Rory Laverty

Author of DELIVERY MAN and ALUMINUM ALLEY. Bylines @WashingtonPost & classes @UNCW

[Rory Laverty @rorylaverty]

Today is pub day for my new nonfiction book Delivery Man: The Enemy-Alien Nisei Translator who Saved his Battalion. This epic WWII story is heroic, tragic, and true. https://t.co/AJzlHt3KG3

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Witkoff, and formally requested $4.5 billion of that sum be allocated to Iran through intermediaries, adding that "the exchanged texts will ultimately become part of the historical record," a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site.

Iran sent a private message to Vance during the Switzerland talks warning that Kushner and Witkoff were "abusing" the negotiations, "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

Iran also expressed concern about repeated leaks from Kushner to Netanyahu, since Witkoff and Kushner “talk almost every day to Netanyahu” and the head of Mossad.

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

EXCLUSIVE -- VP arranged for his elementary school son to be flown in a military helicopter -- for a golf lesson across town. @SecretService detail is getting "fed up" with Vance family entitled protection expectations and last minute travel
W @VaughnHillyard

https://t.co/AuoEMGXint

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

OMGGGGG -- Clayton is reduced to sitting in silence instead of acknowledging Joe Biden won the 2020 election

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election?

CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you

OSSOFF: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election?

CLAYTON: I'm not gonna get into that with you

OSSOFF: You're not being honest or forthright

CLAYTON: ...

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were filmed assaulting, handcuffing, and kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Passaic, New Jersey… while refusing to even look at the ID he repeatedly begged them to check.

A man is pleading with federal agents to verify who he is…

And they refused.

Instead, one agent says, “We need to get him on the ground,” puts him in a chokehold, throws him to the ground, and multiple agents pile on top of him before handcuffing him, and throwing him into their vehicle.

Under the Fourth Amendment, the government cannot arrest, or seize someone, without probable cause that they have committed, are committing, or are about to commit an offense that authorizes the arrest.

U.S. citizens are also not required to carry identification unless they’re driving a motorized vehicle.

And if federal agents are refusing to verify someone’s identity before arresting them, then they are openly ignoring the constitution.

Which should terrify every American.

Because that means no one is safe from being kidnapped by the government… and disappeared.

Every agent involved should be publicly identified, and DHS should be forced to explain why they believed they had the legal authority to seize someone, while refusing to verify who he was.

This cannot become normal.

[Doran Schrantz @DSchrantz]

Do you want to live in a country where masked, federal agents in unmarked cars, with no badges or body cams, can shoot you, execution style, through your car window? And then blame you for it? And no one investigates? No one is accountable?

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

🧵Cyclosporiasis is surging across 32 states right now. There are nearly 3k reported cases, with no source identified and ∴ no food recall(s).

Mainstream outlets are finally covering the story, but here’s what you actually need to know to protect yourself:

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

VP on shooting of US citizen: "It was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States...say a prayer for that agent...he deserves a debt of gratitude." (2026)

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

- He was here legally.
- He was authorized to work.
- He had Social Security Number.
- He was NOT target of ICE investigation.
- DHS: He did NOT try to kill ICE agents.

He was executed in front of his 3 year old daughter.

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

The Art of the Backpedal https://t.co/LR9FLQdCYF

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨BREAKING: The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

New @wapo story today, the Trump family has secured about $3.2 billion in Pentagon contracts for firms which they are involved in. This is the tip of the iceberg in the largest corruption saga in US history.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

In Maine this morning, witnesses captured ICE dumping the lifeless body of the man they killed onto the ground, in order to handcuff him.

There are reports that the man's daughter, a three year old girl wearing Bluey pajamas, was also in the car.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The man shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine has been identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia.

He was reportedly authorized to work in the US and had been issued a Social Security Number.

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

NEW: FOOTAGE of this morning’s ICE killing in Biddeford, Maine, again seems to show an agent shooting from the side of the departed’s vehicle. This is a pattern, folks

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote a year ago, watch the actions of the Trump admin through the eyes of someone who has watched democracy turn into autocracy. Centralizing election authority, expanding federalized troops and putting them in the streets, cracking down on the press. It's not original.

[Matt Addington @MattAddington]

A heart pounding encounter in Alaska

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Houston Mayor John Whitmire: For the Salgado family, life will never be the same. At no fault of theirs, Mr. Salgado was chased by a unmarked vehicles. Before he could identify himself and speak as a Houstonian, he was shot and killed. We will use all of our resources to pursue an independent and transparent investigation.

[Warren @swd2]

People killed by ICE just this year:

Geraldo Lunas Campos, Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz, Renée Nicole Good, Parady La, Heber Sanchez Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Alex Pretti, Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, Jairo Garcia-Hernandez, Lorth Sim, Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, Emmanuel Clifford Damas, Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, Royer Perez-Jimenez, José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, Tuan Van Bui, Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, Denny Adan Gonzalez, Mamuka Artmeladze, Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, Nenko Stanev Gantchev, Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Jean Wilson Brutus, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Pete Sumalo Montejo, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Santos Banegas Reyes, Genry Donaldo Ruiz-Guillen, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Maksym Chernyak, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Ronaldo Salgado & his beloved father was shot & killed by ICE in Houston after a traffic stop. His father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 year old Construction Worker who picking up his coworkers. He lived in the U.S for 30 years & was getting his work permit.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC"

Here's the blooper reel: