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The F.B.I. arrested a Wisconsin judge, accusing her of helping an immigrant evade federal agents.

F.B.I. agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday on charges of obstructing immigration agents, saying she steered an undocumented immigrant through a side door in her courtroom while the agents waited to arrest him in a public hallway.

The charges against a sitting state court judge are a major escalation in the Trump administration’s battle with local authorities over deportations. The administration has demanded, under threat of investigation or prosecution, that local officials not impede federal efforts to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

And the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan comes after months of rising tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary, in which the president and his top advisers have repeatedly assailed “local judges” for halting or questioning actions taken by the administration, particularly when it comes to immigration cases.

Charging documents described a confrontation last Friday at Judge Dugan’s courthouse, in which federal agents said she was “visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor” when a group of immigration, D.E.A. and F.B.I. agents came to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a citizen of Mexico who was in her courtroom to face domestic violence charges.

According to the criminal complaint, the judge confronted the agents and told them to talk to the chief judge of the courthouse. She then returned to her courtroom.

“Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge Dugan then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” said the complaint, which was written by an F.B.I. agent.

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent spotted Mr. Flores-Ruiz leaving the building and notified his colleagues, according to the complaint. Agents approached him on the street outside the courthouse. “A foot chase ensued,” the complaint said. “The agents pursued Flores-Ruiz for the entire length of the courthouse” before catching and arresting him, the complaint said.

The judge was charged with obstructing a proceeding of a federal agency and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.

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The level of narcissism is insane:

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Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University

The Trump administration canceled the lease for its top climate monitoring lab, located in New York City, as of May 31, according to an email seen by CNN.

In the email, the director of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Maryland informed employees of the impending closure of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and transitioning to remote work.

The affected lab, also known as NASA GISS, is leased from Columbia University and located above the diner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was featured in the TV Show “Seinfeld.” Scientists there conduct climate and space studies while collaborating with researchers at Columbia.

“The work continues, the data, the products, the science will continue because science is done by people not by buildings,” NASA GISS director Gavin Schmidt told CNN.

A NASA spokesperson said in a statement “employees would be placed on temporary remote work agreements while NASA seeks and evaluates options for a new space for the GISS team.”

The Trump administration is currently battling with Columbia, among other universities, over its policies on antisemitism and other matters, and is withholding billions in federal research funding. A federal judge on Thursday significantly curtailed the administration’s ability to block funds from schools for engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion – or DEI – programs. Two other courts are considering similar challenges.

The NASA lab tracks global climate conditions, serving as one of the main centers worldwide for this information, in addition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It also runs computer models that project Earth’s future climate conditions and seek to better understand global climate change. The supercomputers for those models are located in Maryland.

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What a lying, disingenuous, delusional POS:

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China cancels U.S. pork shipments after tariffs raise prices

Tariffs are starting to hit American meat exports, with China making its biggest cancellation of pork orders since 2020, according to Thursday data from the USDA.

The cancellation of 12,000 metric tons of U.S. pork was the most since the Covid-19 pandemic roiled global supply chains. For the week, overall U.S. pork export sales fell to the lowest level since October.

China’s retaliatory duties against President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from the Asian nation mean American pork imports now face a whopping 172% tariff, including levies from the first trade war in 2018, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

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All those ruby red pig farmers should be happy now.

Horrific:

U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'

A Trump-nominated federal judge in Louisiana said that a 2-year-old American citizen appears to have been deported "with no meaningful process." This comes as the Trump administration has faced growing criticisms for its hurried proceedings to remove as many noncitizens from the country as quickly as possible.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the toddler, identified as VML, had been sent to Honduras on Friday, alongside her mother and sister, even as the court had sought to clarify the girl's status. He set a hearing on the case for May 16 "in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

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A US citizen. Any one of us could be next.

Told to wear black, so of course..

China wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 9:22 pm

Horrific:

U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'

A Trump-nominated federal judge in Louisiana said that a 2-year-old American citizen appears to have been deported "with no meaningful process." This comes as the Trump administration has faced growing criticisms for its hurried proceedings to remove as many noncitizens from the country as quickly as possible.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the toddler, identified as VML, had been sent to Honduras on Friday, alongside her mother and sister, even as the court had sought to clarify the girl's status. He set a hearing on the case for May 16 "in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

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A US citizen. Any one of us could be next.

Yes, but only if you’re of a certain hue and you have the wrong opinions.

The Evil Genius wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 11:33 pm

Told to wear black, so of course..

I’m so sick of people pandering to this bastard. “Sorry, you aren’t wearing a black suit. See you later.”