Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

2812 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Jun 9, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
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 · +4
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 · Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1
confirmed
2026-04-15Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations 3 src
Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · US District Court Maryland · ICE · +4
confirmed
2026-04-15Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation 6 src
Jenn Budd · Frank Figliuzzi · Rodney Scott
confirmed
2026-04-15Judge Hurson's Maryland NEPA Preliminary Injunction Halts Williamsport ICE Construction, Cascades Directly to Bexar TX Warehouse Pause and Anchors Arizona and New Jersey Parallel Challenges 8 src
Judge Brendan Hurson · Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · Tommy Calvert · +6
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2026-04-15Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization
Aron D'Souza · Peter Thiel · Balaji Srinivasan · Sarah Cone · +1
confirmed
2026-04-14VP Vance Rebukes Pope Leo XIV on Theology at Turning Point USA, USCCB Issues Corrective: Captured-Catholic-Tradition Operational Confrontation 10 src
JD Vance · Pope Leo XIV · Bishop James Massa · Tom Homan · +3
confirmed
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 · Péter Magyar · JD Vance · Donald Trump · +2
confirmed
2026-04-12Trump Orders US Navy to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After 21-Hour Iran Peace Talks Collapse 4 src
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · +1
confirmed
2026-04-10FinCEN/OFAC open GENIUS Act AML/sanctions NPRM docket — WLF-benefiting rule enters comment period 4 src
Scott Bessent · Andrea Gacki · Bradley T. Smith · John Hurley
2026-04-10Trump Becomes First Sitting President to Endorse a Stock by Ticker on Truth Social, Promoting Palantir (PLTR) Amid 16% Freefall 7 src
Donald Trump · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Mark Warner · +1
confirmed
2026-04-09Houston ISD Soccer Captain Mauro Henriquez Deported to Honduras After Four Months in ICE Detention 3 src
Mauro Henriquez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Houston ISD
confirmed
2026-04-09Human Rights Watch Documents Systematic Abuses in ICE's Expanding Warehouse Detention Network, Citing Arizona GardaWorld Contract 2 src
Human Rights Watch · ICE · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-09Melania Trump Issues Rare White House Statement Denying Epstein Ties, Calls for Congressional Survivor Hearings 5 src
Melania Trump · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +2
confirmed
2026-04-08ICE Appeals Pennsylvania DEP Administrative Orders Blocking Water-Sewer Hookups at Tremont and Upper Bern Warehouse Detention Sites 5 src
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board · +2
confirmed
2026-04-08ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-04-07Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization Tonight: 8 PM Ultimatum to Destroy All Power Plants and Bridges 5 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Iran
confirmed
2026-04-07US and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire After Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization 3 src
Donald Trump · Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
confirmed
2026-04-07VP Vance Campaigns for Orbán in Budapest Days Before Hungary Election, Securing $1.2B in Hungarian Arms and Oil Purchases 4 src
JD Vance · Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · Donald Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-04-0323 States Sue Trump Over Mail Voting Executive Order as Democratic AGs File 100th Lawsuit Against Administration 3 src
Keith Ellison · Letitia James · Dan Rayfield · Democratic Attorneys General Association · +2
confirmed
2026-04-03French-Owned Container Ship Crosses Strait of Hormuz, Signaling Iran's Strategy to Fracture Western Alliance 5 src
CMA CGM · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · France
confirmed
2026-04-03McConnell Joins Democrats to Defend US NATO Membership as Trump Considers Withdrawal 2 src
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Chris Coons · Susan Collins · +3
confirmed
2026-04-03Michael Edison Hayden Reveals SPLC Gutted Its Intelligence Project Before Trump's Return, Leaving Far-Right Monitoring Degraded 3 src
Michael Edison Hayden · Southern Poverty Law Center · Kash Patel · FBI
confirmed
2026-04-03Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII 6 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress
confirmed
2026-04-03US F-15E Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Iran, One Crew Member Rescued, Second Missing 6 src
U.S. Air Force · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
