles zoomed toward her, sirens wailing. Agents then hopped out of the vehicles and aggressively approached Good's car on foot.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 hours ago

Trump threatens to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes

President Donald Trump intends to ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes and will ask Congress to codify the ban.
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