When NPR serial tweeted the Declaration of Independence in 2018 iirc, there were bitter right-wing flames denouncing anti-Trump indoctrination on public media
they weren't totally wrong
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us
economic loss to Minneapolis because of Operation Metro Surge is hundreds of millions of dollars so far
Donald Trump and everyone associated with Metro Surge should be removed from office and prosecuted for deprivation of rights under color of law
https://www.fox9.com/news/operation-...ay-feb-13-2026
chilling the free exercise of religion is unlawful
https://religionnews.com/2026/02/16/...p-of-churches/A federal judge issued an order on Friday (Feb. 13) barring federal immigration enforcement agents from raiding certain churches except in a “true emergency,” handing a preliminary win to a growing number of faith groups that have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over its decision to end restrictions on raids at houses of worship.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction, siding mostly with the religious plaintiffs. The case, filed last July, centers on faith groups who argued their religious freedom — particularly rights guaranteed by the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act — had been violated by the president’s decision to rescind a 2011 internal government policy that discouraged immigration raids at “sensitive locations” such as hospitals, schools and churches.
Although the judge decided that three of the plaintiffs — a trio of regional Quaker groups — lacked standing, the injunction will apply to all the other plaintiffs, which include five regional synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as well as churches affiliated with American Baptist Churches USA, Alliance of Baptists and Metropolitan Community Churches. It does not apply to houses of worship that were not involved in the lawsuit.
“In substance, the preliminary injunction will prohibit warrantless enforcement actions — absent exigent cir stances — inside a church, at the entrance to a church, at a religious education facility (such as a Sunday school), at a religious social-service facility (such as a day-care center), or on adjacent church property (such as a parking lot),” the ruling read.
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The judge also barred immigration enforcement “within 100 feet of the entrance to a church, absent exigent cir stances or supervisory approval,” and disallowed agents from “knowingly setting up checkpoints to interrogate persons on their way to or from a church.”
Saylor permitted the federal government to take action at a church “in emergency situations,” describing a potential scenario where “an armed and dangerous individual attempted to take refuge in a church.” But the judge suggested such a situation would be rare and noted that raids on churches would not be allowed only because agents have “supervisory approval.”
“The Court can conceive of no cir stance, outside of a true emergency, in which a law-enforcement operation to enforce the immigration laws inside a church would be justifiable under the First Amendment and RFRA,” the ruling read.
refusing to investigate DHS-involved homicides or share the evidence with local authorities makes it look like the USG is covering up crimes
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...oting-bca-saysMinnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) had been shut out of the investigation from the outset. The BCA continued to seek access to evidence while the state conducts its own probe. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said Monday that the FBI formally notified the state on Friday that it won't grant the access.
Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed by Border Patrol agents as Pretti filmed their immigration actions in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Several agents piled on Pretti as they sought to handcuff him before one opened fire. At least two officers fired multiple shots. Pretti died at the scene.
"While this lack of cooperation is concerning and unprecedented, the BCA is committed to thorough, independent and transparent investigations of these incidents, even if hampered by a lack of access to key information and evidence," Evans said.
"Our agency has committed to the FBI and Department of Justice that should its stance change we remain willing to share information that we have obtained with that agency and would welcome a joint investigation. We will continue to pursue all legal avenues to gain access to relevant information and evidence."
State investigators have also been denied cooperation with two other probes into shootings by immigration authorities, including the deadly encounter with Minneapolis resident Renee Macklin Good.
US Coast Guard man overboard?
sorry, we need that plane to deport immigrants
https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-coast-guard/Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got off to an immediately rocky start with the U.S. Coast Guard, according to new in-depth reporting.
President Donald Trump's pick to lead DHS angered senior Coast Guard officials by prioritizing deportation flights over search-and-rescue operations, and the tensions began just days into her tenure, on Feb. 4, 2025, when a 23-year-old guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche, four current and former officials told NBC News.
