BREAKING NEWS: By Executive Order, President Donald Trump has just increased tariffs on goods from China to "one hundred thousand million kajillion billion zillion percent" with "no erasies or takebacks". #tariffs #China #CBP #uspoli #donaldtrump #tradewar #econsky #usa #trump #usmca

It's nice to dream of unfeasible, palatable or even ideal solutions to extreme problems.

But the cargo train of reality always runs those over.

If the tRump regime keeps ignoring the courts, the United States is headed, inexorably, to a civil war. If they disregard the Law, then only lethal force will stop them.

Well, at least ONE Democrat seems to have BALLS and a spine. Calling things what they are. tRump LIES.

Thanks, Senator van Hollen.

https://youtu.be/pYZPzHyCtt0

[ via Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social ]

LOL

"The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.” ---CBP

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/15/border-patrol-agent-arrested-child-porn-charges-gilbert/

I don't go anywhere, anymore, without strict need, and am always keenly looking around where I am going to park, and am acutely aware of unmarked vans.

I no longer feel secure or safe around white people whose politics I don't know for sure are opposed to the Turd Reich.

This is NOT gonna end well, for anyone

I can HEAR the Canadian snowbirds selling their Florida properties...

The #AI Tools #CBP Is Using to Scan #SocialMedia

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/

The #AI Tools #CBP Is Using to Scan #SocialMedia

Customs and #Border Protection ( #CBP ) is using various artificial intelligence tools, including ones that can quickly identify people of interest by pulling data from social media, according to documents published by the agency last week and marketing material from the contractors.
#privacy #security #facebook #Twitter #instagram #profiling #surveillance

https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/

The #AI Tools #CBP Is Using to Scan #SocialMedia
Customs and Border Protection released more documents last week that show which AI-powered tools that agency has been using to identify people of interest, including #Fivecast ONYX and #Dataminr, another social media monitoring company.
The release of these documents happened the same week that #DHS announced it will “Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism.”
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-tools-cbp-is-using-to-scan-social-media/
https://archive.ph/QbpJD
#surveillance

I remember in 2017 ICE/CBP was ordered by a federal court to stop enforcing Trump's Muslim Ban and ignored the order until Trump told them to stand down. They told America then that they served Trump, not us. They told Trump they would be his #brownshirts.

The Trump administration has reportedly detained another high profile Palestinian American student attending Columbia University.

Mohsen Madawi, was interviewed on 60 Minutes about the student protests and demonstrated a very balanced and nuanced views on the October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by Gaza's resistance fighters.

There are many similar cases now.

"WorldPride DC organizers issue travel warning for trans & nonbinary attendees"

From the article:

"'A foreign traveler’s gender as indicated on their passport and their personal beliefs about sexuality do not render a person inadmissible. Claims to the contrary are false,' a spokesperson for Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) told The Washington Post."

Yo! Your boss has repeatedly demonstrated behavior that contradicts your position.

#USNews #USPol #WorldPride2025 #WorldPride #CBP #trans #nonbinary

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/worldpride-dc-organizers-issue-travel-warning-for-trans-nonbinary-attendees/

I bet these deportations would come to a screeching halt if they started holding administration members responsible for contempt of court and sending them into federal custody. Then, charge them with violation of civil rights
#ins
#cbp
#deportation
#RenditionRegime