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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

By JACK BROOK, MICHAEL R. SISAK, AMANDA SWINHART and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Updated 7:59 PM EDT, July 16, 2026
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.

David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump launched the crackdown after retaking office, including 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national who was shot and killed by Brouillette on Monday while in his car near his home in the coastal Maine city of Biddeford.

DHS, which hasn’t released the name of the officer who killed Durán Guerrero, has said the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"Mr. President, you've turned the Strait of Hormuz into a more expensive, more volatile Suez Canal controlled by a man whose family you murdered."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2026

Why are you expecting the troops to do more than you have? Fucking cowards.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

And I’m exhausted by the GOP majority doing absolutely jack as this aging sundowning racist warmongering narcissistic Boomer keeps treating this entire nation like his own personal plaything.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2026

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

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U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says

The Interior secretary said Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, wants foreign investment in the country's mining sector.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I wish that Pentagon request would silence any sort of "we can't afford ..." (I know it won't.) If we can find $200B to sooth the ego of sundowning narcissist, we can afford to fund ANYTHING. Including air traffic control. EVERY aspect of degraded service we see is a CHOICE.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.

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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

They bombed Iran for content and now they dont know what to do.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I've still got some naive optimism left in me because I just thought, "When the people realize how irreparably Kushner and Trump have screwed us for the benefit of Netanyahu, MBS, and Putin exclusively, they're going to rise up in a way that makes Occupy Wall Street look like the Babysitters' Club."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The ultimate irony is that TPUSA is organized around the idea that a religious minority (Muslims, who comprise 1% of the population) wants to take over the country & tell us how to live, when TPUSA speaks for a religious minority (maybe 30%) that wants to take over the country & tell us how to live.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

UPDATE: There is no war, this is a war, the war ends soon, the war is just beginning, Iran’s nuclear program is gone, Iran could have a nuke in 2 weeks, Iran has no navy, Iran is planting mines, Iran is weak, Iran could attack California, oil is down which is good, oil is up which is good.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The world is being set on fire by a 79 year old with a ten year old’s vocabulary whose adult advisors interact with him like he’s a hangry toddler who skipped his nap.

Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war. But they have been careful not to express that directly to the president, who has repeatedly declared that the military operation is a complete success.

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

They can easily afford millions of taxpayer dollars lobster, crab, a $100,000 grand piano and a war that costs $1 billion each day without a clear objective -- but no money for education, health, infrastructure or anything to make American's lives better. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 07/03/2026

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

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Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

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Karmic Mishap (breaker of Law) @karmicmishap.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Who knew "America first" was actually just a statement of which countries get attacked in which order?

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

it's awesome how much money grocery chains are willing to spend on Theft Deterring Infrastructure like chest high traffic gates and "AI"-augmented cameras and riot-geared rentacops, but they absolutely refuse to pay for more than one cashier to man their four dusty checkout lanes at any given time.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal

Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says

The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter

A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Eye-opening information here about CBP criminality that brings to mind the testimony of @jennbudd.bsky.social: “Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.”

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP's misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP's own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024
— the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation's fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/01/2026

experiencing a deep sense of dread, that even if Dems eventually regain power, they will completely fail to dismantle the surveillance and violence infrastructure that the fascists have used to great effect

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Lindsey Graham is shutting down the entire federal government to steal hundreds of thousands of your dollars for himself" is the kinda thing that really ought to get mainstream reporters asking more questions about How Is That Fucking Legal and Hey Guys Have You Seen This Fucking Bullshit

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

i dont even know what to do anymore, fam. it’s more than them not being up to the moment, this is open, rank complicity and capitulation to the fascist state. and no one will primary jeffries. everyone is just going along to get along. i…i just dont even know anymore.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This is a very powerful video from comedian Josh Johnson. Not just because what he says that's meaningful. But because it shows an emerging trend that high profile people have finally started speaking up, despite concerns it might alienate their followers. It is time to choose sides.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This woman has more courage than every member of the Democratic leadership caucuses in Washington combined. And there are tens of thousands of everyday people just like her who are finding courage to confront evil face to face while our "leaders" dither and argue over semantics.

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You just know that every one of these guys, stunned by the resistance being well organized, doesn’t know when their kids DOBs, or allergies, and has never bought their own underwear. They think these things just happen, rather than most women being unacknowledged logistical specialists

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Left hand on the ground trying not to hit the pavement; right hand still holding a cell phone. ICE person standing with a one handed grip pointing his gun right at the man’s head. There is nothing about this that we should accept. We all must reject this. This is our government, & they want this

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE, Trump, Vance, Miller, Bovino etc are the main villains here of course. But secondary villains include everyone else with political or institutional power letting this go undefended. Everyone who let ICE, and policing in general, get to this awful state. They all have blood on their hands.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/01/2026

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

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Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes

The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

People really reacting to this without all the details. I am sure there are good and legitimate reasons why President Trump is taking the oil revenue ransom he extorted from Venezuela and is putting into a Middle Eastern bank account that Congress cannot control.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Normal people gearing up in baking pans as armor at 9 pm in January is how I know we’re gonna win

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

has anyone figured out a way out that isn’t through

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

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