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<title>The Cascade Ledger — Recent additions</title>
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<description>A documentary archive of 4,288 verified events tracing the systematic capture of American democratic institutions from 1142 to today. Court records, government filings, investigative reporting — sourced and indexed.</description>
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<title>Church Plaintiffs File Non-Compliance Motion Against DHS, Attaching a Whipple Shield ROI Documenting an Undercover Agent Inside University Baptist Church</title>
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<dc:date>2026-08-20</dc:date><description>## Opening</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Homeland Security Investigations</category><category domain="capture-lane">Civil Rights Suppression</category><category domain="tag">project-whipple-shield</category><category domain="tag">domestic-surveillance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>## Opening</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations</p><p><strong>Capture lanes:</strong> Civil Rights Suppression</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-20--synod-plaintiffs-file-non-compliance-motion-whipple-shield-roi-university-baptist/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Intercept: ICE Coordinated With Iranian Government to Deport 100+ Iranians Across Four Flights, Launched During the Twelve-Day War</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--intercept-ice-coordinated-iran-deportation-flights-during-twelve-day-war/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-18</dc:date><description>The Intercept reported on August 18, 2026 that ICE coordinated with the Iranian government to deport more than 100 Iranian nationals across four flights between September 2025 and January 2026, reversing decades of policy that had blocked removals to Iran on persecution-risk grou</description><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Todd Lyons</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">foreign-policy</category><category domain="tag">ice</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Intercept reported on August 18, 2026 that ICE coordinated with the Iranian government to deport more than 100 Iranian nationals across four flights between September 2025 and January 2026, reversing decades of policy that had blocked removals to Iran on persecution-risk grou</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--intercept-ice-coordinated-iran-deportation-flights-during-twelve-day-war/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Lake Worth Beach Faces Vote on 10-Year, $16M-Per-Year PBSO Contract Advocates Say Deepens ICE Collaboration</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--lake-worth-beach-16m-pbso-contract-vote-ice-collaboration/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-18</dc:date><description>Lake Worth Beach's city commission scheduled an August 18, 2026 vote on a 10-year contract extension with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office worth roughly $16 million per year, which immigration advocates argue functions as a vehicle for ICE collaboration. At an August 13 pre</description><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">287g</category><category domain="tag">florida</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Lake Worth Beach's city commission scheduled an August 18, 2026 vote on a 10-year contract extension with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office worth roughly $16 million per year, which immigration advocates argue functions as a vehicle for ICE collaboration. At an August 13 pre</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--lake-worth-beach-16m-pbso-contract-vote-ice-collaboration/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Memphis Committee Advances 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as Greensboro Hearing Anchors Spreading NC Wave</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--memphis-greensboro-datacenter-moratoria-advance-nc-tn-spread/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-18</dc:date><description>A Memphis City Council committee advanced legislation on August 18, 2026 imposing a 12-month moratorium on new data center development, pausing rezoning applications, site plan approvals, and building permits; the proposal moves to the full council. In North Carolina, Greensboro </description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">zoning</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-costs</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Memphis City Council committee advanced legislation on August 18, 2026 imposing a 12-month moratorium on new data center development, pausing rezoning applications, site plan approvals, and building permits; the proposal moves to the full council. In North Carolina, Greensboro </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--memphis-greensboro-datacenter-moratoria-advance-nc-tn-spread/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M Offering Exemption and a Safe Harbor That Sunsets Securities Status</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--sec-proposes-regulation-crypto-assets-75m-exemption-securities-safe-harbor/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-18</dc:date><description>The SEC unveiled a proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on August 18, 2026, creating tiered registration exemptions: offerings up to $5 million exempt for four years, and offerings up to $75 million exempt for 12 months with ongoing financial reporting, subject to a 60-day comment p</description><category>Securities and Exchange Commission</category><category>Paul Atkins</category><category domain="tag">sec</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">securities-law</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The SEC unveiled a proposed Regulation Crypto Assets on August 18, 2026, creating tiered registration exemptions: offerings up to $5 million exempt for four years, and offerings up to $75 million exempt for 12 months with ongoing financial reporting, subject to a 60-day comment p</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-18--sec-proposes-regulation-crypto-assets-75m-exemption-securities-safe-harbor/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ's Minnesota Voter-Roll Suit as a 'Fishing Expedition,' Pushing the Department to 0-23 in Court</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--minnesota-judge-dismisses-doj-voter-roll-suit-fishing-expedition-0-23/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-17</dc:date><description>A federal judge in Minnesota dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking the state's unredacted voter rolls on August 17, 2026, characterizing the demand as a "fishing expedition" with no statutory basis under either the Civil Rights Act of 1960 or the Help America Vote Ac</description><category>Department of Justice</category><category>Pam Bondi</category><category domain="tag">election-administration</category><category domain="tag">doj-capture</category><category domain="tag">litigation</category><category domain="tag">federalism</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A federal judge in Minnesota dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking the state's unredacted voter rolls on August 17, 2026, characterizing the demand as a "fishing expedition" with no statutory basis under either the Civil Rights Act of 1960 or the Help America Vote Ac</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice, Pam Bondi</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--minnesota-judge-dismisses-doj-voter-roll-suit-fishing-expedition-0-23/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Flock Safety Adds Privacy Controls as Cities and Legislatures Exit ALPR Contracts Across Its 6,000-Community Network</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--flock-safety-adds-privacy-controls-as-cities-states-exit-alpr-contracts/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-17</dc:date><description>Flock Safety, whose automated license plate reader network operates in more than 6,000 communities across 49 states, announced tightened privacy and oversight controls in August 2026 as municipalities began exiting contracts and state legislatures moved on warrant requirements. M</description><category>Flock Safety</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">alpr</category><category domain="tag">mass-surveillance</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Flock Safety, whose automated license plate reader network operates in more than 6,000 communities across 49 states, announced tightened privacy and oversight controls in August 2026 as municipalities began exiting contracts and state legislatures moved on warrant requirements. M</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Flock Safety, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--flock-safety-adds-privacy-controls-as-cities-states-exit-alpr-contracts/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>The $150M Award Collapses From the Recipient's Side: Burke Law Group Withdraws From ORR's Single-Source Children's-Counsel Agreement, and ORR Never Says Why</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--burke-law-group-withdraws-150m-orr-single-source-uac-legal-award/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-17</dc:date><description># Burke Law Group withdraws from the $150M ORR award</description><category>Burke