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... What happened next makes little sense if ICE's investigators, who did not even try to contact Streever until five months after his email, were attempting to resolve a legitimate "safety concern." But their actions are completely understandable if they were trying to intimidate an ICE critic.

"YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW," said the "WARNING NOTICE" that two agents left with Streever's wife in Rochester on June 23. It cited two statutes, one dealing with threats of violence against federal officials, the other making it a crime to reveal "restricted personal information" about them with the intent to intimidate or incite violence against them.

Streever had not violated either of those laws. But the notice said ICE had "reason to believe" his email to Lyons "may constitute a violation of Title 18 of the United States Code," which includes more than 1,500 offenses.

The document asked Streever to "promptly remove and/or discontinue the aforementioned behavior." It added that "receipt of this Notice will be taken into consideration, should you continue to be involved in any criminal activities described above."

In addition to delivering the notice, DHS agents unsuccessfully tried to intercept Streever at John F. Kennedy International Airport when he returned from a trip to Finland with his 7-year-old daughter on June 25. They also repeatedly tried to contact him in person and by telephone at the New York hotel where he stayed that night.

After that, Goodwin says, ICE gave up, closing the case on June 30 because "all investigative leads" had been "exhausted." ICE did that even though its agents had never managed to interview Streever so they could determine "whether or not [he] presented a threat," which Goodwin describes as the object of the investigation. ...

Another view ...

@#16

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... A database of federal law enforcement officer misconduct records. A survey measuring physical, sexual and emotional violence against children and youth. Real-time pollution readings collected by air quality monitors from US embassies around the world.

These are among the hundreds of federal datasets that the Trump administration has taken down or altered as part of its aggressive campaign to wipe all mentions of data findings that do not align with the administration's priorities.

Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor changes to government data.

"We're at a very vulnerable point as a nation," said Denice Ross, former US chief data scientist under the Biden administration and a co-founder of dataindex.us. "We're facing a future where we are not going to have the information that we need to make decisions that will save lives and benefit American communities."

The tracker includes detailed information about deleted or altered datasets from more than 60 federal agencies that span the environment, labor, law enforcement and other topics. But datasets on health appear to be the most affected by the Trump administration's crackdown, comprising about 40% of the total number of terminated or altered data collections tracked by dataindex.us. ...

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... Wealth, perhaps second only to loyalty, has been a prized attribute for Donald Trump during his second presidency.

The number of people worth at least $100 million whom the Republican president has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total under the three previous presidents, according to a report from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

It's the numbers for the Trump administration, in the context of previous administrations, that stand out in Public Citizen's report, published on Monday.

In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.

Look no further than Trump's Cabinet. Eight of its 23 members fit the category, notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires. ...

@#5 ... You think because you're black, your nonsense comments go unchallenged? ...

Wow.

Where did that come from?

@#4 ... Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID. ...

Got a link?

thx.

@#6 ... Nothing says she was granted an extension ...

But the question is whether or not her status was illegal.

She was in the legal process of obtaining an extension.

So, I'd proffer... not a violent illegal immigrant that needs to be deported, but a person working to follow the laws of the US.

What else yer trolling alias got?

From the cited article ...

... Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, as Washington ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement.

Outward progress towards peace talks and a resumption of oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt, threatening to extend the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched with attacks on Iran on February 28. ...

So, Iran is now saying publicly something that Pres Trump has taught them...

The Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz may be a more potent force to face the world than Iran possessing a nuclear bomb.

Yeah for Pres Trump!

@#11

Troll much?

Jus' askin'

What say ye?

@#153 ... They most certainly are in Washington advocating for something. ...

White Christian Nationalism?

Iran seems to be turning into a proxy war for the US against its ~enemies.~

Ukraine also but that's a whole different threat. So I won't go there.

What sort of help are Russia and China giving to Iran in its battle against the US?

Oh, this ain't good in our already weakened South China Sea area.

@#151 ... That's one heavy loaded post sounding like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown from Trump being in office. ...

Far be it from me to try to defend a post from that person, but ...

Then there are the other ramifications of Pres Trump's occupation of the Oval office and how that occupation is affecting Americans who are just trying to feed their families.

So, maybe such a "heavy loaded post" may be an appropriate response to the destruction of the Country that Pres Trump seems to be doing?

@#7 ... She's already been paid. ...

All of what may be owed?

The article you cite talks about $5 million or so.

But what was the actual settlement?

From the article you cite...

... Trump is also appealing $83 million in defamation compensation granted to Carroll by a separate Manhattan jury after a 2024 trial where Trump briefly testified. ...

So this case does not yet seem to have been resolved.

@#3

Back in the late 1970's, I had a computer (assembled from a kit) with 64k of RAM. The CPU ran at the astounding speed of 2MHz.

It ran CP/M. A CP/M that I had to reload each time I started the PC up. (i.e., there was no disk drive to boot from)

I was able to convince it to communicate over the modem, at a whopping 300 bits per second.

So much fun back then, exploring.

... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran, has repeatedly elevated military recruiting successes into the marquee achievement of his tenure and folded recruiting, long treated as an apolitical function of the military, into a broader culture-war proxy.

In remarks to roughly two dozen of the military's top recruiters at the Pentagon in December, Hegseth framed improved enlistment numbers as a reflection of confidence in the administration.

"You can talk about polls, you can talk about money, but men and women willing to serve and put on the uniform is a reflection of the belief they have in civilian leadership and military leadership," he told them.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, in a statement to ABC News, shared that same sentiment, adding that, "Americans everywhere are prouder than ever to serve in our unmatched military that prioritizes lethality, merit, and protecting our nation from those who seek to harm it."

Yet the military has been selling effectively the same proposition since the U.S. abandoned the draft and fully transitioned to an all-volunteer force in 1973: job stability and benefits, with a sense of adventure to sweeten the deal. What has changed, however, is the politics surrounding that bargain.

The military's recruiting rebound is real, but the reasons behind it are far less political than Hegseth's framing suggests.

ABC News interviewed nearly 40 recruits and prospective recruits at different stages of enlistment, along with two dozen recruiters across the military and current and former defense officials, and found young Americans are still largely making the same calculation that has driven enlistment for decades: steady pay, education benefits, job training and a direct path to the middle class. ...

HHS Sec Kennedy is not a medically-educated person. He seems to have obtained his ~medical knowledge~ via rumors and unsubstantiated, even unproven, assertions.

And that seems to be the basis of his policies for the United States.

But in the Trump admin, why should competent people be expected to serve us?

@#2

I am not sure just what the proxy war you refer to is.

Can you be more specific?

thx.

Great cartoon at the link.

Has the increased capacity and power of computers actually benefited Americans, or just the tech billionaires?

What are you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?

Running Slack.

@#148 ... What we do worry about is how you and literally thousands of others can turn their backs on humanity and worship a child raping dementia ridden Imbecile. ...

Yup. That about sums it up for my concerns.

@#1 ... E Jean Carroll hangs another L on the disgusting orange chomo. ...

Yes, but when will she get all the money?