How to get murdered by a private equity firm in one easy step.
Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse...
ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me...
DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-blocks-charges-ice-ag...
ICE doesn't vet candidates: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-...
ICE agent with history of violent behavior shoots man in Maine: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-report-ice-officer-in...
ICE puts tracking devices on Haitians who were here legally: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/haitians-ohio-l...
Haitian student commits suicide after being forced to wear tracking device https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/springfield-ohio-haitia...
ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud: https://sfist.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-i...
Like, that isn't like cherry-picking, it's a five minute scroll through one of my social media feeds.
They are a stain on the US and need to be abolished.
https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-...
"In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab analyzed forensic artefacts from the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement after they received an Apple Threat Notification warning of targeting with mercenary spyware."
Zero clicks are cheap if NSO can afford to go after students.
That is how companies like Crowdfense can pay up to $5 million for an exploit. The sell it to some service (or have the service themselves) and generate revenue off of that. The person who sells that exploit gets some of that revenue, they're not getting $5 million up front.
> Graphite belongs to the same category of commercial surveillance technology as Pegasus, the better-known spyware developed by NSO Group. Both are classified as mercenary spyware, meaning private companies develop and sell them to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
This buries the lede a bit. These companies play their part in trans-national organized crime networks, spanning countries like the USA, Russia and Israel. In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state. The same increasingly applies to the USA.
ICE is becoming a paramilitary force, "immigration control" is clearly not its only purpose. I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership. The parallels with Russia can't be ignored.May 2026: DHS says ICE has 'no relationship' with spyware maker Paragon Solutions
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/22/nx-s1-5831577/dhs-ice-spyware...
This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the border" as the media claims but are simply visa overstayers. Still, Laura Loomer shouldn't have the power to advance his deportation. The story goes that he was in removal proceedings and he didn't show up for his hearing before an immigration judge so was ordered deported in absentia and then ICE picked him up.
Milo Yiannopoulos is just not a hill I'm ever willing to die on.
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/milo-yiannop...
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