Congressional Oversight Hearings are meant to monitor the implementation of policy by any given presidential administration and hold those accountable who may have violated people’s civil rights, the nation’s laws, or codes of conduct. However, it seems that more focus than ever is on proselytizing, rather than asking hard questions. Meanwhile, confirmation hearings have always been partisan in this way. Those are largely based on support for a nominee, as we saw in the hearing for Markwayne Mullin, where Republican lawmakers and Mullin promoted false narratives about immigration and migrants who have been detained and deported under Trump.
Opinion: Oversight Hearings Are Great, But Where’s the Accountability?
Tag: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The Women Leaving the New Right
US government passes surprising tracking rule for millions of Social Security recipients. Will your movement be monitored?
Everyone and their g-d d-mn uncle has access to my social security information, yet I can’t make one simple change to my account online! 🤬
Read More »These Companies Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire
These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire
FYI, Charter Communications—better known as Spectrum—maintains an ICE contract supplying cable and internet to the Homeland Security Investigations field office in Beaumont, Texas. The agreement is valued at $12,837, with an option to expand to $21,839 and run through 2028.
Washed Up Frontman Who Signs Bombs To Blow Up Schools Stands On Moral Low Ground +
Resistance, Pre‑Packaged
Sweater Girl is back with another lesson. This time she’s teaching Gene Sharp tactics. I really need to research her background. Yes, Trump leans into authoritarian theatrics, but the people amplifying these tactics aren’t fighting for socialism, and the funding streams behind them aren’t exactly grassroots. There’s an infrastructure here—front groups, donor networks, polished manuals—dressed up as spontaneous resistance. The aesthetics say “community,” but the playbook says something else entirely.
Read More »If We’re Going to “Learn About Otpor,” Let’s Start With the Facts
The video opens with a provocation—What if we weren’t afraid to get arrested? It’s time to learn about OTPOR!—but skips over the basic context of the organization being invoked. Angela Baker’s recommendation fits a pattern I’ve seen before: presenting Otpor as a neutral protest model while leaving out the political landscape that shaped it. Blueprint for Revolution, the book she cites, was written by Srđa Popović, one of Otpor’s leaders. The group received support from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, and pro‑democracy funding networks that included George Soros’ foundations, which Soros later acknowledged supporting during the 2000 uprising against Milošević. None of this automatically discredits the material, but it does mean the playbook isn’t organic or context‑free.
Read More »The SIG Sauer P320 and the Killing of Alex Pretti
I was listening to Scott Horton’s new podcast Provoked with Daryl Cooper when they mentioned something I hadn’t heard anywhere else: that Alex Pretti was carrying a SIG Sauer P320, it allegedly misfired, and the resulting confusion led to ICE shooting him. That claim immediately stood out because none of the reporting I’ve seen on the incident mentions a misfire, let alone one involving the P320.
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