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Nice feature from WSJ that has some new details about ICE's effort to investigate social media critics, including some of the contractors ICE is using: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its CriticsThe agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.www.wsj.comIs this the end for Judge Jeanine??? She is responsible for some of the most egregious conduct out of DOJ but I will never forget one of her first actions as a US Attorney (making a video ranting about having to pay $7/mo for access to the office watercooler lol) washingtonian.com/2025/05/22/j...
Jeanine Pirro Wants Taxpayers to Fund Her Bottled Water - WashingtonianThe new interim US Attorney for DC compared her office unfavorably to countries that got aid from the US.washingtonian.comAaron RuparTrump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
DOJ just made a bunch of new hires. One of the new temporary immigration judges, William L. Richards III, volunteered as a special asst US attorney in Minnesota earlier this year and was on cases prosecuting Metro Surge protesters. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
www.justice.govAnthropic finally posted its government request transparency report for the last half of 2025. Previously it reported 0 requests and disclosures, but that seems to have changed! www-cdn.anthropic.com/5d453bc3285b...
some "shared" claude chats got indexed by search engines! who's fault is it? anthropic disallows crawlers from using it via robots.txt, but search engines apparently ignore that if you don't have a "noindex" meta tag on the page.
WIREDThe screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public. www.wired.com/story/privat...
Wow. Another lawsuit from DOJ trying to overturn a local government’s mask ban, citing an art project that we found cannot actually identify any of the thousands of new ICE agents in the field www.wired.com/story/states...
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking ThemFederal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.www.wired.comCourthouse NewsUS government sues Milwaukee over federal officer mask ban www.courthousenews.com/us-governmen...
NEW: DOJ is fighting states that are trying to pass accountability laws that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks. the DOJ says this would endanger ICE agents...pointing to an art project that doesn't work? www.wired.com/story/states...
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking ThemFederal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.www.wired.comthese federal register notices are always worth reading because agencies have to take ownership for their decisions. in this one, DHS says sure, lots of people said this is "unfair, cruel and inhumane or barbaric", but they're doing it anyways!
Shelby GonzalesThis new rule is a direct attack on lawful immigration, and it may punish parents if their U.S. citizen children access any number of benefits intended to help afford food, housing, and health care services they need & are eligible for. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
cyclospora, which causes the explosive diarrhea you've been reading about, can spread and multiply “like pythons in the Everglades” as people use the bathroom which is not what I, personally, was hoping to hear! www.wired.com/story/explos...
The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much BiggerOfficial case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.www.wired.comWe relied heavily on bodycam footage for our article on use of force during Midway Blitz. It's disturbing that both of the fatal shootings this past week involved ICE agents who *didn't* have bodycams. Where's the accountability? www.wired.com/story/border...
Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration CrackdownA WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.www.wired.comNEW: ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog that normally does things like inspecting detention facilities and investigating employee misconduct, has also been investigating what people say online about ICE and its employees: www.wired.com/story/ices-i...
ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online CriticsThe Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.www.wired.com