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2026-04-03Washington Post Data Analysis: ICE Still Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Records at 70%+ Rate Despite Administration Pledge to Target Criminals 2 src
ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Washington Post · TRAC Immigration
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2026-04-02Blue Owl Caps Private Credit Fund Redemptions at 5% After Investors Demand $5.4 Billion Back From OCIC and OTIC in a Single Quarter 3 src
Blue Owl Capital · Blue Owl Credit Income Corp · Blue Owl Technology Income Corp · Doug Ostrover · +1
confirmed
2026-04-02Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George During Iran War, Installs Former Personal Aide 7 src
Pete Hegseth · Randy George · Christopher LaNeve · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-02PNK Group Proposes Up to Four AI Data Centers at Allenwood, PA Campus — Same Site as ModCorr Modular-Prison-Cell Factory; Zoning Fight Begins 4 src
PNK Group · Anton Voronkin · Andrey Sharkov · Gregg Township · +1
confirmed
2026-04-02Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, Installs Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Acting AG 5 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lee Zeldin
confirmed
2026-04-02Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Branded Pharmaceutical Imports via Section 232 Executive Order 6 src
Donald Trump · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Commerce
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2026-04-02US Bombs Bridge Near Tehran Killing Eight Civilians, Trump Posts Collapse Video on Truth Social 5 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Iran
confirmed
2026-04-02US Intelligence Assesses Iran Retains Roughly Half Its Missile Launchers After Five Weeks of Strikes 4 src
U.S. Intelligence Community · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-04-01OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters 8 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury
confirmed
2026-04-01Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-03-31Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance 4 src
BlackSky Technology · Air Force Research Laboratory · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
confirmed
2026-03-31Trump Issues Executive Order Directing USPS to Refuse Delivery of Mail Ballots to Non-Approved Voters 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service
confirmed
2026-03-31Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control 6 src
Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1
confirmed
2026-03-3014th ICE Detainee Dies in 2026 as Detention System on Track for Deadliest Year Since 2004
2026-03-30Adelanto GEO Detention Facility Records Fourth Death in Seven Months — California's Highest Detention Death Rate 5 src
GEO Group · ICE · California Department of Justice · Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano · +3
confirmed
2026-03-30Liberation Day Tariff Anniversary: 89,000 Manufacturing Jobs Lost, SCOTUS Ruled Tariffs Illegal
2026-03-29Iran-Backed Houthis Enter War, US Personnel Wounded at Saudi Base as Conflict Expands
2026-03-29Netanyahu Orders Expansion of Lebanon Invasion Toward Litani River, Largest Israeli Ground Operation Since 2006 6 src
Benjamin Netanyahu · Israel Defense Forces · Israel Katz · Hezbollah · +1
confirmed
2026-03-29Palantir Awarded $75M No-Bid USDA Contract to Surveil Federal Workers Return-to-Office Compliance
2026-03-29Warren, Raskin Lead 52 Lawmakers in Formal Inquiry to Six Detention Contractors and Real Estate Firms Over Trump Warehouse Detention Buildout 6 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Raskin · Andrey Sharkov · PNK Group · +10
confirmed
2026-03-28No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization 4 src
No Kings Movement · Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union · American Association of University Professors
reported
2026-03-28Yemen's Houthis Launch Missiles at Israel, Raising Fears of Renewed Red Sea Shipping Attacks 6 src
Ansar Allah (Houthis) · Yahya Saree · Israel Defense Forces · Islamic Republic of Iran
confirmed
2026-03-27DOGE One-Year Assessment: 300,000 Federal Jobs Cut, $215B Savings Claim Unverified
2026-03-26Ohio House Passes "Indecent Exposure Modernization Act" That Critics Say Could Criminalize Sports Bras and Cheerleading Uniforms 4 src
Ohio House of Representatives · Equality Ohio
confirmed
2026-03-26Sacks Departs White House AI/Crypto Czar Role; No Successor Named; Policy Disperses to OSTP's Kratsios, PCAST, and Witt at PCADA 9 src
David Sacks · Michael Kratsios · Patrick Witt · Marc Andreessen · +1
confirmed
2026-03-25Choctaw Nation Purchases Former Big Lots Warehouse in Durant, Permanently Removing 8,500 Potential ICE Detention Beds From Federal Market 4 src
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma · Gary Batton · Blue Owl Capital · ICE · +2
