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Thursday, January 15, 2026

But in recent months, applicants for positions at the publication -- which reaches about 1.4 million people a day across its platforms, according to the publisher -- have been asked: "How would you advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired." read more


Operations Benchwarmer, Tidal Wave, Abracadabra, Dust Off, Fleur De Lis " these are just a few of the secret programs recently undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE has become a self appointed bouncer for America under Donald Trump, enlisting tens of thousands of federal, state, and local police and intelligence departments and agencies to not just root out "illegals," but also exploit them for intelligence, leaked documents show. A Border Patrol official outraged by ICE's conduct has leaked to me this and other documents providing an unprecedented glimpse into ICE's undeclared activities across the country. Many of these operations and their codenames have not been previously reported.


President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis ... read more


Wednesday, January 14, 2026

An unnamed Israeli official also said it appeared Trump had decided to intervene, though the scope and timing remained unclear.


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, including classified systems, as part of a broader initiative to incorporate AI technology across the military. read more


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More: The media is telling a certain story about ICE, giving the blow by blow on the most public horrors but never quite seeing the bigger picture that it's part of a larger war. As a military intelligence source told me, the ICE crackdown isn't just about immigration; it's about gathering intelligence in support of Trump's war on cartels " as well as on Antifa, on the radical left, and those who are "anti-American," and anyone else they consider terrorists. And since the administration has been so quick to label everyone, including Renee Good, terrorists, it's no wonder they think they're at war.

ICE's work is done under a set of task forces, with the agency calling upon other Department of Homeland Security agencies, like the Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service, and even the Secret Service. DHS now constitutes the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country " larger even than the FBI. And that was before ICE had its law enforcement budget nearly tripled last year.

"Operation Abracadabra was initiated with the requirement of Interviewing 100% of individuals apprehended to gather intelligence and identify follow-on targets such as stash houses and individuals conducting illegal activity," one of the documents, a briefing slide, reads. The purpose, it continues, is "Tying every individual who crosses the border illegally to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, a Transnational Criminal Organization, and/or utilizing the intelligence to develop targets."

Another briefing about Operation Benchwarmer reveals the employment of agents dressing in "plainclothes" to disguise themselves as ordinary people in an attempt to gather intelligence.

"Plainclothes agents have been embedded in transport vans, sally ports, processing areas, and detention cells to gather important tactical intelligence and or information," the briefing says of this nationwide operation. The purpose? It's "focused on collecting information not normally gained during formal interviews."

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