At what point is it enough, America? At what point do we call a racist a racist and actually do something about it?
Project Saltbox is a Baltimore-based volunteer group doing work to figure out what ICE is doing behind the scenes in Maryland, through FOIA requests, tracking procurement contracts, and following paper trails. They were the group who broke the news of a warehouse purchase in Hagerstown by ICE, who planned on converting it into a “Processing Center”, better known as an immigration detention center.
I’d like to volunteer some time with this group.
The BBC did an analysis of available video footage of the Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis. It looks like he may have had a legally registered gun in his possession, but was never holding it in his hands, and was disarmed after being pepper-sprayed and underneath a handful of agents (one of the agents clearly pulls something from the rear waistband of his pants, but it’s hard to see in the video and I do not believe ICE or DHS’s account of this story for a second) before one of the other agents shot at Pretti 10 times. Kristi Noem immediately held a press conference where she lied blatantly about the shooting, as did other Administration officials.
While I understand and respect the difficult job law enforcement officials do every day, and I see the obvious danger in trying to restrain a suspect who is laying face down, there are five agents surrounding Pretti while he’s on the ground. I don’t understand why these masked cowboys are rolling like they’re assaulting Fallujah instead of starting with nonlethal force, like real police are trained to do. This shit has got to be stopped.
Update: The DHS just testified to Congress that two agents fired their weapons in this incident. Oh, and the cosplay Nazi head of the Border Patrol got shitcanned. I guess that’s a good thing.
Michael Fanone, a DC police officer on duty on January 6, when armed insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, was sitting in the House Committee hearing with Jack Smith yesterday. One of the Committee members (a Republican from Texas) claimed that the President had nothing to do with the events of that day. Here’s his response.
Fuck Nazis, and fuck the politicians who try to lie to us directly and blatantly about the events we saw with our own eyes.
The New York Times has a frame-by frame breakdown of the murder of a Minneapolis woman by ICE agents on Wednesday. This is shameful behavior from a government agency. The fact that they are allowed to wear masks is inexcusable. None of these ‘agents’ have been taught de-escalation, which should be the first thing they rely on when dealing with the public, not reaching for their gun.
I don’t care who you are or what politics you belong to, but everything I have ever seen or have been told is that when a police officer or federal agent are involved in a shooting, THEY DO NOT GET TO LEAVE THE SCENE. They are held at the scene, their weapons are confiscated, and an investigation begins as soon as the area is secure. This guy, later identified as Jonathan Ross even though he was wearing a mask, jumped in another SUV and sped away from the area.
Well, it looks like I got my drone at exactly the right time. The US Government banned all new foreign-made drones in the U.S., essentially shutting DJI out of the domestic market as of yesterday.
Once upon a time, CBS News was the gold standard for TV journalism.
The Internet Archive has the full 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was supposed to run on December 22, 2025 but spiked by CBS news editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
X just added a new feature where users can see where a particular account is based geographically. In a shocking twist, it turns out that a huge number of high-profile pro-MAGA accounts are based in foreign countries: Africa, Russia, and India, for example.
Bookmarked: Here’s an excellent presentation on how to buy, set up and use a burner phone (especially when traveling into or out of the U.S. during this administration). This goes all the way down to less-obvious stuff like: buy the phone in cash and wear a mask; activate it on a public wi-fi network, and don’t do anything to attach your personal profile to the phone.
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Robert Reich, national treasure, details five things we can do to stand up to fascism.
- Call your representatives. 5calls.org is a resource he suggests.
- Attend town halls. (bring people with you).
- Join resistance groups. Indivisible.org | ACLU | fiftyfiftyone
- Boycott companies that support this regime.
- Protect the most vulnerable in your community.
“Democracy is not a spectator sport.” Truer words could not be spoken.