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"Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?" Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide, Madison Sheahan, wasted $2.25 million on unusable ICE vehicles in a non-compete contract with MAGA Trump GOP donor Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports for 25 Chevrolet Tahoes.
The 28-year-old Sheahan graduated from Ohio State in 2019 and left ICE in January to run for Congress in #Ohio. She was Noem's political director from February 2021 to January 2024. In 2025, she became deputy director if #ICE.
"I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job," Sheahan said last year when questioned about her lack of credentials. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?" #USPol #Noem #ICE
A total of 10,000 vehicles were ordered
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Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE
Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheehan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.Anna Giaritelli (Washington Examiner)
“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US - Ars Technica
“I honestly don’t know anyone who is not from the US who is planning on going to the next GDC,” Godot Foundation Executive Director Emilio Coppola, who’s based in Spain, told Ars. “We never felt super safe, but now we are not willing to risk it.”
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“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
"What the Epstein case is doing...is showing many more people that the men most likely to talk about protecting 'their' girls & women are the ones most likely to feel entitled to do to girls & women whatever they please....
" (T)he same patterns apply to ICE killings, racist policing violence, xenophobic expulsions, government abandonment of the most vulnerable people in our society, the course of genocidal wars around the world, and more."
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The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal
What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.Soraya Chemaly (Dame Magazine)
Robert B. Hubbell sees Noem's firing as a victory for Minnesotans:
"Minnesotans persisted. They refused to quit. And they won. Their victory is not complete; it is ongoing. But they deserve credit and gratitude for showing us that resistance works."
#KristiNoem #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Minnesota #DHS #ICE
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"She accused Good of attacking the agents who shot and killed her. She called Pretti a domestic terrorist. Those are lies.
Congressman Jamie Raskin gave her a chance to retract those lies in her oversight hearing earlier this week. She refused to."
#KristiNoem #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Minnesota #DHS #ICE
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"The best reasons to fire Noem are epitomized, but not limited to, what happened in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti are dead, killed by agents under Noem’s control. Instead of condemning their deaths and opening full, transparent investigations into them, she instead, and almost immediately, attacked the two dead Americans."
~ Joyce Vance
#KristiNoem #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Minnesota #DHS #ICE
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Fired, But For the Wrong Reason
Today, Donald Trump fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Noem was an easily identifiable villain, epitomizing the corruption and cruelty of the entire Trump enterprise."
~ Walter Einenkel
#KristiNoem #Trump #CoreyLewandowski #DHS #ICE
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Cosplay queen Noem’s reign is over—and everyone’s rejoicing
If you haven’t already heard, puppy killer Kristi Noem has been fired from her position as Homeland Security secretary. Noem was an easily identifiable villain, epitomizing the corruption and cruelty of the entire Trump enterprise.Daily Kos
"In a cabinet full of lunatics and lickspittles, Noem still managed consistently to distinguish herself by her cruelty, her stupidity, her paranoia, her pathological dishonesty, and her self-aggrandizement."
~ Andrew Egger
#KristiNoem #Trump #CoreyLewandowski #DHS #ICE
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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’
Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rightsSam Levin (The Guardian)
mark my words: the mestiza-passing, barely white-looking Kristi Noem will be one of the low-hanging fruit, of this #MAGA crime syndicate, who will see her day in court and end up prison.
that’s because, unfortunately, misogyny is not just a cornerstone of American fascism. it’s foundational to its white-supremacist culture.
More to the point, Fuentes says he can see a viable life as a Democrat if the Trump administration can't be separated from the Republicans.
Which IMO that's a VERY apt assessment on Nick's par, the Dems are effectively just better Republicans.
The Dems STILL are not all aligned on eliminating ICE and many of them probably are OK with tariffs so long as it's not Trump suggesting it.
Nick's literally already sounds like a "we can reform ICE"-democrat ffs.
#NickFuentes #ICE #DNC #RNC #Trump
#Denver #Colorado becomes the latest city to ban masks on law enforcement, including #DHS. Now they did this in LA months ago, and the LAPD has not enforced it. This could be different, though. The Denver police chief has said his officers will protect citizens from #ICE using excessive force. We will see how this goes.
