Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 4339 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

4339 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Nov 3, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-05-07Florida Circuit Judge Lee Marsh Disqualified From Redistricting Challenge After State Officials' Motion 6 src
Ron DeSantis
confirmed
2026-05-07FTC Settlement Bars Data Broker Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data Without Consumer Consent 2 src
Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2026-05-07ICE 287(g) Funding Pipeline Reaches $137M Already Disbursed, $2B Projected for 2026 With Performance Bonuses for Immigration Arrests; 760+ Departments, 13,800-15,800 Officers Deputized 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-05-07ICE Custody Deaths Hit 17 in First Four Months of 2026 (One Every Six Days); 152 New Detention Facilities Opened Across 39 States Since January 2025 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Detention Watch Network · Vera Institute of Justice · +2
confirmed
2026-05-07ICE is exploring smart glasses to supplement Mobile Fortify, a DHS official says; the S&T FY2027 budget lists a smart-glasses prototype 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · DHS Science and Technology Directorate
reported
2026-05-07Oregon PUC Order 26-154 Approves PGE Schedule 96: Data Centers Pay 29% More, Residential Rates Drop 2 src
Oregon Public Utility Commission · Portland General Electric
confirmed
2026-05-07Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Order With $13.3M Ceiling for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance 6 src
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins
confirmed
2026-05-07Pentagon CDAO Quintuples Scale AI Contract to $500M Using No-Bid OTA — Eight Months After Original Award 6 src
Scale AI · Pete Hegseth · Emil Michael · Alexandr Wang · +2
confirmed
2026-05-07Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways 4 src
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Donald Trump · Democracy Docket
confirmed
2026-05-06Camden County GA Becomes First Georgia Coastal County to Adopt Data Center Moratorium, Amid Kingsland Rezoning Withdrawal 2 srcconfirmed
2026-05-06Eleventh Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy in Hernandez Alvarez, Splitting From the Fifth and Eighth Circuits 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
2026-05-06Federal Judge Denies Fulton County's Rule 41(g) Motion for Return of 2020 Election Records Seized by FBI 1 src
Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections · Fulton County, Georgia · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-05-06Fourth Documented Iran-Announcement Oil Short: $920M in WTI/Brent Shorts at 3:40 AM ET, 70 Minutes Before Axios 'Memorandum of Understanding' Report; ~$125M Profit by 7:00 AM 5 src
Donald Trump · Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Elizabeth Warren · +3
confirmed
2026-05-06GEO Group Reports Q1 2026 Revenue $705M, Raises Full-Year Guidance to $2.95-$3.10B on ICE Reactivations; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter 3 src
GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
reported
2026-05-06Pre-decision baseline: WLTC Holdings national trust bank charter application (dated January 5, 2026) still pending at the OCC on May 6, 2026 with no decision announced 9 src
WLTC Holdings LLC · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · +4
reported
2026-05-05Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Admits He 'Didn't Know Some Countries Existed' That ICE Is Deporting Migrants To Under Third-Country Program 3 src
Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-05-05ICE Air Hits Record 1,794 Enforcement Flights in March 2026 — 122% Surge, First Removals to Moldova, Myanmar, Thailand 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-05-05ICE Moves to Alter Broadview Clergy-Access Injunction, Citing Space, Staffing and the Establishment Clause
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership · Judge Robert W. Gettleman
confirmed
2026-05-05NIST's CAISI Signs Frontier AI National Security Testing Agreements With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI 2 src
Google DeepMind · Microsoft · xAI · OpenAI · +1
confirmed
2026-05-05Trump Pauses 'Project Freedom' Strait of Hormuz Naval Operation Citing Iran Peace-Talks Progress; 14-Point Plan Under Review 5 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Central Command · Iran
confirmed
2026-05-04Christopher Armitage Publishes Comprehensive Prosecutorial-Strategy Essay 'This Is Way Bigger Than RICO' on The Existentialist Republic, Articulating State-Prosecution Dual-Sovereignty Strategy Against Federal Officers 5 srcconfirmed
2026-05-04Idaho SAVE Review Flagged 760 Potential Noncitizens and Referred About Three Dozen; Ohio List Maintenance Tests the 90-Day Rule Ahead of 2026 Midterms 3 src
Department of Justice · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-05-04SCOTUS 6-3 Callais Ruling Immediately Effective, Voiding 100K Ballots; Roberts Court Completes VRA Gutting 3 src
John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · Neil Gorsuch · +4
confirmed
2026-05-04World Liberty Financial Countersues Justin Sun for Defamation in Florida State Court — Alleges Short-Selling, Straw Purchases, 'Smear Campaign' Following Sun's N.D. Cal. Suit 2 src
Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial
reported
2026-05-02WLFI Token Hits All-Time Low $0.052 (–85% from Peak) After Bloomberg Exposes 5.9 Billion Secret Token Sale Routing Proceeds to Trump-Affiliated Entities 10 src
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +3
confirmed
2026-05-01CoreCivic's Sole-Source Direct Contract With ICE Takes Effect for Torrance and Cibola County Facilities, Bypassing New Mexico's HB9 Nineteen Days Before It Takes Effect 4 src
CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Torrance County Commission
confirmed
2026-05-01DOE §202(c) emergency coal-retention order log through May 2026: 43+ orders, ~4.4 GW stalled across 6 plants, D.C. Circuit challenges filed 10 src
Chris Wright · Department of Energy · NIPSCO · Earthjustice · +1
reported
2026-04-30ICE Signs CoreCivic IDIQ With Separate Torrance and Cibola Task Orders; a Marshals Service Order Also Runs Under It 3 src
CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Marshals Service
reported
2026-04-30Senators Whitehouse + Reed Submit Doctors' Warnings on Trump Health to Congressional Record — Health-Track 25th Amendment Discourse Formalizes 8 src
Sheldon Whitehouse · Jack Reed · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · +1
confirmed
2026-04-30Virginia Enacts HB 892 Mandating SCC Investigation of Dominion Load Forecasting Methodology, Authorizes PJM Coordination 1 srcconfirmed
2026-04-29Beale Infrastructure (Blue Owl) Breaks Ground on $3B De Soto KS Hyperscale Datacenter — Flint Commerce Center Site 3 src
Blue Owl Capital
confirmed
2026-04-29Congress Passes 45-Day FISA Section 702 Short-Term Extension After Three-Year Reauthorization Stalls in Senate 5 src
U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · John Thune · Kash Patel · +2
confirmed
2026-04-29DHS Holds $2.9M No-Bid Penlink PLX Contract for Warrantless Real-Time Phone, Text, Web Interception 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Penlink · Ron Wyden
confirmed
2026-04-29El Cajon Sues California AG Bonta Over SB 54 Sanctuary Law, Represented by America First Policy Institute 6 src
Rob Bonta · America First Policy Institute
reported
2026-04-29Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus Sues Richwood Correctional Center in Federal Court Over a Stillbirth in ICE Custody, Two Months Before DHS Publicly Calls the Account False 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tricia McLaughlin · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-29Supreme Court Guts Section 2 of Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, Reworking 40-Year Gingles Standard 4 src
Samuel Alito · Elena Kagan · Sonia Sotomayor · Ketanji Brown Jackson
confirmed
2026-04-28Bloomberg Government Reports Patel Firing Becomes Bargaining Chip in FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Talks 3 src
Kash Patel · Ted Lieu · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
confirmed
2026-04-28FCC Media Bureau Order DA 26-416 Calls In Licenses of All Eight ABC-Owned Stations for Early Renewal Within 30 Days 3 src
Federal Communications Commission · FCC Media Bureau · The Walt Disney Company · American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · +1
confirmed
2026-04-28Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director Comey on 2 Counts Over '8647' Seashell Photo Alleged as Threat to Trump 6 src
James Comey · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Patrick Fitzgerald · +1
confirmed
2026-04-28GAO Finds Treasury's Fiscal Service Did Not Fully Implement Security Controls Over DOGE Payment-System Access, and a DOGE Employee Sent Unencrypted PII Outside the Bureau 2 src
Government Accountability Office · Department of the Treasury · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
reported
2026-04-28Patel Films Self Fumbling iPhone in WHCD Aftermath, Then Pitches Trump on 2020 Election Arrests via Fox News to Save Job 3 src
Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2026-04-28Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules ICE Mandatory Detention Policy Illegal, Setting Up Likely SCOTUS Showdown 5 src
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Civil Liberties Union
confirmed
2026-04-28Sen. Blackburn (Graham Cosponsor) Introduces 287(g) Expansion Act (S. 4405) — A Funding Incentive, Not a Federal Companion to SC's Mandatory H.4764 6 src
Lindsey Graham
confirmed
2026-04-28Sen. Chris Murphy Sends Warning Letters to 21 Municipalities Considering ICE Warehouse Detention Deals 3 src
Chris Murphy · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-28US Military Boards and Releases Cargo Ship Suspected of Iran Trade as Strait of Hormuz Blockade Continues Into Day 60 3 src
U.S. Central Command · U.S. Navy · Iran · United Nations
confirmed
2026-04-27Supreme Court Summarily Reverses District Court Judgment Against Texas Congressional Map in Abbott v. LULAC, No. 25-845; Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson Dissent 2 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Greg Abbott · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1
confirmed
2026-04-26ICE FY2026 Removals on Pace to Exceed 460,000, Nearly 45% Above FY2025 and 85% Above FY2024 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-04-25Communities Not Cages: 200+ National Actions Oppose ICE Warehouse Detention Expansion; Rep. Tlaib Introduces Ban Warehouse Detention Act 4 src
