Trump FCC Using False Claims Of Immigrant Fraud To Drive Up Costs Of Broadband For Everyone

Back in February the Trump FCC announced it was launching new “reforms” of a major bipartisan FCC program that helps poor people afford broadband. Dubbed Lifeline, the program provides …

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Jury Selection Begins in Spokane Anti-ICE Conspiracy Trial: While we’re on the topic of racism, Spokane, and the courts; jury selection has begun for the federal conspiracy trial against a group of anti-ICE protesters who tried to stop a deportation last summer in what turned into a police riot. Jury selection always brings out the best in our peers, with highlights from the jury box reported by the Spokesman including “I don’t watch the news. My wife informs me,” and “I don’t own a book.”

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/18/50-goats-watching-anime-and-queer-marxism-potentia/

#Spokane #ICE #FuckICE #Protest #Protestors #Deportation #Immigrants #Police

50 goats, pickleball and queer Marxism: Potential jurors in Spokane's ICE protesters trial offer quirky, sometimes politically charged comments

Among the most unpredictable parts of a trial is voir dire – the jury selection process. It provides attorneys some insight into the people available to hear their case and render a verdict.

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Colorado LE ofcls warned their CPs across the C that🚨SM posts by the #DHS recruiting for #ICE contained so many white supremacist themes *could endanger the public. CO Info Anal Cen: cautioned in a March bulletin that🚨“violent extremists” might perceive #WhiteSupremacy Ideology in ICE RCRT Mats, Leading to a Potentially Increased Threat Envir.”

Posts🚨could create a perm envir to engage in vigilante action &/or #violence agst indivs prcvd to be #immigrants.
#Racism #USPol
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

Social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, Colorado law enforcement officials warned, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept.

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#Immigrants launch #HungerStrike at #Adelanto detention center

https://laist.com/news/immigrants-launch-hunger-strike-adelanto-detention-center

At least 20 detainees have launched a hunger strike at Desert View Annex, an immigrant detention center in Adelanto, #California, where about 400 people are being held. The strikers are demanding better conditions for all detainees.

Immigrants launch hunger strike at Adelanto detention center

The strikers are demanding better conditions for all detainees.

LAist
@DemocracyMattersALot Imagine if all the #immigrants, #trans people and others against whom Trump really has weaponized the government applied!
How ICE detention is forcing immigrants out of the U.S.
U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement is holding about 60,000 people in detention centres, the vast majority without criminal convictions. Advocates say ICE detention is being used as a tool to bully people into leaving the country.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ice-detention-us-texas-9.7204924?cmp=rss

"Wow.🚨When you deport illegal aliens & put criminals in prison, you actually get less crime.

What a concept. Dems could never imagine."
-Rep M Collins

"Crime peaked⚡in 2022 & has fallen for 4 str years, but of course #Trumpallies insist🚨 "mass #deportations" is the cause. It's not. There's 0 evidence that crime is falling faster in places w more deportations. None."
-A R-Melnick
Scapegoating #immigrants: Rs' plan. They amplify dangerous #disinformation‼️
#DHS #ICE #USPol
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/violent-crime-drops-at-rates-not-seen-in-nearly-90-years-fbi/

FBI announces US violent crime rate plummeted by fastest rate in nearly 90 years: 'Changes are working'

Violent crime fell across the United States in 2025 at rates not seen in close to a century, findings from the FBI showed.

New York Post
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/20/global-power-britain-brexit. "Having failed to situate #national problems in their proper #global context, #Labour ended up splashing around in the shallow end of #political #debate. That is the comfort zone of #demagogues who blame the country’s ills on #immigrants & #benefits #claimants."
The balance of global power is shifting fast, but Britain is stuck in the same old Brexit rut

Without a reckoning about the epic strategic error of leaving the EU, there is no serious debate about the country’s future place in the world, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/20/death-of-accountability-nigel-farage-no-10-brexit. "Austerity plus #Brexit enabled the rise of Farage’s #ReformUK. Further #decline & #insecurity are a boon for those who can channel our rage towards #scapegoats: #immigrants, #asylumseekers, #Muslims, woke 'elites'. If #Farage becomes prime minister in 2029, his Brexit disaster will be a major reason why." The #Nazis blamed the #Jews for people's ills - & THEY were believed, too! Simple answers aren't always the right ones.
Nothing sums up the death of accountability like the prospect of Nigel Farage in No 10

You’d expect the public face of Brexit to be punished by voters. But history shows that such leaders often profit from the chaos they sow, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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