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Coalition Of Public Interest Groups Call For State Attorneys General To Challenge Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
#News #Politics #CenterforAmericanProgress #ElectionLine #Paramount #ParamountWB #RobBonta #Skydance #WarnerBros #Warnerbrosdiscovery

https://deadline.com/2026/03/paramount-warner-bros-state-attorneys-general-1236746176/

The Trump Administration’s ICE and CBP Have Become a Threat to Americans: Congress Must Ensure That DHS Follows the Law and Adopts Commonsense Reforms – Center for American Progress

Article Jan 28, 2026

The Trump Administration’s ICE and CBP Have Become a Threat to Americans: Congress Must Ensure That DHS Follows the Law and Adopts Commonsense Reforms

The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security is out of control, endangering the well-being and lives of Americans. DHS must follow the law and fulfill its role to enhance—not compromise—the security of Americans and the homeland.

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• Dan Herman
• Allie Preston
• Gréta Bedekovics

Restoring Social Trust in Democracy, Domestic Policy, Immigration, +4 More

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The recent killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis are the latest in a pattern of dangerous, reckless law enforcement tactics that are terrorizing communities, costing lives, trampling on Americans’ constitutional rights, violating the law, and undermining actual immigration enforcement.

Since the start of the second term, the Trump administration has launched a series of immigration enforcement operations involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other federal law enforcement agencies. These operations—involving masked, unidentified agents using aggressive tactics against both U.S. citizens and immigrants—have caused chaos across the United States. Many of these operations have been targeted against President Donald Trump’s political opponents, deploying large roving task forces to cities and states run by Democratic officials.

As an immediate next step, the Trump administration must pull ICE and U.S. Border Patrol agents out of Minneapolis and fire Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in order to prevent further tragedies in Minnesota. But the problems with this administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are far more widespread and demand meaningful reforms and accountability from Congress.

To immediately reform the Department of Homeland Security, the Center for American Progress recommends the following commonsense measures:

• DHS must be held to the same standard as local police and wear uniforms that clearly identify their agency, be unmasked, and be equipped with body-worn cameras during public enforcement actions.
• DHS must reform hiring, screening, and training to remove unqualified personnel.
• DHS personnel must be held accountable for improper uses of force and allegations of misconduct.
• DHS must preserve Americans’ constitutional rights and operate within the rule of law.
• DHS must enhance accountability to Congress and the public.

This militarized, unaccountable behavior by the Trump administration’s DHS and other federal law enforcement agencies is unlawful and unsafe. As their mission becomes increasingly politicized, these agencies are behaving more like regime secret police than federal law enforcement officials protecting the American public. It is critical that Congress, the courts, and a future administration demand and implement real reforms that keep our communities safe, protect rights and freedoms, and prevent overreach and abuse.

DHS must be held to the same standard as local police and wear uniforms that clearly identify their agency, be unmasked, and be equipped with body-worn cameras during public enforcement actions

The reckless actions of ICE, CBP, and other federal law enforcement agencies during these raids have undermined the legitimacy of and public trust in law enforcement more broadly. State and local police from jurisdictions across the country, many of which have spent years building trusted relationships with communities, are seeing those relationships jeopardized by federal deployments that have made people, particularly immigrants, more cautious about engaging with the police and the legal system. Eroding trust in police makes communities less safe because effective public safety depends on cooperation between residents and law enforcement. When trust and law enforcement legitimacy break down, people are less likely to report crimes or cooperate with investigations—making it harder to solve crimes, hold offenders accountable, and prevent future violence.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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Pete Buttigieg warns progressives to focus on reinvention and not restoration

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-buttigieg-london-progressive-conference

Center for American Progress panel on DOGE's impact on veterans and service members starting in less than an hour!
Get the Zoom link here: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/uniformed-disservice-how-trumps-agenda-harms-veterans-and-service-members/
I'm one of the panelists. See my prepared remarks here: https://blog.kamens.us/2025/06/29/prepared-remarks-center-for-american-progress-panel-on-june-30-2025/
#politics #USPol #Trump #DOGE #VA #veterans #CenterForAmericanProgress

Here are my prepared remarks for the Center for American Progress panel I'll be participating in Monday: https://blog.kamens.us/2025/06/29/prepared-remarks-center-for-american-progress-panel-on-june-30-2025/
Come hear me and the other panelists spit fire.
More details and RSVP here: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/uniformed-disservice-how-trumps-agenda-harms-veterans-and-service-members/
#politics #USPol #Trump #DOGE #VA #veterans #CenterForAmericanProgress

Prepared remarks: Center for American Progress panel on June 30, 2025

I am slated to appear tomorrow afternoon at a virtual panel hosted by the Center for American Progress entitled “Uniformed Disservice: How Trump’s Agenda Harms Veterans and Service Members“. Below is the outline of my prepared remarks. I encourage you to join me and the other panelists for an informative and challenging discussion.

