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[ad_1] Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has spent over $525 million on surveillance technologies, including millions in private contracts to “dramatically expand the agency’s ability to monitor online critics and potential threats,” according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Monday. The report has revealed more details about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) emerging surveillance dragnet used to track, unmask, and prosecute critics of ICE, and its chilling effect on Americans’ constitutionally protected speech.  Many of the contracts the report cites are part of an initiative headed by ICE’s…

[ad_1] From Van Rooy v. ANB 623 LLC, decided today by Judge Amy Berman Jackson (D.D.C.): According to the complaint, … plaintiff [Suzannah Van Rooy] was … “social media manager” at Beuchert’s [Saloon] …. In November 2024, after the most recent presidential election, plaintiff used her personal Instagram account to reply to a post by a food editor from the Washingtonian “asking servers in the District if they would feel comfortable serving officials in the new Trump administration that had committed criminal offenses.” Plaintiff agreed to be interviewed in her personal capacity, and after the interview, the Washingtonian quoted plaintiff…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The United States is the only rich, democratic country in the world that does not guarantee workers the right to paid vacation. As a result, 23 percent of the US civilian workforce — or about 33 million workers — lack any paid vacation, and the amount that employers provide voluntarily — an average of 10 days per year — falls well below even the legal minimum required in almost all comparable world economies.1 Figure 1 summarizes the most recent available data on the legally required minimum annual vacation days across the rich, democratic countries that…

[ad_1] Political leanings: Republican 2024 total spending: $242.6 million The Congressional Leadership Fund’s purpose is to maintain and expand the slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The group was formed in October 2011 as the conservative counter to the liberal House Majority PAC and is endorsed by House Republican leadership. CLF is what’s known as a hybrid PAC or Carey committee, meaning it “has the ability to operate both as a traditional PAC, contributing funds to a candidate’s committee, and as a super PAC, which makes independent expenditures,” according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in…

[ad_1] Hysteria over the potential consequences of AI has led Democratic lawmakers to propose another tax on the industry. On Thursday, Rep. Greg Casar (D–Texas) introduced the AI Tax and Work Protection Act, which would impose a federal excise tax on major AI firms to establish and fund a federal jobs program. Casar previewed the idea in a May op-ed for The American Prospect, where he wrote that “an AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.” “One goal of this tax should be to shift incentives to save jobs. Our…

[ad_1] Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire A British government operation established to counter Russian disinformation has expanded to Iran, China and Gaza, according to leaked Foreign Office files examined by David Miller, a British political sociologist and investigative researcher specialising in the study of propaganda and political influence. Miller’s investigation for MintPress News draws on internal government pages and an organizational chart naming officials, specialist teams and private contractors. The documents expose part of a state apparatus that operates with little public scrutiny while monitoring and countering narratives deemed threatening to British interests. At the centre of the files is the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s…

[ad_1] Gov. Walz Has Hit the Wall [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] How the legacy media and Hollywood seduced the Public Health Adviser to turn on The President and side with the Democrats. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] US Senate candidate for michigan Abdul El-Sayed meets voters at Michigan Technological University. October 22, 2025. Photo: Conlan Houston. CC BY-SA 4.0 Although I find much in American politics today transparent, and so there for all to see, our vicious divide refutes this. We are now at a level in which facts and evidence are personal valuations and so while it’s transparent to me that Donald J. Trump is the worst, being the most dangerous to our electoral Constitutional democracy, in U.S history, some 25 to 27% of all Americans identify as MAGA, devoted supporters of whatever they think…

[ad_1] The real story is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it a€” the inevitable consequence of their craven cave to the cult of BLM. [ad_2] Source link