BREAKING: Trump has reportedly selected Katie Zacharia as his new White House press secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt. Zacharia, a senior communications adviser for Trump’s Truth Social and former DHS spokesperson, previously promoted a bizarre claim linking the abortion medication mifepristone to Zyklon B, the poison gas used by the Nazis in Holocaust death camps. This is who Trump wants speaking for the White House.
🚨Masked men in street clothes walked up to a car in Marble Hill, New York, with a gun out. A 5-year-old was in the back seat. The driver, Oscar Belgal, fled. ICE then fired multiple shots into the car, wounding him. ICE says the driver should have known to stop. That is the policy: ICE hides their faces, skips the uniform, and treats flight as a crime. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an outrage, saying there was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE. Criminals already found a convenient new playbook. In January 2025, police in North Carolina arrested Carl Bennett after he allegedly flashed a badge, said he was ICE, and threatened to deport a woman unless she had sex with him. In Brooklyn that February, Leon Howell told a woman he was an immigration agent, then punched and r*ped her and took her purse, police said. In Philadelphia, Robert Rosado walked into an auto shop in a tactical vest, announced he was ICE, zip-tied a worker, and robbed the place. In Florida, a woman getting her papers got into a car because the stranger showed an ICE shirt. She was kidnapped but thankfully escaped. The FBI has warned departments that impersonators are using the look for robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults. When real agents dress the same way, a mother at school pickup cannot tell the badge from the predator. Fleeing is not confusion. It is the sane response. Fear. And in this case, protecting a 5-year-old child. Belgal’s lawyers now say they cannot locate him. His name did not appear on ICE’s online detainee locator, according to Courthouse News. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin would not confirm the location of Belgal. The only account of the confrontation comes from ICE. Belgal has not been able to publicly confirm or deny the narrative. Body-camera video has not been released. When “law enforcement” and thuggery present themselves in the same way, compliance cannot reasonably be expected.
u dont sanction a war crimes court unless you are nazi fucking scumbag war criminals-NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence
A judge had already ruled that Ahmed Soliman, a gay man who grew up in Phoenix, could not be sent back to Egypt, where he feared being killed. So ICE flew him to Equatorial Guinea instead, using the flight manifest as his travel document. He had come to the US from Egypt at 4 and held a green card until a prison sentence over a 2021 car crash put him into deportation proceedings. In Equatorial Guinea, a country he had never set foot in, he was held in a former hotel under armed guard. In September, a phone video showed a police officer pointing a rifle at him as he knelt in the lobby, while a voice shouted "Shoot him!" Days later he was hooded and taken away, and he has been held without contact ever since. This week US District Judge John Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ordered the administration to bring him back. He wrote that Soliman has been "confined under armed guard, assaulted, held at gunpoint, and, most recently, arrested, hooded, beaten, and held incommunicado, reportedly without food or water." DHS must work to get him released, fly him back at its own expense and report its progress every three days. He is not home yet, and the government has 30 days to appeal. He told The American Prospect last month: "I came here as a ghost."
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