You can see the timing and RSVP here.

Opening remarks

• It’s an honor to be here today. Thank you for inviting me.
• It’s important to be clear and unequivocal that “cutting down on waste, fraud, and abuse” is a lie.
• A mistake some people on the left keep making is to hear terrible people telling us exactly what their goal is and what they’re doing to achieve it and choosing to believe, instead, the transparent lies they tell as a cover story.
• Continuing to give the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt is extremely dangerous. We need to recognize what we’re up against to understand how important it is to fight back.
• We know “waste, fraud, and abuse” is a lie because they told us. Grover Norquist told us. Steve Bannon told us. Russell Vought told us. Steve Miller told us. Elon Musk told us. Donald Trump told us. For Pete’s sake, Newt Gingrich told us; the path we’re on starts that far back, if not farther.
• In fact, DOGE and the Trump administration have told us they’re trying to do three things:
  • destroy effective governance;
  • make themselves and people like them richer and more powerful; and
  • hurt people who aren’t like them.
• There is endless evidence of all this, but our time is limited, so I’ll focus on my personal expertise, information security.
• DOGE has spent the last five months methodically demolishing the walls protecting sensitive data on individual Americans held by many agencies throughout the government, in clear violation of the Privacy Act and other federal laws and regulations.
• We can certainly envision a scenario where breaking down walls would help the government better serve the public. But why should we believe their lies when the truth is staring us in the face?
• What they are actually trying to do is make it easier to use government data to target their enemies and easier for that data to be used for other nefarious purposes both inside and outside government.
• This isn’t theoretical, we’ve already seen it start to play out.
• For example, the administration has taken the unprecedented and probably illegal step of marking thousands of non-citizens “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, with the explicit goal of destroying their ability to participate legally in the American economy, forcing them to self-deport.
• Also¸ the administration is openly using IRS data to target immigrants for arrest and deportation, in clear violation of federal regulations.
• Immigrants have been assured for 50 years, since the Privacy Act, that they can safely pay their taxes without concern that the data they submit to the IRS will be used against them; the administration is tossing that out the window with no regard for laws, regulations, or civil rights.
• The Trump administration isn’t going to stop at using data to go after immigrants. Many government agencies, including VA, have data which can be used to target trans people. Given the administration’s openly weaponized transphobia, it’s only a matter of time before they progress from forcing trans people out of public life to actively pursuing them.
• Immigrants and trans people aren’t the only ones at risk. Through his comments about treating blue states differently, Trump has made it clear that he will not hesitate to target anyone he considers an enemy. We’re all potential targets.
• Every authoritarian state uses massive surveillance and dossiers as essential tools of control. The Nazis had IBM, and the Trump administration has Palantir. The people may have changed, but the goal remains the same. As an information security professional who knows a thing or two about history, I’m not just worried; I’m terrified.

Closing remarks

• Every veteran took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I took that same oath on my first day at the U.S. Digital Service.
• Our Constitution stands on the edge of a precipice.
• We can sit on the sidelines like so many have done throughout history, or we can stand up and fight for our democracy and our future.
• Every one of us needs to be thinking, right now, in very concrete terms, what our answer will be when future generations ask us what we did in this moment.
• I, for one, refuse to be a bystander.

#CenterForAmericanProgress #DOGE #DonaldTrump #VA #veterans

Michael Sozan of the Center for American Progress cites page 44 of Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 document calling for Unlimited Presidential Power. In effect, creating an autocratic King with no checks and balances, something only seen in absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia.

#uspol #uspolitics #gop #project2025 #heritagefoundation #unitaryexecutive #dictatorship #CenterForAmericanProgress

https://www.commondreams.org/news/patrick-gaspard-biden-state-department

#PatrickGaspard, President of The #CenterForAmericanProgress and Democratic Insider, Rips Shocking US Claim by #MattMiller, That #Apartheidisrael Is Following #InternationalLaw

#FreeGaza #FreetheWestBank #FreePalestine🇵🇸

Long-time Democratic establishment figure rips Biden State Department assertion that Israel is complying with international law in its assault on Gaza. The pressure on Biden keeps growing.

#Gaza #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #SolidarityWithPalestine #EndUSAidToIsrael #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #news #CenterForAmericanProgress #PatrickGaspard #DemocraticParty

https://www.commondreams.org/news/patrick-gaspard-biden-state-department

Most Americans have experienced real wage growth in the past couple of years, accounting for price inflation: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-are-growing-more-quickly-than-prices/

#sarahnadeau #centerforamericanprogress #cap #bidenomics #economics #wages #inflation #wagegrowth #goodnews #wageinflation #priceinflation #economyoftheunitedstatesofamerica #economyoftheunitedstates #economyoftheus economyoftheusa