"The Coast Guard had surged ships and aircraft to the Pacific to find the Coast Guardsman," NBC reported. "Hours into the search, Noem learned that a Coast Guard C-130 that was supposed to fly detained migrants from California to Texas was among the aircraft over the Pacific looking for the missing Coast Guardsman, and she intervened, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official."
"Noem verbally instructed the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search-and-rescue mission so it would not miss the migrant flight as part of the DHS’s so-called Alien Expulsion Operations, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official," the report added.
The admiral notified National Command Center, which ordered the C-130 to fly to San Diego while other aircraft and ships continued searching, but the regional Coast Guard command in San Diego scrambled to find two available C-27s to fly the migrants to Texas, which allowed the C-130 to rejoin the search after about an hour.
"The search ultimately went on for 190 hours covering 19,000 square miles, but the Coast Guardsman was never found," NBC reported. "It’s not clear that Noem’s directive to pull the C-130 had any impact on the search, particularly given the Coast Guard found alternative aircraft that allowed it to return to the effort."
DHS assaults citizens, tells lies to get criminal indictments against them, then loses in federal district courts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...l-agents-casesIn Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending, a recent investigation by Fox 9, a Minneapolis-based station, showed. As of the end of January, there have been no convictions.
In LA, the federal public defenders have won all six cases filed against ICE protesters that have gone to trial since June, the LA Times recently reported. Fewer than 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted across the US in fiscal year 2024, with US prosecutors traditionally having a roughly 90% conviction rate, the paper noted.
Juries have also issued not guilty verdicts for people accused of assaulting ICE or similar charges in Louisville, Kentucky, Seattleand Washington DC.
“That losing streak is really unheard of,” said LA-based defense lawyer Katherine McBroom.
poor DOJ track record in 2025
Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles, did not respond to questions about the specific cases, but shared data indicating that as of Friday, his office had filed charges against 103 people for assaulting or impeding federal officers or related allegations since last year. In addition to the six people acquitted at trial, 25 of those cases ended in dismissals and another 25 defendants pleaded guilty. The rest were pending.
Quakertown, PA Police pick on high-school protesters
Civil rights organizations and parents are calling for an investigation into the violent clash between Quakertown police and high school students Friday during an ICE protest, and they want the arrested teens immediately released to their parents and charges dropped.
A handful of students were arrested on Front Street after police said the protest became disruptive and dangerous. However, a video from the protest shows the peaceful walk, escalated to violence once police intervened, civil rights leaders and parents said Saturday at a morning press conference.
"Parents and community members are outraged by reports that officers used physical force against minors and escalated what began as a student demonstration into arrests and criminal charges," read a statement ahead of the press conference. "It is especially disturbing that the police chief was directly involved in the physical confrontation with a student."https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/ne...p/88794892007/"Our daughter was wrongfully accused. She was deliberately sought after and she was assaulted. She was thrown into the ground and she was a choked. We want her home safe. We want respect for our daughter and for the other students like her who were there," said Allison, the stepmother of a teen who was arrested, as she teared up at the press conference held in front of the Quakertown police station.
^^^ this is NJ
dp
spurstalk.com totally cracked out
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DHS is withdrawing TSA-precheck and Global Entry as if they were blandishments of the executive to be enjoyed during good public behavior, but not otherwise
Trump attempting once again to influence the process by withholding the honest services of a government we have already paid for and duly passed into law, grates
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-...8b91dad340a3b3“TSA and CBP are prioritizing the general traveling population at our airports and ports of entry and suspending courtesy and special privilege escorts.”
lol TSA says precheck is still open
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-new...ional-for-now/The Transportation Security Administration abruptly reversed course on suspending its PreCheck service Sunday — saying it will remain operational despite a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“At this time, TSA PreCheck remains operational with no change for the traveling public,” a TSA spokesperson told The Post.
the DHS is in disarray, what else can you call it when the agency chief's public announcements are contradicted by her subordinates?
acting all tuff then immediately folding is typically Trumpian
immoral and inhumane policies are demoralizing the USA
https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bi...-point-americaThe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a stark critique of the Trump administration's announcement that it plans to double its federal immigration detention capacity.
