curated news excerpts & citations
Radley Balko: You can’t hide your lying ICE: The shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis
A Minneapolis prosecutor charges an ICE agent, exposing how DHS shamelessly lied after its officers shot an immigrant, tear gassed two kids, and put a bullet in the wall of a child’s bedroom.
This week Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty announced that she has filed criminal charges against Christian Castro, the ICE agent who blindly fired into the closed front door of a home, wounding a Venezuelan immigrant named Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The shooting took place in Minneapolis, two days after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good. After the Sosa-Celis incident, the DHS propaganda machine run by then-chief spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin went to work. Overnight, headlines around the country declared that Sosa-Celis and two other men had ambushed and beat two ICE officers nearly to death, giving them no choice but to use lethal force to defend themselves.
It was all a lie.
Let’s start with a summary of the DHS account of the incident, which is still posted on the agency’s website: …
So let’s count the lies this administration told about this incident: …
Bennito L. Kelty @ RawStory: Trump DOJ’s conduct during anti-ICE protest case shocks experts: ‘Completely staggering’
Rev. Jane Field, Executive Director, Maine Council of Churches: How Maine’s Clergy Fought Back Against ICE—And Won
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Economic Times: Why ‘F35 hit by Iran’ is a big deal for world’s most-advanced stealth fighter jet that was supposed to be ‘unkillable’
A US F-35 stealth fighter jet sustained damage during a mission over Iran. The advanced aircraft made an emergency landing at a Middle Eastern air base. The pilot is safe. This incident raises questions about the effectiveness of stealth technology against improving air defenses. The US has experienced other aircraft losses in the region recently.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 22, 2026
On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He called it “the Great Society” and laid out the vision of a country that did not confine itself to making money, but rather used its post–World War II prosperity to “enrich and elevate our national life.” That Great Society would demand an end to poverty and racial injustice.
But it would do more than that, he promised: it would enable every child to learn and grow, and it would create a society where people would use their leisure time to build and reflect, where cities would not just answer physical needs and the demands of commerce, but would also serve “the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.” It would protect the natural world and would be “a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”
“But most of all,” he said, it would look forward. “[T]he Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Katelyn Jetelina, Dr. Emily Smith Your Local Epidemiologist: Ebola: The disease of compassion, and the price of when “we” became “me”
The outbreak in Central Africa continues to spread. The latest figures of more than 160 deaths and 600 suspected cases almost certainly represent a significant undercount, and the trajectory remains deeply concerning. For those of us in the U.S., the personal risk remains low, but the toll on the region is severe.
(Katelyn Jetelina, Dr. Emily Smith Your Local Epidemiologist more…)Lee Moran @ HuffPost: Ex-CDC Chief Warns Ebola Outbreak Could Become ‘Very Significant Pandemic’
Mindy Belz: An epidemic of epidemics
Gideon M-K: Ill Health In Old Age Is Not 80% “Down To The Individual”
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Amanda Marcotte: A slush fund for future crimes
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Jess Piper: Real Heroes
“I don’t think Republican lawmakers know how angry the people are, or they would be acting and voting differently.”
I heard that from someone in rural Nebraska a few months back, and though I can see where the sentiment is coming from, I have to disagree. Republican lawmakers know exactly how mad we are, but they have no plan to change course or try to win over voters before the midterm election.
(Jess Piper more…)
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Jennifer Rubin: Our closest allies haven’t followed Trump, thank goodness
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Laerke Christensen @ Snopes: Did Trump say he’d make it illegal to photograph or post gas prices?
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Brian Merchant: They just formed the biggest tech worker union in the US. The plan is to take on AI and industry layoffs
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Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
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NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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