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MS-13 murder convict, ‘the witch,’ released in California without a bond hearing

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #federaljudges #HomelandSecurity #illegalimmigrants #MarkwayneMullin #migrantcrime #ms-13 #politics #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837987/

MS-13 murder convict, ‘the witch,’ released in California without a bond hearing

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #federaljudges #HomelandSecurity #illegalimmigrants #MarkwayneMullin #migrantcrime #ms-13 #politics #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/837987/

MS-13 murder convict, ‘the witch,’ released in California without a bond hearing

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #federaljudges #HomelandSecurity #illegalimmigrants #MarkwayneMullin #migrantcrime #MS-13 #Politics #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/720400/

FFS

#Trump weighed in on #Cabinet squabble over #NASA ride for #July4th “flyover”

Trump [of course] encouraged acting #USAG #ToddBlanche to fly on one of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s jets despite the #FAA’s prior objection to the planes.

#idiocracy #NationalSecurity #HomelandSecurity #law #RichWhiteMalePrivilege
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/07/trump-encouraged-todd-blanche-fly-nasa-administrators-jet/

Iran’s threat on U.S. soil: Sleeper cells, lone wolves, cyberattacks

With U.S. and Israeli forces continuing offensive strikes on Iran, federal counterterrorism authorites are warning that the desperate…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Concern #Counterterrorism #cyberattack #Department #federalauthority #HomelandSecurity #Iran #islamicrevolutionaryguardcorps #lonewolf #proxy #sanbernardino #sleepercell #tashfeenmalik #threat #u.s.soil
https://www.europesays.com/2836731/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/12532/ Iran’s threat on U.S. soil: Sleeper cells, lone wolves, cyberattacks #concern #counterterrorism #cyberattack #department #FederalAuthority #HomelandSecurity #Iran #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps #LoneWolf #proxy #SanBernardino #SleeperCell #TashfeenMalik #threat #USSoil

Iran’s threat on U.S. soil: Sleeper cells, lone wolves, cyberattacks

With U.S. and Israeli forces continuing offensive strikes on Iran, federal counterterrorism authorites are warning that the desperate…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #concern #counterterrorism #cyberattack #department #federalauthority #HomelandSecurity #Iran #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps #lonewolf #proxy #SanBernardino #sleepercell #tashfeenmalik #threat #u.s.soil
https://www.newsbeep.com/427233/

Real ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?

The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver’s license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking is not whether they need one. The question is what the Real ID actually represents in the architecture of American civic life, and whether the reassurances offered by the Department of Homeland Security hold up under any meaningful scrutiny.

What Is Real ID, Exactly?

Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 as a direct response to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government establish minimum standards for state-issued identification documents. The Act was attached as a rider to a military spending and tsunami relief appropriations bill, which meant it passed without standalone debate, without dedicated committee hearings on the identification provisions, and without meaningful input from the states that would be required to implement it. The law established that state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards would no longer be accepted for “official purposes” by federal agencies unless those cards met a new set of security and verification standards. Those official purposes include boarding commercial domestic flights, entering federal buildings such as courthouses and military installations, and accessing nuclear power plants.

The critical distinction that most people miss is this: Real ID is not a federal identification card. It is a federal standard imposed upon state-issued identification. Your Real ID is still issued by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. It still looks like a driver’s license. It still has your state’s name on it. But it must now conform to requirements dictated by the Department of Homeland Security, and your personal data is now accessible through an interstate verification system called the State-to-State (S2S) Verification Service, administered by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. As of 2026, 45 jurisdictions participate in S2S. That is not a state database. That is a network.

Is Real ID the Same as a Passport?

No, and the gap between them is enormous. A United States passport is a sovereign identity document issued by the federal government through the Department of State. It certifies your citizenship. It is recognized internationally. It permits you to cross borders, enter foreign nations, and return to the United States. A passport is your proof of national identity in the eyes of every government on Earth that maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.

A Real ID does none of those things. It cannot be used for international travel. It cannot be used for border crossings into Canada or Mexico. It cannot be used for international sea cruise travel. It functions exclusively within the domestic sphere, and within that sphere, it serves only the narrow purposes defined by the Act: domestic air travel, federal facility access, and nuclear power plant entry. If you hold a valid United States passport or passport card, you already satisfy every requirement that Real ID addresses. The passport is, in every functional and legal sense, superior to the Real ID. The State Department’s own website confirms that both the passport book and passport card are Real ID compliant, meaning they satisfy the identification standard without requiring you to obtain a Real ID driver’s license at all.

