Democracy dies behind closed doors...
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115539210365913782
Newly released evidence has shown that Gregory Bovino,
a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month,
praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year.
Marimar Martinez, a US citizen,
was shot five times by a border patrol agent in October while in her vehicle.
She was charged with a felony after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accus…
CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices (Jacob Sullum/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/12/11/cbp-agents-held-this-u-s-citizen-for-hours-until-he-agreed-to-let-them-search-his-electronic-devices/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p119#a251212p119
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech https://www.404media.co/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/
Dem Senator Raises Alarm About Trump Bringing 'Illegal and Dangerous Misuse of Lethal Force' to Domestic Foes | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-military-us-citizens
Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk42i2ddbg
ICE arrest two employees, who are U.S. citizens, inside the entrance to a Target store in Richfield, #Minnesota
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-n…
This picture from https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/116047090400689262
Caution - it's not as simple as this comic says - I think. Here is the upstream source, which I find really hard to understand:
The United States has urged its citizens to 👉leave Venezuela immediately
amid reports that ⚠️armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens,
one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro.
In a security alert sent out on Saturday,
the state department said there were reports of armed members of pro-regime militias,
known as #colectivos