Regardless, pressure matters. Seeing more and more resistance is exacting a toll on the Nazis. These are not brave people.
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Denver bans masks for ICE as city takes legal stand against federal agents
Last week, Mayor Mike Johnston issued an executive order that bans immigration agents from operating on city property, including roads and parks.Andrew Kenney (Denverite)
LA Times:
"...After previously denying it had federal contracts, Flock Chief Executive Garrett Langley admitted in interviews in recent months that the company has worked with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations. ..."
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#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #flock #ICE
Surveillance company Flock generates controversy, and L.A. customers
Other cities have ended their relationships with Flock Safety over its ties to the federal government and concerns about cybersecurity and privacy. But connections in the L.A. area endure.Libor Jany (Los Angeles Times)
ICE Moves Minneapolis Fleet to Williamsport Detention Warehouse
As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland.Michael Wriston (Project Salt Box)
I work hard to keep my inner vigilante stuffed deep down in a box where she can’t hurt anyone. #ICE does not make that easy.
This blind old refugee, who was only arrested because he bought a curtain rod to use as a blind stick, and a Karen freaked the fuck out because he wandered into her backyard. So, of course the cops tackled this tiny old man and took him off to jail for bothering the white lady.
When ICE found out the buffalo cops had an immigrant, they rushed right over and picked him up when he was released. After figuring out they couldn’t deport him, they left him, with no assistance, no walking stick, no ability to speak English, in the coldest storm of the year, just left him in a parking lot of a closed business and drove off. He died and it was days before anyone found his body.
Of course #DHS lied. It’s what they do. Abolish the DHS and ICE. Prosecute these agents.
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Footage Contradicts DHS Claim That It Dropped Blind Rohingya Refugee at 'Safe Location' in Buffalo
Nurul Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo street this week, days after being released from a county jail and dropped at a closed coffee shop by Border Patrol agents.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
#meme #law #justice #usa #america #democracy #politics #immigration #migration #refugees #ice #trump #maga #qanon #president #whitehouse #ethics #protest #resistance #future #humanrights #policestate #neighbor #kidnapping
map purporting to show locations of federal license plate readers hidden in barrels and trailers in Southern California #ice #cbp #privacy #surveillance . #licenseplatereaders
#Minneapolis ALERT: #ICE trying to follow white people after grocery shopping, trying to follow them to hidden migrant families.
Neighborhood groups asking people NOT to enter addresses into navigation apps, which can be monitored by ICE or simply read from a phone captured whle not locked.
If you witness ICE activity, use the S.A.L.U.T.E. protocol when reporting.
Share any immigration‑related photos or videos at:
* iceinmyarea.org
* iceout.org
#SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #SiouxFalls #RapidCity #Aberdeen #Brookings #Watertown #SouthDakota #ICE
Did you know that in America, #ICE use #Palantir to hunt down "illegal aliens" via medical records?
Did you know vast swathes of NHS management were sold off to #Palantir in November 2023, where the company was awarded a £330 million contract to provide the software for the new "Federated Data Platform" to manage health data?
Did you know It is Reform's intention to remove "illegal aliens" too?
P8 🇮🇸 #Iceland2025
After a picknick, we're heading over to one of the most famous spots of Iceland: Jökulsárlón
Located in the Vatnajökull National Park, it is Iceland's deepest glacier lake and an incredible sight, where the big glaciers turn into a lake, forming small icebergs that then float out towards the ocean (foreshadowing the content of upcoming next posts).
#LandscapePhotography #Route1 #SilentSunday #Ice #Iceland
P9 🇮🇸 #Iceland2025
Icecold - inside a glacier.
Went on a guided icecaving tour inside an icecave that was exposed after the glacier has pulled back into the land in its yearly cycle.
#Route1 #Iceland #Winter #Ice #LandscapePhotography
Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution"
Read that again.
Ordered. To violate. The Constitution.
