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• 2026-02-14 14:13 UTC [L..T] What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown «Another shutdown for parts of the federal government has begun as a fight over proposed restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda drags on. [..] Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired on Saturday. Democrats say they will not help approve more money until the new limits are placed on federal immigration operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis last month.»
• 2026-02-14 [L..T] A short note to Kristi Noem «Hello? Kristi Noem? [..] Robert Reich here. I hear you’re trying to find the names of people who are making negative comments on social media about ICE enforcement. [..] Look no further. I’ve done it frequently. I’m still doing it. This note to you, which I’m posting on Substack, is another example. [..] If you want more details, just type “Robert Reich” into an internet browser, followed by YouTube or Facebook or Instagram or X or TikTok or Reddit. Or Substack. Then type in your name, or ICE, or the Department of Homeland Security. That will give you plenty of evidence.»
• 2026-02-13 [L..T] Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts «The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency. [..] In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.»
• 2026-02-12 15:02 UTC [L..T] (social post) «Please do not waste your time listening to, reading, or analyzing what Tom Homan actually said this morning. That man is full of shit, everything that comes out of his mouth is shit, and you don’t need to eat it. [..] I hope ICE and CBP actually leave soon. I’ll believe it when they do. They’re still out there right now. They’re still horrible. They’re still destroying lives this morning.»
• 2026-02-12 12:51 UTC [L..T] (social post) «Hundreds of Dallas students walked out chanting “ICE out of Dallas!” standing tall even after Abbott’s threats.» Post includes short video of the walkout.
• 2026-02-03 21:26 UTC [L..T] Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants «When family members arrived on the scene in Eagle County, Colorado, their loved ones had already been disappeared by federal agents. But what they found inside the vehicles was disturbing: a customized ace of spades playing card — popularly known as a “death card” — that read “ICE Denver Field Office.”» .. «Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., recently took to the Senate floor to denounce the use of the malicious ICE calling cards. “They found ‘death cards’ [left in] the cars of their family members who were taken away by ICE agents,” he said. “These cards … have a history of being used by white supremacist groups to intimidate people of color. ‘Death cards’ is what they call them.”»
• 2026-02-02 12:01 UTC [L..T] ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises «In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.» Even the Great Grifter's own private army is not immune from The Great Grift.
• 2026-02-01 19:00 UTC [L..T] Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters «“To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave,” Wilson wrote in a statement Saturday night. “Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”» .. «Federal agents in Eugene, Oregon, deployed tear gas on Friday when protesters broke windows and tried to get inside the Federal Building near downtown. City police declared a riot and ordered the crowd to disperse.»
• 2026-01-29 [L..T] The Disappearances in Minnesota «Right now, all the focus is on competing videos of conflicts involving Alex Pretti and his murderers. [..] But the bulk of kidnapping that proves this is a paramilitary occupation remains disappeared.»
• 2026-01-27 [L..T] Arming Ourselves Isn’t the Answer to Rising Authoritarianism Expanding gun ownership in response to ICE’s horrific violence is not a path toward safety or liberation, argues epidemiologist Rachel Hoopsick. It is a path to more death, more political weakness, and deeper entrenchment of the very forces the Left opposes.
• 2026-01-26 [L..T] Our Neighbors in Minneapolis (or: What I Saw While I Was There) «ICE is there to kidnap black and brown people. They’re not subtle about their racism—even the local police have complained about how all of their off-duty non-white officers are being harassed by federal agents. Masked, unmarked men are simply snatching people out of their cars, throwing them into unmarked SUVs, and driving them away, often to never to see their loved ones again. People’s cars are left abandoned in the streets, sometimes still running, sometimes still in drive.»
• 2026-01-24 01:38 UTC [L..T] US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’ «Federal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis on Thursday and transported them to Texas, according to court records and the family’s lawyers.» ...«immigration officials had since flown both of them back to Minnesota and released the two-year-old into the custody of her mother. The father remains detained in Minnesota»... on what charges?
• 2026-01-23 23:27 UTC [L..T] Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure «Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents»... «Amundson and Zemien were the only ones who recognized that the man was having a seizure. They spoke up immediately, telling the driver to pull over and telling the agents to call 911. When nothing happened, they repeated it, louder and more urgently.» After the agent was transferred to medical care: «“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”»
• 2026-01-23 20:52 UTC [L..T] ICE arrests 100 people three days into Maine immigration crackdown, DHS says «In a statement to the Guardian on Friday, the DHS assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, said some of those taken into custody were “the worst of the worst” and had been “charged and convicted of horrific crimes”, but cited the same four examples it released earlier in the week.» This statement is completely at odds with the facts.
