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HSI Special Agent Joshua Brenner testified at last week's MN15 that the 2nd largest domestic investigative agency runs a shell company. Lawyers for the Minnesota 15 have identified Midwest Transfer Companies LLC as the front for covert activities under Operation Keyhole.
Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by ICE against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. wired.com/story/ice-is-runni…
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"A hazing incident." Seal Team 6 guys killed him after finding out he had reported their theft of government $$ and trafficking of local African women. The authorities pretended to prosecute the two ST6 operators involved but let them out of prison as soon as attention died down.
Please help me honor US Army Green Beret Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar.
On June 4, 2017, the 34-year-old engineer sergeant was killed in Mali during a hazing incident by fellow special operators who broke into his room, restrained him, and applied a chokehold that led to his death by asphyxiation.
From Lubbock, Texas, he served with the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) after enlisting in 2012, completed Special Forces training, and deploying twice to Afghanistan.
Survived by his wife Michelle and their two sons, Melgar was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, leaving a legacy of service and a case that exposed serious issues of accountability within elite military units.
Never forgotten.
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Death ruled homicide by asphyxiation. Two SEALs and two Raiders charged with felony murder for chokehold in planned hazing to film sexual assault. Convicted of manslaughter/hazing; sentences 6mo-18mo after reductions. Theft cover-up motive alleged, denied.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of…
news.usni.org/2021/01/24/sea…
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On October 20, ConEd mechanic Koran Irvine was fatally shot by retired NYPD detective Victor Romero, who claimed the 46-year-old father was swerving into his lane, prompting him to discharge his weapon at Irvine's rear window amid moving traffic on George Washington Bridge - the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge. Romero drove home and returned to work the next day, where NYPD detectives asked him to voluntarily come in for questioning. One week following the tragic incident, a grand jury indicted Romero on second-degree murder charges - an upgrade from a manslaughter charge he previously received. He was granted bail and remains free. Status Coup's @jonfarina documents a rally by Irvine's family and friends in Lower Manhattan following Romero's indictment.
Video by @blue_lanes
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AP: ICE Has Detained a Mentally Ill U.S. Citizen for Nearly a Year democracynow.org/2026/10/28/…
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the number of local cops (formally) deputized is nearly triple that of ICE itself..
(just through 287g agreements, that doesn't count all the informal collaboration through surveillance, "crowd control", DOC to ICE pipelines, etc)
ALT WASHINGTON - ICE has 11,600 deportation officers on its payroll. Doing the same work, on someone else's payroll, are more than 29,000 sheriff's deputies, state troopers, small-town patrolmen, campus cops and wildlife officers, deputized under a program the Justice Department once shut down for racial profiling. That is the central finding of "Force Multiplied," a report released today by FWD.us. It finds the number of local officers working for ICE through the 287(g) Task Force Model has doubled since February. The authors, Alison Silveira and Felicity Rose, estimate the deputized force at 26,000 to 33,000 officers. DHS's own count, as reported by The New York Times, is 29,300. https://migrantinsider.com/p/ice-built-a-shadow-army-of-local
ICE Built a Shadow Army of Local Cops. Now It’s Paying $60,000 a Head. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-bui…
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ICE Built a Shadow Army of Local Cops. Now It’s Paying $60,000 a Head. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-bui…
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ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. buff.ly/0thFwce
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BREAKING: US National Guard units in all 50 states are now quietly "mobilizing for next week's elections," per Ken Klippenstein.
The mission covers direct observation of ballot drop boxes and polling places, plus federal cybersecurity support.
It is the first time in US history the National Guard is being deployed at this scale ahead of elections.
Hegseth ordered military spy agencies to "mobilize every asset … to defend our election" so that "every lawful voter can cast their ballot free from foreign intimidation, coercion, or fear."
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“None of what is happening, & what has happened in Haiti since 2004, is legal. None of it is allowed in Haiti's constitution. None of it is done through the will of the Haitian people. […]What is going on in Haiti is full-on colonial control […]perpetual but controlled chaos.”
