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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The mask is FULLY off from the man now.
Gregory K Bovino • @GregoryKBovino •1m X Vlad the Impaler was the OG Border Patrol Agent of Romania. They called him 'ruthless' and 'vicious,' but he cared about his people and protected their borders. @LaurenWitzkeDE @remigrationinst

Underneath is a link to a Dropbox video of Bovino standing in front of a statue of Vlad Tepes in Romania, presumably where he talks some crazy Nazi talk about how actually murdering tons of people is great, but who knows, I’m not watching the video because that guy doesn’t deserve clicks.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge announced today that next week the levee that runs between its visitor's center and its trail system will close for "construction." Construction of Trump's multi-billion-dollar environmentally devastating border walls.
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WKRG-TV 5 @wkrg5.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New U.S. Customs and Border Protection maps released this week show a new border wall to be built through several popular wildlife and recreation areas in the Rio Grande Valley, including the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.
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New CBP maps show border wall going through Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge | WKRG.com
New U.S. Customs and Border Protection maps released this week show new border wall to be built through several popular wildlife and recreation areas in the Rio Grande Valley, including popular San…
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Justin Miller @byjustinmiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A Corpus cryptomine guzzled up millions of water last year. Now in the middle of a crisis, the city is refusing to release the facility's current water usage records. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...
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The City of Corpus Christi Is Keeping a Cryptomine's Water Usage Secret
The city declined to supply public records on the mine’s water usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/05/2026
“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”
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Andy Kim: Nothing's improved since Minnesota—except private prison profits
We spoke to the senator pepper-sprayed outside ICE's Delaney Hall detention center.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 21/05/2026
A construction company sued the Trump administration after it awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to another company. The suit claims out of the 11 prequalified vendors for the wall projects, U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded about 73% of the contracts’ value to just two.
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Trump administration sued over Texas border wall contracts - The Texas Tribune
A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded most new Texas border wall contracts to two firms. One has faced legal issues and shoddy construction claims.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/05/2026
Just going to leave this here.
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The U.S. Has Killed More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump's DHS plans to run a border wall through canyons that are home to Native American pictograph panels that are thousands of years old. Laws have been waived, contracts awarded, maps drawn to build this destructive monstrosity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgp...
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Pre-historic rock art in Val Verde County at center of border wall pushback
YouTube video by KSAT 12
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026
When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 13/05/2026
Soldiers assigned to the border in southeast Arizona are collecting all the makeshift ladders that they find after migrants leave them behind when climbing over the not-so-impenetrable border wall. www.dvidshub.net/image/967620...
BISBEE, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES
05.07.2026
Photo by Sgt. Jerron Bruce 
Department of War Southern Border    
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U.S. Army Soldiers with Annihilator Company Team, 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Border, present a makeshift ladder before adding it to the collection outside of the Brian A. Terry U.S. Border Patrol Station, near Bisbee, Ariz., May 7, 2026. Ladders and other barrier climbing aids are found staged near the barrier wall to aid in illegal activity and are removed by U.S. service members and Border Patrol agents. U.S. Northern Command is working side-by-side with the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection within narrowly defined authorities to provide unique military capabilities to protect the territorial integrity of the U.S. southern border. (Dept. of War photo by Sgt. Jerron Bruce)
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The National Border Patrol Museum in El Paso has a ladder exhibit (per TripAdvisor - I haven't been there personally):
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Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance @protectwildutah.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Last week we asked you to take action to protect the Labyrinth Canyon area from a BLM proposal to authorize the Keg Knoll backcountry airstrip. Now, the BLM’s Canyon Country District is proposing to designate TEN additional backcountry airstrips. TAKE ACTION NOW suwa.quorum.us/campaign/162...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 08/05/2026
“Brownsville cannot keep selling us out to these toxic polluters.” Our top story: Residents are resisting this town's plans to make liquefied natural gas a key part of its future. But big donors are determined to silence their voices.