Law Group PLLC</category><category>Dawnisha Helland</category><category>Office of Refugee Resettlement</category><category>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</category><category>Acacia Center for Justice</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">legal-representation-capture</category><category domain="tag">unaccompanied-children</category><category domain="tag">tvpra</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p># Burke Law Group withdraws from the $150M ORR award</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Burke Law Group PLLC, Dawnisha Helland, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Acacia Center for Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-17--burke-law-group-withdraws-150m-orr-single-source-uac-legal-award/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-16--tacoma-nipc-fourth-hunger-strike-congressional-inspection-ice-takeover/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-16</dc:date><description>More than 140 detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma began their fourth hunger strike of 2026 on August 13, protesting food contaminated with plastic, metal, and hair. Representatives Maxine Dexter and Emily Randall conducted an unannounced inspection on Augus</description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">detention-conditions</category><category domain="tag">congressional-oversight</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>More than 140 detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma began their fourth hunger strike of 2026 on August 13, protesting food contaminated with plastic, metal, and hair. Representatives Maxine Dexter and Emily Randall conducted an unannounced inspection on Augus</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-16--tacoma-nipc-fourth-hunger-strike-congressional-inspection-ice-takeover/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-16--parias-shot-journalist-300-days-adelanto-untreated-wound/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-16</dc:date><description>Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a journalist who covered immigration enforcement in Los Angeles under the name "Richard Noticias LA," was approaching 300 days in ICE detention as of August 16, 2026, with an untreated gunshot wound sustained when federal agents shot him during an arrest </description><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">press-freedom</category><category domain="tag">medical-neglect</category><category domain="tag">ice</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a journalist who covered immigration enforcement in Los Angeles under the name "Richard Noticias LA," was approaching 300 days in ICE detention as of August 16, 2026, with an untreated gunshot wound sustained when federal agents shot him during an arrest </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-16--parias-shot-journalist-300-days-adelanto-untreated-wound/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-15--dhs-surveilled-five-midwest-churches-saylor-injunction-violation-university-baptist/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-15</dc:date><description>Court filings unsealed in the prosecution of anti-ICE activists in Minnesota revealed that the Department of Homeland Security conducted surveillance of at least five Midwest churches — four in the Twin Cities and one in Michigan — while under a federal injunction that expressly </description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Homeland Security Investigations</category><category>Kevin Riach</category><category>Interfaith Alliance</category><category domain="capture-lane">Democratic Erosion</category><category domain="capture-lane">Surveillance State</category><category domain="capture-lane">Enforcement Impunity</category><category domain="tag">domestic-surveillance</category><category domain="tag">religious-liberty</category><category domain="tag">protest-criminalization</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">operation-metro-surge</category><category domain="tag">operation-puppet-master</category><category domain="tag">court-defiance</category><category domain="tag">minnesota</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Court filings unsealed in the prosecution of anti-ICE activists in Minnesota revealed that the Department of Homeland Security conducted surveillance of at least five Midwest churches — four in the Twin Cities and one in Michigan — while under a federal injunction that expressly </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, Kevin Riach, Interfaith Alliance</p><p><strong>Capture lanes:</strong> Democratic Erosion, Surveillance State, Enforcement Impunity</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-15--dhs-surveilled-five-midwest-churches-saylor-injunction-violation-university-baptist/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Cornell Reverses Protective Pledge, Threatens to Cut Funding Unless Targeted Grad Students Return to ICE Risk</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--cornell-threatens-funding-cutoff-taal-thomas-johnson-return-ice-risk/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-14</dc:date><description>The Intercept reported on August 14, 2026 that Cornell University reversed an earlier pledge to protect two graduate students, Momodou Taal and Amandla Thomas-Johnson, and threatened to terminate their funding unless they returned to the United States — where the administration h</description><category>Cornell University</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">academic-capture</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">protest-criminalization</category><category domain="tag">higher-education</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Intercept reported on August 14, 2026 that Cornell University reversed an earlier pledge to protect two graduate students, Momodou Taal and Amandla Thomas-Johnson, and threatened to terminate their funding unless they returned to the United States — where the administration h</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Cornell University, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--cornell-threatens-funding-cutoff-taal-thomas-johnson-return-ice-risk/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS AI Inventory Passes 200 Use Cases Including Palantir ELITE Deportation 'Confidence Scores' and Bulk 911 Call Ingestion</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--dhs-ai-inventory-200-use-cases-palantir-elite-confidence-scores-911-ingestion/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-14</dc:date><description>Tech Policy Press documented in August 2026 that DHS's public AI use-case inventory had grown to more than 200 active or in-development deployments, roughly 40 percent above its July 2025 level. The catalog includes Palantir's ELITE platform generating "confidence scores" used in</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Palantir Technologies</category><category>Electronic Frontier Foundation</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">domestic-surveillance</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">palantir</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Tech Policy Press documented in August 2026 that DHS's public AI use-case inventory had grown to more than 200 active or in-development deployments, roughly 40 percent above its July 2025 level. The catalog includes Palantir's ELITE platform generating "confidence scores" used in</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Palantir Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--dhs-ai-inventory-200-use-cases-palantir-elite-confidence-scores-911-ingestion/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Nassau County Defies NY Deadline to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements as AG Prepares Legal Action</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--nassau-county-ny-defies-287g-termination-deadline/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-14</dc:date><description>Nassau County is the highest-profile holdout against New York's "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act," which bans all local 287(g) agreements with ICE effective August 25, 2026. County Executive Bruce Blakeman — running for governor against Kathy Hochul and a Trump ally — did not submit</description><category>New York Attorney General</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">new-york</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Nassau County is the highest-profile holdout against New York's "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act," which bans all local 287(g) agreements with ICE effective August 25, 2026. County Executive Bruce Blakeman — running for governor against Kathy Hochul and a Trump ally — did not submit</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> New York Attorney General, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--nassau-county-ny-defies-287g-termination-deadline/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Niagara and Cattaraugus Sheriffs Miss NY Compliance Deadline as Seven Agencies Defy 287(g) Ban Ahead of Aug 25</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--seven-ny-agencies-defy-287g-termination-niagara-cattaraugus-ag-legal-action/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-14</dc:date><description>The Niagara County and Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Offices failed to submit proof of compliance with New York's Local Cops, Local Crimes Act by the state's August 