Bi Sasquatch

"The news about their staggering success comes during a broader regression around scouting organizations with respect to transgender people"

#Transgender #SupportTransYouth #InclusiveGirlScouts #LGBTQ #LGBTQInclusion
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-sell-330000-boxes

Just another example of #TDS - #TrumpDistractionStrategy

#Cuba #FriendlyTakeover #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/trump-cuba-friendly-takeover-rubio-venezuela-435f056b47cfd6bc0c0af875318fa123

#AI has promise, but still has a long way to go - #AIFails

“It was hilarious to us in the moment because it was so absurd,” she said Thursday. “But at the same time, it has real accessibility issues for people who call in every day and need to speak in a different language other than English.”

#ArtificialIntelligence #AIWTF #ArtificialStupidity
https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

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#SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #Houston #SanAntonio #Dallas #FortWorth #Austin #Texas #ICE

"The US Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $250,000 public relations contract to a Republican political consulting firm led by former Trump campaign officials with connections to Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to the DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, according to federal records reviewed by the Guardian."

USPolitics #DHS #Trump #ConflictOfInterest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/homeland-security-contract-trump

"NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities arrested a Columbia University student early Thursday, triggering protests on campus along with allegations that agents had entered the university-owned residence under false pretenses."

#ColumbiaUniversity #EllieAghayeva #Mamdani #Trump #ICENews #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-student-dhs-ice-f76e678d014680390322703d46eb3b9c

"On Tuesday evening, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area. He was 56."

#NurulAminShahAlam #BuffaloNewYork #HumanRightsViolations #DHS #BorderPatrol
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2026/02/shah-alam-buffalo-rohingya-blind-man-border-patrol/

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email this week, underscoring concerns about ICE’s rapid expansion."

#PublicSafety #Oversight #Vetting #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/trump-ice-hiring-surge

"Columbia University said on Thursday morning that one of its students was arrested by federal immigration officers who apparently misrepresented themselves to gain entry to a residential building to make the apprehension."

#ColumbiaUniversity #DHS #NYC #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/columbia-student-detained-federal-agents

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#SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #OklahomaCity #Tulsa #Norman #BrokenArrow #Edmond #Oklahoma #ICE

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#SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #Wichita #OverlandPark #KansasCity #Olathe #Topeka #Kansas #ICE

"The Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation’s highest court."

#ImmigrationLaw #ThirdCountryRemoval #USPolitics #Deportation #ICENews #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-deportation-supreme-court-judge-murphy-148cee2906dc7286b074116d3eec6fd4

"A grand jury on Wednesday rejected indictments over the fatal shooting last year of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent during a traffic encounter in Texas, prosecutors said."

#RubenRayMartinez #TexasIceShooting #JusticeForRuben #ICENews #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/texas-ice-shooting-martinez-death-grand-jury-e4882b787c7251cbf494be08976dbedd

"The largest body-camera maker in the US celebrated its latest financial results on Tuesday – reporting record revenue and forecasting major growth – as it prepares to cash in on the Department of Homeland Security’s planned rapid acquisition and deployment of these devices nationwide."

#BodyCameras #Surveillance #Immigration #Axon #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/axon-body-cameras-revenue

"A $70m aircraft the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering for deportation flights has a luxurious interior and will be used to transport Trump administration officials to engagements in comfort, according to a report published Friday."

#DHS #LuxuryJet #DeportationFlights #GovernmentSpending #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/luxury-jet-dhs-deportation-flights-trump-officials

"There is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m. Another building, along the southern border in San Antonio, Texas, was valued at $37m; it’s 640,000 sq ft. In January, ICE bought a warehouse in Upper Bern Township, Pennsylvania, not far outside of Philadelphia, for $87.4m. In Williamsport, Maryland, outside Hagerstown, the cost of a facility on a nearly 54-acre plot was $102m."

#DetentionCenters #ImmigrationDetention #HumanRights #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/ice-holds-people-in-disgusting-conditions-now-its-turning-warehouses-into-camps

#EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #Trump

"Quakertown School District officials canceled a planned student-led walkout Friday at its high school over Immigrations Customs Enforcement operations and tactics in the United States, but when some students took their protest into town, things turned violent."

Quakertown #Pennsylvania #ICEprotes #ICENews #ICE
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/02/20/quakertown-high-school-police-anti-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-threats-cancel-centennial/88775242007/

"Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who has been at Microsoft since he joined as an intern in 1988 and with Xbox since the software giant launched its first console in 2001, is retiring, sources familiar with the matter who are not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to IGN. "

#Xbox #Microsoft
https://www.ign.com/articles/phil-spencer-retiring-sarah-bond-out-matt-booty-promoted-as-microsoft-ai-exec-asha-sharma-named-new-xbox-boss-exclusive

FYI: This article is from last month, posting for signal.