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The Gas Peddle: Records Reveal How LNG Industry Shaped Brownsville Officials' Support
Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/05/2026
Last Friday, without any notice, a contractor working for DHS cut a roughly 60-foot swath across the middle of the intaglio, doing irreparable damage to the 1,000-year-old artifact. interc.pt/4t5496f
A photo of an aerial view of the construction of a second "smart" wall along a section of the U.S.-Mexico border between New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, overlaid with the headline, "Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall."
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 24/04/2026
“He says they love the area and their custom-built house. But he says they didn’t know a border wall would cut through a tract of Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge that used to be a greenspace that they enjoyed.” www.borderreport.com/border-repor...
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Residents unhappy border wall popped up so close to their new homes
Thirty-foot-tall steel panels loom over a new subdivision where several residents said they don’t like the dust nor noise, and they’re worried this will affect their property values.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The Trump administration fired two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against pro-Palestinian international students. The firings of Roopal Patel and Nina Froes are the latest move to reshape the country’s immigration courts.
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Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 08/04/2026
ICE has reported the 15th death in immigration detention in 2026. Tuan Van Bui, 55, died April 1 at Miami Correctional Center in Indiana. That's one death every 6.0 days since January 1. 🧵
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
New 30 ft border wall going up behind S TX homes. When it is finished lights will flood their yards and cameras will peer into their windows. The wall is just outside of their property line so CBP will not compensate them for the devaluation of their property or the disruption of their lives.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fisher Sand and Gravel, who was a client of Border Czar "Bag-of-Cash" Homan, received 4 border wall contracts worth over a billion dollars each, along with 6 more contracts worth hundreds of millions apiece. And that's just one of the wall contractors. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Around $10 billion in border wall contracts were awarded while Noem and Lewandowski were requiring that all contracts get their personal OK. Fisher Sand & Gravel received four for over $1 billion each, along with others worth hundreds of millions each. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.
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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Markwayne Mullin has defended fatal ICE shootings, pushed extreme anti-immigrant policies, denied the 2020 election, and shown reckless judgment unfit for leadership. Tell your Senators: Vote NO on confirming him as DHS Secretary!
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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Markwayne Mullin for DHS Secretary
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I'm so sorry you don't have Taco Palenque yet. tacopalenque.com
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At Taco Palenque we cook Fresh Mex every day. Taste the authentic Mexican flavors that bring families together to share our perfectly grilled fajitas and homemade salsas. Come to Taco Palenque and enj...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
NEW: Renée Good. Alex Pretti. Before: Ruben Martinez. Friday TX DPS released body cam + docs for the 23yo who DHS agents killed while on vacation in South Padre. Videos shows him driving while brake lights on, before gunshots. w/ @aydenrunnels.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/s...
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Videos shows run-up to immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Texas man
The clips, from multiple angles, don’t include everything, including key audio. But lawyers for the man’s family argue they refute the Trump administration's explanation that his killing was self-defe...
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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
ALERT: I'm seeing headlines like this claiming victory on the Big Bend border wall. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE. All DHS did was change the color of a line on a map. DHS engineers have mapped out a course for the wall in Big Bend National Park. They showed their cards. (thread 1/6)
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Noem and Lewandowski had to sign off on every DHS contract over $100,000. The Big Beautiful Bill gave DHS $46 billion for border walls. Noem waived contracting laws. Multiple border wall contracts went out for up to $1.5 billion apiece. For example: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
You are doing important work here. Please also FOIA for documents related to the massive border wall contracts that required the sign off of Lewandowski and Noem, for example 2 Dec. contracts to Fisher for $1.5 billion each. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A... www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
For 4,000 years communities moved through the land where the Pecos and Devils Rivers feed into the Rio Grande. When CBP updated border wall maps last month they added a stretch across the Pecos River and Seminole Canyon State Park. Art that has survived for thousands of years will be desecrated.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 22/02/2026
Last week: The "One Big Beautiful Bill" did not include the provision that spared the La Lomita chapel, the Santa Ana refuge, or any other sensitive location, and a map posted by CBP indicates that Trump’s barrier will tear through them.
texasobserver.org
Trump’s New Wall Will Destroy Irreplaceable Border Treasures—Unless Congress Acts
The "One Big Beautiful Bill" did not include the provision that spared the La Lomita chapel, the Santa Ana refuge, or any other sensitive location, and a map posted by CBP indicates that Trump’s…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
V. CONCLUSION
An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A
masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to
challenge his conduct.
