2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (291+ words) Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (165+ words) All he had to do was wait and he wouldn’t have made a fool of himself. Stephen Diamantoni, a Republican elected coroner in 2007, told Lancaster Online that the baby died at home. “I believe it was the 18th of August,” he…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (682+ words) One of the natural side effects of flooding the zone with hastily hired, poorly trained immigration enforcement officers is an increase in violence and rights violations. Christian Castro may not have been a new ICE hire, but he’d been there…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (739+ words) Not only has ICE lowered its hiring standards, but it’s offering $50,000 signing bonuses to whoever can somehow survive its comfy chair of an on-boarding gauntlet. Consequently, ICE has not only been cannibalizing multiple local law enforcement agencies, but it’s handing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (636+ words) As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (638+ words) The Trump administration has been working steadily to remove protected status for asylum seekers that even Trump admits are deadly “shitholes.” Trump makes claims about countries that seem to indicate they’re too dangerous to live in, but then insists there’s…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1020+ words) Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICE’s big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (460+ words) The states would go on to amazingly win their own lawsuit against Ticketmaster and LiveNation, though we’re still waiting to see if the remedies actually accomplish anything. “White House involvement in law-enforcement matters, once taboo, is a regular feature of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (386+ words) I’ve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (872+ words) And yet, countries around the globe have all suddenly decided — some based on reading Jonathan Haidt’s badly reasoned book — that they must do this too. France was the first in the EU, with President Emmanuel Macron gleefully treating France’s willingness…...