The Guardian: Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing ‘influencers’ on edge in Ohio: ‘I’m scared to go outside’. “The influencers claimed that daycare and other childcare facilities run by Somali Americans in Columbus, as in Minneapolis, are running fraudulent facilities that are misusing government funds. The state of Ohio contributes to the funding of around 5,200 childcare facilities.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/10/somali-americans-hounded-by-ice-and-rightwing-influencers-on-edge-in-ohio-im-scared-to-go-outside-the-guardian/#ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE
New York Times: Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. This link goes to a gift article. “The letters cited reporting by The New York Times that found tech companies had been flooded with requests from the Department of Homeland Security for the names, email addresses and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/27/new-york-times-lawmakers-ask-tech-companies-what-user-data-they-provided-to-d-h-s/Vt Digger: ‘Craftivism’ makes a comeback as local knitters spin yarns about ICE resistance. “Knitted red hats have become a form of silent protest for those using handmade crafts as a form of political engagement in opposition to federal immigration policies.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/vt-digger-craftivism-makes-a-comeback-as-local-knitters-spin-yarns-about-ice-resistance/CNN: Exclusive: DHS admits its website showcasing the ‘worst of the worst’ immigrants was rife with errors. “The Department of Homeland Security admitted that its website featuring what it calls the ‘worst of the worst’ arrested immigrants was rife with errors and changed the site this week after receiving questions from CNN about it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/exclusive-dhs-admits-its-website-showcasing-the-worst-of-the-worst-immigrants-was-rife-with-errors-cnn/Ars Technica: Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another. “Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/ars-technica-inside-the-dhs-forum-where-ice-agents-trash-talk-one-another/WTTW: ‘Abolish ICE’, ‘Caleb Chilliams’ Among Winners of Annual Snowplow Naming Contest. “A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows ‘Abolish ICE,’ clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/wttw-abolish-ice-caleb-chilliams-among-winners-of-annual-snowplow-naming-contest/Techdirt: Bondi Bragged About Forcing Facebook To Censor Speech. Now FIRE Is Suing.. “FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), has filed suit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on behalf of Kassandra Rosado, who ran a 100,000-member Facebook group called ‘ICE Sightings – Chicagoland,’ and Mark Hodges, who created the Eyes Up app for documenting […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/23/techdirt-bondi-bragged-about-forcing-facebook-to-censor-speech-now-fire-is-suing/Brussels Signal: Liars: German national TV caught using AI images of fake ICE arrest. “Germany’s ZDF public broadcaster has come under fire over an episode of its flagship heute journal news programme after it emerged it broadcast an AI-generated video clip to illustrate alleged brutality by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/20/liars-german-national-tv-caught-using-ai-images-of-fake-ice-arrest-brussels-signal/
“Reforms” Didn’t End Police Violence in 2020 and They Won’t End ICE Violence Now
We can’t settle for “reforming” the largest law enforcement agency in the nation — it must be abolished.
Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants
Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime — and Fighting Back
“Getting involved locally is critical,” says journalist Andrea Pitzer.https://murica.website/2026/02/living-under-a-concentration-camp-regime-and-fighting-back/
The Chaos of an ICE Detention
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-chaos-of-an-ice-detention
Mashable: How Minneapolis used tech to make ICE retreat. “ICE tracking apps were banned in app stores under government pressure. Nevertheless, the cameras, apps and wikis in their pockets let residents follow, frustrate, and most importantly broadcast ICE’s excesses — including the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti — to a stunned world. Late night hosts, awards shows, and some big names […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/17/mashable-how-minneapolis-used-tech-to-make-ice-retreat/How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap
... general strike to abolish the immigration police and hold the fascists in Washington accountable, the Democrats have advanced a series of so ...#MinnesotaStatePatrol #BishopHenryWhippleFederalBuilding #ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcementICE #CustomsandBorderProtectionCBP #GovernorTimWalz #JacobFrey #TomHoman #Trump #ToddLyons
Walz hails Homan as ICE shifts tactics in Minnesota
Walz hails Homan as ICE shifts tactics in Minnesota
iRevolutions: Welcome to the Whistle Resistance: How a Ragtag Group of People are 3D-Printing Whistles at Scale to Keep Communities Safe. “These Goblins & Avengers (there are nearly 200 of them) are 3D-printing free whistles at scale (500,000+ in less than 2 months and radically accelerating) and shipping them for free across 49 US states and Puerto Rico (80% of orders go out within 4 days) in […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/welcome-to-the-whistle-resistance-how-a-ragtag-group-of-people-are-3d-printing-whistles-at-scale-to-keep-communities-safe-irevolutions/
Civil Discourse – Two Days On The Hill: ICE & Pam Bondi – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Two Days On The Hill: ICE & Pam Bondi
By Joyce Vance, Feb 11, 2026
Writing this newsletter isn’t always easy. But it feels important to me, every day. If my work resonates with you and you want to support it, subscribing to Civil Discourse makes it possible for me to devote the time and resources it takes. Either way, I’m grateful that you’re here. Democracy is a participatory sport, and none of us can sit on the sidelines right now. Being well educated about what’s transpiring and sharing that knowledge with others is one of the most important things we can do.
Democrats in Congress are trying to get their branch of government to do its constitutional duty. As Congress continues to try and lumber to its feet, with just a few Republicans crossing over to work with Democrats on key issues—that’s how we got the Epstein Files Transparency Act in the first place—there is some good news to report.
Tuesday:
Asked if his agency had hired any pardoned January 6 defendants, ICE’s acting Director Todd Lyons was shockingly unprepared. He said he didn’t have “that information” in front of him but would get it.
Given how obvious it was that the question was coming, the lack of preparation seems deliberate. But Lyons’ follow-on comment was intriguing: He said that ICE takes assaults on law enforcement seriously, and he doubted anyone who did that on Jan 6 could pass a background check. Apparently, ICE takes assaults on law enforcement more seriously than the President, who pardoned the January 6 defendants.
New York Congressman Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor and good friend, wasn’t having any of the justifications and efforts to ignore, or at least walk past, what’s been happening on the ground in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
“If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one.”
“It’s long past time that you rein in your out-of-control agency and start following the law and the Constitution.”
Goldman asked Lyons about the guidance agents are given about asking people walking on American streets to show proof of citizenship. Lyons claimed that his agents conduct “targeted intelligence driven operations,” and that they “don’t walk around in the streets asking people about their American citizenship.”
Goldman was skeptical. “Really?” he responded. “So all of those individual American citizens who have been randomly asked are lying? Is that what you’re saying?”
That exchange prompted the Congressman to ask Lyons if he knew what other 20th Century regimes required people to show proof of citizenship in similar circumstances. Lyons responded that he did. “Sir, there has been various nefarious regimes that did that,” He told Goldman.
Goldman: Is Nazi Germany one?
Lyons: Yes. But I—
Goldman: Is the Soviet Union one?
Lyons: I-
Goldman: I’m asking the questions. Is the Soviet Union one?
Lyons: Yes sir, but I’m, I’m totally…this is the wrong type of questioning.
Goldman: I’ll tell you what the wrong type of questioning. Reclaiming my time.
Lyons: It’s not the men and women of ICE that are out there doing it every day. So to say that the men and women of ICE are Gestapos. Wrong.
After more back and forth, Goldman schooled the acting Director of ICE:
“The problem is, you have it backwards sir. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist. So I have a simple suggestion. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one. People are simply just observing what they are seeing. And that’s why people are making those comments.
…I was a prosecutor for ten years, prosecuted mob bosses, organized crime, violent criminals, the actual “worst of the worst.” Not a single criminal law enforcement agent that I worked with wore a mask to conceal their identity. But your department, which is a civil law enforcement agency, is defending the use of masks by your agents because of a so-called rise in threats and assaults against your officers.”
