U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth says Trump has asked for 500 additional troops to be deployed to D.C. after the shooting.

Breaking | Both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier today in Washington, DC have died from their injuries.

As of Wednesday morning, there were about 2,200 National Guard troops deployed in Washington D.C. This included troops from Washington D.C., along with those from Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.

Ohio Governor recently extended Ohio National Guard deployment to D.C. for a couple more months. Why are all these national guard units saturating D.C.?

These license plate readers are being accessed by Florida Highway patrol to assist in immigration raids.

"A longtime ICE official told me Bovino is “out of control,” and warned that his expanding role will lead to the detention of more U.S. citizens and “more hate and more violence.”"

The U.S. Border Patrol is modeling the aggressive tactics Trump wants—and raising the likelihood that the next phase of the president’s mass-deportation campaign will be more confrontational and violent, @NickMiroff reports.

Flock’s vast license-plate camera network tracks drivers nationwide, sharing data with police. Critics call it invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional—fueling a growing grassroots push to ban or restrict the system’s reach. https://t.co/iB8U6mk6mH

The folks at @sdut think Flock cameras are “ethical.” Right... The same cameras that: -Track protesters -Hunt abortion patients -Give ICE your location data -Can be hacked, leaked or sold -Share movements w/ 30+ agencies Privacy ISN'T optional. Surveillance is NEVER virtuous.

NEW: DOJ identified top US officials involved in the decision not to turn around planes of deported migrants in March per a judge’s order, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Judge Emil Bove (a DOJ official at the time)

The only thing AI can be compared to is colonization. Autotune, drum machines, DAWs, etc aren’t comparable. They didn’t infringe on millions of creations, they didn’t cause catastrophic job loss and they still required human operators. These fake analogies are propaganda.

A Houston, Texas-area church employee is charged with impersonating a public servant for allegedly pretending to be an ICE agent and threatening to deport a woman unless she paid him $500, according to court documents.

This CEO can stick his invasive cameras where the sun doesn't shine. https://t.co/jQelWnoWsd does us all a great service, showing where these horrible surveillance cameras are installed and how to combat their presence.

This guy's body language is so tense, he looks like he wants to kill anti-survielance activists with his bare hands

Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley just called the transparency activists at https://t.co/7vYVNCDLR6 “terrorists.” So, if mapping cameras is "terrorism"… what do we call mass surveillance of millions of innocent drivers?

Violating the Fourth Amendment is fine. Documenting it? That’s terrorism. 🙄

UPDATE- The OU professor has been released from ICE custody, calling it a "deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had."

Make Republican state legislators have to explain to their furious hogs why, in fact, the water and energy-sucking behemoth that delivers 15 permanent tech gremlin jobs is actually a boon to their rural communities. It’s the last thing they want.

We have fought for a decade some of the most depraved policies imaginable--family separation and death on a scale mainstream news consumers do not comprehend. All of it makes us less safe. This is what Democrats are joining Republicans to fight for:

All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.