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Brian Covert
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𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯
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Reposted by Brian Covert
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra said DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

(Published Oct.)
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Reposted by Brian Covert
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud.

Read our full investigation here 👇
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Let the "Dozy Don" chronicles begin, getting under his skin at every available opportunity. At this stage, it may be the only thing about his job that really bothers him. Share and repost your photos and anecdotes of Dozy Don widely....
Trump Is Furious Over ‘Bullshit’ Media Coverage About His Age, Mental Decline
‘He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe,’ a Trump adviser tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Reposted by Brian Covert
NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Looking for a grassroots organization to support in confronting the current illegal and immoral actions of America's immigration police in communities of color? Consider supporting 𝐓𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, a group that holds America accountable for its current and past sins...
tsuruforsolidarity.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄:
Survivors of America's past sins share their stories on incarceration, deportation and concentration (as in camps)....
Trump’s Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’
Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is what you have become, America (and what you have always been) — a nation that imprisons unwanted "other" children in places that are essentially concentration camps.
Read this, and decide for yourself what you can do about it.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reposted by Brian Covert
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This is the new book that Donald Trump does not want the world to read — a detailed, damning account of Trump's life that reveals him for the fraud he is and always was. Trump is now suing the book publisher and the 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 for $15 billion to hide this story. Buy this book and defy Trump.
Lucky Loser by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig: 9780593298664 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year “A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If you read only one book in these perilous times, let it be "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" by journalist 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮. My review of her book for 𝘒𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 magazine in Japan....
Resisting Democracy’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
Part memoir and part manifesto, How to Stand Up to a Dictator is Ressa’s look back at her early life in the Philippines and the United States, a chronicle of her personal rise through the news industr...
kyotojournal.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A powerful speech at the United Nations by journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮. May the countries of the UN be wise and bold enough to follow her powerful pleas.
Maria Ressa at UNGA 80th anniv: 'Information integrity is the mother of all battles'
YouTube video by Rappler
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Brian Covert
“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words”

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
Charlie Kirk in His Own Words
17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
zeteo.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Brian Covert
Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from what he said while jousting in the public square.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The late Charlie Kirk in 2023, just two years ago:

"You have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president. Buy weapons, I keep on saying that. Buy weapons. Buy ammo. if you go into a public place, bring a gun with you.... Thank goodness in Arizona we can carry, and we carry."
Charlie Kirk: "Buy weapons. Buy ammo. If you go into a public place, bring a gun with you."
www.mediamatters.org
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Reposted by Brian Covert
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, it was taboo to point out that his politics, and those of the MAGA movement he embraced, contributed to a culture of hatred and demonization.

fair.org/home/kirk-co...
Kirk Coverage Downplayed MAGA’s Culture of Violence
The right-wing movement Kirk was a crucial part of has played the leading role in dehumanizing others and normalizing violence.
fair.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Brian Covert
“I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”

The full weight of the federal government is being used to memorialize Charlie Kirk.
The full weight of the federal government is being used to memorialize Charlie Kirk
And to punish those who speak ill of him.
www.motherjones.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Reposted by Brian Covert
The massive display of resistance took place as the president threatened to expand his crackdown to Chicago.
Tens of Thousands March to White House to Protest Trump’s Occupation of DC
The massive display of resistance took place as the president threatened to expand his crackdown to Chicago.
buff.ly
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Brian Covert
Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the US are thrown into chaos.

Inside a photographer's view of ICE's relentless courthouse arrests.
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
www.motherjones.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The utter failure of law enforcement at every level in the United States — not to mention branches of the U.S. government itself — has lead us all to this sordid place in the saga of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein was alleged to have bragged that he "owned" the cops. Read, and understand...
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.
www.justsecurity.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Global condemnation of Israel's recent targeted killing of 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮 news reporters in Gaza is well deserved. But Israel is not the only guilty state party here:
The United States has long waged its own "war" on 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮 and other Arab news media, including in Iraq and Afghanistan 20+ years ago.
Journalist Tareq Ayyoub’s Iraq killing 20 years on
In-depth: The Palestinian journalist was killed when a US warplane struck Al Jazeera’s Baghdad office during the invasion of Iraq. To this day, his family are still fighting for justice and accountabi...
www.newarab.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM