“Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.

“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”

In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

DHS Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told NPR in a statement that detainees receive medical, dental and mental health intake screening within 12 hours of arriving at each detention facility, a full health assessment within 14 days of entering ICE custody or arrival at a facility and access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care.

I feel like she deserves her own dedicated community to document every time she has downplayed DHS atrocities. For both legal and historical documentation.

Aside from the time she justified hooking federal employees up to lie detector to smoke out leaks to the press and people saying mean things about Kash Patel, this example from March comes to mind. Coincidentally, the first time I can recall ever taking notice of one of McLaughlin’s very “reassuring” statements

Homeland Security makes cuts to offices overseeing civil rights protections

A spokeswoman for the department, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement Friday that it was implementing a “reduction in force” for three offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman.

The Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman is an independent office within Homeland Security — not connected to either Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection. Its job it is to make sure immigration detention facilities are safe and humane.

McLaughlin said Homeland Security is “committed to civil rights protections” but said these offices were a roadblock to immigration enforcement. “These offices have obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission. Rather than supporting law enforcement efforts, they often function as internal adversaries that slow down operations,” she said.

“Get out of our way, bureaucrats! We’re trying to commit negligent homicide.”

It’s like that saying the inmates are running the asylum. The Confederates are running the Federal government.

arrested for engaging in a “criminal conspiracy.”

Speaking of conspiracy, I just have to ask: Are we sure Stephen Miller isn’t just campaigning for Pritzker 2028 at this point?

It’s like I’ve become so used to kayfabe, narrative control, and psychological manipulation at this point, that now I’m suspicious somehow I’m playing into their hands by believing anything they say.

Like the more Stephen Miller obsesses over him and runs his dumb fascist mouth about how much he hates Pritzker, or about how Pritzker keeps using the rule of law and jurisdictional autonomy to interfere with the Chratzi agenda, the more I feel inclined to support Pritzker.

Fox News and Miller are somehow turning a 60 year old billionaire into the “bad boy rebel” fighting against Trump.

Are they really too dumb to realize they’re giving this guy’s presidential campaign free advertisement before he’s even announced any intention to run.

It’s not even greed anymore at that point, it’s a psychological issue, akin to hoarding, except your hoarding ruins the entire planet.

100% this is it. Hoarding usually boils down to OCD and needing to feel a false sense of control.

You never know when you might need to possess all that money you will never be able to spend (even if you do somehow achieve immortality) just like you don’t know when you might need that collection of old newspapers. But when that day comes, you’re convinced you’ll be ready. Then they’ll see. They’ll finally all see. Unless somebody steals or misplaces your “treasures.”

This is literally from a recent article about Thiel and his Antichrist lectures:

The world’s richest, in his view, think too little about their identities as billionaires and what will become of their treasures after death.

Your fucking identity? Bro, you’ll be worm food like the rest of us. That’s why they call it the great equalizer. (And that is also probably exactly why you fear it more than anything else.)

Imagine paying $130M and enabling the destruction of democracy simply to avoid ever having to pay your fair share of taxes.

You can throw millions at an army, but you fight tooth and nail to avoid paying for any public services those soldiers might otherwise benefit from. Typical conservative bullshit. Humans are basically cattle to them.

Force them to be born. Completely hands off for 18 years. Ignore any and all obligations to help make sure that have access to affordable education or healthcare. Stack the deck against the ones that actually survive to adulthood, so that the military is the only option most people have. Then, once they’re old enough to fight to help keep you rich, (this time on the streets of their own country), suddenly they’re worthy of your investment.

I feel for Velma. I am so bad at math that sometimes I go into a corner by myself so I can hide what I’m working on from my coworkers while I scribble down very complex maladaptive strategies I’ve learned to solve simple calculations.

Ending the federal reserve has been Peter Thiel’s wet dream for a very long time. It’s also coincidentally become one he shares with Thomas Massie and Mike Lee.

Trump and all these rich fuckers are investing large sums of money in crypto. Depending on how big the next big financial collapse is, they might just all be willing to hop on board with Thiel and Massie and say fuck it. Who needs the federal reserve anyway? (Other than all the suckers who aren’t part of club Oligarch, but who gives a fuck about them?)

Unfortunately, I think they have plenty volunteers. Luckily, as per usual this administration has managed to throw a wrench into their own evil plans by trying to be as efficient as possible without much of a grasp on fine details.

They cut what they see as unnecessary red tape that makes things “slow and inefficient,” because they’re dumb enough to believe “run the government like a business,” is as simple as just maximizing profits and minimizing time and overhead.

It’s like somebody reading a recipe, then having the brilliant idea that the bureaucratic chefs who came up with the recipe were just padding it with a lot of unnecessary extra steps and ingredients.

They cut out multiple necessary steps and ingredients. Then, to save time, instead of baking at 300 degrees for 15 minutes, they figure they can just crank up the oven as high as it will go and bake it for 5 minutes.

Stephen Miller is now fuming because he’s too much of a narcissist to acknowledge his “efficient” recipe just wasted more time and money by creating a final product of inedible goo that’s somehow burnt in some spots and dangerously undercooked in others.

Instead of stepping back or listening to anyone who might actually know what they’re doing, Chef Stephen is demanding his disgusting masterpiece be sent out to America as is, even though it will undoubtedly end up giving us all food poisoning. Once that happens he’ll blame the staff in the kitchen who were trying to warn him the entire time.

It looks like Stephen Miller’s quest to hire 10,000 so-called “Homeland Defenders” by January isn’t going so well.

During a multi-agency meeting earlier this week, Miller voiced frustration that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t bringing in deportation officers fast enough

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sMTF45CWdIE

What if some shit head convinced everyone in America that AI was the inescapable next big thing, and that anyone not throwing all their money at it was going to end up like people who thought the Internet was just a transient fad?

No paywall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorgan-allow-bitcoin-ether-collateral-090756088.html

Oh wow, what a fucking shocker that this would happen a week after Peter Thiel got the green light to open the first U.S. Cryptobank and Dimon has been trying to spread the narrative that the economy is in danger at every fucking opportunity to anyone who will listen to him…

Anyway, the day Charlie Kirk was murdered Scott Bessent was questioned about why he wouldn’t investigate JP Morgan bank records of transactions between Peter Thiel and Epstein.

Then Republicans in both the House and Senate blocked an attempt by Democrats to subpoena those records, but nobody even noticed bc everybody was paying attention to the assassination of the “martyr for free speech.”

Still waiting on those files, but Dimon claims he’ll release them as soon as he’s subpoenaed… So just waiting on the day Republicans agree to subpoena him, or the day that anyone notices that Republicans are literally the only reason why he hasn’t been suponead…

Oh and apparently Epstein was a Bitcoin investor, and took great interest in many of the same areas that Trump’ Office of Science Technology and Policy (currently lead by Peter Thiel’s former employee and protégé) also happens to be focusing attention…

2017 article

Since forming an eponymous foundation in 2000, Epstein has found a role as science philanthropist, sharing his resources to beneficial, unlikely ends. His money has funded research related to quantum computing, genetics, artificial intelligence, and beyond. As a result, the 64-year-old tycoon holds court with A-list names from the academic community, like theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author Lawrence Krauss, or MIT’s quantum computing pioneer, Seth Lloyd.

It’s always seems so weird to me that the night Charlie Kirk was murdered, he called him a “martyr for free speech.” Then he started cracking down on free speech and framing it as terrorist activity.

Then he literally bragged “we took away the freedom of speech.”

I think if there was some kind of conspiracy to allow it to happen, then everybody in his administration is aware of it. Hours before he was murdered, the Senate finance committee asked Scott Bessant why he wouldn’t release the bank records for several banks including JP Morgan, regarding Epstein and people like Peter Thiel.

Then Republicans in both the House and Senate blocked an attempt by Democrats to subpoena those records, but nobody even noticed bc everybody was paying attention to the assassination.