"The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted 2–1 to rescind its 2024 enforcement guidance, which expanded interpretations of workplace protections for LGBTQ workers and individuals seeking reproductive care.

"The revised policy was repealed on January 22, 2026, following a change in the commission’s membership that gave Republicans a 2–1 majority.

"The 2024 guidance, which was not binding law but offered detailed examples of how anti-discrimination protections apply, had built on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which recognized that Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination covers sexual orientation and gender identity

#EEOC #HarassmentGuidance #WorkplaceRights #EmploymentLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ
https://valawyersweekly.com/2026/01/27/eeoc-rescinds-lgbtq-and-anti-harassment-guidance/

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A Mexican woman and her three children were taken into custody by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Soldotna Tuesday morning, and by Wednesday afternoon, the mother and two minors were in Tijuana, Mexico while her 18-year-old son remains in custody of Alaska’s Department of Corrections, according to Alaska immigration attorney Lara Nations."

#Alaska #RapidDeportation #DueProcess #ICENews #ICE
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/02/20/rapid-deportation-case-may-signal-change-pace-alaska-immigration-proceedings/

"An army veteran detained by federal immigration agents in southern California during his work commute in July has filed a lawsuit against the federal government."

#ArmyVeteran #WrongfulDetention #Lawsuit #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/army-veteran-detained-sues-federal-government

"Federal investigators examined Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer who worked at the St Thomas airport to which Epstein regularly flew on his private planes before traveling by boat or helicopter to his private island, newly released documents reveal."

#EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #Investigation #Corruption #CBP
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas

"SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The kindergarten and first grade students in Linda Davis’ classes sobbed and shed tears after being told their teacher, who greeted them most mornings with an infectious smile, wouldn’t be coming back."

#Teacher #LindaDavis #CarCrash #ICENews #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-crash-savannah-teacher-linda-davis-daed7eaee667a725dc7e3891ab327ca5

"A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally."

#Immigration #ImmigrationPolicy #ICENews #ICE
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-detention-bond-judge-50a5da122aa51eed77cace0830548df3

"At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Singapore-based startup Strutt introduced the EV1, a powered personal mobility device that uses lidar, cameras, and onboard computing for collision avoidance. Unlike manually-steered powered wheelchairs, the EV1 assists with navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments—stopping or rerouting itself before a collision can occur."

#Lidar #AssistiveTechnology #MobilityDevice #Accessibility
https://spectrum.ieee.org/assistive-technology-lidar-wheelchair

"On a rainy evening in early May, several armed ICE agents in tactical vests closed in on a small red sedan at a gas station in South Nashville. The driver, a frightened 55-year-old Salvadoran man named Edgardo David Campos, gripped the steering wheel while bystanders took out their phones and began recording video. As agents pulled the driver side door open, one of them placed his hand on his holstered pistol. An onlooker yelled, “Do you have a warrant? Let him go!”

#Tennessee #HumanRights #ICENews #ICEoutTN #ICE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/immigrant-ice-raid-nashville-tennessee-highway-patrol-state-police-287g-republicans/

"The Trump administration is moving to arrest thousands of people already legally admitted to the US as refugees and detain them indefinitely for aggressive “rescreening”, a report published on Thursday said."

#ImmigrationNews #ICENews #ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-administration-memo-ice-dhs-refugees-screening

#EpsteinFiles #PriceAndrew #Trump

#PeoplesStateOfTheUnion #Democrats #Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/democrats-trump-congress.html

“The rally, dubbed the “People’s State of the Union,” will include lawmakers who skipped Trump’s first and second inaugurations, underscoring a small but consistent block of Democrats who continue to opt out of the president’s most high-profile events.”

#Democrats #PeoplesStateOfTheUnion #Trump

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/democrats-trump-state-of-the-union-boycott-00786370

"A married couple from Azerbaijan says the Trump administration is keeping one husband locked in an immigration detention center in Georgia even though both men, one of whom is a legal permanent resident, have agreed to leave the United States immediately. Their case raises questions about why the government is continuing to hold him at all."

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQRights #HumanRights #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationDetention #ICE
https://www.advocate.com/politics/immigration/gay-couple-ice-detention-azerbaijan

"On February 2, 22 Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem interrogating the agency’s compliance with disability civil rights law—namely, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act—across its departments, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A similar letter in August, raising concerns that ICE’s treatment of disabled people may violate disability civil rights laws, was ignored beyond confirmation of receipt, according to the office of House Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Ca.), one of the signatories."

#Disabled #Disability #CivilRights #HumanRights #Immigration #Detainees #Lawsuit #DHS #CRCL #CBP #ICE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/dhs-axed-its-civil-rights-staff-and-opened-the-door-to-a-major-lawsuit/

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#SALUTEProtocol #EyesOnICE #Cheyenne #Casper #Gillette #Laramie #RockSprings #Wyoming #ICE