The Justice Department relied on a lesser-known bank deception statute to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center while omitting an element needed to prove the crime: intent to influence a financial institution.

The infirmities suggest federal prosecutors in the Middle District of Alabama who brought the case may have improperly instructed grand jurors, which could lead a judge to dismiss the case or demand transcripts of the typically-secretive proceedings in which DOJ obtained the indictment, said several defense lawyers and former white-collar prosecutors.

“To have a complete absence of the required intent—in four counts—is a major, major omission that I think will be troubling to the court and really open the door to whether in fact the grand jury was instructed properly,” said Armstrong, the founding partner of defense firm Armstrong & Bradylyons PLLC.

Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45411285

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck a significant blow to California’s ability to protect its own communities.

It blocked a state law that required federal immigration agents to visibly display their identification and barred them from wearing masks.

The ruling effectively codifies the right of federal officers to operate anonymously. It strips away state sovereignty under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

This comes even as the FBI issues dire warnings that this very anonymity is enabling violent criminals to terrorize the public.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45408622

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45407468

In the present case, the petitioner, Alejandro Osvaldo Ghysels Reales, won habeas corpus relief by convincing U.S. District Judge Kyle Dudek, who was appointed by Trump last year, that his detention is unlawful.

"When the government detains a noncitizen pending immigration proceedings, it must have a legitimate, non-punitive reason for doing so," Dudek begins in a tone that quickly becomes ominous for the government. "Typically, the reason is straightforward: the government detains a noncitizen to ensure he is available for removal. But that justification rests on a critical premise—that the government actually can remove him. Here, it cannot."

But due to the cuts in the GOP’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” and Congress’ drastic cuts to DC’s annual budget, I received a letter stating that my autistic children’s access to 24/7 emergency care has been cut, among other restrictions. I also received notification that I am no longer eligible for medical assistance from the Health Alliance.

This is warfare on our livelihoods. And for what?

We simply want what all families want—love, safety, health, and opportunities for our kids. Yet my taxpayer dollars—and yours—are being taken away from support for families and communities and put straight into the pockets of billionaires and ICE. Those masked ICE agents then prowl our schools, hospitals, and churches; break into our cars and homes without a judicial warrant; and use our small children as bait to abduct us.

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I have not stood by while all these harms are being done to my family and neighbors—I’ve become a community leader. With the training from organizations like Spaces in Action and Popular Democracy, I host fundraisers to help house, feed, and clothe families who are too scared to leave their homes to work. We make homegoods to raise money to keep our children healthy.

We all need to be united as human beings—no matter where we were born or what language we speak. Human rights, not cruel partisan politics, are our common thread.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45410078

If adopted by the House, the resolution will allow congressional committees to begin filling in the details on how the $70 billion would be spent in separate legislation ⁠that President ‌Donald Trump would have to sign into law. The new funding would be expected to ⁠run through Trump's presidency, which ends in January 2029.

With Democrats adamantly opposed to the funding initiative, Republicans plan to employ a rarely used procedure known as budget reconciliation in the separate legislation, which allows some budget-related bills to bypass Democratic opposition in the Senate.

Such measures require only a simple majority for passage in the 100-member chamber, instead of the usual supermajority of 60 votes or more. ‌Republicans hold a 53-47 seat majority.

More elaborate and very informative post about CIA Tucker: https://xcancel.com/zei_squirrel/status/2028165271257833709

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45409448

“It’s the result of the inhumane conditions that folks are being exposed to and the prolonged detention that so many individuals at North Lake have had to endure,” said Diana Marin, an attorney representing two people at the facility.

About 40 people gathered outside the facility on Tuesday to support the detainees on strike, according to No Detention Centers Michigan.

GEO Group, when asked for comment, referred MLive to the federal government for a statement. ICE did not respond to a request for comment.

The hunger strike is occurring after families, lawyers and advocates raised concerns about medical care at North Lake.

Records show staff at the facility have called 911 dozens of times for medical emergencies, with calls becoming more frequent after the population spiked last fall.

One detainee, Nenko Gantchev, a 56-year-old Bulgarian from Chicago, died at the facility in December. He was among 33 people who died in ICE custody last year across the country, the highest total in two decades. There have already been 17 deaths so far this year.