"Killing Haiti: Bukele and Prince join the US and the UN on Mission to Murder"
- Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor, in this week's @blkagendareport: blackagendareport.com/index.…
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CHICAGO RAPPER KILLED BY THE FBI 💥💥
22-yr-old Chadwick Clark a.k.a #Lowick {7Block/BurnerGang} has been identified as the Chicago Drill Rapper who was killed during an FBI raid this morning.
on Wednesday Morning, Oct. 28th, 2026, around 7am, an FBI S.W.A.T team raided a home to serve a warrant in South Suburban Dixmoor on 145th & Cooper, as flash bangs went off inside, gunshots were fired. CPR was given to Chadwick as he was rushed to the hospital 🏥 where he was pronounced deceased.
5 others were taken into custody with the connection of the operation.
The FBI has not released details on who they were after, if Chadwick was armed, or what lead up to the shooting.
Cook County Sheriff’s & Dixmoor Police were not involved in the operation but were there to set up perimeter.
The shooting is under review by the FBI Inspection Division.
This is the 2nd deadly shooting involving FBI Agents in the Chicago Area within 2 days.
Please keep the family lifted up in prayers as they mourn the loss of their loved one in Jesus Name 🙏🏾💐
#ChitownCrimeChasers
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All the worst fascists & reactionaries from the Caribbean & South America flee to Florida once they're defeated in their home countries.
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NEWS: Swiss Hacker Publicly Identifies Thousands of ICE Agents san.com/cc/shielded-by-dhs-i…
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In the 100s of hours of city council meetings I’ve watched since starting our Flock investigations, I’ve noticed a common practice: citizens are required to dox themselves to have their concerns heard. They must publicly share their home address to speak out against surveillance.
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👏GREAT NEWS -- the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will not move forward with a contract extension for Flock Safety.
Mass surveillance is especially troublesome when schools are involved.
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There are strong claims that ICE has been detaining an American citizen who was born in Florida. Phillip James, 39, has been detained for at least 10 months. He's currently in Indiana facing deportation to Jamaica.
Public records, court documents (including a 1988 paternity case), his mother's testimony, and a valid US passport held for 15 years confirm that he was born in Florida and is an American citizen.
Medical experts who evaluated him said that he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and that his claims of being born in Jamaica (along with other claims like being foreign royalty) are psychiatric delusions.
Nevertheless, DHS denies his citizenship and initiated deportation proceedings based on his own delusional statements, with no external evidence indicating he was born in Jamaica or holds Jamaican citizenship.
To reiterate: his direct family, official US documents, AND the medical experts who evaluated him are all saying that Phillip James is a Florida-born man who is suffering from schizophrenic delusions... but DHS disagrees.
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Flock paid people to attend ~10,000 public meetings in a year. It created slides and templates for police chiefs to present to elected officials. It hired researchers, lobbyists, lawyers, PR firms, and crisis managers.
The cameras are still coming down.
xitter.gq/HIBFlocked/status/2092…
Listen to the leaked Flock CEO audio we got from a private police conference: 404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…
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“[Iowa] Voters oppose their community using installed automated cameras, often called Flock cameras, that police can use to photograph vehicles and record their license plates, 61% to 26%.”
emersoncollegepolling.com/io…
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he also said the reporting about the TX cops using flock (incl WA) to target someone who'd gotten an abortion was "clickbait" (anon flock sources later acknowledging it as real saying its "tricky" to sell surveillance to cops bc they just have to "assume" its used "to do good")
New leaked audio: Flock’s CEO tells a private conference of police chiefs he believes the opposition to his company isn’t real, full of paid protesters/bots. Says company is at “the bottom” but is waiting out criticism
404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…
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New leaked audio: Flock’s CEO tells a private conference of police chiefs he believes the opposition to his company isn’t real, full of paid protesters/bots. Says company is at “the bottom” but is waiting out criticism
404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…