Matthew Blanton

Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

Flock hosted a webinar on how to use its license plate–tracking cameras. trib.al/npGrFGT

Our food supply is just MadLibs now. "_____ has been recalled due to possible contamination with _____."

This is an incredible book!

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

We’ve seen so much cruelty from ICE over the past year. But using kids as “bait” to arrest & detain their relatives is a new level of evil. I witnessed it last week at 201 Varick Street. Per this article in the Texas Tribune, it’s happened over 100X. (1/3)

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

Stoking hate and racial fear, Trump’s website refers to our abducted neighbors as “it.” Absolutely abhorrent.

New Research! My article in @prpr-journal.bsky.social is the first systematic validation of CBP apprehensions as a proxy for undocumented migration in nearly 30 years, with evidence from Guatemala at both national and subnational levels. Spoiler: they still work. 🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

trump is breaking y axes left and right

This is what Elon threw into the wood chipper: “Gawande cited an analysis in The Lancet that estimated that USAID assistance—aimed at combatting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, & polio, reducing maternal & child deaths, & fighting malnutrition—had saved 92 million lives over 2 decades.“

I'm at a cafe working next to a group of 70-year old women who are knitting. They are currently alternating between discussing health issues and their thoughts on Pulp Fiction. Division between those who think "it's a strange movie," and the ones who "just love to watch John Travolta dance." 😂

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Wow. What a stunning visual

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Where is Iran? Each dot represents an American's guess. pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can... 🌐

Amazing reference. No notes. Chef's kiss.

Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...

. @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social My wife, kids (4 and 7) and I have been hunting birds for almost a year with the Merlin app. I told them early on we would have a "bird party" when we hit 50. Well we did it today! Red-bellied Woodpecker. Now I actually have to plan the party! 😅 Any ideas?

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Wow, @gelliottmorris.com made a detailed map of Trump approval *at the sub-county level.* Of course, there are assumptions that have to be made, but it's quite rigorous. Certainly the best info in the public domain. 👀 southern Texas 👀 Check it out: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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This is really important investigative work and deeply troubling.

Remember right after ICE murdered Renee Good when they shot a second person, this time in the leg? They put out an elaborate story about the man assaulting ICE agents, ramming them, etc. Only one problem: it was all a lie, as shown by multiple videos and the transcripts of calls to 911. ICE lies.

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

New research: Noncitizens Were Underrepresented in Welfare Fraud Convictions in 2024. Noncitizens were 8% less likely to be convicted of welfare fraud in 2024, and they were 28% less likely to be convicted of fraud that imposed monetary losses to the government.

There is going to some interesting polisci research that goes on after this about what happens when guys like this to come out of his "cushy house" (his words) and make explitive filled rants about government overreach. Spoiler alert: it's not good for the regime

This agency is out of control if leadership is no longer checking violations of constitutional rights. Congress absolutely must step in before more people are kidnapped/killed.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

I'm grateful to @austinkocher.com for articulating this position so well.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

the trump approval charts on the data hub are updated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

One of Trump’s biggest innovations in American politics is to openly confess to his corruption. Speaking to reporters, he did just that: “We need total access—we need access to the oil and to other things in their country." Asked specifically about oil: “We’re gonna run everything.” trib.al/BMI6uwT

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Trump: We need Greenland. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships. Reporter: What would the justification be for a claim to Greenland? Trump: The EU needs us to have it.

CNN: We have major breaking news. CNN just learning of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela… We have now have CNN's own teams that have personally witnessed explosions.

My mother-in-law has never even heard of Die Hard? She keeps pronouncing it Die HARD with a question at the end. I feel like I'm going crazy!

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