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Trump Taps Former Private Prison Executive as Interim ICE Director
David Venturella is former VP of GEO Group, whose profits soared from $32M to $254M in 2025 as ICE detention expanded.
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BizPac Review
Former spokesman claims damage control effort followed debate admission
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Former First Lady Jill Biden’s ex-spokesman is calling her out on her 2024 debate comments. During a recent interview with CBS’s Sunday Morning, the ex-FLOTUS claimed that […]
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New admission raises questions about U.N. report targeting Israel
The author of a United Nations report that placed Israel on a “sexual violence blacklist” admitted she had no need to see evidence. The first hint that […]
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Trump’s former border chief lashes out at president’s inner circle
After two U.S. citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, were fatally shot during the Trump administration's immigration raids in Minneapolis in January, Greg Bovino was removed as the U.S. Border Patrol leader of those operations. Now, according to a USA Today's Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy USA Today, Bovino is lashing out at close allies of President Donald Trump for "pushing to dial back" on mass deportations.Bovino, on May 31, posted video of himself speaking at the Remigration Summit in Oporto, Portugal — where he argued that Trump needed "better advice" and criticized White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for trying to "water down mass deportations.""He also mocked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for not being up to the job," Ramaswamy reports in USA Today. "Mullin was confirmed by the Senate in March to take over the position after Bovino's former boss, Kristi Noem, was dismissed from her job as DHS secretary following controversy surrounding her spending and a federal contract."Bovino also lashed out at Trump advisors in a May 30 post on X, formerly Twitter.Bovino tweeted, "Trump's team says immigration is his top issue according to the polls. Voters trust him on the border more than anyone. So why is @SusieWiles47 pushing to dial it back and water down mass deportations? You don't win by running away from your strongest issue. Mass deportations are the solution to perpetual victory!"Ramaswamy reports, "Immigration detention numbers fell by about 15 percent from an all-time high in January of 70,766 to 60,311 by early April, according to newly released data. The drop follows high-profile, deadly enforcement operation in the Minneapolis area which resulted in the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti."In Sunday's video, Bovino implied Mullin was not cut out for the job, mocking his family's plumbing business…. Bovino also tagged Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign manager, along with Wiles in a post on May 31 referring to clashes between agents and demonstrators outside Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey."In the video, Bovino said of former U.S. Sen. Mullin (R-Oklahoma), "Mullin's a great guy, great plumber, no doubt about that; he could probably fix a leaky faucet. But 100 million illegal aliens is not a leaky faucet."Ramaswamy notes that according to a Pew Research poll released in April, 52 percent of adults believe Trump is doing too much to deport immigrants it says are living in the United States illegally.
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Follow the money: How one crooked lie became a 140-year assault on America
Corporations can now vote in Delaware. And they’re doing it.Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.What could possibly go wrong?There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.In a few weeks, my next book will be coming out, “Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told,” and the timing couldn’t be more synchronous.The book, written like a murder mystery but 100% true, tells the story of how a corrupt Supreme Court clerk conspired with a corrupt Supreme Court justice to hand “corporate personhood” to the railroad corporations that were then among the richest and most powerful in the world.The decision was handed down in 1886; in it, the Court itself didn’t say a single word about corporate personhood. Back then corporations had the rights of “artificial persons” so they could pay taxes, own land, and execute contracts and lawsuits, but nobody seriously claimed they could assert human rights like free speech, privacy, or the right to vote.But the clerk of the Court, a wealthy plutocrat named John Chandler Bancroft Davis, slipped into the headnote of the case — a commentary for law students and others wanting a summary of a decision, which carries absolutely no legal weight whatsoever — that the Chief Justice, Morrison Remick Waite, had claimed corporations were “persons,” implying they had rights under the 14th Amendment.The railroads then hired a few retired members of Congress who were on the committees that wrote the Amendment as frontmen and for the next five years they traveled the country claiming that the “actual intent” of the authors of the 14th Amendment was to grant human rights to corporations, not former slaves.Their efforts worked; just 10 years later, in the Covington & Lexington Turnpike v. Sandford case, the Court cited the Santa Clara decision and ruled:“[C]orporations are persons within the meaning of the constitutional provisions forbidding the deprivation of property without due process of law as well as a denial of the equal protection of the laws.”That badly abused Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, was written to liberate formerly enslaved people, and its language is pretty clear about that:“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (emphasis added)The railroad corporations claimed that because they were taxed at different rates on property they owned in Santa Clara and Santa Ana counties in California, they were “persons” being denied the “equal protection of the law.” The Court determined that the California constitution already dealt with tax issues like that, giving the railroad the relief they wanted, but there was no federal action at all.However, the lie about corporate personhood buried in the headnote took root and lives on to this day. For example, yesterday afternoon I asked DuckDuckGo’s AI the question:“Who won the 1886 Santa Clara Supreme Court decision?”And the answer I got back was:“The Southern Pacific Railroad Company won the 1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the railroad, affirming that corporations are considered ‘persons’ under the Fourteenth Amendment.”None of that is true, but it was nonetheless the basis of the 1978 First National Bank v Bellotti decision written by Lewis Powell himself (of “Powell Memo” fame), claiming that because corporations are “persons” with rights under the Bill of Rights — including the First Amendment right to free speech — they could spend big bucks to swing elections. In that decision, the Court majority footnoted:“It has been settled for almost a century that corporations are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific R. Co., 118 U. S. 394 (1886); see Covington & Lexington Turnpike R. Co. v. Sandford, 164 U. S. 578 (1896).”Because corporations don’t have mouths to speak with, Powell reasoned, their money served the same purpose.
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Spiraling Out of Control
Plus: Jerome Powell talks, courtpacking watch, medical advancements, and more...
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New York Post
Buckingham Palace concealed evidence against ex-Prince Andrew for 6 years, Epstein accuser claims
Buckingham Palace received evidence in 2020 about ex-Prince Andrew, according to a bombshell BBC report.
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"Revolving Door": Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief
President Donald Trump has tapped David Venturella, a former ICE official and executive at the private prison company GEO Group, to replace Todd Lyons as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GEO Group saw its profits jump from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025 as the Trump administration expanded government contracts with ICE jails nationwide. Setareh Ghandehari, advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, says private prison companies have an “intricate” relationship with ICE. “It’s really a revolving door,” she says, pointing out that Venturella worked for ICE under Presidents Bush and Obama, then went to GEO Group before this latest appointment by President Trump. “It’s really hard to see where the interests of ICE end and those of private prison companies begin,” says Ghandehari.
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Jill Biden on How Joe Biden Explains His Ill-Fated 2024 Debate
Former first lady Jill Biden joins TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones to talk about her new memoir “View from the East Wing,” reflecting on her time in the White House, her husband’s decision not to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, and her experiences as a mother, grandmother, and educator. She opens up about the difficulty of revisiting her son Hunter’s drug addiction while recording her audio book, reveals how Joe Biden explained his poor 2024 debate performance, and
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