confirmed
2026-03-25Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Surfaces — NSA Intercept Naming Kushner Buried for Eight Months 4 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Jared Kushner · Susie Wiles · Christopher Fox
confirmed
2026-03-25Iran Rejects Trump's 15-Point Peace Plan as 'Excessive and Unrealistic,' Demands Lebanon Ceasefire as Precondition 7 src
Donald Trump · Esmail Baghaei · Abbas Araghchi · Masoud Pezeshkian
confirmed
2026-03-24Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout 8 src
Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +6
confirmed
2026-03-24Michigan AG Nessel and City of Romulus Sue DHS/ICE Over $34.7M Romulus Warehouse Detention Conversion; DHS Under New Secretary Mullin Opens Review April 2 6 src
Dana Nessel · Robert McCraight · City of Romulus · State of Michigan · +3
confirmed
2026-03-24Minnesota AG Ellison, Hennepin County Attorney Moriarty, BCA Superintendent Evans Sue DOJ and DHS in DC Federal Court for Evidence Blockade in Good, Pretti, Sosa-Celis Shootings 4 src
Keith Ellison (Minnesota Attorney General) · Mary Moriarty (Hennepin County Attorney) · Drew Evans (BCA Superintendent) · U.S. Department of Justice · +6
confirmed
2026-03-24Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield 3 src
Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5
confirmed
2026-03-2321 State AGs Sue to Block USDA "2026 Conditions" Tying Food Assistance to Ideological Compliance 3 src
AG Letitia James · 20 other AGs
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2026-03-23Chief Judge Bumb Appoints Career Prosecutor Robert Frazer as NJ US Attorney, Resolving Constitutional Crisis 4 src
Chief Judge Renee Marie Bumb · Robert Frazer · Alina Habba · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2026-03-23Federal Judge Reverses Takedown Order, Rules DOGE Deposition Videos Can Stay Online 3 src
federal court · Department of Government Efficiency · Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox
confirmed
2026-03-23Oil Prices Drop Sharply on Ceasefire Hopes — Brent Falls 11% to $99.94 After Touching $126 Peak 2 src
global oil markets
confirmed
2026-03-23Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance 3 src
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic
confirmed
2026-03-23Supreme Court Declines Citizen Journalist Case, Sotomayor Dissents on First Amendment Arrest 3 src
Supreme Court · Justice Sonia Sotomayor · Priscilla Villarreal · City of Laredo
confirmed
2026-03-23Trump Backs Off Ultimatum, Claims 'Productive Conversations' with Iran — Tehran Flatly Denies Any Talks 4 src
Donald Trump · Iran Foreign Ministry
confirmed
2026-03-22CNN Airs Full-Hour Documentary Examining Christian Nationalism's Rise to Political Power 2 src
Pamela Brown · Anderson Cooper · CNN
confirmed
2026-03-22EPA Weakens National Park Haze Rule, Shields Coal Plants from Pollution Control Evaluations 3 src
EPA · National Parks Conservation Association · Sierra Club · Earthjustice
confirmed
2026-03-22ICE Agents Deployed to 13 Major Airports as DHS Shutdown Enters Sixth Week and 400+ TSA Officers Quit 4 src
Donald Trump · Tom Homan · AFGE · TSA · +1
confirmed
2026-03-22Iran War Civilian Toll Mounts — 3,114+ Dead Including 1,354 Civilians, 210+ Children, 3.2M Displaced 4 src
Human Rights Activists News Agency · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · Refugees International
confirmed
2026-03-22Kushner Affinity Partners Form ADV Discloses $6.16B AUM with 99% Non-U.S. Clients — Filed While Kushner Serves as Trump's Foreign Policy Envoy 2 src
Jared Kushner · Affinity Partners · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +1
confirmed
2026-03-22Pentagon-Anthropic Dispute Rekindles Silicon Valley Anti-War Movement — Worker Coalitions Demand Companies Refuse Unrestricted Military AI 1 src
tech worker coalitions · Palmer Luckey · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-03-22Sanders Confirmed as Headliner for Flagship No Kings Rally at Minnesota State Capitol 4 src
Sen. Bernie Sanders · Peggy Flanagan · Keith Ellison · Jane Fonda · +4
confirmed
2026-03-22Trump Admin Altered SSA Inspector General Report to Hide DOGE Impact on Services 4 src
SSA · SSA Inspector General · Department of Government Efficiency
confirmed
2026-03-22Trump Gives Iran 48-Hour Ultimatum to Reopen Hormuz — Threatens to 'Obliterate' Power Plants 3 src
Donald Trump · Islamic Republic of Iran
confirmed
2026-03-22Warren and Shaheen Demand Hegseth End DoD WEXMAC-TITUS Agreement With DHS, Citing $65 Billion Ceiling Growth and Diversion of Navy Resources to Domestic ICE Detention 5 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Navy · +6
confirmed
2026-03-21DHS Shutdown Hurts Families Visiting Detained Relatives as Oversight Gutted Amid 26 ICE Deaths 1 src
DHS · Democratic lawmakers
confirmed
