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That’s a bummer. Still, alt text is worthwhile to ensure blind and low vision users are informed by the posts and included in the conversation!

I have a blind friend who won’t transition to BlueSky because it is not as accessible. Please help me get him over here and away from the chess pool!

Beginning of a table entitled “SUMMARY OF INSTANCES OF UNREASONABLE DENIAL OF OIG REQUESTS FOR ACCESS TO DHS RECORDS AND INFORMATION.” The first, dated 2015: “OIG had access to ICE's Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) for approximately 10 years; EID data supported numerous OIG audits and inspections, and also facilitated OIG's risk analysis aimed at developing future OIG projects; on 11/19/25, acting at CBP's request, ICE revoked OIG's access” Second, on 1/10/2025: “CBP refuses to give OIG personnel direct access to BorderStat, a data warehouse containing up-to-date information about border crossings, inspections, and related activities; without such access, OIG cannot independently assess completeness or reliability of data” Third, on 4/3/2025: “I&A is blocking OIG Criminal Investigators from accessing the Counterintelligence Information Management System (CIMS) database, which they need for a criminal investigation with national security implications; I&A is refusing to honor the Department's 7/28/25 commitment to provide access upon the authorization of the Director of National Intelligence, which OIG obtained on 9/5/25” Fourth, on 5/23/2025: “CBP will not allow OIG personnel access to the TECS relational database, which contains up-to-date data on CBP's border screening and admitting processes; OIG is unable to independently review data or conduct comprehensive risk analysis”

Continuation of table. From 5/2025: “On 9/29/25, DHS revoked OIG Criminal Investigators' standing access to the Integrated Security Management System (ISMS), a database containing detailed information about DHS employees and contractors who are eligible for access to classified information; such standing access allowed OIG to obtain crucial information needed in national security and otherwise sensitive investigations without making case-by-case requests for access, which create unnecessary delay and risk compromising an investigation by revealing subjects and related parties to those who do not have a need to know” From 7/18/2025: “TSA will not permit OIG to have direct access to the Secure Flight System database; this prevents OIG from conducting a comprehensive risk analysis; although TSA provided data extracts, OIG could not validate the information in the extracts” From 8/11/2025: “CBP will not give OIG direct access to the Unified Immigration Portal, which contains data on CBP enforcement activity such as arrests, detentions, and releases; CBP will provide predefined extracts only, which prevents OIG from conducting real-time analytics to identify emerging risks and trends” From 9/5/2025: “I&A refuses to conduct the purely ministerial act of indoctrinating OIG personnel into a compartmented program; the data owner has authorized OIG's access; I&A's intransigence is impeding an OIG review related to the July 13, 2024 attempt to assassinate then-former President Donald Trump in Butler, PA” From 9/16/2025: “I&A is blocking OIG personnel from accessing the CI2MS database, which is needed for an audit of how I&A conducts counterintelligence investigations” And 9/25/2025: “will not allow OIG to access its Integrated Decision Support system, thereby preventing OIG from conducting an independent, comprehensive review of data to support an audit”

Last line on table, from 10/24/2025: “I&A refuses to conduct the purely ministerial act of indoctrinating OIG personnel into a compartmented program; the data owner has authorized OIG's access; I&A's intransigence is impeding a criminal investigation with national security implications”

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Re: Department of Homeland Security obstruction of OIG work Dear Chairman Paul, Ranking Member Peters, Chairman Garbarino, Ranking Member Thompson, Chairman Comer, and Ranking Member Garcia: Pursuant to Pub. L. No. 119-4, I am writing to notify you that over the last several months the Department of Homeland Security (DHS or Department) has systematically obstructed the work of the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Denial of access to records and information Attachment A catalogues numerous OIG matters in which the Department has blocked OIG from accessing records and information necessary for OIG's work. While all of the matters listed are important, the Department's obstruction is particularly egregious in a specific pending criminal investigation. In early 2025, another federal law enforcement agency asked OIG to join an ongoing criminal investigation with national security implications that has a nexus to DHS. On April 3, 2025, OIG requested access to a database controlled by the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) known as CIMS, in connection with that criminal investigation. The Department proposed conditions on OIG's access that OIG cannot accept, because those conditions would require OIG to reveal details of the

Denial of access to records and information Attachment A catalogues numerous OIG matters in which the Department has blocked OIG from accessing records and information necessary for OIG's work. While all of the matters listed are important, the Department's obstruction is particularly egregious in a specific pending criminal investigation. In early 2025, another federal law enforcement agency asked OIG to join an ongoing criminal investigation with national security implications that has a nexus to DHS. On April 3, 2025, OIG requested access to a database controlled by the DHS Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) known as CIMS, in connection with that criminal investigation. The Department proposed conditions on OIG's access that OIG cannot accept, because those conditions would require OIG to reveal details of the

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Experiences absent from my career to this point: scathing decisions, and motions for sanctions.

