Alex Howard
@ajhoward121.bsky.social
Former spokesperson at @DHSgov / Biden Admin and dog dad.
Aveces escribo en español.
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Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
Today’s strike: a $1.4M+ missile, launched by a sailor earning ~$60K, hit a $5k vessel. The target? A criminal gang the president brands as a terrorist organization — a label our own intelligence community does not support.
September 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Today’s strike: a $1.4M+ missile, launched by a sailor earning ~$60K, hit a $5k vessel. The target? A criminal gang the president brands as a terrorist organization — a label our own intelligence community does not support.
Please consider voting for Chica on @tsa’s Instagram story for no other reason then to make the DHS Secretary have to celebrate the same breed of dog she shot and killed.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Please consider voting for Chica on @tsa’s Instagram story for no other reason then to make the DHS Secretary have to celebrate the same breed of dog she shot and killed.
Oh perfect, because if there’s one agency drowning in free time and resources, it’s the Secret Service. Protecting the President, VP, foreign heads of state, embassies, and running details wasn’t enough—so let’s tack on DC police duties too. Brilliant plan.
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Oh perfect, because if there’s one agency drowning in free time and resources, it’s the Secret Service. Protecting the President, VP, foreign heads of state, embassies, and running details wasn’t enough—so let’s tack on DC police duties too. Brilliant plan.
I’ve traveled with the President. There’s a whole team that stands up secure printers and sets up suites as offices, on secured floors. Using a hotel business center printer isn’t just sloppy—it’s malpractice by the advance and protocol teams.
August 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’ve traveled with the President. There’s a whole team that stands up secure printers and sets up suites as offices, on secured floors. Using a hotel business center printer isn’t just sloppy—it’s malpractice by the advance and protocol teams.
ICE has new marked vehicles… and they’re sporting the same paint job as Trump’s personal jet. Subtle.
August 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ICE has new marked vehicles… and they’re sporting the same paint job as Trump’s personal jet. Subtle.
The problem with Border Patrol’s Darth Vader video isn’t just the awkward pop culture flex, it’s the dangerous simplicity of the message.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The problem with Border Patrol’s Darth Vader video isn’t just the awkward pop culture flex, it’s the dangerous simplicity of the message.
As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD.
TLDR; DHS and Noem is lying
TLDR; DHS and Noem is lying
July 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD.
TLDR; DHS and Noem is lying
TLDR; DHS and Noem is lying
I worked at DHS. I’ve seen the job done with integrity. This? It’s cruelty as content — posted by the official DHS account. This administration is out of control, and it’s going to take years to undo the damage they’ve done to the mission, the agency, and the people we serve.
July 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I worked at DHS. I’ve seen the job done with integrity. This? It’s cruelty as content — posted by the official DHS account. This administration is out of control, and it’s going to take years to undo the damage they’ve done to the mission, the agency, and the people we serve.
Kristi Noem taking credit for ending TSA’s shoe rule is like showing up at the ribbon-cutting and pretending you built the airport.
The Biden admin invested in the tech—CT scanners, body imaging, self-screening lanes—that made this possible. Noem just showed up for the photo op.
The Biden admin invested in the tech—CT scanners, body imaging, self-screening lanes—that made this possible. Noem just showed up for the photo op.
Passengers at airports across the U.S. no longer have to remove their shoes during regular TSA security checks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Tuesday. cbsn.ws/3U0DM2h
July 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Kristi Noem taking credit for ending TSA’s shoe rule is like showing up at the ribbon-cutting and pretending you built the airport.
The Biden admin invested in the tech—CT scanners, body imaging, self-screening lanes—that made this possible. Noem just showed up for the photo op.
The Biden admin invested in the tech—CT scanners, body imaging, self-screening lanes—that made this possible. Noem just showed up for the photo op.
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The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The additional $80,000 that Noem received from the dark money group in 2023 represented a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 salary as South Dakota governor.
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social
@amierjeski.bsky.social
In the middle of a heightened threat environment with Iran, DHS is gutting its intelligence office by 75%—and put a 22-year-old ex-grocer with no natsec experience in charge of countering extremism. What could possibly go wrong?
DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment
DHS plans to reduce its Office of Intelligence & Analysis to just 275 personnel, four sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
In the middle of a heightened threat environment with Iran, DHS is gutting its intelligence office by 75%—and put a 22-year-old ex-grocer with no natsec experience in charge of countering extremism. What could possibly go wrong?
These morons are going to get people killed. They are asking for a detention standards waiver, that get this was established during Trump 1.0. Meaning, they don’t / can’t adhere to those standards. Half of all ICE deaths in custody this year have happened in Florida.