14, 2026 deadline, neither filing the required written documentation with the Office of Immigrant Trust. Attorney Ge</description><category>Letitia James</category><category>New York Office of Immigrant Trust</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">287g</category><category domain="tag">federalism</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">state-preemption</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Niagara County and Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Offices failed to submit proof of compliance with New York's Local Cops, Local Crimes Act by the state's August 14, 2026 deadline, neither filing the required written documentation with the Office of Immigrant Trust. Attorney Ge</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Letitia James, New York Office of Immigrant Trust, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-14--seven-ny-agencies-defy-287g-termination-niagara-cattaraugus-ag-legal-action/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--ice-custody-deaths-reach-24-2026-on-pace-to-break-2025-record/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>At least 24 people had died in ICE custody in 2026 as of mid-August, with counts including post-release deaths reaching 26 through the first seven months — a pace roughly 25 percent above 2025, which itself recorded 33 deaths, the highest total in more than two decades. Edwin Lop</description><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">detention-deaths</category><category domain="tag">medical-neglect</category><category domain="tag">ice</category><category domain="tag">accountability-erasure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>At least 24 people had died in ICE custody in 2026 as of mid-August, with counts including post-release deaths reaching 26 through the first seven months — a pace roughly 25 percent above 2025, which itself recorded 33 deaths, the highest total in more than two decades. Edwin Lop</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--ice-custody-deaths-reach-24-2026-on-pace-to-break-2025-record/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--washtenaw-mi-oracle-saline-datacenter-idd-procedural-challenge/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>Resident Kathryn Haushalter and attorney Ellis Boal filed a challenge with the Michigan State Tax Commission on August 13-14, 2026 arguing that Saline Township's property-tax abatement for Oracle's $43 billion data center campus must be voided because the township skipped a legal</description><category>Oracle</category><category>OpenAI</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">michigan</category><category domain="tag">grid-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Resident Kathryn Haushalter and attorney Ellis Boal filed a challenge with the Michigan State Tax Commission on August 13-14, 2026 arguing that Saline Township's property-tax abatement for Oracle's $43 billion data center campus must be voided because the township skipped a legal</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Oracle, OpenAI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--washtenaw-mi-oracle-saline-datacenter-idd-procedural-challenge/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--bia-delcarmen-lara-advance-parole-10-year-bar/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential ruling on August 13, 2026 in Matter of Delcarmen-Lara (29 I&N Dec. 830) overturning Matter of Arrabally (2012) — holding that travel on advance parole now constitutes a "departure" that triggers the 10-year inadmissibility ba</description><category>U.S. Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential ruling on August 13, 2026 in Matter of Delcarmen-Lara (29 I&amp;N Dec. 830) overturning Matter of Arrabally (2012) — holding that travel on advance parole now constitutes a "departure" that triggers the 10-year inadmissibility ba</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--bia-delcarmen-lara-advance-parole-10-year-bar/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--cdphe-public-health-order-26-02-geo-aurora-tuberculosis-records/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued State Public Health Order 26-02 on August 13, 2026, directing GEO Group to hand over tuberculosis records from the Aurora ICE Processing Center by August 17 or face legal action. The order followed the Adams County H</description><category>GEO Group</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">public-health</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued State Public Health Order 26-02 on August 13, 2026, directing GEO Group to hand over tuberculosis records from the Aurora ICE Processing Center by August 17 or face legal action. The order followed the Adams County H</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--cdphe-public-health-order-26-02-geo-aurora-tuberculosis-records/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Court Filings Expose 'Operation Puppet Master': HSI Infiltrated Minnesota Unions, Churches, and Activist Groups After Alex Pretti Killing</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--operation-puppet-master-hsi-infiltrates-minnesota-anti-ice-community/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>Federal court filings in the District of Minnesota — unsealed August 13, 2026 on a discovery motion by defense attorney Kevin Riach in *United States v. Sant et al.*, Case 0:26-cr-00115 (D. Minn.), and reported the same day across KSTP, the Minnesota Reformer, AP, and CBS — revea</description><category>Homeland Security Investigations</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Pam Bondi</category><category>Alex Pretti</category><category>Department of Justice</category><category>Sunrise Movement</category><category domain="tag">protest-criminalization</category><category domain="tag">domestic-surveillance</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">labor</category><category domain="tag">dhs</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Federal court filings in the District of Minnesota — unsealed August 13, 2026 on a discovery motion by defense attorney Kevin Riach in *United States v. Sant et al.*, Case 0:26-cr-00115 (D. Minn.), and reported the same day across KSTP, the Minnesota Reformer, AP, and CBS — revea</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Homeland Security Investigations, Department of Homeland Security, Pam Bondi, Alex Pretti, Department of Justice, Sunrise Movement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--operation-puppet-master-hsi-infiltrates-minnesota-anti-ice-community/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--frimpong-injunction-warrantless-ice-arrests-los-angeles/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (C.D. Cal.) signaled August 13, 2026 that she will issue an injunction requiring ICE and Border Patrol agents to make individualized pre-arrest probable-cause determinations of flight risk before any warrantless arrest across the Lo</description><category>Gregory Bovino</category><category>ACLU</category><category>U.S. Customs and Border Protection</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">california</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (C.D. Cal.) signaled August 13, 2026 that she will issue an injunction requiring ICE and Border Patrol agents to make individualized pre-arrest probable-cause determinations of flight risk before any warrantless arrest across the Lo</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Gregory Bovino, ACLU, U.S. Customs and Border Protection</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--frimpong-injunction-warrantless-ice-arrests-los-angeles/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Fort Worth Advances Data Center Moratorium Unanimously; Louisville Passes Six-Month Freeze 24-1 Two Days Later</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--fort-worth-louisville-consecutive-datacenter-moratorium-votes/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously on August 11, 2026, after a late-night public hearing, to create a data center committee and advance procedural steps toward a 90-day construction moratorium — a freeze that, following future public hearings, would not take effect until r</description><category>ERCOT</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">zoning</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-costs</category><category domain="tag">ai-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously on August 11, 2026, after a late-night public hearing, to create a data center committee and advance procedural steps toward a 90-day construction moratorium — a freeze that, following future public hearings, would not take effect until r</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ERCOT</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--fort-worth-louisville-consecutive-datacenter-moratorium-votes/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>The Motion Behind the Exhibits: HSI Agent Desmond Garcia Told the Grand Jury No One Is Investigated for First Amendment Activity</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--sant-discovery-motion-garcia-grand-jury-testimony/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-13</dc:date><description>## Opening</description><category>Kevin Riach</category><category>Homeland Security Investigations</category><category>Patrick Schiltz</category><category domain="capture-lane">Civil Rights Suppression</category><category domain="tag">operation-puppet-master</category><category domain="tag">project-whipple-shield</category><category