So many wealthy and powerful people were desperately in need of a big distraction that day. Not only did it work to distract, it allowed them a BS reason to claim they had to crack down on the left and any opposition.

Before it went offline, the website featured a list of names, including people’s email addresses and social media handles, who criticized Kirk online.

One of the names on the website included Erin Gudge, who resigned from her role as the board chair of the Philomath School District in Oregon after the controversy.

Workers across the country were removed from their jobs or faced sanctions for praising or celebrating Kirk’s assassination.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the Pentagon was “tracking closely” any civilian and military employees who celebrated the murder.

I seriously wouldn’t put it past the Trump administration to be the ones behind this, especially given their shift towards embracing everything crypto, and amping people up about this narrative at every chance?

When asked by a reporter why he would not ask Congress for a declaration of war, he replied: “I think we’re just gonna kill people. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. They’re gonna be, like, dead.”

He added: “The land is going to be next. And we may go to the Senate; we may go to the Congress and tell them about it, but I can’t imagine they’d have any problem with it."

Fuck I hate this guy so much. Can’t even call a Nazi tyrant war criminal a Nazi tyrant war criminal.

BTW I don’t agree with Candace Owens on anything else, but I don’t think her claims that Trump may have been involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination (or at least allowed it to happen) are exactly “unhinged,” when he’s comfortable openly saying this kind of shit to the fucking press. If he can talk openly about just murdering people on a whim, if he can release an official memo that very much implies he plans to do the same for any American citizen who disagrees with him, why would it be “unhinged,” to think he’s capable of something like that?

The picture of weird Stephen just casually walking, but somehow moving so oddly he looks like a makeup free Jack Nicholson era Joker doing an impersonation of a Heath Ledger era Joker.

These mistakes come as the Trump administration has attempted to speed up the onboarding process, which used to take months, into a partially remote process that only takes 47 days, CNN reported.

I’m not exactly sure when they streamlined the process, but I think they’re saying ICE has had a surge of applications since the sign on bonus was offered. Normally those applicants would take months to process just to get to the point of being scheduled for training. (detailed employment history, criminal background checks, fingerprinting, not to mention probably their own citizenship/legal status).

Then from that point, if everything checks out during onboarding they’re supposed to go through the actual training. But since the onboarding process has been “streamlined,” people aren’t being weeded out for things that should have kept them from reaching the training stage.

ICE officials are really feeling the strain once new recruits arrive for the agency’s training program, more than 200 applicants have already been terminated from the program because they did not meet the physical or academic requirements multiple new recruits had arrived for training without being properly vetted, and just under 10 were turned away due to disqualifying criminal backgrounds or failed drug testing. At ICE’s training academy one recruit had previously been involved in a domestic violence incident, and was once charged with strong-arm robbery and battery. other recruits in the six-week training course had not submitted their fingerprints for background checks, which is required by ICE.

So these are all people it would seem should have been caught beforehand, but bc Stephen Miller is a dumbass micromanaging Nazi shitstain, he is doing that thing everybody in this administration does (demanding impossible results because he doesn’t actually know what TF he’s doing). Hence the ensuing shit show. Yet, all Miller cares about is numbers and quotas bc that means more money for his private prison and Palantir investments.

Now the people who are supposed to focus on the training process are having to do things that aren’t even part of their job in order to screen out people that should have already been screened out. Likely this delays the entire process for everyone bc once again it turns out the inefficient bureaucratic red tape existed for a fucking reason.

“So, I see from your resume you already have some experience wielding a weapon while wearing a ski mask, and violently assaulting innocent people in their homes? Welcome aboard!”

It seems pretty clear that has been the strategy the entire time. Tank the economy but ICE is always hiring. You just have to sell your soul and probably develop a drinking/drug habit to dissociate during the day and sleep at night.

You might be high/drunk all the time while carrying military grade weapons, but at least you’re not distracted on the job or kept up at night by the sounds of those terrified children crying for their mothers constantly echoing through your mind.