Detention Watch Network · Indivisible · MoveOn · Public Citizen
confirmed
2026-04-25Gunman Cole Allen Attempts Assassination of Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner; Secret Service Officer Shot 6 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · J.D. Vance · U.S. Secret Service · +4
confirmed
2026-04-25Politico's Dasha Burns Reports Senior White House Official Says Patel Removal Is 'Only a Matter of Time' 4 src
Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
confirmed
2026-04-25Texas Federal Judge Halts Deportation of El Gamal Family After 10+ Months at Dilley Detention 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-24ACLU and Common Cause Sue DOJ to Block National Voter Surveillance Database as Draft Emergency Election EO Circulates 6 src
U.S. Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Common Cause · Protect Democracy
confirmed
2026-04-24DOJ Abandons Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Powell, Clearing Warsh Confirmation as Fed Chair Successor 5 src
Jerome Powell · Kevin Warsh · Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · +4
confirmed
2026-04-24DOJ Intervenes Alongside xAI Against Colorado's AI Act, Months After EO 14365 Called for Challenges to State AI Laws 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Elon Musk
confirmed
2026-04-24DOJ's Complaint in Intervention Against Colorado's AI Act Rests on Equal Protection Alone and Is Certified by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche 1 srcconfirmed
2026-04-24Intercept Reports Palantir Paid $130M+ by IRS for 'Massive-Scale' Data Mining of Federal Databases 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Internal Revenue Service · The Intercept
confirmed
2026-04-24Intercept Surfaces Patel's 2005 Personnel File Disclosing Two Prior Alcohol-Related Arrests 1 src
Kash Patel · The Intercept
confirmed
2026-04-24Michigan AG Dana Nessel Calls DTE's Conditional Rate-Hike Pause Offer a 'Ransom Note' 4 src
Dana Nessel · DTE Energy · Michigan Public Service Commission
reported
2026-04-23DHS Files Roxbury, NJ Warehouse Environmental Record Invoking Categorical Exclusions 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-23Peter Thiel Temporarily Relocates Family to Buenos Aires, Meets Milei at Casa Rosada After a Week of Private Contacts with Argentine Government 5 src
Peter Thiel · Javier Milei
confirmed
2026-04-23ProPublica Disclosure Database Shows 144 Trump Administration Appointees with Palantir Holdings, Compensation, or Employment Ties 7 src
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Kash Patel · Jeanine Pirro · +6
confirmed
2026-04-22Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to Bill Maher and HBO, Dismissing Laura Loomer's Defamation Suit Over 2024 'Real Time' Joke 3 src
Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Lindsey Graham · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-22Orange County FL Unanimously Terminates ICE Section of IGSA, Caps Detainee Holds at 48 Hours 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-04-22Warren Warns at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator of Debt-Driven AI Bubble and Pre-Positioned Bailout Pathway 5 src
Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2026-04-22Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority Passes 12-Month Water/Sewer Moratorium on Data Centers (Resolution 26-08) 4 src
University of Michigan
reported
2026-04-21ACLU of New Mexico Publishes 'The Invisible Military Bases at the Border' Report Documenting 4,600+ Federal Trespass Cases and 109,651 Acres of National Defense Areas in NM Alone 2 src
U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2026-04-21Cumberland County, Maine Votes 3-1 to Drop ICE From Jail's USMS Detainee Contract 7 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Marshals Service
confirmed
2026-04-21DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts Including Wire Fraud, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering 5 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
confirmed
2026-04-21Eleventh Circuit Vacates the Alligator Alcatraz Preliminary Injunction 2 src
Center for Biological Diversity · Florida Division of Emergency Management · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-21Justin Sun Sues Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial in N.D. Cal. (3:26-cv-03360) — Complaint Alleges Concealed Blacklist Function, $45M Investment, Threats by Co-Founder Chase Herro 2 src
Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Chase Herro
reported
2026-04-21Politico Reveals Keith Sonderling Was Running DOL All Along; Now Positioned as Indefinite Acting Secretary 5 src
Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-20DiGenova Sworn In as AG Counselor Leading Brennan "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Career Prosecutor Removed for Questioning Evidence 13 src
Joseph DiGenova · Todd Blanche · Kash Patel · Harmeet Dhillon · +4
confirmed
2026-04-20FBI Director Patel Sues The Atlantic and Reporter Fitzpatrick for $250M in Defamation 4 src
Kash Patel · Jeffrey Goldberg
confirmed
2026-04-20Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid DOL Inspector General Misconduct Investigation 11 src
Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · Steven Cheung
confirmed