domain="tag">grand-jury</category><category domain="tag">first-amendment</category><category domain="tag">protest-criminalization</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>## Opening</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Kevin Riach, Homeland Security Investigations, Patrick Schiltz</p><p><strong>Capture lanes:</strong> Civil Rights Suppression</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-13--sant-discovery-motion-garcia-grand-jury-testimony/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--brennan-center-dhs-29b-domestic-surveillance-architecture/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-12</dc:date><description>A Brennan Center analysis published August 12, 2026 (data through July 26) documents that DHS has obligated more than $2.9 billion in domestic surveillance contracts since 2021 — $1.1 billion of it in biometrics alone — with the spending rate accelerating sharply: $805 million ob</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Brennan Center for Justice</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">biometrics</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Brennan Center analysis published August 12, 2026 (data through July 26) documents that DHS has obligated more than $2.9 billion in domestic surveillance contracts since 2021 — $1.1 billion of it in biometrics alone — with the spending rate accelerating sharply: $805 million ob</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Brennan Center for Justice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--brennan-center-dhs-29b-domestic-surveillance-architecture/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--chajon-raxon-third-delaney-hall-death-post-release-non-reporting-policy/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-12</dc:date><description>ICE confirmed on August 12, 2026 that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan man arrested July 18, died weeks after being released from Delaney Hall in Newark following a medical emergency on July 19. He was the third Delaney Hall death of 2026. ICE disclosed the death only after advoca</description><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>GEO Group</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">detention-deaths</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">delaney-hall</category><category domain="tag">accountability-erasure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE confirmed on August 12, 2026 that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan man arrested July 18, died weeks after being released from Delaney Hall in Newark following a medical emergency on July 19. He was the third Delaney Hall death of 2026. ICE disclosed the death only after advoca</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GEO Group, Department of Homeland Security</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--chajon-raxon-third-delaney-hall-death-post-release-non-reporting-policy/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--talwani-second-injunction-nationwide-mail-ballot-eo-block-scotus-silent/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-12</dc:date><description>U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani (D. Mass.) escalated her block on Trump's March 2026 mail-voting executive order twice in two days. On August 11 she expanded her earlier June injunction into a nationwide block on USPS implementation of the EO's "Confirmed Citizen List" and sta</description><category>Indira Talwani</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>U.S. Postal Service</category><category>Supreme Court of the United States</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">voting-rights</category><category domain="tag">shadow-docket</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani (D. Mass.) escalated her block on Trump's March 2026 mail-voting executive order twice in two days. On August 11 she expanded her earlier June injunction into a nationwide block on USPS implementation of the EO's "Confirmed Citizen List" and sta</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Indira Talwani, Donald Trump, U.S. Postal Service, Supreme Court of the United States</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--talwani-second-injunction-nationwide-mail-ballot-eo-block-scotus-silent/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--louisiana-psc-meta-hyperion-hides-electricity-demand-data/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-12</dc:date><description>The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 3-1 on August 12, 2026 to overrule its own Administrative Law Judge's subpoena order that would have required Meta to disclose electricity-demand and job-projection calculations for its Hyperion AI campus in Richland Parish. The Allia</description><category>Meta Platforms</category><category>Sierra Club</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">grid-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">louisiana</category><category domain="tag">meta</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 3-1 on August 12, 2026 to overrule its own Administrative Law Judge's subpoena order that would have required Meta to disclose electricity-demand and job-projection calculations for its Hyperion AI campus in Richland Parish. The Allia</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Meta Platforms, Sierra Club</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--louisiana-psc-meta-hyperion-hides-electricity-demand-data/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--dilley-children-detained-100-days-five-times-flores-cap/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-12</dc:date><description>A Texas Tribune investigation published August 12, 2026 found that at least 60 children at the CoreCivic-operated South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley have been detained 100 days or more — five times the 20-day limit set by the Flores settlement, the federal consent de</description><category>CoreCivic</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">texas</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Texas Tribune investigation published August 12, 2026 found that at least 60 children at the CoreCivic-operated South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley have been detained 100 days or more — five times the 20-day limit set by the Flores settlement, the federal consent de</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> CoreCivic</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-12--dilley-children-detained-100-days-five-times-flores-cap/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--dhs-scraps-socorro-8500-bed-mega-detention-transfers-warehouses-to-gsa/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-11</dc:date><description>DHS abandoned its plan to convert a nearly one-million-square-foot warehouse complex in Socorro, Texas into an 8,500-person immigration detention center and ICE training facility — what would have been the largest ICE detention center in the country — and transferred the three-wa</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>General Services Administration</category><category>Kristi Noem</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">warehouse-conversion</category><category domain="tag">community-resistance</category><category domain="tag">dhs</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DHS abandoned its plan to convert a nearly one-million-square-foot warehouse complex in Socorro, Texas into an 8,500-person immigration detention center and ICE training facility — what would have been the largest ICE detention center in the country — and transferred the three-wa</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, General Services Administration, Kristi Noem</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--dhs-scraps-socorro-8500-bed-mega-detention-transfers-warehouses-to-gsa/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Bodycam Rollout On Track for August, But Footage Release Left to Agency Discretion</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--ice-bodycam-rollout-discretionary-release-caveat/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-11</dc:date><description>Acting ICE Director David Venturella announced August 11, 2026 that the agency is "on track" to equip all field personnel with body cameras by the end of August, clarifying that footage will only be released when it would not compromise "investigations or privacy" — an undefined </description><category>David Venturella</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">accountability-erasure</category><category domain="tag">opacity-architecture</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Acting ICE Director David Venturella announced August 11, 2026 that the agency is "on track" to equip all field personnel with body cameras by the end of August, clarifying that footage will only be released when it would not compromise "investigations or privacy" — an undefined </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> David Venturella, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--ice-bodycam-rollout-discretionary-release-caveat/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--walker-county-ga-datacenter-moratorium-180-days-study-committee/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-11</dc:date><description>The Walker County Board of Commissioners voted August 6 to extend its data center moratorium by 180 days, through roughly February 2027, and created a Data Center Development Standards