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We Found More Than 40 Cases Of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds And Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The original version has even more horrifying photographs and videos of agents engaging in this kind of behavior. Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at r…
Jan 14, 2026, 11:46 PM
ICE Is Going On A Surveillance Shopping Spree
Cooper Quintin, Techdirt
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least anot…
Jan 14, 2026, 9:08 PM
Bari Weiss Is Sad That People Aren’t Enjoying Her Clumsy Destruction Of CBS News
Karl Bode, Techdirt
If you missed it, Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison and his nepobaby son David hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to “run” CBS News. And by “run” CBS news, I mean destroying what little journalism was left at the media giant and creating an alte…
Jan 14, 2026, 7:01 PM
Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video ang…
Jan 14, 2026, 5:27 PM
DHS Wants To Harvest Biometric Data From Anyone Helping A Foreigner Stay In This Country Legally
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
We’ve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether it’s at border crossings or international airports. At some point, the tech will move inland and become an annoying part of traveling from Point A to B because nati…
Jan 14, 2026, 1:26 PM
Trump Tries To Disappear Impeachment References At Smithsonian
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Donald Trump is the only president in American history to have been impeached twice. That is a simple fact of history. I can imagine it’s a fact that Donald Trump doesn’t like very much. He might even be embarrassed over it. But it’s a fact that remains no ma…
Jan 14, 2026, 4:02 AM
Trump’s Loyalist Prosecutors Continue To Get Kicked Off Cases Because They’re Not Legally Appointed
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Trump’s binge-and-purge approach to handling the DOJ definitely isn’t working out for him. The administration has been steadily pushing prosecutors out for failing to be MAGA enough, especially when it comes to Trump’s steady stream of vindictive, politically…
Jan 13, 2026, 7:06 PM
The EU Fired Their Censor. Ours Kept His Job
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The Trump administration has spent months shrieking about EU “censorship” while actively censoring people themselves. While I’ve long been a critic of parts of the DSA, Americans—particularly MAGA officials—keep crying wolf over the DSA’s non-censorial aspect…
Jan 13, 2026, 5:32 PM
DHS Tells Reporter That Filming ICE Officers ‘Sounds Like Obstruction Of Justice’
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
ICE activity has increased exponentially since Trump’s return to office, bringing with it an exponential increase in rights violations committed by federal officers. Multiple lawsuits have been filed and, without exception, courts have safeguarded the rights …
Jan 13, 2026, 1:25 PM
Kristi Noem: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Says ICE Can Legally Thwart Congressional Oversight
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Whatever the stated reasons for doing this, we all know what this really is: another effort from the Trump regime to put as much distance between it and accountability. Even before DHS head Kristi Noem decided it’s now suddenly legal to force congressional ov…
Jan 12, 2026, 11:25 PM
Tom Homan: If Democrats Don’t Stop Calling Us Murderers, We’re Just Going To Be Forced To Keep Murdering You
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross has certainly created quite the divide between the reality-based majority of the population who doesn’t want masked unaccountable federal law enforcement goons invading cities they have no business …
Jan 12, 2026, 5:27 PM
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment about the murder of Renee Good by ICE: In second place, it’s That One Guy with a comment about culpability for Trump’s actions: An entire congress and military worth of collabora…
Jan 11, 2026, 8:30 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: January 4th – 10th
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2021, 60 Minutes aired some pure misleading moral panic about Section 230, while Parler (remember Parler?) was desperately seeking attention by pretending it didn’t need Section 230, and Ajit Pai grew a last-minute backbone and ref…
Jan 10, 2026, 8:00 PM
Senator Cassidy Has More Words, But No Actions, For RFK Jr.
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Rinse, lather, repeat. That is supposed to be the self-serving message on the back of a shampoo bottle, but it can easily be applied to Senator Bill Cassidy’s response to all the bullshit RFK Jr. continues to pull when it comes to vaccines. The last time we s…
Jan 10, 2026, 3:39 AM
Rep. Luna Threatens Journalist With Prison For Posting… Public University Bio
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
If you want to understand how far MAGA Republicans have strayed from any actual “free speech” principles, look no further than this: Congress issued a subpoena to Rolling Stone journalist Seth Harp, because he posted on X a publicly available online biography…
Jan 9, 2026, 7:05 PM
Judge Tears Into ICE Over Its Inhumane Facilities, Insane Amount Of Lying
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This ruling was released in the middle of last month and I really wish I had gotten to it sooner. Let’s not pretend this will change anything about how this administration full of white Christian nationalists will treat detained migrants. And it definitely wo…
Jan 9, 2026, 5:28 PM
Scope Of Chinese ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hack Keeps Getting Worse, As Trump Dismantles U.S. Cybersecurity Defenses
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Late last year, most major U.S. telecoms were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to hack into U.S. communications networks and then spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year completely undetected. The “Salt Typh…
Jan 9, 2026, 1:24 PM
Trump: The Anti-Lincoln
Mike Brock, Techdirt
Saturday, January 3rd, 2026. The President of the United States stood in his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, and announced that America had toppled Venezuela’s government and would now “run” the country indefinitely. Not from the Oval Office. Not in cons…
Jan 8, 2026, 10:12 PM
Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight, shooting her multiple times at close range i…
Jan 8, 2026, 6:12 PM
‘Trump Phone’ Delayed Again, Lazy Grifters Falsely Blame Government Shutdown
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Last year we noted how the Trump organization had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. It was barely even a “phone company”; it was just a lazy marketing rebrand of another, half-assed, MAGA-focused, mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) named Patr…
Jan 8, 2026, 1:26 PM
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
Jessica Schreifels, Techdirt
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses. The Utah plastic …
Jan 7, 2026, 11:24 PM
Abrego Garcia Asks For Sanctions As Gov’t Officials Continue To Publicly Attack Him Ahead Of His Trial
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Whether the Trump administration likes it or not, the right to a fair trial still exists. And even the person the government is now subjecting to what looks a whole lot like a vindictive prosecution is still a beneficiary of this right. Kilmar Abrego Garcia w…
Jan 7, 2026, 5:22 PM
CBS’ Remaining Journalists Seem Confused As To Why Bari Weiss Sucks At Journalism
Karl Bode, Techdirt
We’ve noted repeatedly how right wing billionaire Larry Ellison hired an unqualified troll named Bari Weiss to run CBS News for a very obvious set of reasons: to coddle wealth and power (particularly Trump and Netanyahu), validate and amplify right wing griev…
Jan 7, 2026, 1:24 PM
RFK Jr., CDC Alter Childhood Vaccine Schedule To Mimic Denmark’s
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
The Trump administration’s war on vaccines continues, it seems. We’ve already written extensively about all the bullshit RFK Jr. is pulling when it comes to public health around vaccines. From his dismantling the CDC’s ACIP committee and rebuilding it full of…
Jan 7, 2026, 4:02 AM
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