A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is
derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to
infringe on their liberty. Masks obscure government action and deprive the public of its Fourth
Amendment protections.
Therefore, the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, [ECF No. 26], is GRANTED. Petitioner
is ORDERED released immediately from civil immigration custody. Respondents are
PROHIBITED from re-arresting and detaining Petitioner absent significant change in
circumstances to justify detention or subject to the determination of a neutral and detached
decisionmaker.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"If border walls destroy La Lomita, Santa Ana, Bentsen State Park, and the National Butterfly Center, they will not be magically resurrected when the White House has a less malignant occupant."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 16/02/2026
Here’s last night’s story about the Department of Homeland Security, how it’s emboldening ICE, and why it is – for some ungodly reason – allowing Kristi Noem to constantly cosplay as a law enforcement agent. We don’t care what they say, she does not need coast guard fatigues!
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- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 16/02/2026
We’re back! And a lot has happened since we’ve been away. This week’s main story concerns unrest in Minnesota, murders committed by ICE and CBP agents, and the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. Plus, some stuff about Business Shrek – sorry, “Tom Homan.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2026
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026
This is a breathtaking article about the complete clown show at DHS being overseen by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski (gift link)
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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/02/2026
The FAA urged aircraft operators to ensure they have enough fuel in case they are put in a holding pattern due to a rocket explosion. We found that several planes ran low on fuel after the Jan. 2025 Starship incident. At least one declared a mayday and crossed the no-fly zone to reach an airport.
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FAA Warns Airlines About Safety Risks From Rocket Launches, Urges “Extreme Caution”
The agency’s official safety alert comes as SpaceX looks to ramp up Starship tests. A recent ProPublica investigation found that explosions during previous Starship launches disrupted air traffic and ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
ICE's account of how he was hurt evolved during the time that federal officers were at his bedside. At least one ICE officer told caregivers that Castañeda Mondragón "got his (expletive) rocked" after his Jan. 8 arrest near a St. Paul shopping center, the court filings and a hospital staff member said. His arrest happened a day after the first of two fatal shootings in Minneapolis by immigration officers.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on his injuries. A deportation officer skirted the issue in the court documents, saying that during the intake process at an ICE detention center, it was determined he "had a head injury that required emergency medical treatment."But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man's 31-year-old's brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.
"It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss patient care. "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall."Castañeda Mondragón was alert and speaking, telling staff he was "dragged and mistreated by federal agents," though his condition quickly deteriorated, the documents said.
The following week, a Jan. 16 court filing described his condition as minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bovino needs to be prosecuted. He should not be allowed to slink back to California to abuse migrants and border residents.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
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Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Scott Nicol @scottnicoltx.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Everyone, R or D, who voted for this bill - but especially border Dems Cuellar and Gonzalez, whose constituents will be targeted by ICE abuses and border walls that this will pay for - should be voted out.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The choice for replacing Rodney Scott, if pushed out, is seemingly Joseph Mazzara, a lawyer who’s facing possible contempt charges in the CECOT case in front of Boasberg. He may have been the one who wrote the “raid homes without real warrants” memo. Noem named him Deputy Commissioner last month.
DEC 22 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
See Distribution
Rodney S. Scoff
Commissioner
CBP Management Changes
Effective immediately, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) welcomes Mr. Joseph Mazzara as the new Deputy Commissioner. Mr. Mazzara joins CBP after serving as the acting General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Mr. Thomas McGuire has also joined CBP from DHS as our new Chief of Staff. Lastly, Ms. Mackenzie Douglas joins CBP as a Senior Advisor, previously serving in the same role with DHS. Please welcome these new members of the CBP family as we continue to excel in protecting our borders and preserving lawful trade!

I would also like to thank Mr. James Kerochan, our outgoing Chief of Staff, for his service this past year. He is transitioning into a new leadership role as the Deputy Director of U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services. 1 am confident that he will continue to make a positive impact in the DHS family.
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