This creates an interesting class dynamic. Americans who already hold passports, a document that requires its own application process and fee, have no operational need for a Real ID. Americans who do not hold passports and rely exclusively on their state driver’s license for identification are the ones most affected by the mandate. The burden of compliance, in other words, falls disproportionately on those who travel less, who have fewer resources, and who are least likely to have assembled the documentary chain (birth certificate, Social Security card, proof of residency) that the Real ID application demands.

Is Real ID Mandatory?

Here is where the federal government’s language becomes instructively slippery. Real ID is not mandatory in the sense that no law compels you to obtain one. You will not be arrested or fined for not having a Real ID. You can still obtain a standard, non-compliant driver’s license in every state, and that license remains valid for driving, voting, age verification, and all state-level purposes. Multiple state DMVs, including New York, California, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Ohio, explicitly state on their websites that obtaining a Real ID is voluntary.

But voluntary is doing extraordinary work in that sentence. As of May 7, 2025, the enforcement deadline that was delayed six times over twenty years, state-issued identification that is not Real ID compliant is no longer accepted at TSA airport security checkpoints. If you show up at an airport with a standard driver’s license and no passport, you are not getting on that plane through normal channels. You are, as of February 1, 2026, directed to a new system called TSA ConfirmID, where you will pay a $45 fee for a 10-day travel window, submit to biometric or biographic identity verification, and face processing delays of up to 30 minutes. That fee was originally proposed at $18 in late 2025 and was raised to $45 within weeks, with TSA officials citing higher-than-anticipated costs for the verification infrastructure.

So Real ID is voluntary the way that paying for electricity is voluntary. You are technically free not to do it, but the consequences of refusal are designed to make refusal progressively more expensive and inconvenient. The TSA’s own early data from February 2026 reports that 95 to 99 percent of travelers are now presenting Real IDs or other acceptable identification at checkpoints. The compliance rate surged after the ConfirmID fee was announced, which tells you everything about the nature of this particular “choice.”

Why Does This Matter?

The privacy and civil liberties concerns surrounding Real ID have been consistent for two decades, and they have come from across the political spectrum. The ACLU has argued since the Act’s passage that Real ID effectively creates a national identity card system by standardizing state identification under federal control and requiring machine-readable technology on every compliant card. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned that the interstate database network creates an irresistible target for identity thieves and facilitates government tracking of individuals. Jim Harper, a senior fellow of digital privacy and constitutional law at the American Enterprise Institute, has stated flatly that Real ID is a national ID system and that, historically, national ID systems have been tools of authoritarian control.

Twenty-one states initially passed legislation or resolutions opposing, or outright refusing to implement, the Real ID Act. Montana was among the last holdouts. The opposition was bipartisan: libertarians objected to federal overreach, privacy advocates objected to the data-sharing requirements, immigration-focused groups objected to the documentary burden, and state budget officials objected to the unfunded mandate. The federal government provided no funding for implementation. States absorbed billions in costs, and those costs were passed to residents through higher DMV fees, longer processing times, and the bureaucratic overhead of verifying birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and residential histories for every applicant.

The requirement that all Real ID cards include an unencrypted machine-readable zone is particularly troubling. That zone contains personal information that can be read by anyone with a barcode scanner. Every time the card is swiped or scanned, it leaves a digital record. The DHS insists that Real ID does not create a federal database of driver’s license information and that each state maintains its own records. That is technically true. It is also technically true that the S2S Verification Service allows states to electronically query each other’s databases, that 45 jurisdictions now participate in that network, and that the practical difference between a centralized federal database and a federated network of interlinked state databases accessible to federal agencies is a distinction without a meaningful difference to the person whose data is in the system.

The Twenty-Year Delay Tells Its Own Story

The original Real ID Act set an implementation target of 2008. Enforcement was delayed to 2009, then 2011, then 2013, then 2014, then 2017, then 2020, then 2021, then 2023, and finally to May 7, 2025, where it was further softened by a phased enforcement plan that extends to May 5, 2027. That is twenty years of delay. That is not a story about logistical complexity. That is a story about a law that the states did not want, that the public did not demand, and that the federal government lacked the political will to enforce until the question of enforcement became entangled with the security theater of post-pandemic air travel.