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
These morons are going to get people killed. They are asking for a detention standards waiver, that get this was established during Trump 1.0. Meaning, they don’t / can’t adhere to those standards. Half of all ICE deaths in custody this year have happened in Florida.
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“Turning the Everglades into a taxpayer-funded detention camp for migrants is a grotesque mix of cruelty & political theater. You don’t solve immigration by disappearing ppl into tents guarded by gators.” @ajhoward121.bsky.social
How many Floridians actually want to pay $450 million to torture migrants on environmentally sensitive land in the Everglades under an emergency land grab while we're still #50 in teacher pay & still grappling with a property insurance affordability crisis??
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Florida seizes Everglades land to house detained migrants in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The detention center represents a new, expanded front in the harsh optics deployed to dissuade migrants from entering the United States.
www.miamiherald.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Turning the Everglades into a taxpayer-funded detention camp for migrants is a grotesque mix of cruelty & political theater. You don’t solve immigration by disappearing ppl into tents guarded by gators.” @ajhoward121.bsky.social
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any body who has followed joe biden knows the death of his son was and remains an incredibly painful memory and to frame it as anything else is just fuckin vile
Alex Thompson wrote this *today* about Biden having trouble speaking about Beau, and framed it as “wow look at what they were hiding from us” instead of a grieving father and it was clearly so offensive that *someone else* stuck a “reality check” in at the bottom of this. Truly a vile person
May 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
any body who has followed joe biden knows the death of his son was and remains an incredibly painful memory and to frame it as anything else is just fuckin vile
This isn’t a spend plan—it’s a shopping spree. While Coasties fix ships with duct tape, Noem’s ordering her second Gulfstream like she’s replacing a stolen handbag. DHS under MAGA is less about homeland security, more about homeland celebrity.
May 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This isn’t a spend plan—it’s a shopping spree. While Coasties fix ships with duct tape, Noem’s ordering her second Gulfstream like she’s replacing a stolen handbag. DHS under MAGA is less about homeland security, more about homeland celebrity.
Context on Biden’s schedule from someone who would travel with him: March 8–26, Biden did 9 states—PA, GA, NH, WI, MI, NV, AZ, TX, NC—mixing official events and multiple campaign stops as part of the post-SOTU travel blitz. Key Bridge Collapsed March 26. Fundraiser March 28.
Joe Biden didn’t recognize George Clooney, whom he’d known for years, at a fundraiser the A-list actor threw for him last year, according to a new book on the former president’s decline.
Biden Aides Discussed Putting Him in a Wheelchair for Potential Second Term: Book
President Joe Biden's staff secretly planned to have him use a wheelchair if he won a second term, sources tell Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
www.rollingstone.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Context on Biden’s schedule from someone who would travel with him: March 8–26, Biden did 9 states—PA, GA, NH, WI, MI, NV, AZ, TX, NC—mixing official events and multiple campaign stops as part of the post-SOTU travel blitz. Key Bridge Collapsed March 26. Fundraiser March 28.
The new Pope is an American from Chicago. This is the worst thing to happen to Italian cuisine since someone put pineapple on pizza. Somewhere in the Vatican kitchen, a chef is Googling how to make deep dish… and crying
May 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The new Pope is an American from Chicago. This is the worst thing to happen to Italian cuisine since someone put pineapple on pizza. Somewhere in the Vatican kitchen, a chef is Googling how to make deep dish… and crying
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UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
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New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
www.404media.co
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
@darthbluesky.bsky.social pls bring back the photoshop image of departed trump officials for second term
May 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social pls bring back the photoshop image of departed trump officials for second term
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Lots of wild things going on here, but one of the wilder ones is that USCG operates under DHS, which means one part of DHS raided another part of DHS to do this.
April 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Lots of wild things going on here, but one of the wilder ones is that USCG operates under DHS, which means one part of DHS raided another part of DHS to do this.
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A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.
April 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A lot of very distinguished people who swore an oath to preserve the Constitution are watching it get cut to pieces.
Crazy to me that the “stand for the anthem” crowd will scream about respect for the flag when a Black athlete kneels during the anthem, but won’t bat an eye when a Fox News weekend host turned Defense Secretary wears the flag like an accessory—which the U.S. Flag Code explicitly says not to do.
April 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Crazy to me that the “stand for the anthem” crowd will scream about respect for the flag when a Black athlete kneels during the anthem, but won’t bat an eye when a Fox News weekend host turned Defense Secretary wears the flag like an accessory—which the U.S. Flag Code explicitly says not to do.