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DHS Is Stepping Up Its Intimidation Campaign Against a Federal Judge

https://newrepublic.com/post/210476/dhs ... -judge-ice

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Agriculture employees sue Rollins over ‘escalating’ religious messaging

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigati ... messaging/

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The U.S. Should End Its Illegal Boat Strikes
By Farrah Hassen
May 13, 2026

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(Other Words)The U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity.

On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. U.S. Southern Command claimed “the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes” and “was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

According to The Intercept, there have now been 58 such boat strikes since September that have killed at least 193 people. As with the May 8 attack, the names and nationalities of most of these victims remain unknown.

The Trump administration has accused civilian boats of transporting narcotics to the U.S. and says its killing “narco-terrorists.” But the Pentagon has provided no evidence for these claims or any indication that the people killed posed an imminent threat.

International and U.S. law do not allow the use of the military to kill civilians suspected of crimes. Boat bombing on the high seas is not a legitimate law enforcement operation. Nor is it curbing the flow of drugs into the United States, as Trump claims, or combating the root causes of drug use.

As the article goes on to explain, the proper course would be to arrest these people on the high seas and then offer them due process to establish their guilt or innocence.

Read more here: https://otherwords.org/the-u-s-must-en ... -strikes/

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Gov. Sherrill Demands Access to ICE Facility as Hunger Strike Widens

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/nyre ... -ios-share

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^^^ Interesting. No matter how the Supreme Court may act to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment, it cannot simply pretend that the language of that amendment does not exist. It may be the final arbiter, but the lower courts can clog the docket until the Supreme Court finally provides a more reasonable guidance regarding the meaning of that amendment.

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ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds

https://apnews.com/article/ice-suicide- ... 9e609e86ad#

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