Saturday, September 7, 2024

Tag: U.S. Customs and Border patrol

Senators call for investigation into Border Patrol tracking phones without warrant

"...we urge you to investigate CBP’s warrantless use of commercial databases containing Americans’ information, including but not limited to Venntel’s location database.”

It’s a borderful world

Whether they’re trying to keep out immigrants, confront neighbors, or just reassert sovereignty in an increasingly intrusive world, the latest batch of nationalist and authoritarian leaders are challenging the notion that history is heading in an ever more frictionless direction.

How tear gas became a favorite weapon of US border patrol,...

Border authorities’ use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency’s own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone.

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Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...

A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation

The ‘weavings’ of a wacko: The fakery of grinding Trump hokum into brilliance

“I never ramble, I only ‘weave,’”/ Thus doubling down ways to deceive.

Knowledge is power. Gaza war supporters don’t want students to have both.

Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.
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The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t want the world...

The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.

Republican judge blocks student debt relief rule before it’s finalized, delaying relief for millions

The Biden administration has been working to alleviate the burden of student loans, especially for long-term borrowers who have been repaying loans for decades.