Pam Fessler
@pamfessler.bsky.social
Former NPR correspondent. Voting/poverty beat. Communications advisor, The Elections Group. Author of “Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma and the Fight for Justice.”
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Federal immigration officers across the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill that transformed ICE into the country’s most highly funded law enforcement agency.
Here’s a look at their arsenal:
Here’s a look at their arsenal:
The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Federal immigration officers across the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill that transformed ICE into the country’s most highly funded law enforcement agency.
Here’s a look at their arsenal:
Here’s a look at their arsenal:
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"In theater"
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"In theater"
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The journalist explicitly identifies himself and attempts to stay on public land, but is threatened with arrest to prevent them from using their first amendment rights. They are breaking absolutely no law. This isn't even a close case.
We’re just not a free country.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
January 29, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The journalist explicitly identifies himself and attempts to stay on public land, but is threatened with arrest to prevent them from using their first amendment rights. They are breaking absolutely no law. This isn't even a close case.
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I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.
Reminder: the "alleged voter fraud" is "alleged" by the FBI's boss.
The FBI is searching the Fulton County, Georgia, elections office in connection with an investigation into alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election https://cnn.it/3NI1uAE
January 28, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Reminder: the "alleged voter fraud" is "alleged" by the FBI's boss.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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National Park Service workers across the U.S. are removing materials about slavery, climate change and labor history to comply with an order from President Trump. In some of the first legal pushback, the city of Philadelphia sued the Trump administration on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
January 26, 2026 at 1:26 AM
National Park Service workers across the U.S. are removing materials about slavery, climate change and labor history to comply with an order from President Trump. In some of the first legal pushback, the city of Philadelphia sued the Trump administration on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
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Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.
Attorney General Bondi Reprehensibly Ties End of ICE Actions in Minnesota to the State Releasing Its Voter Rolls to DOJ electionlawblog.org?p=153962
Attorney General Bondi Reprehensibly Ties End of ICE Actions in Minnesota to the State Releasing Its Voter Rolls to DOJ #ELB
AG Bondi sent this letter to Minnesota officials. Among the things that Bondi says “will help bring back law and order to Minnesota and improve the lives of Americans” is for Minnesota to release its ...
electionlawblog.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Attorney General Bondi Reprehensibly Ties End of ICE Actions in Minnesota to the State Releasing Its Voter Rolls to DOJ electionlawblog.org?p=153962
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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Greenland’s pension fund is mulling whether it should continue investing in US stocks.
Greenland Pension Fund Mulls Divesting US Stocks on Trump Threat
Greenland’s pension fund is mulling whether it should continue investing in US stocks, in what its chief executive says would be a symbolic stand against US President Donald Trump’s push to seize control of the Arctic island.
bloom.bg
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Greenland’s pension fund is mulling whether it should continue investing in US stocks.
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A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela. n.pr/4jPCNy0
Some voters who backed Trump say ICE is going 'too far'
A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela.
n.pr
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
A new focus group of Biden-to-Trump voters weighs in on immigration operations and Trump's foreign affairs leadership on Greenland and Venezuela. n.pr/4jPCNy0
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Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
This video is one of the most disturbing I've seen so far. Listen to this mother. What justification is there to terrorize this family, including these kids?
ICE kidnapped an entire family at gunpoint today. They yelled "bring your kids out!" to a mother.
Republicans are threatening judges for not rubberstamping this.
Republicans are threatening judges for not rubberstamping this.
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 AM
This video is one of the most disturbing I've seen so far. Listen to this mother. What justification is there to terrorize this family, including these kids?
And most, if not all, are not “professional” agitators.
Protesting government overreach is not insurrection.
They are not preventing ICE from doing immigration enforcement.
They are objecting to an out-of-control agency that continually lies to the public and does harm.
They are not preventing ICE from doing immigration enforcement.
They are objecting to an out-of-control agency that continually lies to the public and does harm.
Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in a post on Truth Social.
January 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
And most, if not all, are not “professional” agitators.
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Image with question ‘Which way, Greenland man?’ is a ‘key concept in neo-Nazi and white supremacist subculture’
White House post nods to racist, far-right subculture, extremism expert says
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Image with question ‘Which way, Greenland man?’ is a ‘key concept in neo-Nazi and white supremacist subculture’
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Please read this www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Kids with brain cancer were already in a life and death struggle. Then came Trump
The US president vowed to ‘end childhood cancer’. But his administration is dismantling the search for a cure and sending families scrambling for treatment
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Please read this www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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“DHS probably has no idea whether ICE offered me a job, which is kind of the point of the article: they have no idea what they’re doing."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anti-Trump US reporter says she was offered job at ICE after ‘minimal vetting’
Slate journalist Laura Jedeed documented hiring process and said she got offer despite not completing paperwork
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
“DHS probably has no idea whether ICE offered me a job, which is kind of the point of the article: they have no idea what they’re doing."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way.
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
www.insidehighered.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:08 PM
America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way.
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Well, he did post a meme of himself flying a plane dumping poop all over American protester.
This is what this despicable anti- American thinks of free speech.
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Well, he did post a meme of himself flying a plane dumping poop all over American protester.
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
Extremely disturbing story out of MN. Read to end if you can.
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Extremely disturbing story out of MN. Read to end if you can.
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” Anne Applebaum argues: theatln.tc/sZC7K0uQ
🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Nicole Combeau / Bloomberg / Getty.
🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Nicole Combeau / Bloomberg / Getty.
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” Anne Applebaum argues: theatln.tc/sZC7K0uQ
🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Nicole Combeau / Bloomberg / Getty.
🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Nicole Combeau / Bloomberg / Getty.
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
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real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!
Trump on Christmas: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria.”
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
real cool how he calls his domestic political enemies scum this morning and now he‘s announcing deadly strikes on other people he calls scum on the very same day! really neat!