• 2026-01-23 19:12 UTC [L..T] Don’t say ‘Watch out for ice’: FEMA warned storm announcements could invite memes Homeland Security has asked FEMA not to use the word "ice" in its public reports because apparently it's more important for the government to avoid mockery than it is to ensure that citizens receive accurate reports about dangerous weather. This is, of course, consistent with Immigration Enforcement's observed behavior of not actually caring about public safety.
• 2026-01-23 10:16 UTC [L..T] Tens of thousands gather in downtown Minneapolis for ‘ICE Out’ day «Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis Friday in a negative 30 degree windchill to protest the federal government’s continuing surge of immigration enforcement — demanding civil rights and a withdrawal of the 3,000 officers sent here by the administration of President Donald Trump.» .. «The demonstration took place on “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists.»
• 2026-01-17 19:51 UTC [L..T] Gov. Spanberger rescinds Gov. Youngkin’s order deputizing state police to work with ICE «In one of her first actions as governor, Spanberger rescinded Youngkin’s executive order that deputized state police and law enforcement agencies to assist ICE in capturing illegal immigrants with criminal records in Virginia.»
• 2026-01-16 17:39 UTC [L..T] Family of U.S. citizen detained by ICE in St. Paul seeks her release «Nasra Ahmed, 23, left her family’s apartment complex on Lower Afton Road in St. Paul around 11 a.m. Wednesday on the way to the pharmacy to pick up her medicine. A car occupied by at least two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled into the parking lot and demanded to see her papers.» Despite being a US citizen born in Minnesota who had never even been to Somalia, the «ICE agents detained her anyway, leaving her family uncertain of her whereabouts for at least 24 hours. Her father, Mohamed Ahmed, called [state Rep. Samakab] Hussein in tears, pleading for any information, and the representative tracked her to the Sherburne County Jail, where she’s being held without bail pending possible felony charges.»
• 2026-01-16 17:13 UTC [L..T] Kristi Noem Says Americans Should Be Prepared to Prove Their Citizenship as ICE Ramps Up Raids «Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Thursday, Jan. 15, Noem was asked why ICE and border agents have seemingly questioned people about their citizenship, and whether she expects Americans to be carrying around proof in case they are stopped.» ...not that agents cared, in many cases where people were detained even when they had proof. Noem said: «If we are on a target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they’re there and having them validate their identity. [..] That’s what we’ve always done in asking people who they are so that we know who’s in those surroundings.» Pretty sure this is a lie, unless "we" specifically means "ICE under Trump".
• 2026-01-08 [L..T] US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated «Regime ruler Donald Trump is mired in yet another scandal, as shocking footage captured his agents executing an unarmed 37-year-old civilian and mother of three in broad daylight. The erratic behavior of the land's embattled sovereign has ratcheted up as he continues to further withdraw himself from public life, and his nation from the global stage.»
• 2026-01-07 20:35 UTC [L..T] ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It «On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. One of them demanded that the driver "get out of the fucking car," and yanked violently on the driver's-side door handle; another, stationed near the left headlight of the vehicle, drew his pistol. The driver, after briefly reversing, swerved away from the agents, apparently attempting to drive away. As the vehicle moved forward, the agent with the drawn pistol stepped aside while firing three shots directly at the windshield and open driver's-side window, killing the driver.»
• 2025-12-17 17:00 UTC [L..T] In Durham, North Carolina, neighbors are protecting neighbors from ICE: ‘We care for each other’ «The parents had formed ad hoc welcoming committees for students being dropped off for school – and to serve as a united group of watchdogs against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A week before Thanksgiving, federal immigration agents had descended upon the city as part of a massive statewide campaign that included Charlotte and smaller communities. For almost a month, masked agents, often in tactical vests or fatigues and some carrying rifles, patrolled quiet neighborhoods and vibrant shopping centers around North Carolina. ICE doubled its North Carolina arrests in 2025 from the previous year, totaling 3,400 arrests from 20 January through 15 October.»
• 2025-10-29 19:47 UTC [L..T] DOJ Indicts Illinois Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Over ICE Protests «Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old congressional candidate, and other protesters were indicted Oct. 23 by a special federal grand jury, and are accused of blocking vehicles outside of a federal immigration processing facility in Broadview last month. [..] The indictment accuses Abughazaleh and the other defendants ― Andre Martin, Michael Rabbitt, Catherine Sharp, Brian Straw and Joselyn Walsh ― of conspiring with one another when they “physically hindered and impeded” the vehicle of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a Sept. 26 protest outside of the processing facility.»