13 h. ago The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’

After IceBlock’s launch in April, Kristi Noem attacked developer Joshua Aaron and his wife was fired from the DoJ. The attention has only led to more raids being reportedFor many undocumented immigrants living in the US, the constant threat of Ice raids has turned their homes into prisons. Leaving the house to go to work, school, buy groceries or the doctor’s office all carry unthinkable risks.It’s a problem that Joshua Aaron wanted to tackle. A former indie musician (he played bass in 2000s buzz band The Rosenbergs and later fronted his own group Stealing Heather) turned app entrepreneur, he set about making an app that could spot Ice and alert people, the same way drivers let other drivers know about traffic stops on Waze. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago South Park shows unaired scene of Kristi Noem 'shooting animals' in gory pet store scene

The writers of South Park have shared an unaired animation from their latest episode which has divided opinion as they showed a gory shooting spree with Kristi Noem at the centre

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44 h. ago South Park shares ‘unaired scene’ doubling down on Kristi Noem mockery

The scene wasn’t shown on Comedy Central when the episode aired last week

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5 d. ago Kristi Noem is offering teenagers student loan forgiveness if they sign up to be an ICE agent

Homeland Security secretary removes age restrictions as she seeks to bolster ranks of controversial law enforcement agency and ramp up mass roundup of illegal immigrants

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5 d. ago Kristi Noem responds to South Park’s crude takedown of her in episode targeting Ice

Cartoon series highlighted homeland security chief’s repeated animal killings and poked fun at her looksUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Park’s recent satirical depiction of Kristi Noem as having undergone a defective cosmetic procedure and shooting dogs has rankled the US homeland security secretary, she said in a new interview.“It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem remarked on Thursday’s episode of the Glenn Beck Program podcast – a little more than a year after her disclosure in a memoir that she shot and killed her family’s dog on a farm. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel

The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Border Patrol? It’s almost impossible to divide superheroes along political lines. Captain America might seem like a patriotic, commie-bashing lunatic, as he was in the 1950s comics during the McCarthy era, until you remember that he has also spent much of his fictional career telling corrupt government agencies to shove it. And, in the Marvel Comic Universe, at least, he went on the run rather than sign up for an authoritarian superhero registry. Superman was once the square-jawed poster boy for US exceptionalism, cheerfully posing on propaganda comic covers urging readers to buy war bonds, but he’s also been written as a Kansas farm boy so suspicious of concentrated power that in one storyline he renounced his citizenship to avoid being used as a pawn of US foreign policy.Bar a few outliers – Iron Man cheerleading the military-industrial ...

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5 d. ago Trump’s border czar whines about ‘bad timing’ of South Park amid deportation push that ‘made a joke of ICE agents’

South Park’s latest episode mocks Trump’s immigration agenda by demeaning DHS head Kristi Noem and ICE agents

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5 d. ago Puppies shot, Satan oiled: South Park doubles down after Trump backlash

Kristi Noem, JD Vance, Dora the Explorer in the filthiest episode yet and they’re not backing down

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6 d. ago ‘ICE Barbie’ Kristi Noem hits back at South Park after show mocks her looks: ‘It’s just so lazy’

The show’s creators ruthlessly went after Kristi Noem’s appearance in the latest episode and depicted her Botox running out

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6 d. ago There is now a backlog of 27,000 student loan complaints at the Department of Education

Tens of thousands of complaints from student loan borrowers about their lenders or schools have gone ignored as Trump seeks to gut the agency

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7 d. ago Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda

The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amids the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the USFormer Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he has signed up to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), in order to support US president Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.The federal law enforcement agency has aggressively ramped up immigration raids since Trump’s return to the White House and was recently awarded $75bn in extra funding as part of his “big beautiful bill”, which includes billions for hiring an additional 10,000 Ice agents by 2029. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago A new immigrant detention partnership nicknamed after Indiana's iconic racetrack inspires backlash

Top Trump administration officials boast that a new partnership to expand immigrant detention in Indiana will be the next so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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7 d. ago Will you ever clear your student loan? Use our new calculator to discover exactly when your debt will finally be written off

Using figures from the Student Loans Company, Bank of England, OBR and ONS, our tool lays bare the staggering amount of interest you'll end up forking out over time.

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8 d. ago Florida prepares to build a 2nd immigration detention center to join 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ administration is apparently preparing to build a second immigration detention center, awarding at least one contract for what’s labeled in state records as the “North Detention Facility.”

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9 d. ago Noem wants ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention centers near airport runways across US to boost migrant deportation ‘efficiency’

Trump administration’s mass deportation machine is working at ‘turbo speed’ to open more ICE facilities, officials say

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9 d. ago The Trump administration is using ‘fascist propaganda’ to promote its mass deportation campaign, experts say

Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has embraced new tactics — and bizarre memes and historical references — as it carries out its mass deportation campaign, writes Josh Marcus

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3 w. ago New airport scanners are better at spotting liquid explosives, but many airports lack them

Newer airport screening machines that operate like medical CT scanners are better at spotting liquid explosives, but many airports still lack that expensive equipment

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3 w. ago Kristi Noem says other unnamed states are in the process of building Alligator Alcatraz

At least five Republican governors are reportedly considering building large-scale immigration detention centers modeled after Florida’s

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3 w. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Noem hints TSA could soon ease restrictions on liquids on flights

The DHS has already rolled back a longstanding security measure forcing travelers to remove their shoes at airport security

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