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The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division used to be known as the "crown jewel" of the department. But the division’s voting section has been taken over by election deniers who are turbocharging Trump’s voter suppression plans ahead of the midterms.
In a new piece, we dig into the DOJ's unprecedented demands for unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states in an effort to create the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters, accompanied by their private information. We're talking party affiliation, Social Security numbers, drivers’ license information, and even physical characteristics.
More than a dozen state election officials, former DOJ staff, and election experts told us that such a database could lead to massive breaches of Americans’ private information and reinforce false narratives about the frequency of voter fraud—narratives Trump and his allies could weaponize to challenge election outcomes or even the eligibility of individual voters in the fast-approaching 2026 midterm elections. The DOJ has already sued 14 states to demand access to their voter files, 12 of them led by Democrats.
As Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows told us, “The election deniers are now ascendant in the federal government.”
You can read the full story about the Trump administration’s efforts to create an immense database of your private information—and how it could jeopardize your access to the ballot—here at Mother Jones.
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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IT can't be that hard to get hired by the ice, hsi or cbp gestapo, all you need is a borderline IQ and sadistic, sociopathic, psychotic, fascist personality disorders. Below are listed just a few of the many post about the isc, hsi & cbp gestapo. And enjoy this music video from Jesse Wells. This from Daily KOS.....
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Thursday, December 04, 2025 at 2:00:10p EST
The Daily Mail has an exclusive on the rampaging incompetence of the hiring process going on at ICE. The nicest thing that can be said about the new applicants at ICE is they are misfit toys. The truth is that most are mentally, morally, and physically the dregs of our society. Veteran ICE agents are appalled by what they are forced to try and train. And it’s a shitshow with Noem and Stephen Miller as the ring masters.
Here is a summation of the types of candidates being rushed through the hiring process at ICE:
Some of the candidates hired are illiterate or too stupid to pass an “open book test.”
Some of the candidates are drug users who only get caught long after being hired.
Several candidates have criminal records.
More than a few of the candidates have physically attacked or sexually assaulted others at the training facility.
Obese men have been hired. And I mean obese (468 pounds worth of man for one applicant).
Some candidates have lied about being in the military (stolen valor).
And other candidates are fresh out of high school.
What a minute? Fresh out of high school? How did that happen?
It’s easy when you drop the age requirement from 21 to 18. And they have also raised the age for applicants from 40 to 65. Yes, an old man like me can apply for a job with ICE. And I would get a $50,000 signing bonus for this year!
And the physical requirements are so low that they are on the floor. There are no more sit ups to perform! It’s how we got the 468-pound candidate, even though his own doctor certified that he was physically unable to do the work!
Therefore, besides men who are prone to violence and being thugs to POC, ICE is hiring people who probably couldn’t pull a taser out without getting out of breath.
But some of you may be a little concerned about ICE hiring criminals and sexual predators.
In one shocking incident, staff were left shaking their heads when one student asked to be excused from class so he could attend a court date on a gun charge.
Other recruits were even discovered to have tattoos associated with gangs and white supremacists when they stripped off their shirts during workouts.
Reports from FLETC include incidents of violence, disruptive behavior, and allegations of sexual misconduct on campus, most handled internally…
Sources say another male recruit, after hitting the bars, was caught barging into a female dorm and hitting on the occupants. Another groped a woman in class.
'It wasn't like, "oops, I touched your boob",' one source said. 'Nope, he went full on to predator mode while he was doing the defensive tactics training.'
Emphasis is mine. But seeing as our Commander-in-Chief is an adjudicated rapist, the government gives a bear hug to sexual predators.
So why no vetting of the candidates you ask? It’s all because of Stephen Miller. According to ICE employees, Miller is riding herd on Noem to hire 10,000 new employees by the end of this year. Those working in HR have been shown the door if they don’t process a specific number of ICE applicants in a certain time frame. These means little things like WAITING ON DRUG TESTS RESULTS first before hiring have been suspended.
It’s why there are so many, “OOPS!” with the drug testing.