"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American," said Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration.
"Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country," he said in a Feb. 20 statement issued by the bishops' conference.
Observing public servants in public is 100% legal and is in fact a right guaranteed by the US cons ution
DHS is spreading violence and terror in communities all over the country. The people watching them aren't terrorists, they're the affected Americans.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23/nx-s1...stic-terrorismLast month, Colleen an was observing an immigration enforcement operation at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, when federal agents scanned her face with a smartphone and appeared to record her car license plate number.
In a social media video she recorded, an can be heard asking why the agent was taking her information. What the agent said next made the video go viral.
"Cause we have a nice little database," the masked agent said. "And now you're considered a domestic terrorist."
an, who is a social worker, has now joined a federal class action lawsuit that argues the Department of Homeland Security and a number of its sub-agencies are violating the First Amendment and are taking actions "designed to chill, suppress, and control speech that they do not like."
"A federal agent called me a domestic terrorist just because I recorded agents operating in public in my community. But I have a right to do that, and so do others," an said in a statement. "I want people to know how important it is to use our First Amendment rights to observe and do ent what is happening. Peaceful dissent is not a crime."
putting the obvious inhumanity of warehousing thousands of people in buildings not designed for human habitation aside for the moment, there are practical considerations, such as water usage in small municipalities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ehouse-georgiaOn a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan.
“I told them I’m not going to do it,” Taylor said. “Not until they come and talk to me.”
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ICE whistleblower testifies that ICE is being trained to violate your rights
https://www.ms.now/news/ice-whistleb...efore-congressA whistleblower from Immigration and Customs Enforcement testified at a congressional forum Monday that the agency is “lying to Congress and the American people” about its training of new recruits.
Ryan Schwank — an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned this month — testified that the agency’s training program “is now deficient, defective, and broken.”
“Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their cons utional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order,” he said.
I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Cons ution.
Local DA investigating the PD is wild
https://www.the-independent.com/news...-b2925429.htmlAccounts differ of what led to the confrontations between students and police in Bucks County.
A widely circulated video of the clashes shows a man in plainclothes putting a girl in a chokehold.
Eyewitnesses and the local Bucks County Courier Times newspaper identified the man as Quakertown Borough Police Chief Scott McElree.
The Independent has requested comment from the police department and McElree.
One demonstrator who witnessed the encounter told the newspaper that the students were unaware McElree was an officer.
"Everyone started to beat on him because he was grabbing at random kids," the student said.
A bystander who saw the confrontation said the situation escalated further when a male student tried to help the female student, prompting officers to force the male student to the ground.
ACLU alleges the police chief went into the crowd in plain clothes, as a counter-protester
https://whyy.org/articles/ice-protes...ce-chief-aclu/“Quakertown Borough and the Quakertown Police Department are fully cooperating with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office concerning this investigation,” the statement reads. “Until this investigation is complete, neither the Borough nor its Police Department will be commenting on this matter.”
lol Borough Manager/Police Chief put a teenager in a headlock
He's both Chief of Police for the borough police department and the Borough Manager (a position accountable to the Borough Council), so demands should be removal from *both* positions
IICE ought not to be investigating and policing US citizens whatsoever
https://www.daylightsandiego.org/ice...on-road-flare/Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego is monitoring activists who do ent the agency's activities, court records revealed.
Called Operation Road Flare, the surveillance has targeted Jeane Wong, an activist who organized cyclists to patrol schools for ICE activity in their communities, and Arturo Gonzalez, an influencer on TikTok and Instagram who films encounters with immigration enforcement officials, among others. It's not clear from the do ent made public in a court case how many activists the government might be monitoring in San Diego.
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