2026-03-21Feinberg Signs Memo Designating Palantir Maven as Official DOD "Program of Record" — Locking in Long-Term Funding Despite Claude Dependency 3 src
Steve Feinberg · Palantir · U.S. Army · Pentagon CDAO
confirmed
2026-03-21Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles at Dimona Nuclear Site — Two Penetrate Israeli Defenses, 180+ Injured 5 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Israel · International Atomic Energy Agency
confirmed
2026-03-21Iran Launches IRBMs at Diego Garcia — Missiles Fall Short but Reveal Range Far Exceeding Declared 2,000km Limit 6 src
Islamic Republic of Iran · United Kingdom · United States · NATO
confirmed
2026-03-21Israeli Military Officials Say Iran Campaign at "Halfway" Point — Weeks More of Operations Ahead 2 src
Israeli Defense Forces
confirmed
2026-03-21US Military Strikes Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in Major Nuclear Escalation 3 src
U.S. Department of Defense · Iran Atomic Energy Organization · International Atomic Energy Agency
confirmed
2026-03-20Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood" 1 src
Anthropic · Sarah Heck · Thiyagu Ramasamy · Emil Michael · +1
confirmed
2026-03-20Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030 4 src
Clearview AI · U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command · Hoan Ton-That · Mission and Installation Contracting Command
confirmed
2026-03-20CounterPunch Analysis Examines Crusade Imagery, Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross, and Militarized Christian Nationalism 1 src
Henry Giroux · Pete Hegseth · Vote Common Good
confirmed
2026-03-20Dallas Fed Analysis — Hormuz Closure Could Cut Global GDP Growth by 2.9 Points, Push Oil to $132 3 src
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
confirmed
2026-03-20DOJ Sues Harvard Alleging Antisemitism, Seeks to Recover Billions in Federal Subsidies 4 src
DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harvard University
confirmed
2026-03-20Half of National Weather Service Offices Critically Understaffed, Eight Cease Overnight Operations 3 src
NOAA · National Weather Service · five former NWS directors
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2026-03-20Hegseth Quotes Psalm 144 at Pentagon Briefing, Calls Iranian Leaders "Religious Fanatics" 5 src
Pete Hegseth · MRFF · PRRI · Mikey Weinstein
confirmed
2026-03-20Iranian Drones Strike Kuwait's Largest Oil Refinery During Eid al-Fitr for Second Consecutive Day 3 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Kuwait
confirmed
2026-03-20Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Press Policy Requiring Pledge Not to Gather Unauthorized Information 5 src
Judge Paul L. Friedman · New York Times · Julian E. Barnes · Pentagon
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2026-03-20New Jersey Governor Sherrill and Attorney General Davenport Sue DHS Over $129M Roxbury Warehouse Detention Conversion, April 8 Emergency Injunction Motion Cites State-Easement Violation 6 src
Mikie Sherrill · Matthew Platkin · Roxbury Township · New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · +3
confirmed
2026-03-20NV Energy Declines to Extend Lake Tahoe Wholesale Power Supply, Citing Data-Center Demand; ~49,000 Liberty Utilities Customers Need Replacement Supply by Mid-2027 4 src
NV Energy · Liberty Utilities · California Public Utilities Commission · Google · +2
confirmed
2026-03-20Sen. Whitehouse Demands Bondi Preserve All Records Related to DOJ Ethics Shield Rule 2 src
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche
confirmed
2026-03-20Trump Claims War 'Winding Down' While Deploying 2,500 Additional Marines to Middle East 5 src
Donald Trump · Pentagon · U.S. Central Command · U.S. Marine Corps
confirmed
2026-03-20Trump Issues 30-Day Waiver Allowing Purchase of 140M Barrels of Iranian Oil to Ease Price Surge 5 src
Treasury Department · Donald Trump · Sen. Richard Blumenthal
confirmed
2026-03-1924 States and 15 Local Governments Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 4 src
AG Letitia James · EPA · Trump administration
confirmed
2026-03-19Booker War Powers Resolution Fails 47-53 — Only Paul Crosses Party Lines for Yes, Fetterman for No 4 src
Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman
confirmed
2026-03-19CNN Reports 2.5 Million Epstein Documents Remain Unreleased Despite Transparency Act 1 src
Rep. Thomas Massie · Rep. Ro Khanna · Judge Paul Engelmayer
confirmed
2026-03-19Comey Subpoenaed in DOJ 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe Targeting Obama-Era Intelligence Officials 3 src
James Comey · Jason A. Reding Quinones · Judge Aileen Cannon · John Brennan · +1
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2026-03-19Court Documents Show DOGE ChatGPT Flagged Museum HVAC Grant as DEI, Canceling $349K 4 src
Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · NEH · High Point Museum
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