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Defendants in the Cities Church protest case have received plea offers to reduce conspiracy charges from felony to misdemeanor. But feds have struggled to prosecute anti-ICE protesters, including dropping many charges for impeding a federal agent. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Federal prosecutors have offered plea agreements to most Cities Church defendantsAt the moment, it doesn’t appear that any of the 29 defendants offered plea agreements have accepted them. If accepted, defendants’ conspiracy charges would be reduced from felonies to misdemeanors.www.mprnews.org

'He had spent 13 months in three U.S. detention centers before being denied asylum in America. And he had been deported in chains by the Trump administration back to Russia.' www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...

The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.www.nytimes.com

"You know who's behind it? Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question about whether Iran could be ruled out as a source of the attack. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Walz blasts unfounded Trump claim on cyberattacksMinnesota Governor Tim Walz on Friday responded sharply to unfounded allegations from President Donald Trump that Minnesota was behind recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems.www.mprnews.org

'Ms. Pirro blamed both the government’s vendor and the administration’s timetable, saying the pool’s poor state “was the result of a flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rush to complete the project..."' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting PoolA former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.www.nytimes.com

'“They just changed the name,” one agent said in a deposition, when questioned about “Operation At Large,” the high-profile nationwide operation last year. “We’re doing the same thing just with a different name.”' newrepublic.com/article/2137...

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your CommunityWhile attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.newrepublic.com

"Last year, more than 1 in 3 working-age adults used creditcards to buy groceries — and many of them had trouble paying them off." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Column | More Americans are buying groceries on credit. Here’s why that’s a problem.Families are paying for groceries with revolving debt, which then traps them into accumulating years of interest payments for food they’ve long since consumed.www.washingtonpost.com

Opinion on Salon: "Getting the FBI out of the business of investigating ICE killings will only make it harder to get at the truth about ICE shootings. It is yet another step toward government by collusion, concealment and cover-up." www.salon.com/2026/07/23/t...

The FBI's refusal to investigate ICE makes it a co-conspiratorThe bureau's refusal to investigate cases involving federal immigration officers makes it a partner in cover-upwww.salon.com

The man, who was deported after his ICE arrest, and his wife, who self deported from the U.S. to join him in Guatemala, were found bound and shot to death in a sugarcane field. "Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body..." www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org

"A pyrocumulonimbus, or “fire cloud" is "created by intense heat from large fires or volcanic eruptions, which in turn can spark more fires. In other words, it is a fire-fueled thunderstorm that does not bring rain." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/w...

Heat From France’s Wildfires Creates a ‘Fire Cloud,’ or PyrocumulonimbusA pyrocumulonimbus — a thundercloud created by intense heat — is a phenomenon that can spark new blazes and is “unprecedented in France,” officials said.www.nytimes.com

Spending my summer as always chasing butterflies and bumblebees around the gardens with my camera.

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"The Harris County district attorney’s office said that white powder the federal government had said could be methamphetamine tested negative for narcotics." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...

Bags in Van of Houston ICE Shooting Victim Did Not Contain Drugs, Officials SayThe Harris County district attorney’s office said that white powder the federal government had said could be methamphetamine tested negative for narcotics.www.nytimes.com

In April, I reported on a Minneapolis police collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the height of the ICE surge into Minnesota. The city wouldn't comment then on what the task force was about except to say it wasn't immigration related. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Minneapolis police participation with Homeland Security Task Force raises concernsCity officials say the task force was not related to civil immigration law enforcement. However, some say, given how the surge damaged trust between citizens and local and federal law enforcement, thi...www.mprnews.org

"The city of Minneapolis declined multiple requests for comment about Herrera’s case. But emails from officials show they believed his license was downgraded amid new federal rules restricting many immigrants...from driving commercial vehicles." www.startribune.com/immigration-...

Immigration services misspelled his name. Then Minneapolis fired him.The termination of Public Works employee Darley Herrera has driven a wedge between city hall and the Laborers Union.www.startribune.com

Gift link: "[G]overnment data shows that ICE continued to push the limits of holding rooms in many of the cities where it has conducted large-scale raids, packing large numbers of arrestees into small facilities in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Mesa, Arizona." wapo.st/3R6bdmr

ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding. See how they kept packing people in.Dozens were held for days in small rooms last year with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff, records analyzed by The Post show.wapo.st

"She remembers the guns they held, and how the sight of them caused her to...turn on the spot and run as fast as she ever had back into the safety of her apartment, back to her daughter. When she shut the door, she didn’t leave again for nearly three months." 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papersThey survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.19thnews.org

Gift link: "(R)esponsibility for investigating cases involving federal immigration officers would likely fall to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, effectively leaving the agency to investigate itself, according to guidance circulated" among FBI and HSI. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.www.nytimes.com

"Many volunteers knew, almost instinctively, that after decades of corruption and mismanagement in Venezuela, they would mostly have to fend for themselves. And they did." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If Not Them, Who? Why Volunteers Rushed Into the Quake Zone.www.nytimes.com

This is a beautiful and heartbreaking book about how hard people struggle to survive in America right now and how little the country gives back to them.

"Trump’s far-right base revolted over Mullin’s leadership on enforcement, calling him weak and ineffective. After the policy was reversed, Mullin wrote on social media that there was no conflict between himself and the president." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DHS chief faces crisis moment amid mounting arrests, fatal shootingsHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s attempt to quell an uproar over two fatal shootings by ICE has angered the president and his hard-line base.www.washingtonpost.com

Opinion piece by @radleybalko.bsky.social that's relevant to story I published yesterday about Roosevelt HS teacher: "In 20 years covering policing, I’ve never seen a government agency thumb its nose at the very concept of justice, rights and the rule of law the way D.H.S. and ICE have..."