The fact that the TSA is now charging $45 to verify the identity of travelers who do not present a Real ID, rather than simply accepting other reasonable forms of state identification as it did for two decades, reveals the enforcement mechanism for what it is: a financial penalty dressed up as a user fee. The travelers who pay it are not security threats. They are people who did not get to the DMV in time, or who could not assemble the required documents, or who made a principled decision not to participate in a system they regard as an overreach. Charging them $45 per trip does not make air travel safer. It makes non-compliance expensive.

Where This Leaves Us

If you fly domestically and do not have a passport, you need a Real ID. That is the practical reality. If you have a valid United States passport or passport card, you do not need a Real ID for any federal purpose, and there is a reasonable argument that the passport remains the better document to hold: it is federally issued, internationally recognized, and does not feed your data into an interstate verification network administered by a nonprofit trade association of motor vehicle administrators.

The Real ID is not a federal ID card. It is something more subtle and, in many ways, more concerning: it is a federal standard that conscripts state identification systems into a national security apparatus, links them through shared databases, and imposes compliance through the denial of access to services that Americans have used freely for generations. It was passed without adequate debate, implemented without federal funding, delayed for twenty years because of legitimate and widespread opposition, and is now being enforced through a fee structure that penalizes the Americans least equipped to navigate the bureaucratic requirements of compliance.

That is not security. That is architecture. And the architecture, once built, rarely gets torn down. It only gets expanded.

Besides not having a soul, are we even sure, they are human?

#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #SecondTrumpAdministration #ICE #AlienEnemiesAct #HabeasCorpus #DueProcess #ICERaid #OperationMidwayBlitz #OperationCatchOfTheDay #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti #immigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #HomelandSecurity #LordOfTheRings #LotR

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#uspol #politics #ICE #DueProcess #HabeasCorpus #Nonviolence #NonviolentProtest #NonviolentCivilResistance #NonviolentCivilDisobedience #AlienEnemiesAct #MAGA #Project2025 #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HomelandSecurity #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #TheMajorityReport #TheMajorityReportWithSamSeder #AntiIceProtest

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https://piped.video/watch?v=GJdHDEB44_s

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GJdHDEB44_s

#uspol #politics #ICE #DueProcess #HabeasCorpus #Nonviolence #NonviolentProtest #NonviolentCivilResistance #NonviolentCivilDisobedience #AlienEnemiesAct #MAGA #Project2025 #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HomelandSecurity #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #TheMajorityReport #TheMajorityReportWithSamSeder #AntiIceProtest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MgLMzsnmE

https://piped.video/watch?v=N7MgLMzsnmE

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=N7MgLMzsnmE

#uspol #politics #ICE #DueProcess #HabeasCorpus #TheLateShowWithStephenColbert #StephenColbert #Nonviolence #MariaJStephan #NonviolentProtest #NonviolentCivilResistance #NonviolentCivilDisobedience #AlienEnemiesAct #MAGA #Project2025 #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HomelandSecurity #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration

"At a time when the courts are denying a record number of asylum claims, a judge will soon decide whether he should be deported. If he is returned, he expects the Taliban to be waiting for him."

John Woodrow Cox for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/14/trump-immigratio-afghanistan-asylum-deportation/

#Longreads #Immigration #Deportation #Journalism #Afghanistan #Afghans #Resettlement #HomelandSecurity #ICE

https://www.fogolf.com/1024795/trumps-golf-meltdown-loses-game-fires-woke-staff-claims-rigged-match/ Trump’s Golf Meltdown: Loses Game, Fires ‘Woke’ Staff, Claims Rigged Match #Cheating #deportation #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #FormerPresident #Golf #GolfClub #HomelandSecurity #news #outburst #PoliticalControversy #PoliticalDrama #RadicalLeft #Reporters #scandal #socialism #trump #TrumpGolf #WokeCulture

#Protesters rally at #PortlandME Jetport against #AveloAirlines' #ICEDeportation flights

July 14, 2025

PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- "A group gathered outside the Portland Jetport on Saturday to rally against Avelo Airlines for working with ICE.

"Since May, the airline has been carrying out deportation flights in Arizona for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Shortly after starting their flights for ICE, #Avelo began offering nonstop flights between #NewHavenCT, and Portland.