Since pivoting to pro bono habeas, I’ve written nearly a dozen sanctions motions and started collecting pissed off judges’ decisions with the zeal of a Pokémon stan and the discernment of an oenophile.

Another overtly angry judge. (It may not seem like it, but this used to be rare.)

Protip: if a judge calls your brief a “screed with language befitting a high school term paper,” you’re having a bad day.

Some especially aberrant behavior from DHS in this case, even considering what I see daily.

We are living in the stupidest possible timeline.

Waitwaitwait. Did he just “all your base are belong to us” Spain?

Wait, you mean there ARE procedural mechanisms to compel a rogue executive branch to respond to congressional oversight?

Has anyone told the @democrats.org? They seem unaware.

Whoops. I’ll take it down!

Contempt hearing tomorrow in Minnesota 👀

I’d personally prefer dubious speculation from non-medical professionals. Especially those who once heard about how bad shingles are maybe. /s

Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics “If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone,” one judge wrote.

More very angry judges in… [checks notes] West Virginia?!

Glad to see JJ. Berger & Johnson recognize what a lot of habeas lawyers have been saying: a bond hearing is futile. Bond hearings are before IJs— DOJ employees. This DOJ has fired all neutral & unbiased IJs. Those who remain are complicit.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

I need this to be a thing, like, immediately.

This doesn’t surprise me. He’s not in shape (in athlete-adjusted terms). He runs out of steam.

I don’t need my left thumb. Baylor, let’s talk.

Trump is going to burn down the world rather than face accountability for his horrifying crimes against children. He’s teamed up with Netanyahu, who is equally eager to escape accountability for a genocide.

Innocent civilians everywhere are going to pay with their lives. I’m so sick of this.

‘ICE will comply’: Top Minnesota judge threatens criminal contempt for continued defiance Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz wrote that Justice officials were continuing to violate court orders at a historic clip amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.

And here is Politico’s reporting. They’ve been excellent on following the legal nonsense coming out of ICE.

Order/Notice to Attorney – #12 in Tobay Robles v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00107) – CourtListener.com SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER. See Order for details. Signed by Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz on 2/26/2026. (Attachments: # 1 Appendix A, # 2 Appendix B). (CRD) (Entered: 02/26/2026)

As promised, I found a non-paywalled version. Credit to @politico.com !

Oops. I knew that, I was just tired! 😇

Wait, is this the SECOND laser mishap in El Paso?! I just assumed this was a new update on the deadly party balloon the Department of War (derogatory) bravely neutralized two weeks ago.

Has anyone has the “This is not a toy” talk with the boys at Fort Bragg?

(If I can find a non-paywalled version I’ll post. I got this as a gift link from a colleague and it’s not re-giftable!)

Schiltz: “The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again—to force the United States government to comply with court orders…

… One way or another ICE will comply with this Court's orders.”

Then he brought his work current. 113 more orders violated in 77 more cases.

Simply staggering. In less than 2 months, ICE has violated 210 orders. That’s nearly 4 orders a day, 7 days a week. I’m living through it (filed three motions in the last 24 hours over noncompliance) and I’m shocked.

It seems that, after his last order documenting ~100 violations of court orders, The U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota (the top federal lawyer in the state) accused him of lying.

So Judge Schiltz doublechecked. He had made mistakes. Mistakes that UNDERSTATED the government’s misconduct.

Read Judge Schiltz’s Order In a scathing order, the chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement.

No more subtly angry judges. This is an overtly angry judge. Judge Schiltz—whose original order is further up this chain—has entered a revised order. In this one he documents 213 orders violated in 143 cases.

That said yeah, the story is a bit hard to follow as written.

It does compute. Anyone “arrested for” or “charged with” certain crimes, including to violent crimes, can be detained by ICE indefinitely, without recourse.

By staying in jail until he could reach a plea deal that did NOT include qualifying crimes, it meant ICE did not have a basis to detain him.

But Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none.