Why are we blurring the faces of the ICE agents here?

They are public servants paid by our taxes.

And if the area they're in is considered private, well then they're criminals who are trespassing to arrest somebody without a warrant and don't deserve any anonymity.

Let's do some fact checking.

THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.

Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had "no criminal background" and there's been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.

And while I'm not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn't consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.

You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.

From another source:

The investigation revealed that upon examination in Ukraine, it was discovered that several internal organs were missing, including the brain, eyeballs, and part of the larynx.

According to the investigative team, the body showed signs of an autopsy conducted in Russia. An international expert suggested that the missing organs could have been removed to obscure evidence of death by strangulation or suffocation.

Sounds like they mutilated the body to cover up how she died.

I have one very simple question:

Who … are … his … parents?

Based on his LinkedIn, and what appeared in the story, I’m not sure what sets him apart from thousands of other wannabe MAGA assholes.

Which triggers my spideysense. Well that and the arrogant fucking faces he’s putting out into the interwebs like he’s Don Juan De La Nooch.

My guess is he’s probably a nepo-baby and his folks are either influential or made a ‘donation’ to get him appointed.

To quote Ocean’s Eleven:

“Never heard of him.” “That’s why I don’t doubt it.”

His 'we'll wait until he gets to a 40% approval rating' comment speaks worlds to me.

I think the problem right now is a lot of democrats (and non-MAGA republicans) are still acting like this is business as usual. And don't fully recognize that this is an assault on democracy.

We need leaders. Not politicians.

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.

This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.

Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.

A friend of mine went through 7 rounds of interviews for a senior position in a tech company.

The sixth round was actual work, coming up with a preliminary plan for their first 90 days at the company in the position. It took them about a week to pull together and finalize.

The last round was a 15 minute discussion with one of the founders (who has since moved to the board and isn't involved in the day-to-day any more).

About 30 minutes later they got a call from the recruiter saying they "weren't a good personality fit with the founder" and they offered the role to somebody else.

I'm not sure what is more disconcerting. That the people in charge truly are a bunch of fucking idiots.

Or that those idiots have outplayed and outsmarted the Democrats at damn near every turn for 20+ years.

Start with the 128 Democrats who voted with Republicans to table an impeachment vote this week.

Dugan won her seat on the Milwaukee County bench in 2016, defeating a judge who had been appointed in the heavily Democratic county by then-Gov. Scott Walker (R).

Not just a judge. An elected judge.

Both say they were handcuffed and sent to a detention center, which they claimed was more like a prison.

“We were searched with metal detectors, our entire bodies were scanned, and we had to stand naked in front of the police officers and were looked through,” Pohl said. “Then we were given green prison clothes and put in a prison cell with serious criminals.”

Among them was someone who had spent 18 years behind bars for murder, the women said, and they were left sleeping in a double cell with tiny barred windows and metal bunks with moldy mattresses.

I really want to know what changed that made the above happen much more often.

In December, if Customs had concerns about two teenagers trying to sneak into the US to work on a travel visa, where did they go? How was it handled? Because it feels like overkill and probably much more expensive than what we used to do.

Why are we sending backpacking teenagers with visa concerns to the same place as a murderer?

Why are they being strip searched like they were drug smugglers?

But the women — who were planning to continue on to Los Angeles and then Costa Rica after Hawaii — insisted they were interrogated by CBP for hours, and that transcripts show their words were “twisted” and outright falsified.

“They contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” Pohl said of interrogation transcripts they were sent home with.

“They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US,” she told the German outlet Ostee Zeitung.

And then this feels like the after-the-fact coverup. Whatever they held them on was super flimsy, so they tried to make it sound worse when they realized this was going to hit the news.

Getting fired because you're a woman, with reasoning that seems to boil down to "we don't think a woman can do this job," sounds like a pretty good case for a wrongful, discriminatory firing suit.

A good time to remind everybody that while rubber bullets are considered "non-lethal," they can kill.

Back in 2004 a college student in Boston died from a bullet that missed its intended target, hit the ground and ricocheted into her eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Victoria_Snelgrove

So, while the shot certainly wasn't warranted, IMO its worse because of what could have happened because this officer was taking a shot for fun.

Great example of the problem with 'traditional' journalism/media.

It doesn't "raise ethical concerns." No rational person would say "Gee, I wonder if that's an ethical violation."

It is very clearly an ethical breach and bribery.

I'm also shocked at the limited reporting asking why a government would give a $400 million plane as a 'gift.'

Maybe just dox Heritage Foundation members right back ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denounced the incident on the Senate floor. "I just saw something that sickened my stomach. The manhandling of a United States Senator, we need immediate answers to what the hell went on," he said.

Good to know old Chucky is still around. Haven't heard a peep from him in a while.

Any time you hear Republicans argue 18 year olds shouldn't be able to vote, and they want to increase the age to 21/25, tell them "OK - then anybody over 65 isn't allowed to vote either."

Lock. Them. Up.

And lets also not forget he repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025. Not the policies. Not the people behind it.

Now he's claiming a mandate to execute the plan he denied having any knowledge of.

Here to remind everybody that the LA Times is one of the publications that wouldn't let their editorial board endorse Harris because its billionaire owner wanted to cozy up to Trump.

Get your news from another source.