Posts by Shopie Claire
Eight Republicans Join Every Democrat to Block DHS Funding Bill
Eight Republican senators joined every Democrat on Thursday to block a government spending bill, as a dispute continues over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. The bill fell short of the 60-vote margin needed to clear debate, 45-55, setting up the possibility of a government shutdown on Saturday. The legislation included $64.4 billion for…
Read MoreKash Patel Sets Off Diplomatic Incident With FBI Operation in Mexico
“The coalition launches amid growing concerns about warrantless entries, unlawful detentions, and coercive enforcement tactics by federal agents, and it’s intended to ensure that constitutional limits on federal power are actively enforced through lawful institutions,” the statement read. “The coalition will share strategies and best practices among prosecutors, provide regular public updates on efforts to…
Read MoreTrump Erupts at GOPers over Kristi Noem as Her Support Suddenly Slips
GOP Senators Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski have now called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. This angered Donald Trump, who lashed out at them as “losers” and “terrible Senators” and belittled them in other ways. But Noem’s tenure does look shaky. A new government review of the killing of Alex Pretti…
Read MoreHere’s How Much Trump’s Troop Deployments Have Cost Taxpayers
“The coalition launches amid growing concerns about warrantless entries, unlawful detentions, and coercive enforcement tactics by federal agents, and it’s intended to ensure that constitutional limits on federal power are actively enforced through lawful institutions,” the statement read. “The coalition will share strategies and best practices among prosecutors, provide regular public updates on efforts to…
Read MorePam Bondi Tries New Intimidation Tactic With Protester Arrest Photos
“The coalition launches amid growing concerns about warrantless entries, unlawful detentions, and coercive enforcement tactics by federal agents, and it’s intended to ensure that constitutional limits on federal power are actively enforced through lawful institutions,” the statement read. “The coalition will share strategies and best practices among prosecutors, provide regular public updates on efforts to…
Read MoreDHS Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus for Alex Pretti Smear Campaign
The Department of Homeland appears to have found a new scapegoat on behalf of federal agents who brutally killed a U.S. citizen in broad daylight: White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has reportedly started blaming Miller for her decision to label Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed…
Read MoreTranscript: Trumpworld Fractures over Protests as Brutal ICE Poll Hits
Because what’s actually happening is—and you can see this in Minneapolis—if there are social assumptions about diversity, about liberals not being sincere, about their belief in multiculturalism, about the effect of violence, about their own efficiency as manly men—if any of those assumptions were true, Minnesota would have cracked. But it didn’t crack. All these…
Read MoreTrump Thinks This Is the Main Issue With Alex Pretti’s Death
Normally, the FBI would handle such an investigation, considering that it has the lab facilities and investigators experienced with shootings. In fact, Border Patrol agents requested the FBI’s help to gather evidence after the shooting, but in the end, “All evidence, excluding firearms and casings, were turned over to DHS,” according to an FBI memo.…
Read MoreLeaked Memo Exposes How DHS Is Building a Database on Protesters
Normally, the FBI would handle such an investigation, considering that it has the lab facilities and investigators experienced with shootings. In fact, Border Patrol agents requested the FBI’s help to gather evidence after the shooting, but in the end, “All evidence, excluding firearms and casings, were turned over to DHS,” according to an FBI memo.…
Read More“I Erase Your Voice”: ICE Agents Threaten People After Alex Pretti
Normally, the FBI would handle such an investigation, considering that it has the lab facilities and investigators experienced with shootings. In fact, Border Patrol agents requested the FBI’s help to gather evidence after the shooting, but in the end, “All evidence, excluding firearms and casings, were turned over to DHS,” according to an FBI memo.…
Read MoreStephen Miller Left Out of Key White House Meeting With Kristi Noem
He added that he believes the White House is “working on a game plan” to help federal agents “go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people, but without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they…
Read MoreTranscript: A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump: “Breaking Point”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 27 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. As the political world absorbs the shocking news of Alex Pretti’s…
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