This isn’t partisan spin. This is about the rule of law.
Repost please!! 🙏
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE
I have been in #Spain for a conference on #EdgarAllanPoe, and it is hard to put into words how beautiful it is (body and soul) being outside and not hearing helicopters overhead (like in LA where I live -- #ICE hasn't left despite propaganda to the contrary) waiting to kidnap people.
"Last year, the U.S. was the only major tourist destination that saw a decline in travel, resulting in billions of dollars in losses."
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ICE Shackled Tourist Grandma, 65, and Held Her for Weeks
Karen Newton had a valid tourist visa when she was detained for more than 40 days.Daysia Tolentino (The Daily Beast)
The Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act
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#ICE
![Eric Umansky (@ericumansky.bsky.social):
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.
And this is what they called it.
[New York Times link]
Named the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act, the legislation, known by its blunt acronym, would expand residents' rights under state law to sue immigration officials for unconstitutional conduct.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5452294 "Eric Umansky (@ericumansky.bsky.social):
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.
And this is what they called it.
[New York Times link]
Named the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act, the legislation, known by its blunt acronym, would expand residents' rights under state law to sue immigration officials for unconstitutional conduct.")
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until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."
...Nur 27 von über 11.000!
Und:
Die Weiterentwicklung der modernen #Bürgerrechte in den #USA endete (bislang?) 1987!
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Ich würd' mal sagen, Reformstau!
Und:
Seit #Trump wieder an der Macht ist, vergeht kein Tag, an dem #ICE agents nicht auf mindestens 3 verfassungsseitig garantierten #Bürgerrechten herumtrampeln!
Nein, es fehlte...
Imagine looking at I.C.E. from across the ocean and thinking "Yes, this is the role model we want to follow!"
"The plans, if approved, could expand and normalise immigration raids and surveillance measures across [Europe] while also intensifying racial profiling."
Its so sad that Europeans need to constantly keep they're guard up to fight against this creeping fascism
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#eupol #immigration #deportation #ICE #racialprofiling #racism #surveillance #fascism
EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn
Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations sayAshifa Kassam (The Guardian)
Possibly the bluest day in all winter
#nature #naturephotography #silentsunday #sunset #landscapephotography #archipelago #balticsea #winter #ice
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#usa #google #ICE #geopolitics @geopolitics
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
"Fact-checking does not fail because it is too weak; rather, it fails because it is aimed at persuasion on individual points of fact—a tactic the opponent has already abandoned. What MAGA is trying to do instead is build a culture of submission to an unaccountable authority."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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"As Hannah Arendt put it in the last public interview she gave, 'If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. . . . With such a people you can then do what you please.'
Once this basic orientation is understood, it becomes clearer how familiar critiques and tactics miss the point."
~ Kaivan Shroff
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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Does DHS Flack Tricia McLaughlin Believe Her Own Lies?
She knows what her real audience wants to hear from her.Kaivan Shroff (The Bulwark)
"But now DOJ has just filed a motion to dismiss all the charges. Prosecutors said this in their motion to dismiss: 'Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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"'ATTEMPTED MURDER: An ICE officer is fighting for his life after he was allegedly ambushed with a shovel and a broom handle by 3 illegal immigrants during a traffic stop that quickly spiraled into a foot chase, a violent struggle, and gunfire.''
This is what Kristi Noem said right after the incident: 'What we saw last night in Minneapolis was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.'”
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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“'Both officers have been placed on administrative leave. The US Attorney’s Office is investigating these false statements. Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers may face termination of employment, as well as potential criminal prosecution.'
… This was the Fox headline on Jan 15:"
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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"ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: 'Today, a joint review by ICE and DOJ of video evidence revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 307. 2/13/26
… ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: “Today, a joint review by ICE and DOJ of video evidence revealed that sworn testimony…Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"So that, you know, that that does kind of scare me a little bit that, you know,
Republicans seem to feel no shame about that or kind of compunction that, you know, it's really kind of an escalation of. you know, an authoritarian takeover in our country."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
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