U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.

The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech advocates because it appears to expand the government’s reach in social media surveillance to people already vetted and in the U.S. legally, such as asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants — and not just those applying to enter the country.

I doubt the proposal will matter much given that they are already doing this.

Immigration officials look to collect social media handles from those seeking benefits. Is this new?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump. The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech adv…

Immigration officials look to collect social media handles from those seeking benefits. Is this new?

A confidential Pentagon document suggests the United States may not come to Europe’s aid in the event of a Russian attack. The leaked internal memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to prioritise deterring China’s ambitions over Taiwan and bolstering defense measures on U.S. soil.

According to The Washington Post, parts of the memo are strikingly similar to a publication by a conservative think tank involved with Project 2025, with sections mirroring it word for word.

The memo outlines Hegseth’s stance that America is unlikely to offer significant support to Europe against Russian aggression. It highlights an expectation for NATO allies to assume the primary role in defending their territory.

The United States, the guidance suggests, will provide nuclear deterrence against Russia but will only commit forces that are not essential for homeland security or missions related to China.

US ‘won’t bother defending Europe from Russia’, leaked Pentagon memo says

The leaked memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instead focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense

US ‘won’t bother defending Europe from Russia’, leaked Pentagon memo says

Two Trump administration spreadsheets – which each include what numerous advocates and government officials say is highly sensitive information on programs funded by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – were sent to Congress and also leaked online. 

The leak, which sent a variety of international groups and nonprofits scrambling to assess the damage and protect workers operating under repressive regimes, came after the organizations had pressed the Trump administration to keep the sensitive information private and received some assurances it would remain secret.

Reached for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly says: “These documents were transmitted to Congress and not publicly released by the State Department.” She urged Rolling Stone to contact “whoever leaked it and in turn, made it public.”

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“Please do not share the spreadsheet that was circulating yesterday with terminated awards listed and if possible remove it or ask it to be removed from anywhere you’ve seen it,” reads one message shared in a private USAID chat late this week. “It contains information about partners who are working in unsafe environments with restricted civil society space or terrible LGBTQ laws etc. A few of our friends already had to pull staff on an emergency basis yesterday due to threats and unwanted attention from their governments. Please pass along to anyone you think needs to see this.”

One top executive at an international nonprofit and U.S. government implementing partner that’s been grappling with the fallout bluntly tells Rolling Stone: “In all our years of receiving grants from a range of governments, we have never seen the safety of government partners treated with such reckless abandon. People will lose their liberty, and possibly even more, because of this.”

Another source with knowledge of the situation – a State Department career official – says: “Lives are in danger that did not have to be.” 

What do you expect when your government is run by a bunch of wannabes from Fox News?

‘Lives Are In Danger’ After a Trump Admin Spreadsheet Leak, Sources Say

‘Lives Are In Danger’ After a Trump Admin Spreadsheet Leak, Sources Say

“When you seek asylum, wait in the other country … There is no due process if you come here illegally because you violated the law. Period! You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”

Dumbdumb has that totally backwards — due process is what you are entitled to when you do break the law. We need some minimum IQ requirements for Congress. She’s an immigrant herself; how did she ever pass her citizenship test?

GOP rep booed by hundreds at town hall after saying migrants ‘not entitled to due process’

One Republican member of Congress was met with a rowdy crowd of several hundred people at a town hall in her normally solid-red district who frequently booed and shouted her down — particularly when she defended President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) held a town hall meeting on Friday in Westfield, India…

GOP rep booed by hundreds at town hall after saying migrants ‘not entitled to due process’

5,000 poorly trained, poorly disciplined cowboys with guns, no boss!

Although ICE seems to be winning the current popularity contest, BATF traditionally has been considered the worst of the federal law enforcement agencies. It was BATF that ultimately caused the deaths of ~80 people at the Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.

“As the Post’s Perry Stein and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez wrote, ‘Patel arrived at ATF’s Northeast Washington headquarters, snapped photos in the lobby, met career leaders and commended their work, according to multiple people familiar with the visit. But since then, Patel has not returned, and there appears to be scant communication between the acting director and the people who work for the 5,000-person agency, said the people familiar with the situation.'”

Trump appointee’s disappearing act has key department at a standstill: report

Donald Trump’s decision to hand newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel the reins as the interim head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has to the department being adrift with Patel reportedly ignoring his duties. According to a report from the Washington Post, since being tasked with running the department and overs…

Trump appointee’s disappearing act has key department at a standstill: report

Trump says, “Think like me, or else!”

On Thursday, March 27, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order — this time, one aimed at the Smithsonian Institute. Trump called for expressions of “improper ideologies” or to be removed from Smithsonian’s museums and information centers, and for the removal of displays that “promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and policy.”