Study Committee with a December 4 reporting deadline. The county's original 30-day moratorium, </description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">georgia</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Walker County Board of Commissioners voted August 6 to extend its data center moratorium by 180 days, through roughly February 2027, and created a Data Center Development Standards Study Committee with a December 4 reporting deadline. The county's original 30-day moratorium, </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--walker-county-ga-datacenter-moratorium-180-days-study-committee/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--wisconsin-psc-forces-atc-restart-port-washington-datacenter-grid-app/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-11</dc:date><description>The Wisconsin Public Service Commission voted August 7 to reject American Transmission Company's application to build $1.7 billion in grid infrastructure connecting a large data center at Port Washington (Ozaukee County), ordering ATC to restart the application from scratch. PSC </description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">wisconsin</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-cost-shift</category><category domain="tag">grid-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Wisconsin Public Service Commission voted August 7 to reject American Transmission Company's application to build $1.7 billion in grid infrastructure connecting a large data center at Port Washington (Ozaukee County), ordering ATC to restart the application from scratch. PSC </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-11--wisconsin-psc-forces-atc-restart-port-washington-datacenter-grid-app/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--ice-lexisnexis-palantir-bulk-facial-recognition-contract/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-10</dc:date><description>ICE signed a $6.7 million procurement for LexisNexis commercial records — more than 82 billion data points — with an explicit API requirement feeding directly into Palantir, mandating AI-driven identity inference and bulk facial matching across large-scale image databases. First </description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category>Palantir Technologies</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">biometrics</category><category domain="tag">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE signed a $6.7 million procurement for LexisNexis commercial records — more than 82 billion data points — with an explicit API requirement feeding directly into Palantir, mandating AI-driven identity inference and bulk facial matching across large-scale image databases. First </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Palantir Technologies</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--ice-lexisnexis-palantir-bulk-facial-recognition-contract/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death'</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--ice-solicits-20m-compliant-technologies-electric-shock-gloves-sudden-death-warning/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-10</dc:date><description>DHS published a notice on August 10, 2026 outlining a plan to purchase $10–20 million worth of electric shock gloves for ICE officers. The device is the G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter — manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned firm in Lexingt</description><category>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Human Rights Watch</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category><category domain="tag">procurement</category><category domain="tag">ice</category><category domain="tag">detention-conditions</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DHS published a notice on August 10, 2026 outlining a plan to purchase $10–20 million worth of electric shock gloves for ICE officers. The device is the G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter — manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned firm in Lexingt</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Human Rights Watch</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--ice-solicits-20m-compliant-technologies-electric-shock-gloves-sudden-death-warning/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--meta-forge-future-pac-buys-florida-legislative-leaders/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-10</dc:date><description>Meta established "Forge the Future Project," a Florida political action committee funding advertisements and direct contributions to Republican legislative candidates aligned with its AI and data-center interests, according to reporting by Florida legislative-beat journalist Jaso</description><category>Meta Platforms</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">meta</category><category domain="tag">florida</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Meta established "Forge the Future Project," a Florida political action committee funding advertisements and direct contributions to Republican legislative candidates aligned with its AI and data-center interests, according to reporting by Florida legislative-beat journalist Jaso</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Meta Platforms</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--meta-forge-future-pac-buys-florida-legislative-leaders/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>NYT: Trump's World Liberty Financial Took $100M From UK Money-Laundering Suspect Bobby Zhou; SEC Has Not Acted</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--nyt-wlfi-took-100m-from-bobby-zhou-uk-laundering-suspect/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-10</dc:date><description>A New York Times investigation reported August 9-10 that World Liberty Financial's Aqua 1 vehicle accepted $100 million in token purchases from a fund controlled by Guren "Bobby" Zhou — a businessman arrested in Britain in 2021 on suspicion of money laundering, never charged, wit</description><category>World Liberty Financial</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Donald Trump Jr.</category><category>Steve Witkoff</category><category>Zach Witkoff</category><category>Paul Atkins</category><category domain="tag">financial-capture</category><category domain="tag">systematic-corruption</category><category domain="tag">crypto</category><category domain="tag">world-liberty-financial</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A New York Times investigation reported August 9-10 that World Liberty Financial's Aqua 1 vehicle accepted $100 million in token purchases from a fund controlled by Guren "Bobby" Zhou — a businessman arrested in Britain in 2021 on suspicion of money laundering, never charged, wit</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Witkoff, Zach Witkoff, Paul Atkins</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--nyt-wlfi-took-100m-from-bobby-zhou-uk-laundering-suspect/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--dhs-privatized-bounty-hunter-network-tracks-deportees-abroad/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-10</dc:date><description>Wired reported August 10, 2026 that DHS and ICE have established a privatized surveillance apparatus extending beyond U.S. borders: contractors are paid to physically photograph the homes and workplaces of deported individuals abroad, tracking them after removal. The program is c</description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">surveillance</category><category domain="tag">opacity-architecture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Wired reported August 10, 2026 that DHS and ICE have established a privatized surveillance apparatus extending beyond U.S. borders: contractors are paid to physically photograph the homes and workplaces of deported individuals abroad, tracking them after removal. The program is c</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-10--dhs-privatized-bounty-hunter-network-tracks-deportees-abroad/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Fulton County Votes 5-0 to Halt Data Center Tax Abatements Citing $1.1B Statewide Revenue Loss as Microsoft Unwinds Atlanta Deals</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-09--fulton-county-ga-votes-5-0-oppose-data-center-abatements-microsoft-unwinds/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-09</dc:date><description>The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on August 9, 2026 to oppose tax abatements for data center projects, instructing all county development authorities to stop approving such incentives. Commissioner Bridget Thorne, who sponsored the measure, cited $150 million in </description><category>Microsoft</category><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">ratepayer-costs</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">microsoft</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on August 9, 2026 to oppose tax abatements for data center projects, instructing all county development authorities to stop approving such incentives. Commissioner Bridget Thorne, who sponsored the measure, cited $150 million in </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Microsoft</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-09--fulton-county-ga-votes-5-0-oppose-data-center-abatements-microsoft-unwinds/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Thune Files Cloture Setting Sept 15 CLARITY Act Showdown After Senate Misses Its Own August Deadline</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-08--thune-files-cloture-clarity-act-sept-15-showdown-polymarket-13-percent/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-08</dc:date><description>The Senate missed its self-imposed August 7 deadline for the CLARITY Act and left for recess without a vote. Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed on August 8, setting a September 15 procedural vote for the day senators return. The 600-page market-stru</description><category>John Thune</category><category>United States Senate</category><category>Securities and Exchange Commission</category><category domain="tag">congress</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">conflicts-of-interest</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Senate missed its self-imposed August 7 deadline for the CLARITY Act and left for recess without a vote. Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed on August 8, setting a September 15 procedural vote for the day senators return. The 600-page market-stru</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> John Thune, United States Senate, Securities and Exchange Commission</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-08--thune-files-cloture-clarity-act-sept-15-showdown-polymarket-13-percent/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GOP Congressional Candidate Calls US Citizens Shot Dead by ICE 'Collateral Damage'</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--cunningham-ice-us-citizens-collateral-damage/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-07</dc:date><description>Republican candidate Greg Cunningham, running for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District, told Migrant Insider on August 7, 2026 that Renee Good, 37, and Alex Pretti, 37 — two U.S. citizens shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January 2026 during Operation M</description><category>Renee Good</category><category>Alex Pretti</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">use-of-force</category><category domain="tag">minneapolis</category><category domain="tag">operation-metro-surge</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Republican candidate Greg Cunningham, running for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District, told Migrant Insider on August 7, 2026 that Renee Good, 37, and Alex Pretti, 37 — two U.S. citizens shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January 2026 during Operation M</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Renee Good, Alex Pretti</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--cunningham-ice-us-citizens-collateral-damage/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--ice-arrests-75-uvisa-crime-victims-operation-metro-surge/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-07</dc:date><description>The Minnesota Reformer identified at least 75 people detained during Operation Metro Surge who held U visa status — work permits and deportation protections granted specifically to immigrants who are crime victims cooperating with law enforcement. Victims arrested include survivo</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">operation-metro-surge</category><category domain="tag">minnesota</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Minnesota Reformer identified at least 75 people detained during Operation Metro Surge who held U visa status — work permits and deportation protections granted specifically to immigrants who are crime victims cooperating with law enforcement. Victims arrested include survivo</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--ice-arrests-75-uvisa-crime-victims-operation-metro-surge/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ORR Awards Our Rescue a $158.1M Non-Competed 'Urgency' Contract to Represent Migrant Children — One Day After a Federal Judge Found No Mechanism Existed for Injunction Compliance</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--our-rescue-tim-ballard-244m-migrant-children-legal-contract/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-07</dc:date><description>On **August 7, 2026**, HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement signed contract **7571MN26C00029** — **"Legal Services Bridge 2.0"** — obligating **$158,124,790** to **Our Rescue**, the Utah anti-trafficking nonprofit founded as Operation Underground Railroad by Tim Ballard and now l</description><category>Burke Law Group PLLC</category><category>Acacia Center for Justice</category><category>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</category><category>Office of Refugee Resettlement</category><category>Dawnisha Helland</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">legal-representation-capture</category><category domain="tag">revolving-door</category><category domain="tag">unaccompanied-children</category><category domain="tag">tvpra</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>On **August 7, 2026**, HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement signed contract **7571MN26C00029** — **"Legal Services Bridge 2.0"** — obligating **$158,124,790** to **Our Rescue**, the Utah anti-trafficking nonprofit founded as Operation Underground Railroad by Tim Ballard and now l</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Burke Law Group PLLC, Acacia Center for Justice, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Dawnisha Helland</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--our-rescue-tim-ballard-244m-migrant-children-legal-contract/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--trump-judicial-pipeline-slows-53-judges-49-vacancies-remain/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-07</dc:date><description>Bloomberg Law reported on August 7, 2026 that the administration had confirmed 53 Article III judges in 18 months, including 10 appeals court judges — filling every circuit court vacancy — but that the pace was now slowing for reasons outside its control. Only 49 district-level v</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>United States Senate</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">federal-courts</category><category domain="tag">senate</category><category domain="tag">midterms</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Bloomberg Law reported on August 7, 2026 that the administration had confirmed 53 Article III judges in 18 months, including 10 appeals court judges — filling every circuit court vacancy — but that the pace was now slowing for reasons outside its control. Only 49 district-level v</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, United States Senate</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--trump-judicial-pipeline-slows-53-judges-49-vacancies-remain/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora'</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--warrick-county-in-project-zora-1200-acres-undisclosed-hyperscaler/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-07</dc:date><description>After nearly 200 residents packed a July 14 hearing, the Warrick County Area Plan Commission tabled its own data-center ordinance and voted 4-3 to draft a moratorium through December. A special Board of Commissioners meeting on August 11 will vote on both the moratorium and zonin</description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">indiana</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>After nearly 200 residents packed a July 14 hearing, the Warrick County Area Plan Commission tabled its own data-center ordinance and voted 4-3 to draft a moratorium through December. A special Board of Commissioners meeting on August 11 will vote on both the moratorium and zonin</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-07--warrick-county-in-project-zora-1200-acres-undisclosed-hyperscaler/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ACLU Suit Against DOJ National Voter Database Proceeds as 12 States Comply Voluntarily, Courts Dismiss 5 State Challenges</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--aclu-doj-voter-database-12-states-complied-5-suits-dismissed/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>The ACLU and Protect Democracy's suit on behalf of Common Cause and four individual voters to block DOJ's national voter surveillance-and-purge database is proceeding toward a ruling, with new numbers clarifying the fight's scope: of all 50 states DOJ demanded confidential voter </description><category>Department of Justice</category><category>American Civil Liberties Union</category><category>Protect Democracy</category><category>Common Cause</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The ACLU and Protect Democracy's suit on behalf of Common Cause and four individual voters to block DOJ's national voter surveillance-and-purge database is proceeding toward a ruling, with new numbers clarifying the fight's scope: of all 50 states DOJ demanded confidential voter </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Protect Democracy, Common Cause</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--aclu-doj-voter-database-12-states-complied-5-suits-dismissed/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Advocacy Groups Rally Broome County Courthouse as 287(g) Termination Deadline Nears</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--broome-county-ny-287g-advocacy-rally-compliance-deadline/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>On August 6, 2026, advocacy organizations and community members rallied outside the Broome County Courthouse urging Sheriff Fred Akshar to follow through on his July 28 agreement to comply with New York's Local Cops, Local Crimes Act and terminate