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16 hours agoI do method acting, like “in this next scene I am going to play an extrovert who enjoys making small talk at professional conferences with potential customers and employers”
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4·16 hours agoIf they really believed money is speech then forcing us to give it to a business to exercise our legal rights really should be a clear cut 5th Amendment violation, but of course they don’t believe in anything besides power
I cant believe it
Good, you really shouldn’t believe random bullshit people say without any evidence
half of Americans still support ICE
Citation needed
The influential group
Citation needed
No, ICE and CBP are separate agencies, they just both happen to be appallingly racist (even by the standards of US law enforcement). The county board successfully forced the sheriff to ban ICE agents, but in response to that she went out of her way to hold a press conference to tell the board they better not try to ban CBP agents too or else, which is probably more just deeply annoying to me than it is actually consequential at this point, but could turn into a lawsuit if the county does try to ban CBP I’d suppose.
But of course pigs are still pigs
Kelly Martinez, San Diego County’s elected sheriff, said after the vote… CBP could continue using a county facility, setting up a showdown with the supervisors, who are also elected. The sheriff made a lengthy defense of CBP’s work…
Related articles, “The Legacy of Racism within the U.S. Border Patrol” (arc) and “Border Patrol has a history of excessive force. Critics say they’re out of their depth” (arc)
Related story from 2023, “Government’s own experts found ‘barbaric’ and ‘negligent’ conditions in ICE detention” (arc)
In Michigan, a man in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sent into a jail’s general population unit with an open wound from surgery, no bandages and no follow-up medical appointment scheduled, even though he still had surgical drains in place.
A federal inspector found: “The detainee never received even the most basic care for his wound.”
In Georgia, a nurse ignored an ICE detainee who urgently asked for an inhaler to treat his asthma. Even though he was never examined by the medical staff, the nurse put a note in the medical record that “he was seen in sick call.”
“The documentation by the nurse bordered on falsification and the failure to see a patient urgently requesting medical attention regarding treatment with an inhaler was negligent.”
And in Pennsylvania, a group of correctional officers strapped a mentally ill male ICE detainee into a restraint chair and gave the lone female officer a pair of scissors to cut off his clothes for a strip search.
“There is no justifiable correctional reason that required the detainee who had a mental health condition to have his clothes cut off by a female officer while he was compliant in a restraint chair. This is a barbaric practice and clearly violates … basic principles of humanity.”
These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found “negligent” medical care (including mental health care), “unsafe and filthy” conditions, racist abuse of detainees, inappropriate pepper-spraying of mentally ill detainees and other problems that, in some cases, contributed to detainee deaths.
These reports almost never become public.
For more than three years, the federal government — under both the Trump and Biden administrations — fought NPR’s efforts to obtain those records. That opposition continued despite a Biden campaign promise to "demand transparency in and independent oversight over ICE.
The records were obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by NPR. After two years, a federal judge found that the government had violated the nation’s public records law and ordered the release of the documents.
(Italics in original, bolding added)
Yeah, that’s what they’re saying, but I suggest against taking the words of organizations that just got done lying to all of us at face value
Given that they gave inflated polling results to a centrist in one race and to a socialist in a different one, I am currently going with betting site manipulation, but we need the names of the people involved with this and all of their communications and records to get dumped before we’ll have a chance at knowing anything for sure (well, I know for sure these people can go fuck themselves, but other than that)
There will be a brief moment of satisfaction when these types all lose their jobs to drones before things get even more dystopian
121·1 month agoAs of Friday evening, more than 48,000 of the migrants had voluntarily returned to Morocco, Spanish officials said.
Seems like a pretty important detail to leave out of the headline
I wonder what would happen if a Muslim tried to do this
Sorry you’re dealing with that, this might be helpful - https://www.montanawildfiresmoke.org/diy-fan-filter (arc)
Pretty much the entire article is Biden administration folks admitting they fucked up but saying they had good intentions, so it seems like the debate is pretty much over
The article even
“even”? It’s bending over backwards to be more than fair to these idiot assholes and extensively reported, give me a beeak
describes the Biden administration’s actions as unprecedented
As were Israel’s actions
Gaza’s condition of urban terrain, tunnel networks, hostages, and Hamas operating among civilians
Conditions Israel created and which don’t excuse its conduct either way, conduct which the Biden administration extensively supported despite whatever misgivings they might have felt and are only recently giving any real voice to
Blinken and Sullivan told me that they, too, felt remorse. Blinken said, “How can you not have regrets given the toll that this took on innocent men, women and children?” But he repeated a quote from Biden: “Question my judgments. Don’t question my motives.”
When people questioned their judgment they were called anti-semites, arrested, expelled, threatened with deportation, etc., and at the end of the day their only real consistent motivation was protecting their own egos and refusing to admit they were wrong
The contrast could not be any sharper
The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette.
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Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald, the first news outlet to report David Brouillette’s identity, reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls that Ashley Brouillette said she received from her ex-husband via his current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.
“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”
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Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about David Brouillette’s mental health.
Ashley Brouillette also described to the Press Herald her ex-husband’s abusive behavior during and after their marriage. She said she does not live in Maine and that she avoids contact with him, but he still reaches out.
She provided a voicemail from a man with slurred speech, which she said Brouillette left in the fall of 2025. He disparages her several times, asserts he’s in a better financial position than her, and states “you should have your (expletive) throats cut, yup, you should.”
“Am I threatening that I’m going to do that?” the man said. “Nope. But do I think you should have your (expletive) throat cut or should have them cut? Yep.”
Aye, and fuck their LVMP collaborators
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him. When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the man with a handcuff attached to one arm.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police found no outstanding warrants for the man, removed his handcuffs and notified ICE.
… ICE arrested him at his flight departing the Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said.
[bolding added]
We can fully expect that this poor dude is going to be singled out for especially abusive treatment when he gets to detention because these ICE twats made a scene by being fuckups here and they’ve all got fragile abuser egos, and the local cops served him up on a silver platter for it
61·2 months agoWhy I otter…
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail (and probably other right wing publications) are still reporting ICE’s lies about this as fact this morning,
A man shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Maine is a 26-year-old Colombian migrant, who was killed in front of his toddler daughter in her pajamas.
The man, who has not yet been named, had an open arrest warrant and was the subject of the ICE operation on Monday that ended with him being killed.
It is unclear why or when arrest warrant was issued. Details of the victim’s identity began to emerge as disturbing footage showed the victim’s white Kia sedan drive slowly in circles while being chased by officers.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15974015/Maine-ICE-shooting-driver-Biddeford-agent-car.html
Archives (because DM’s website is squirrelly I’ll provide a few)
That “though” tho