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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19d

You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19d

Image shows a stick figure with the head of Trump using a stick to poke the American flag. Text says: C'MON, DO
A CIVIL WAR I NEED TO
DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN FILES

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 19d

#Resist
#NoKings

White text on red background.
The number one reason why America never learns from its history is because America never teaches real history.
Source: Native American New Facebook page

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 29

I love that all the copies in the interlibrary loan system are checked out and there's a hold waitlist.
#Booksky
#NonFiction
#Resist
#NoKings

Photo of cover of 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa. Cover picture is blue color washed photo of author standing in the street. Title is in white font over laying photo.

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 25

*current immigration crisis.

Stupid autocorrect

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 24

US/European policy & Treaty of Versailles after WW1 led to WW2.
US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process.
US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine
Maybe white people colonialism is the problem.
#Resist
#NoKings
#FreePalestine

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 24

Since the rapture didn't happen today, it's definitely happening tomorrow. Right???? *dripping sarcasm*

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 19

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 20

#Resist

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 20

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Sep 13

Powerful read. Highly recommend
#nonfiction
#booksky

Photo of front cover of Disability Visibility: First Person Stories From the 21st Century, edited by Alice Wong.
Cover is off white with several brightly colored geometric shapes stacked on top of each other in the middle.

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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · Sep 11

When does the National Guard arrive in Salt Lake City? I mean, one of his lil friends died. Isn’t that how it works?

Or is it the state that’s the wrong color or the people?

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Sep 6

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either.

This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem

This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now
1/

Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend

Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

www.kfvs12.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Sep 6

After the Trump administration slashed the US international aid budget, an outbreak of Ebola in Congo is testing the global health community's emergency responses

Ebola Outbreak in Congo Tests Global Response After US Aid Cuts

Ebola is one of the deadliest diseases on Earth, with a fatality rate as high as 90%. It’s among a handful of illnesses so dangerous that governments consider them threats to national security. The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an outbreak on Sept. 4 after 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths were reported.

bloom.bg

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · Aug 12

What most fail to understand...

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you are not following @allyhenny.bsky.social or subscribing to her Patreon; what are you waiting for????
Also can we stop expecting Black and other POC to be on the front lines of this fight.
#Resist
#FightFacism
#FightRacism

Screenshot shot of a portion of Ally Henny's latest blog.
Taking over D.C. is part of Trump’s MAGA agenda, and make no mistake, it all comes down to Making America White Again and restoring white supremacy and white power. It has nothing to do with keeping anyone safe. He’s starting with Washington, D.C. because Home Rule in D.C. is still relatively new, and the boundaries and legal realities have not been put to the test.

Mark my words, if military rule comes to D.C. he will bring it to other minority-majority cities (or cities with large Black populations) under the guise of keeping people safe. But the only folks that he’s interested in keeping safe are white people.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Aug 4

#Truth

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Aug 4

being trans would be an absolute breeze if not for the meddling of all these transphobes.

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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · Aug 4

Texas Democrats are standing up for democracy.

The maps are rigged. The process is compromised.

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/t...

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Aug 4

Is anyone surprised at this point? They will lie until they are blue in the face to make themselves richer and screw everyone else over.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 3

All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge

President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

www.washingtonpost.com

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Aug 1

The 'bloopers' at the end of S3E4 of SNW were hilarious. Loved the Riker maneuver.
#StarTrek
#StrangeNewWorlds
#RikerManeuver

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Trump regime wrote a memo that “shocks the conscience”, revoking “citizenship from the children of both immigrants who lack permanent legal status and many lawful residents… It envisions intrusive federal review of parents’ papers—quite possibly in the hospital, before or shortly after birth…”

Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

slate.com

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EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · Jul 28

Love it

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 27

He’s got a good case, but the devil’s in the micro things.