the county's 287(g) ICE agreemen</description><category>New York Office of Immigrant Trust</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">287g</category><category domain="tag">new-york</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>On August 6, 2026, advocacy organizations and community members rallied outside the Broome County Courthouse urging Sheriff Fred Akshar to follow through on his July 28 agreement to comply with New York's Local Cops, Local Crimes Act and terminate the county's 287(g) ICE agreemen</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> New York Office of Immigrant Trust</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--broome-county-ny-287g-advocacy-rally-compliance-deadline/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--feds-threaten-hennepin-county-sheriff-witt-ice-detainer-prosecution/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt disclosed that federal authorities have issued subpoenas and threatened her with criminal prosecution over the county jail's policy of declining to hold people on civil ICE detainers absent a judicial warrant — a policy Hennepin County has mai</description><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">minnesota</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt disclosed that federal authorities have issued subpoenas and threatened her with criminal prosecution over the county jail's policy of declining to hold people on civil ICE detainers absent a judicial warrant — a policy Hennepin County has mai</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--feds-threaten-hennepin-county-sheriff-witt-ice-detainer-prosecution/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--gao-audit-doge-110b-savings-unverifiable/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>GAO report GAO-26-108615, published August 6, 2026, found DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" claim of $110 billion in federal savings is systematically inflated: 96% of claimed grant savings lack any verifiable methodology, 2,503 contracts totaling $27.4 billion in claimed savings show no</description><category>Government Accountability Office</category><category>Gary Peters</category><category>Richard Blumenthal</category><category>Department of Government Efficiency</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">systematic-corruption</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>GAO report GAO-26-108615, published August 6, 2026, found DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" claim of $110 billion in federal savings is systematically inflated: 96% of claimed grant savings lack any verifiable methodology, 2,503 contracts totaling $27.4 billion in claimed savings show no</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Government Accountability Office, Gary Peters, Richard Blumenthal, Department of Government Efficiency</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--gao-audit-doge-110b-savings-unverifiable/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Operates 42 Internal AI Tools But Disclosed Only 23; Delaney Hall Logs Third Death ICE Never Announced</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--ice-42-ai-tools-23-disclosed-delaney-hall-third-hidden-death/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>DHS added 58 new immigration AI use cases in the six-month window from July 2025 to January 2026, a 36% expansion, with ICE alone adding 28 new systems and CBP adding 23. Analysis by Austin Kocher and the American Immigration Council found ICE operates 42 AI tools internally but </description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Austin Kocher</category><category>American Immigration Council</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DHS added 58 new immigration AI use cases in the six-month window from July 2025 to January 2026, a 36% expansion, with ICE alone adding 28 new systems and CBP adding 23. Analysis by Austin Kocher and the American Immigration Council found ICE operates 42 AI tools internally but </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Austin Kocher, American Immigration Council</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--ice-42-ai-tools-23-disclosed-delaney-hall-third-hidden-death/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ORR Announces Intent to Hand a Three-Year-Old Houston Energy-Law Boutique up to $150M, Single-Source, to Represent Unaccompanied Children — Citing the Court Injunction It Was Under</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--orr-single-source-150m-burke-law-group-uac-legal-services/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description># ORR announces a $150M single-source award to Burke Law Group</description><category>Burke Law Group PLLC</category><category>Dawnisha Helland</category><category>Office of Refugee Resettlement</category><category>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</category><category>Acacia Center for Justice</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">immigration-system-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">legal-representation-capture</category><category domain="tag">unaccompanied-children</category><category domain="tag">tvpra</category><category domain="tag">revolving-door</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p># ORR announces a $150M single-source award to Burke Law Group</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Burke Law Group PLLC, Dawnisha Helland, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Acacia Center for Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--orr-single-source-150m-burke-law-group-uac-legal-services/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Signs New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Weeks After SCOTUS Ruled the Restriction Unconstitutional</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--trump-signs-new-birthright-citizenship-eos-defying-scotus/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-06</dc:date><description>Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his original attempt to end birthright citizenship, President Trump signed new executive orders on August 6, 2026 attempting to restrict birthright citizenship through different legal mechanisms. Cato Institute immigration analyst David B</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">executive-power-expansion</category><category domain="tag">constitutional-crisis</category><category domain="tag">birthright-citizenship</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his original attempt to end birthright citizenship, President Trump signed new executive orders on August 6, 2026 attempting to restrict birthright citizenship through different legal mechanisms. Cato Institute immigration analyst David B</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-06--trump-signs-new-birthright-citizenship-eos-defying-scotus/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>~1,000 Effingham County GA Residents Confront OpenAI Over $20B, 3.2GW Project Camellia Data Center</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--effingham-county-ga-residents-confront-openai-project-camellia/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>OpenAI announced a 3.2 gigawatt, $20 billion data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia on July 22, 2026. Nearly 1,000 residents confronted OpenAI officials at a packed open house the next day and again at the August 5 Board of Commissioners meeting, where commissioners none</description><category>OpenAI</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">openai</category><category domain="tag">georgia</category><category domain="tag">grid-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>OpenAI announced a 3.2 gigawatt, $20 billion data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia on July 22, 2026. Nearly 1,000 residents confronted OpenAI officials at a packed open house the next day and again at the August 5 Board of Commissioners meeting, where commissioners none</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> OpenAI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--effingham-county-ga-residents-confront-openai-project-camellia/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--judge-mcconnell-discloses-death-threats-loomer-doxxes-daughter/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island publicly disclosed at least six credible death threats received since his 2025 ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration's federal funding freeze. Documented incidents include a pizza-doxing referencing the 2020 </description><category>John McConnell</category><category>Laura Loomer</category><category>U.S. Marshals Service</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">judicial-intimidation</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island publicly disclosed at least six credible death threats received since his 2025 ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration's federal funding freeze. Documented incidents include a pizza-doxing referencing the 2020 </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> John McConnell, Laura Loomer, U.S. Marshals Service</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--judge-mcconnell-discloses-death-threats-loomer-doxxes-daughter/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt for Failing to Preserve ICE Agents' Personal Phone Records From LA Sweeps</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--dhs-contempt-ice-agent-personal-phones-la-sweeps/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>A