2026-04-20WYPR Exposes WEXMAC Contracting Method Used for $102.4M Williamsport MD Warehouse Purchase With $113M Retrofit and Up to $650M in Potential Add-On Work 1 src
Todd Lyons · Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Anthony Brown · +2
confirmed
2026-04-19NYT Investigation Reveals Qatari Billionaires Al-Khayyat Brothers 100% Own 'Sazan Operations' — The Entity Behind Kushner's $1.4B Albania Resort Project 7 src
Ramez Al-Khayyat · Mohamad Al-Khayyat · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-04-19US Navy Destroyer Disables and Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Touska in Strait of Hormuz, Collapsing Islamabad Peace Talks 4 src
U.S. Navy · U.S. Marines · Iran · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-18National Nurses United Launches 'Purge Palantir' Campaign Against HCA at Frist Gala, Escalates to Eight-City Civil Disobedience by August 3 src
National Nurses United · HCA Healthcare · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2026-04-18NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket 8 src reported
2026-04-18Palantir Publishes 22-Point Manifesto Calling for Universal Military Service, AI Arms Race, and Attack on 'Regressive' Cultures 9 src
Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2026-04-17Blue Owl 8-K Confirms Co-CEOs Removed All Firm Shares as Loan Collateral After Reports of Imminent Margin Calls — Three Days Before RAMM Publishes 'Blue Owl System' 2 src
Doug Ostrover · Marc Lipschultz · Blue Owl Capital
confirmed
2026-04-17E.D. Cal. Judge Enjoins Nexstar-TEGNA Integration and Orders TEGNA Held Separate; A Later Order Bars Nexstar Executives From TEGNA’s Board 3 srcreported
2026-04-17San Antonio City Council Passes Ordinance Restricting New Private Detention Facilities, Exempts Planned ICE Warehouse 2 src
ICE · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-17Stateline Reveals DHS Scales Back Williamsport MD and Surprise AZ Warehouse Detention Plans from 1,500 to 542 Beds Each Amid State-Level Pushback 4 src
Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · ICE · +2
confirmed
2026-04-17The Atlantic Publishes 'The FBI Director Is MIA' Citing 24+ Sources on Patel Drinking and Absences 3 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jeffrey Goldberg
confirmed
2026-04-16Bradford County FL Commissioners Table Sabot/Sheriff Smith ICE Detention Lease as Sabot/IGSA Model Fails First Public Test 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-16FERC misses DOE-ordered April 30 deadline on large-load interconnection Docket RM26-4-000 — issues Intent to Act order committing to June 2026 action 6 src
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Chris Wright · Department of Energy · Laura Swett
confirmed
2026-04-16FTC Withdraws Its Civil Investigative Demand to Media Matters the Day After Consent Judgments With Three Ad Agencies; Both Media Matters Cases Then Dismissed by Stipulation 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Andrew Ferguson
confirmed
2026-04-16Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Charges ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with Two Counts of Second-Degree Assault — First State Criminal Charge Against Federal Immigration Agent During Operation Metro Surge 4 src
Mary Moriarty · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-15Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations 3 src
State of Maryland · Anthony G. Brown · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · +2
confirmed
2026-04-15Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation 6 src
Rodney Scott
confirmed
2026-04-15Judge Hurson's Maryland NEPA Preliminary Injunction Halts Williamsport ICE Construction; San Antonio Officials Point to the Maryland Suit as Their Warehouse Project Goes on Pause 8 src
Anthony G. Brown · Kris Mayes · Mikie Sherrill · Jennifer Davenport · +2
reported
2026-04-15Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization
Peter Thiel
confirmed
2026-04-14D.C. Circuit Panel Grants Mandamus Ending Boasberg's Criminal Contempt Proceedings; Full Court Vacated the Order June 22 6 src
James Boasberg · Todd Blanche · Emil Bove · Kristi Noem
reported
2026-04-14HSI Special Operations Group Surveils St. John's Church in St. Paul, Runs License-Plate Checks on Meeting Attendees' Vehicles 2 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan · Direct Action Minnesota
confirmed
2026-04-14Thirty Lawmakers Demand DHS Answers on Palantir's ELITE and ImmigrationOS as ICE Surveillance Spending Hits $513M 4 src
Dan Goldman · Ron Wyden · Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1
confirmed
2026-04-14VP Vance Rebukes Pope Leo XIV on Theology at Turning Point USA, USCCB Issues Corrective: Captured-Catholic-Tradition Operational Confrontation 19 src
J.D. Vance · Pope Leo XIV · Tom Homan · Patrick Deneen · +1
reported
2026-04-13Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting 4 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · +1
confirmed
2026-04-12Orbán Concedes Defeat After 16 Years, Ending Authoritarian Rule Despite Last-Minute Vance Campaign Visit 4 src
Viktor Orbán · J.D. Vance · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-12Trump Orders US Navy to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After 21-Hour Iran Peace Talks Collapse 4 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · +1
confirmed