" 'Whether or not it’s a public airport, we don't believe that anyone who’s violating anyone else’s #HumanRights, any business should be allowed to continue and be allowed to receive incentives from the airport,' said Rachel Weinstein, a protester at the #PortlandJetport.

"A spokesperson for Avelo says their #HomelandSecurity charters are only based out of Arizona and are not affiliated with Portland Jetport commercial services."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protesters-rally-at-portland-jetport-against-avelo-airlines-ice-deportation-flights/ar-AA1IyO5Q

#MaineResists #ResistICE #ICEKidnapping #USPol #MainePol #ICEProtests #BoycottAvelo #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong

Why is it that #Ireland has such a problem with illicit production moreover mass distribution of #Gabapentinoid substances such as #Lyrica #pregabalin #gabapentin #neurotin

#CIA #FBI - Is the plan to replace #fentanyl? Or something like that epidemic, from from a mind-control approach?

https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/29105/

Why is there so much of it being produced and trafficed illegally?

There's something very peculiiar and alarming about it to me.

1.) "The truth is, as we know it:" It changes the way you think.
2.) "The truth is, as we know it:" it causes #memoryloss and symptoms resembling #braindamage / #stroke
3.) "The truth is, as we know it:" it causes #psychosis and #hallucinations

The truth is, as we know it: pregabalin
* makes a subject #pliable and
* open to #suggestion in terms of
* #interrogation

Alarming? Why is it really allowed to be #distributed as it is?

#psychiatry #homelandsecurity #DOD
#psychology #militaryresearch #militaryapplications #DEA #ATF
#firearms

South Dakota governor’s cabinet nomination raises tribal concerns

Secretary of #HomelandSecurity nominee #KristiNoem has a long, complicated history with tribes in South Dakota.

Amelia Schafer
Nov 15, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D. – "Early Tuesday morning, news broke that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a decision that’s raised red flags for Native people in South Dakota, but also may provide an avenue for change.

"'We need to come together now, more than ever,' Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a public intertribal meeting Nov. 13. 'I’m hoping we have a better governor in South Dakota that will work with us because we have issues that we need to bring to the table with the state.'

"Noem made South Dakota history earlier in May when she was banished from every reservation in the state following disparaging remarks made regarding alleged cartel activity on reservations and about Indian education. At one point Noem alleged tribal governments benefit from cartel presence and are failing their youth.

"During a May press conference, Noem responded to the banishments by asking why tribes 'don’t ban the cartels.' She’s banned from all nine reservations in the state: the #PineRidge, #CheyenneRiver, #StandingRock, #LowerBrule, #Rosebud, #LakeTraverse, #CrowCreek, #Flandreau and #Yankton reservations. Standing Rock and Lake Traverse both span into North Dakota."

[...]

"Emergency management is another area where Noem and the #OcetiSakowin (#Lakota, #Nakota, #Dakota nations have struggled.

"In December 2022, the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations were crippled by an extreme winter storm. Unable to get wood or propane, some households resorted to burning clothes and furniture to stay warm. A 12-year-old Sicangu Lakota boy, Honor Beauvais, died during the storm on the Rosebud Reservation, along with three other tribal citizens.

"When banning the governor, the #RosebudSioux tribe cited a delayed emergency declaration from Noem. Noem did not activate the South Dakota National Guard until Dec. 22, nearly 10 days after the storm began.

"The council also cited concerns with Noem’s support of the #KeystoneXL [#KXL] Pipeline in 2019 and an increase in penalties for pipeline protestors, referenced Noem’s opposition of #COVID19 checkpoints on the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Reservations, removal of teaching standards regarding #NativeAmericanHistory, legal threats to the #FlandreauSanteeSioux Tribe regarding its #MedicalCannabis operations and return of unused Emergency Rental Assistance funds in 2022 without consulting tribes."

Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/south-dakota-governors-cabinet-nomination-raises-tribal-concerns

#DHS #TrumpAppointments #NoDAPL

#OHIO #NEWS -

What would Ohio #Issue1 do?

Ohio's #USSenate #candidates make final push to #voters ahead of #election in highly contested race

Court denies request to force count of #votes for #GreenParty’s #JillStein in Ohio

#FactCheck: NO #Evidence #Trump's Name Misprinted On #HamiltonCounty, Ohio, #Ballots

Ohio sues for access to #HomelandSecurity #citizenship databases

What to expect in Ohio on #ElectionDay

https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/ohio-rights-and-reports-0a0eth61y