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I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Daily Memo: They Met in ICE Detention. Despite a Language Barrier, These Women's Bond Helped Them Survive

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Thank you to the 53 House Democrats who voted NO on a war-mongering GOP messaging resolution designed to justify Trump's war on Iran by calling Iran a "direct and persistent threat to the US."

Yesterday I observed 15 shackled detainees being loaded on the ICE Air flight at MSP. In this clip, as the last one hobbles on, staff put away a full-body WRAP restraint, which had been laid out next to the airstairs.

ICE Air & WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig...

Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-...

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

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Missourians on probation and parole can’t vote. Their rights might be restored The House has approved legislation that would allow the more than 53,000 people supervised by the state to vote.

Wow, a huge bipartisan coalition passed a bill in the Missouri House to allow anyone who is not presently incarcerated to vote.

More than half the states allow this, but Democrats have led this in the last decade. Haven't seen a GOP-led chamber pass this in that time. Big deal.

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Targeted advertising gives your location to the government—just ask CBP. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

tuesday was one of the year's biggest election days. i made a thread that day about the 10 most interesting (local, non-federal) elections i was watching so they get more attention.

but that means i should do a thread to bring you their results!

so my follow-up 🧵:

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

News You May Have Missed — 2026-03-06 (1)

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

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We are calling on Congress to protect the editorial independence of @starsandstripes.bsky.social, which provides crucial reporting to service members and the public.

Read the letter we signed with five other press freedom organizations: pen.org/urge-congres...

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."

www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

A small group of Democratic lawmakers have just proposed legislation to bar members of Congress from profiting off prediction markets, citing elected officials' possession of "material nonpublic information."

Take this as your sign that YOU too can fight back against ICE. Everyone has a part to play when it comes to resistance!

Demonstrating as we do regularly at #palantir, we were there co-hosting with @the-wolves.bsky.social on 3/3 in solidarity with protest in Miami. Activists there demonstrated about the company opening new HQ there.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

“Slurs Filled a Chat” as if by magic! Who can say how those slurs teleported into that chat! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More

NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!'

you sent us a lot of your questions.

we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.

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.

Unprecedented activity at the Whipple Building today. Multiple shipments of black Chevy Tahoes and a load of building materials. Never before, not even during *peak surge days*, have we seen so many vehicles delivered at once.

Are these the actions of an agency preparing to vacate the cities?

First they came for the journalists.

We don't know what happened after that.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

"Don't think you get to just walk away. I guarantee you: You will still be held accountable."

FIGHTING AND WINNING AGAINST TRUMP'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS A MASS CALL WITH ANDREA PITZER HOSTED BY THURSDAY, MARCH 5 4 PM PT 7 PM ET Frank Abe Co-editor of The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Andrea Pitzer Author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps Sarah Parker 50501 National Coordinator bit.ly/march5masscall

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Noem deserved to be fired. That is a win for the forces of the Constitution.

But the fact that Trump launched a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and then days into it fired his Homeland Security secretary is a level of reckless incompetence that should get him fired too.

We all know Kristi Noem getting shitcanned doesn't actually solve anything, we know, but it's still awesome that she's having a bad day, let people enjoy this moment

I've got laryngitis so I'm not on TV today. but if I was, I'd remind everybody that mass deportation *remains* family separation, whether Noem or Mullin or anyone else is Trump's DHS Secretary. and that policy has not changed.