Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social
Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
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I have an announcement to make — I’m writing a book!
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We are not as bloodthirsty as Stephen Miller wants us to be. French argues that Stephen Miller is miscalculating, and that it’s possible to awaken the country’s sleeping conscience. It may already be happening. French thinks we are already seeing a “vibe shift.”
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Charlie Sykes (@sykescharlie)
https://open.substack.com/pub/charliesykes/p/the-anti-trump-vibe-shift?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
We are not as bloodthirsty as Stephen Miller wants us to be. French argues that Stephen Miller is miscalculating, and that it’s possible to awaken the country’s sleeping conscience. It may already be happening. French thinks we are already seeing a “vibe shift.”
substack.com/profile/4298...
substack.com/profile/4298...
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
There are many disturbing things in this article, but the biggest one is that the editors at @nypost.com don’t know the difference between a language and one of the major religions of the world
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
There are many disturbing things in this article, but the biggest one is that the editors at @nypost.com don’t know the difference between a language and one of the major religions of the world
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
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Interesting. I was told I would be completely discredited when the evidence comes out.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Interesting. I was told I would be completely discredited when the evidence comes out.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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This is a really disturbing story on several levels and certainly anyone who interacts with the Pentagon specifically or the administration more generally should read it:
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is a really disturbing story on several levels and certainly anyone who interacts with the Pentagon specifically or the administration more generally should read it:
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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"Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal."
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal."
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
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Courts are not just a frontline – they’re the center of the fight against authoritarian threats.
We are working in the court of law, the court of public opinion, and the halls of government to ensure that when people win in court, those wins are enforced.
We are working in the court of law, the court of public opinion, and the halls of government to ensure that when people win in court, those wins are enforced.
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Courts are not just a frontline – they’re the center of the fight against authoritarian threats.
We are working in the court of law, the court of public opinion, and the halls of government to ensure that when people win in court, those wins are enforced.
We are working in the court of law, the court of public opinion, and the halls of government to ensure that when people win in court, those wins are enforced.
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BREAKING
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.
Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe
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WSJ has an interesting visual on Trump's pardons, and I'm glad for the increased focus.
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
WSJ has an interesting visual on Trump's pardons, and I'm glad for the increased focus.
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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“Mississippi Burning” premieres 37 years ago tonight — one of Hackman’s great performances.
“.. I suppose I see myself as a serious artist,” he said, “and it felt right to do something of historical import. It was an extremely intense experience.”
#RIP 🙏🏼
“.. I suppose I see myself as a serious artist,” he said, “and it felt right to do something of historical import. It was an extremely intense experience.”
#RIP 🙏🏼
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“Mississippi Burning” premieres 37 years ago tonight — one of Hackman’s great performances.
“.. I suppose I see myself as a serious artist,” he said, “and it felt right to do something of historical import. It was an extremely intense experience.”
#RIP 🙏🏼
“.. I suppose I see myself as a serious artist,” he said, “and it felt right to do something of historical import. It was an extremely intense experience.”
#RIP 🙏🏼
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wall is giving thai restaurant
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
wall is giving thai restaurant
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Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
Denmark sees US as potential security concern | CNN
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
cnn.it
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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