curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Miles Taylor:
[ICE] agents dressed as construction workers fired at a car with a child in it.
An agency that was created to protect Americans after 9/11 has put us under siege. It cannot continue to exist. Period.
On Thursday evening in the Marble Hill section of New York, a five-year-old boy sat in the back seat of his father’s car, while a federal agent dressed up like a construction worker fired seven rounds into it. One of those rounds struck the father in the neck, just below his left ear. A neighbor who watched from his building threw himself to the floor because the shots were coming his way.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the man has a criminal record and gang ties. Maybe. Maybe not. Americans don’t really believe anything DHS says anymore, not after the Department insisted that Americans its agents had killed in cold blood were “terrorists,” even though recorded video showed anyone with an eyeball that those were peaceful protesters who’d been murdered by their government. …
I spent most of my career building DHS. … I’ve defended that department, funded it, reorganized it and, on more than one occasion, apologized for its unacceptable transgressions.
So believe me when I say that its most notorious agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, should be abolished.
Dhruv Mehrotra, Ali Winston, Maddy Varner @ Wired:
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Robert Tait, Oliver Holmes @ Guardian:
Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel…
“70% of Americans support Ukraine. Propping up Putin’s war economy is morally wrong as he uses that money to bomb cities,” congressman Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, wrote on X. “The President’s policies towards Russia and Ukraine are failures. We need moral clarity not moral ambiguity.”
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 9, 2026Late Wednesday afternoon, Dana Mattioli, Drew Hinshaw, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal reported on the tawdry grifting of Kimberly Guilfoyle, former fiancee of Donald Trump Jr. and now Trump’s ambassador to Greece. Panicked about how much money she owed on her American Express credit card, Guilfoyle reached out to Eric Deters, who wanted the administration’s help with tax and legal issues. …
…In an interview with far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec on board the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appealed to the MAGA religious base with a promise that the execution of former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass shooter who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be public. An active Army officer when he committed the murders, Hasan was court-martialed and sentenced to death.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth said. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen noted that a livestream of the execution would be a rallying cry for terrorists.
The backlash against Hegseth’s plan has been swift and bipartisan.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Mary Geddry:
Pete Hegseth wants the world to watch Nidal Hasan die. The killing he won’t let anyone see is the one that might be a war crime.Marisa Kabas:
What it’s like to witness a botched executionMitch Jackson:
A government that needs an audience for its executions has already confessed that it rules by fear
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Melody Schreiber @ Guardian:
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Jennifer Rubin:
25 Days to the Midterms
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Dan Murtaugh, Jin Wu @ Bloomberg:
China’s Energy Abundance Can Spur Bid to Win AI DominanceBeijing aims to harness its massive green power push on the technology race with the US
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Nicholas Kusnetz @ Inside Climate News:
New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil
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Lisa Needham:
Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
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Edith Olmsted @ TNR:
Trump Ramps Up Crusade Against the Fed’s Lisa Cook With New Inquiry
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Gil Duran:
JD Vance’s Gurus Celebrate Evil
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Evan Hurst:
Weird To Whine About Estrangement Without Mentioning Trump, LGBTQ+ Rejection, Fascism
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Michael Wriston, Em Chapin @ Project Salt Box:
Proposed AI surveillance system would track what ICE detainees say, who they talk to, and how they behave
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Rebecca Solnit:
“We’re Breaking Up”: On Communication Before and After the New Tech
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Mark O’Connor:
The Tale of Two Music Cities
ICE Detention Expansion Tracker
A field guide to claims
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
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Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
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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