What makes all this worse is that idiot Noem has been bragging about reaching the required number of new hires, even though more than a few of the “new applicants” are trolls or bots meant to fuck up ICE. The addresses for some of those new applicants are false (123 Sesame Street is one example). There was also another applicant who wrote in for what they wanted to do as, “Fucking your mother.”
ICE was bad enough filling its ranks with gung-ho assholes who want to beat on brown and black people. With ICE agents wearing masks, they were quickly being compared to old Nazi Gestapo. But I believe the Gestapo had STANDARDS when it came to their recruitment of thugs. Besides being racially “pure,” I’m sure your average Gestapo agent had to pass some physical tests.
Hitler and Himmler didn’t want some 98-pound weaklings to be torturers after all. Nor did they probably want some 468-pound guy who couldn’t run after enemies of the Nazi state. Yes, Goering could be fat, but the rank and file had to be able to do at least one sit up.
And I know that the Nazis had no love for special needs kids or adults (I’m thinking of the guy who was illiterate and couldn’t use an open book to help pass an exam). Note: I taught special needs students, and I’m not trivializing that serious condition. I have had students who had trouble during open book exams because of a learning disability. Special needs people can be productive and find work, but I seriously doubt they need to be agents in any federal law enforcement agency.
Anyway, I thought you all might be interested to see how truly awful mean, cruel, and incompetent people with power can be.
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BRAVO to the celebrities who have the courage to stand up in opposition to NOT MY pres drumpf / trump, NOT MY vp vance, their neo-nazi cabinet, the fascist gop / greed over people-republican party, fascist fotze trunt kkkristi noem's ice-hsi-cbp gestapo, the heritage foundation and the project 2025 authoritarian theocratic oligarchy they are trying to impose on the United States! The right wing doesn't like what these patriots have to say but they do not mind trying to use their music and celebrity status in their hate filled, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, anti-Christian propaganda campaign. This from Daily KOS. Enjoy the Dave Matthews video!!!
The White House can’t seem to take a hint: Artists don’t want their music all over the Trump administration’s egregiously cruel deportation videos.
Sabrina Carpenter is the latest musician to object to the use of her song “Juno” over a montage clip of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents handcuffing and tackling immigrants. The video was posted to X by the official White House account on Monday.
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” the pop star wrote via X Tuesday.
Naturally, the White House used this opportunity to slam Carpenter in a response using her album titles and song lyrics.
“Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: We won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement provided to Zeteo. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?”
The people behind the Department of Homeland Security’s social media have been making light of the dangerous, aggressive, and inhumane deportation practicesbeingcarried out by masked agents.
In September, DHS used comedian Theo Von to joke about deportation.
“Heard you got deported dude,” Von said in a video taken out of context. “Bye.”
But Von didn’t find it funny, and lawyered up immediately to get it taken down. By the time DHS removed the bootlegged content, though, millions of people had already seen it.
Even podcaster Joe Rogan, once an outspoken supporter of Trump, denounced the clip.
Artists like Olivia Rodrigo have taken a more upfront approach to DHS using their songs as a soundtrack for hatred.
"Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,” she wrote in response to the department using her music in November.
Jay-Z and Pokémonstepped into the ring too, demanding DHS take down morally questionable videos using their content.
It’s not just the artists being ripped off who are speaking out. Hugely popular celebrities have been raging over the inhumane mass deportations for months.
Actor Pedro Pascal used his platformto stand by Angelenos when ICE and the National Guard infiltrated Los Angeles, while rapper Doechii took on ICE while accepting an award in June.
“People are being swept up and torn from their families, and I feel it’s my responsibility as an artist to use this moment to speak up for all oppressed people,” she said from the podium at the BET Awards.
Rocker Bruce Springsteen took to the stage in June and slammed the practice as well.
“We are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging,” he said to the crowd. “And we have heard people in high positions in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls.”
But no matter how much Trump and his DHS minions bully and demean immigrants, the calls coming from Hollywood and people across the nation denouncing their terrible tactics are only growing louder.
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