…Now, why is that a problem Mr. Lyons? It’s a problem because the explanation that your agents are wearing masks because of fear of assaults or doxxing is outright bogus. You and your untrained, unqualified, unvetted, unidentified agents are intentionally terrorizing our cities and communities all over this country to avoid accountability for their excessive force and their lawless actions. That is why you’re wearing masks, so no one can hold you accountable and you know that the FBI is not going to because notwithstanding all the investigations all of you say are going on, the Department of Justice and the FBI has stated they are not investigating those two murders.
This is not the America I know and love. This is not the America my immigrant [family] came to and it’s long past time that you rein in your out-of-control agency and start following the law and the Constitution.”
There are some members of Congress who seem to have the knack for representing all of us, regardless of where we live. Dan Goldman is one of them.
Wednesday:
Today it was Pam Bondi’s turn. This was her first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing, which in and of itself tells you a lot about her respect for the Article I branch of government, 13 months into this administration. Bondi adopted a Trumpian persona, polite, sometimes veering into smarmy with Republicans; dismissive, rude, and downright insulting with Democrats.
But politicians signed up for this. Victims and survivors of horrific crimes didn’t. Washington state Representative Pramila Jayapal was first up for Democrats, and she brought the Epstein survivors with her. She joined me for a Substack Live earlier this evening—I’ll post our full conversation where she explains what she did and how she views Bondi’s approach to the hearing later tonight when the video is ready.
One of Bondi’s lowest moments, besides her use of a “burn book” of insults that she hurled at Democratic members of Congress, was the response to questions about why she hasn’t indicted anyone else who was involved in sex trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein. Her response? “The Dow is over 50,000 dollars.”
A judge would strike a response like that during witness testimony in court as non-responsive. And certainly the AG isn’t taking responsibility for the economy? It’s just so classically Trumpian that it would be laughable except that, because of the context, it isn’t. If you listen to her this bit, there’s a moment where she takes a swipe at Maryland’s Jamie Raskin, saying, “I don’t know why you’re laughing, I hear you’re a great stock trader, Raskin,” and then half swallowing a little chortle at her own cleverness, which came off to the room as intentional disrespect.
Early on, Bondi referred to herself as a career prosecutor. She said that she cares about victims and called Epstein “that monster.” Then she urged victims to come forward. But the irony, and as a prosecutor who handled these kinds of cases, she has to know it, is that victims won’t come forward to talk with the FBI, having seen how Epstein victims are being treated. Asked to acknowledge them repeatedly in today’s hearing, Bondi refused to apologize and arrange interviews with DOJ, something the survivors all signaled they’ve requested but have never been granted. She wouldn’t even turn around to look them in the eyes, to acknowledge and respect their presence.
Bondi compounded it by saying, later, that victims whose names weren’t redacted should contact DOJ to fix it. But their names & information shouldn’t have been exposed in the first place. It’s outrageous that Bondi thinks the burden should be on the survivors to let DOJ know it made a mistake and to get it fixed. DOJ is a massive, well-resourced law firm and it had a legal obligation to protect the victims. It was even provided with a list of names that needed to be redacted, and in some cases, they redacted one or a few, but not all of the victims’ names. It’s so careless that it’s hard to attribute it to mere negligence. Repeated errors of this magnitude, over time, take on the appearance of intentionality. And these are the kind of errors that make it clear to victims that if they come forward with information about the wrong people, their personal safety could be compromised.
Bondi’s Justice Department works for one client above all others, Donald Trump.
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https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/12/engadget-this-itch-io-bundle-to-help-minnesota-includes-over-1200-games-and-costs-just-10/The Guardian: Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown. “Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/11/the-guardian-local-police-aid-ice-by-tapping-school-cameras-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown/Fast Company: This simple site makes it easy to track ICE’s actions. “The database…includes continuously updating sections that track statistics like the total number of people currently detained by the U.S., the percentage of people held in ICE facilities with no criminal record, and the number of people who have died in ICE custody in the past month and year.”
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