🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️👮‍♂️Minnesota Senate votes to ban ICE from wearing masks, allow residents to sue for constitutional violations

The bill narrowly passed with a 34-33 party line vote. It now heads to the House, where it faces an uphill battle with the chamber evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

Democratic Sen. Omar Fateh, a co-sponsor of the bill, said the federal government's raids in Minnesota displayed "a show of force against immigrant communities," according to The Minnesota Star Tribune.

This comes as several Democratic-led states have sought to adopt restrictions on immigration agents, particularly after the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in separate incidents in January during immigration raids in Minneapolis that triggered nationwide protests.

Lawmakers in New York reached an agreement with Gov. Kathy Hochul on a final state budget to limit state and local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and place restrictions on masked agents and warrantless searches of homes, schools and other locations. The deal would also allow residents to sue immigration agents.

A mask ban was also passed by California lawmakers, but similar restrictions have faced federal court challenges, including rulings blocking parts of California’s law.

Other Democratic-led states, including New Jersey and Massachusetts, ​have proposed ⁠similar plans to block immigration agents from wearing masks during President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-senate-votes-ban-ice-from-wearing-masks-allow-residents-sue-constitutional-violations

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has access to a majority of it's missile and launch sites, with 90% said to be operational. - NYT citing intelligence agencies.

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump says that anyone reporting that Iran is doing well militarily is committing “virtual TREASON” and “aiding and abetting the enemy!”

📎 OSINTtechnical

🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️ The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the new 7R-1D congressional map, which will be used in the 2026 midterms.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Democratic-leaning Kansas City district has been dismantled and replaced with a Republican-leaning seat.

MO-05 RVI
Before: 🔵 D +12
After: 🔴 R +8.2

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🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️ South Carolina House Judiciary Committee pass new 7R-0D congressional map despite the State Senate rejecting sine die agreement to Redistrict

🟢 Yes: 15
🔴 No: 9

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📢 🇺🇸 🗳 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey calls a Special Primary Election on August 11, for the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th congressional districts Under The New Map

New Map:
🔴 Republicans: 6 (+1)
🔵 Democrats: 1 (-1)

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📖 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Civil rights law empowers wokeism, but its roots are much deeper.

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🇺🇸⚡- Counterterrorism Chief Sebastian Gorka claims that Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are not conservatives, and that they’d be more promptly labeled as “extremists” or akin to “domestic terrorists.” The move follows an attempt by the Trump Administration to crack down on far-left extremism, and by claiming Fuentes and Carlson are not “right-wing,” or conservatives, they'll be free range for the Trump Administration to persecute.

📢 🇺🇸 🐸 Sebastian Gorka slammed Nick Fuentes in 2024, saying he should burn in hell and vowing not to associate with anyone who supports him.

Gorka labeled Fuentes a Holocaust-denying scumbag and called him one of the most reprehensible people on the planet.

"You will burn in hell, you sad little boy."

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📝 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 White House casts Tucker Carlson as a possible domestic terrorist - Ken Klippenstein

Administration deems anti-Trump right wingers terrorists

Two right-wing figures — Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes — have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to the Trump administration’s top counterterrorism official.

And let’s be real: none of this is actually about extremism. It’s about the fact that Carlson, like Fuentes, recently broke with Trump — bitterly — over the Iran War. That's the real offense. So now they’re being cast as extremist threats. But to avoid alarming conservatives, the administration can't just say that — it has to first strip them of their conservative credentials, redefine them as something foreign-affiliated and dangerous, and then go after them.

Carlson has called Trump’s Iran war “the single biggest mistake Trump, or any American president, has made in my lifetime.” He has slammed the strikes as “reprehensible and immoral,” insisting the war “doesn’t serve American interests in any conceivable way” and suggesting it happened “at the behest and then the demand of Israel.”

When Trump ordered strikes on Iran, Fuentes said in a social media post: “NO WAR WITH IRAN. ISRAEL IS DRAGGING US INTO WAR. AMERICA FIRST.”

Taken together, that’s the substance Gorka is trying to launder out of the “conservative movement” by redefining Carlson and Fuentes as something else: in Carlson’s case, a Sharia fan.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/new-counterterror-strategy-eyes-tucker

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