‘One phrase in particular’ makes Trump’s Smithsonian order ‘deeply disturbing’: analysis

On Thursday, March 27, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order — this time, one aimed at the Smithsonian Institute. Trump called for expressions of “improper ideologies” or to be removed from Smithsonian’s museums and information centers, and for the removal of displays that “promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federa…

‘One phrase in particular’ makes Trump’s Smithsonian order ‘deeply disturbing’: analysis

27 March 2025 5:28 P.M.

I was just detained by and my dog was assaulted by plainclothed ICE agents, along with undercover members of the NYPD I believe; while trying to intervene in an ICE abduction on my block.

They refused to identify themselves, were masked, produced no signed warrant, and they were in an unmarked van.

They literally snatched a family walking their kids home from school off the street, and then kicked my dog and cuffed me and my neighbors for asking questions.

They illegally went through my phone, violated multiple Constitutional rights, and then sped off with a family and screaming kids in the back of a van to God knows where.

If this can happen on a corner in Harlem at 5:30 in the afternoon, we are in big trouble guys.

Protect yourselves and your neighbors anyway you know how.

I am absolutely heartbroken, enraged, and disgusted at what my country has become and if you aren’t also; you either aren’t paying attention or you are part of the problem.

EDITED TO ADD: Since this is getting shared around I thought I’d make abundantly clear my takeaway from this experience. It’s this:

Black and brown people in this country have been subjected to this same type of violence and lawlessness for centuries; with often far worse outcomes than I experienced.

The fact the oppressors in power are now willing to also inflict it against a white man of privilege in broad daylight, in the supposed bastion of progressive values that is NYC; only shows how brazen they have become and how dangerous it must be for everyone else not as privileged as I.

White people MUST stand in the way of fascism at every turn. We MUST put our bodies and our privilege on the line. We MUST be wrenches in the gears of this horrible machine we helped create. We don’t have much time left.

*Also videos of the incident are incoming! I got nothing of substance before losing possession of my phone, but I know some neighbors did.

*Update 3/29/25 1:46pm EST: woah this post has completely reached way beyond anything I thought possible or anticipated. It gives me some hope. 1. All your messages and friend requests are really appreciated and beautiful, but I have thousands it’s impossible to add you all or reply to you all, but please organize and connect in your communities!

2. Pictures and video, I know many are asking! I was able to get some videos some folks on my block took, as well as still shots some of those closer to me were able to get.

With how huge this post has become, I’m still trying to figure out the best way to responsibly release them while protecting the identities of vulnerable neighbors, visible addresses and identifying locations, personal info etc. as this took place right outside my building.

I’m being advised that I might have exposed myself a little too much on here, so I’m trying to protect myself some. Still, these pictures and videos have been given to some “ICE-watch” groups, the ACLU and other organizations I trust and who are advising me.

I obviously understand “pics or it didn’t happen” and how important it is to verify authenticity for many reasons. Please bear with me as I’m navigating this all suddenly going viral and how to balance my moral duty to report, speak-out, and share with my own personal safety, freedom, and livelihood and that of others involved.

Please keep an eye out in your own neighborhoods, continue speaking out, and do what you can to stop these things when you see it, and livestream immediately! I really wish I had!

I believe enough white bodies and live cameras might have atleast made these guys think twice and might possibly have stopped this family’s abduction. I know enough of ALL THE PEOPLE, organized, loud and in the streets can hopefully start to reverse the deadly course we are on. All must act according to their skill and comfort level, but all must act! Silence is complicity!

https://www.facebook.com/dkw646/posts/690828030173705

Occupy Democrats

Occupy Democrats, Miami, FL. 9,397,451 likes · 3,973,146 talking about this. Occupy Democrats is a merger of the goals and interests of Occupy with those of the Democratic Party.

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Defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.

One of the meetings, a high-level discussion at the Pentagon on March 6 between Hegseth and U.K. Secretary of Defense John Healey, took place at a sensitive moment for the trans-Atlantic alliance, one day after the U.S. said it had cut off military intelligence sharing with Ukraine. The group that met at the Pentagon, which included Adm. Tony Radakin, the head of the U.K.’s armed forces, discussed the U.S. rationale behind that decision, as well as future military collaboration between the two allies, according to people familiar with the meeting. 

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Jennifer Hegseth also attended a meeting last month at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels where allied defense officials discussed their support for Ukraine, according to two people who attended the meeting. Hegseth’s brother Philip Hegseth has also been traveling with him on official visits, the Pentagon said.

Too stupid to learn?

Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials – WSJ

The satellites in question are part of the data transport layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

More shameless corruption benefitting Musk:

The Air Force may cancel the development of hundreds of Space Development Agency satellites and give the work to SpaceX, one senator said Thursday—a move that would shut out other companies hoping to bid. 

The satellites in question are part of the data transport layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a planned network of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit.

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Cutting these bids “means maybe eight, or more, small-, mid-sized companies would not be allowed to bid,” Cramer said.

Space Force may use SpaceX satellites instead of developing its own, senator says

The satellites in question are part of the data transport layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Space Force may use SpaceX satellites instead of developing its own, senator says – Defense One