Paywall is easily bypassed by disabling JavaScript for mlive.com. I suggest using NoScript to browse the internet.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45411311

The U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations.

Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane.

The new “Special Operations Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.

House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 28, also known as HJRCA 28, passed along party lines and would amend the Illinois Constitution’s redistricting language beginning with maps drawn after the 2030 census.

Under the proposal, equal population would remain the top requirement, followed by protections ensuring voters are not denied an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice based on race. The amendment also adds language encouraging the creation of “racial coalition or influence districts” where practical. Contiguity and compactness would still be included but ranked lower in priority.

House Minority Leader Tony McCombie (R-Savannah) issued a statement calling the amendment a partisan move that would worsen gerrymandering in Illinois.

“This is not reform. This is a political power grab,” McCombie said. “Illinois already has some of the worst gerrymandered maps in the nation, and instead of fixing that failure, HJRCA 28 doubles down, rigging the system for decades to come.

Virginians voted Tuesday to redraw their state’s congressional map, approving a ballot measure to give Democrats as many as four additional seats. Republicans are flipping their lids.

Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham called the result a “Total travesty!!” on X, while MAGA pundit Juanita Broaddrick said, “No fucking way this is legit.” Right-wing troll Phillip Buchanan, known as Catturd on X, said, “What a fcking joke.”

Republican politicians also went into hysterics, with House Speaker Mike Johnson accusing Democrats of showing “how far they will go to break the law, ‘wage warfare,’ and disenfranchise millions of voters in order to force their unwanted, radical agenda down the throats of every American.”

The Strokes' lead singer Julian Casablancas slammed the "white privilege" of Zionists in the United States during an extended episode of the viral online talk show SubwayTakes.

"American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people, but talk like they are Black people during slavery," he argues in his fourth and final take in the extended version of the interview published on YouTube on Tuesday.

"One hundred percent agree," Rahma responds. "I've never seen something so shocking, where they are like, 'I'm so oppressed'.

Casablancas then responds to arguments often made by defenders of Israel's assault, including the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attacks on the country, by making an analogy to Native American and slave rebellions in the Americas, which he argues “were violent” but "didn't mean it was okay to do what we did... and didn’t mean slavery is not bad".

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45364251

In all, immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, according to a Sahan Journal analysis of detention records and habeas corpus petitions. The data analysis represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge.

The analysis revealed some troubling trends: of the children who were detained, nearly two dozen were held in custody for more than 20 days, in violation of a longstanding legal settlement. Teens who were detained alone were sent to Christian youth shelters in Michigan, which made it hard for their families to find them. And nearly half of the children detained have since left the country.

At least seven Minnesota children were still detained as of March 10, according to the data. That number includes five boys between the ages of 14 and 17 whose location was not specified. At the time the data was collected, all five teen boys had been detained for at least a month; one had been in custody for more than three months.

Two Minnesota girls were also still in detention as of March 10. The older girl, age 13 or 14, had been at Dilley for six weeks at the time the data was collected; the younger girl, who’s 4 or 5, spent more than a month in detention, including several weeks at Dilley, before being transferred to an unknown location.

The Department of Homeland Security told Sahan Journal it could not confirm the status of the seven children still detained without their names.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45368004

Nearly a dozen agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded Muslim community leader Salah Sarsour on March 30 after he left his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and serving as president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the city’s largest mosque and Muslim institution, Sarsour is a husband, father, and grandfather described as a pillar of his community and a “loving bear” who is “always smiling.”

ICE’s parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claimed without evidence that Sarsour is a “terrorist” who “lied” on a green card application when he moved to the U.S. in the 1990s. However, Sarsour’s attorney says that federal documents show he was jailed because Secretary of State Marco Rubio considered him a threat to U.S. foreign policy in June 2025, which was also reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Sarsour’s arrest came shortly after he was profiled by the shady pro-Israel website Canary Mission known for doxxing and smearing the reputations of Palestinian rights activists on college campuses. Their targets included Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was abducted and jailed by ICE for more than three months in 2025.

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