| 2026-05-13 | DHS Files Zero Privacy Impact Assessments in 2026 While Operating $1B No-Bid Palantir Surveillance Network Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Former GEO Group SVP David Venturella Named Acting ICE Director, Completing Revolving-Door Loop David Venturella · GEO Group · Todd Lyons · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | ICE Issues Memo Requiring 48-Hour Prior Approval and Named-Detainee ID for All Congressional Oversight Visits Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons · Department of Homeland Security · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | Iran War Drives U.S. Inflation to 3.8% — Highest in Nearly Three Years; Gas Above $4/Gallon; Brent at $105 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Federal Reserve · International Energy Agency | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | Robert Reich Publishes Substack Piece Describing 25th Amendment 'Plot to Oust Trump'; Names Vance, Rubio, Johnson, Thune, Hegseth, Blanche; 30% Probability Within Four Months Robert Reich · JD Vance · Marco Rubio · +5 | 8 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump Calls Iran Ceasefire 'On Life Support' as War Hits Week 10; Pentagon Comptroller Reveals $29 Billion U.S. Cost Donald Trump · Jules Hurst · Department of Defense · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump DOJ Asks Court to Pause Section 122 Tariff Ruling; Signals Emergency Supreme Court Appeal if Denied Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Court of International Trade · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Expanded Power Over AI Regulation as Trump Admin Internal Battle Pits Intelligence Community Against Commerce Department Office of the Director of National Intelligence · U.S. Commerce Department · NIST · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Hegseth Calls for Second Pentagon Investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly Over Public Statements About U.S. Weapons Stockpiles During Iran War Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · Department of Defense · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Tennessee Governor Lee Signs HB2219 Making All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) — First State Mandate of Its Kind Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | USCIS Ends Automatic Deportation Protection for Child Immigrants Awaiting Visa Backlog, Policy Takes Effect May 10 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | 6+ EDVA Prosecutors Fired or Forced Out as DOJ Purges Those Who Resisted Comey Political Indictment Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · James Comey · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | Border Czar Homan Confirms ICE Detains US Citizens Daily, Defends Practice as Acceptable Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | Tennessee HB2219 Mandating All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) ICE Program Transmitted to Governor Lee Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | 11th Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy, Deepening 4-Way Circuit Split Toward SCOTUS 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | CBP Refund Portal Validates 47,000 IEEPA Tariff Claims as Treasury Begins Returning Estimated $166B in Unlawful Duties U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of the Treasury · Donald Trump · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Treasury Sanctions China-Based Entities Supplying Satellite Imagery That Enabled Iran's Strikes on U.S. Forces; War Now in Third Month, $25B Cost U.S. Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Trump Announces Three-Day Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire on Truth Social Timed to Putin's Victory Day Parade, Bypassing State Department Process Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Washington Post Documents 80,000+ Voluntary Departure Orders Under Trump; March 2026 Alone Hit 9,000 as Detention Coerces Asylum Abandonment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Executive Office for Immigration Review · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Ashley St. Clair, Former TPUSA Brand Ambassador, Publicly Documents 'Fight Fight Fight' Influencer-Coordination Group Chats and Per-Post Payment Operation Linking Trump Campaign Officials to Right-Wing Social Media Personalities Ashley St. Clair · James Blair · Donald Trump · +5 | 8 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Border Czar Homan Promises 'Mass Deportations Are Coming' at Phoenix Border Security Expo, Vows to 'Flood the Zone' in Sanctuary Jurisdictions Tom Homan · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | CoreCivic Q1 2026 Earnings Confirm Operational Ramp ($614.7M Revenue, ICE Doubled to $261.3M) but Disclose Temporary ICE Population Decline; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter, Mullin Pause, or In-Custody Death Litigation CoreCivic · Patrick Swindle · David Garfinkle · +4 | 7 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 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 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · local police departments · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 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 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Detention Watch Network · +4 | 7 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Contract Up to $75M for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Representative Steve Cohen · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-06 | Fourth 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 Donald Trump · The Kobeissi Letter · Axios · +7 | 10 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-06 | GEO Group Reports Q1 2026 Revenue $705M, Raises Full-Year Guidance to $2.95-$3.10B on ICE Reactivations; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter GEO Group · George Zoley · Mark Suchinski · +3 | 6 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-06 | Pre-decision baseline: OCC 120-day decision window for WLTC Holdings national trust bank charter expires May 7, 2026 with no decision announced WLTC Holdings LLC · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +5 | 8 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-05 | Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Admits He 'Didn't Know Some Countries Existed' That ICE Is Deporting Migrants To Under Third-Country Program Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-05 | ICE Air Hits Record 1,794 Enforcement Flights in March 2026 — 122% Surge, First Removals to Moldova, Myanmar, Thailand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE Air Operations · Human Rights First · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-04 | Christopher 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 Christopher Armitage · The Existentialist Republic | 2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-23 | ProPublica Disclosure Database Shows 144 Trump Administration Appointees with Palantir Holdings, Compensation, or Employment Ties Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Kash Patel · +12 | 15 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-22 | Warren Warns at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator of Debt-Driven AI Bubble and Pre-Positioned Bailout Pathway Elizabeth Warren · Senate Banking Committee · Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator · +1 | 4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-21 | Politico Reveals Keith Sonderling Was Running DOL All Along; Now Positioned as Indefinite Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling · Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Donald Trump · +7 | 10 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-20 | DiGenova Sworn In as AG Counselor Leading Brennan "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Career Prosecutor Removed for Questioning Evidence Joseph DiGenova · Victoria Toensing · Todd Blanche · +8 | 11 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-20 | Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid DOL Inspector General Misconduct Investigation Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Shawn DeRemer · Anthony D'Esposito · +4 | 7 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-20 | WYPR Exposes WEXMAC Contracting Method Used for $102.4M Williamsport MD Warehouse Purchase With $113M Retrofit and Up to $650M in Potential Add-On Work Todd Lyons · Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · +6 | 9 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-19 | US Navy Destroyer Disables and Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Touska in Strait of Hormuz, Collapsing Islamabad Peace Talks US Navy · USS Spruance · CENTCOM · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-18 | NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket | |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-18 | Palantir Publishes 22-Point Manifesto Calling for Universal Military Service, AI Arms Race, and Attack on 'Regressive' Cultures Alex Karp · Nicholas Zamiska · Palantir Technologies | 3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-17 | Blue 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' Doug Ostrover · Marc Lipschultz · Blue Owl Capital | 3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-17 | San Antonio City Council Passes Ordinance Restricting New Private Detention Facilities, Exempts Planned ICE Warehouse San Antonio City Council · ICE · Department of Homeland Security | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-17 | Stateline Reveals DHS Scales Back Williamsport MD and Surprise AZ Warehouse Detention Plans from 1,500 to 542 Beds Each Amid State-Level Pushback Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · +5 | 8 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-16 | Hennepin 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 Mary Moriarty · Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · +2 | 5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-15 | Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · US District Court Maryland · +5 | 8 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-15 | Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation Jenn Budd · Frank Figliuzzi · Rodney Scott | 3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-15 | Judge 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 Judge Brendan Hurson · Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · +7 | 10 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-13 | Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · +2 | 5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-12 | Orbán Concedes Defeat After 16 Years, Ending Authoritarian Rule Despite Last-Minute Vance Campaign Visit Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · JD Vance · +3 | 6 |
| confirmed |