Radley Balko

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

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They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social

ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating

ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating

The man refused multiple commands and tried running over an ICE officer, according to the agency.

Note the date

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all.

Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it.

It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.

Welcome to the meritocracy, Sen. Graham’s Sister

Just a reminder that the guy they put in charge in Minnesota is now speaking at white supremacist conferences in Europe.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Homan: "All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota -- the mistakes them claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don't think were mistakes."

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Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself.

Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth.

He has always been a coward.

Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Thom Tillis

Recognizing the cowards who choose Donald Trump over our republic

It’s an obvious but still important reality right now that putting people on your network who represent or defend the current administration means choosing to amplify people who will knowingly, aggressively, and frequently lie to your audience.

Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social

i highlight that cnn is not backing jennings "As a CNN Political Commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network...His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting."

CNN Addresses Commentator Scott Jennings’ Claim He Spoke to Mitch McConnell Amid Health Scare

CNN issued a statement after commentator Scott Jennings claimed he spoke with Mitch McConnell amid undisclosed health concerns

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

There’s a story like this approximately every other day now.

www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal

Axon Enterprise has ramped up lobbying in Congress on federal law enforcement technology as ICE pursues a potential $220 million Taser deal.

What makes Ossoff’s confrontation so compelling here is his emphasis on how Trump’s makes anyone who wants to work for him publicly degrade themselves. We need more of that. Ask them why they’re willing to humiliate themselves for a fragile, 80-year-old bigot.

They aren't claiming the officer feared for his life, but "feared for public safety" when Guerrero attempted to flee. But he was not the target of the warrant. Which means they had no reason to think he was dangerous.

Fleeing an immigration stop does not make you a threat to public safety.

DHS breaks hours of silence on deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying officer was ‘fearing for public safety’ | CNN

The man in the fatal shooting was identified by his neighbor as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero from Colombia.

New at The Watch:

More on how and why Democrats should make it possible for victims and their families to sue Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and other political appointees for violence inflicted by immigration agents.

Suing Stephen Miller

It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming

Really feel for Balogun, who didn't ask for any of this, and now must navigate the fallout of our racist, immigrant-hating mob boss of a president intervening on his behalf.

Hell of a photo

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

It should probably go without saying, but if you for any reason are calling for a public policy that involves sterilizing people, it's time to take a step back and ask yourself where the fuck you went wrong.

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

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This isn't tenable. Should be a prereq for Democrats: Create a way to hold federal law enforcement officers civilly liable. Make it retroactive. Do the same for policymakers like Noem, Mullin, and Miller, whose unconstitutional directives are predictably ruining lives and wreaking destruction.

He says he doesn’t know if they were guilty. Of being witches.

Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social

Just left the great American state fair where I watched Michael Knowles debate a ten year old girl about the Salem witch trials in front of DOZENS of people

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I don’t 100 percent agree. But goddamn he’s good at this. And remarkably grounded for the life he’s had.

Blanche is now the subject of multiple federal court orders and rulings questioning his integrity and honesty and that of the DOJ.

And he’s probably still going to get confirmed.

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Klein's description of the Dayton video is also surreal. To support the lie that Haitians were eating dogs in Springfield, Rufo pushed a video of Congolese men "grilling cats" in Dayton. (It was likely chicken.)

That was close enough for Rufo.

It was always about dehumanizing Black immigrants.