federal judge in California held DHS in contempt on August 5, 2026 for failing to preserve and produce communications from ICE agents' personal cell phones used during the Los Angeles immigration enforcement surge, setting accumulating fines until DHS certifies compliance. The </description><category>Department of Homeland Security</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">california</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A federal judge in California held DHS in contempt on August 5, 2026 for failing to preserve and produce communications from ICE agents' personal cell phones used during the Los Angeles immigration enforcement surge, setting accumulating fines until DHS certifies compliance. The </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--dhs-contempt-ice-agent-personal-phones-la-sweeps/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--gao-white-house-stonewalled-doge-oversight-half-agencies-refused/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>A GAO report (GAO-26-108403) released August 5, 2026 found the White House and federal agencies refused to fully cooperate with oversight of DOGE operations: fewer than half of agencies responded to GAO's personnel-document requests, ten missed the response deadline entirely, and</description><category>Government Accountability Office</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category><category domain="tag">doge</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A GAO report (GAO-26-108403) released August 5, 2026 found the White House and federal agencies refused to fully cooperate with oversight of DOGE operations: fewer than half of agencies responded to GAO's personnel-document requests, ten missed the response deadline entirely, and</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Government Accountability Office</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--gao-white-house-stonewalled-doge-oversight-half-agencies-refused/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Weighs Buying Moshannon Valley Detention Facility Outright as Clearfield County PA Contract Nears September Expiration</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--ice-weighs-buying-moshannon-valley-clearfield-county-contract-expires/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>Clearfield County, Pennsylvania's intergovernmental service agreement with ICE and GEO Group for the Moshannon Valley Processing Center — the largest ICE detention facility in the Northeast, with capacity for 1,876 people — is set to expire September 28, 2026, and neither the cou</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">pennsylvania</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Clearfield County, Pennsylvania's intergovernmental service agreement with ICE and GEO Group for the Moshannon Valley Processing Center — the largest ICE detention facility in the Northeast, with capacity for 1,876 people — is set to expire September 28, 2026, and neither the cou</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--ice-weighs-buying-moshannon-valley-clearfield-county-contract-expires/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Mother Jones Documents ICE Undercounting In-Custody Deaths, Profiles Trejo Ricano at Stewart Detention</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--mother-jones-ice-death-undercount-stewart-detention-trejo-ricano/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-05</dc:date><description>Mother Jones reported August 2026 that ICE's official death count significantly understates actual in-custody mortality, profiling Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, 29, who was held at Georgia's GEO Group-operated Stewart Detention Center and described being treated "like a number or a p</description><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">deaths-in-custody</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">accountability-erasure</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Mother Jones reported August 2026 that ICE's official death count significantly understates actual in-custody mortality, profiling Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, 29, who was held at Georgia's GEO Group-operated Stewart Detention Center and described being treated "like a number or a p</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-05--mother-jones-ice-death-undercount-stewart-detention-trejo-ricano/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>CoreCivic Signs $536M, 5-Year Contract to Reopen Appleton MN's Prairie Correctional as 1,600-Bed ICE Facility</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--corecivic-536m-contract-reopen-appleton-mn-prairie-correctional/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>ICE and CoreCivic signed a 5-year, $536 million contract to reopen the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Swift County, Minnesota — a private prison that has sat closed since 2010 — as the state's first dedicated immigrant detention center. The facility will hold 1,600 be</description><category>CoreCivic</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">corecivic</category><category domain="tag">minnesota</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE and CoreCivic signed a 5-year, $536 million contract to reopen the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Swift County, Minnesota — a private prison that has sat closed since 2010 — as the state's first dedicated immigrant detention center. The facility will hold 1,600 be</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> CoreCivic, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--corecivic-536m-contract-reopen-appleton-mn-prairie-correctional/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DOJ Voter-Roll Suits Against Colorado, D.C. Both Dismissed — Colorado Ruling Forecloses Refiling</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--doj-voter-roll-colorado-dismissed-with-prejudice-dc-dismissed/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>Denver-based U.S. District Judge Philip Brimmer dismissed the Trump DOJ's lawsuit against Colorado on or about August 4, 2026, ruling DOJ failed to show a legitimate reason for demanding unredacted voter data — Colorado had already provided its publicly available master voter fil</description><category>U.S. Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Denver-based U.S. District Judge Philip Brimmer dismissed the Trump DOJ's lawsuit against Colorado on or about August 4, 2026, ruling DOJ failed to show a legitimate reason for demanding unredacted voter data — Colorado had already provided its publicly available master voter fil</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--doj-voter-roll-colorado-dismissed-with-prejudice-dc-dismissed/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>El-Sayed Defeats Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary by 1 Point, on Record Turnout, Despite $30M+ AIPAC Onslaught</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--el-sayed-defeats-stevens-michigan-democratic-senate-primary-record-turnout/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>Abdul El-Sayed, the former Michigan health director, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate primary on August 4, 2026, by a margin of roughly one percentage point — 14,893 votes out of more than 1.5 million ballots cast statewide. The Associated Press ca</description><category>Mike Rogers</category><category domain="tag">electoral-politics</category><category domain="tag">michigan</category><category domain="tag">dark-money</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">community-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Abdul El-Sayed, the former Michigan health director, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate primary on August 4, 2026, by a margin of roughly one percentage point — 14,893 votes out of more than 1.5 million ballots cast statewide. The Associated Press ca</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Mike Rogers</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--el-sayed-defeats-stevens-michigan-democratic-senate-primary-record-turnout/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Obtained Court Orders to Force-Feed 18 Hunger-Striking Detainees Across Four Federal Districts</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--ice-obtains-court-orders-force-feed-18-hunger-strikers/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>Between January 2025 and August 2026, ICE obtained court orders authorizing forced medical treatment of 18 hunger-striking detainees across at least four federal districts, according to an investigation. Federal prosecutors and ICE officials secured these orders in emergency proc</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Between January 2025 and August 2026, ICE obtained court orders authorizing forced medical treatment of 18 hunger-striking detainees across at least four federal districts, according to an investigation. Federal prosecutors and ICE officials secured these orders in emergency proc</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--ice-obtains-court-orders-force-feed-18-hunger-strikers/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Jeffersonville IN Council Votes 8-0 for 1-Year Data Center Moratorium; Meta's Near-Complete Facility Exempted</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--jeffersonville-in-8-0-data-center-moratorium-meta-exempted/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>The Jeffersonville (Clark County, IN) City Council voted unanimously 8-0 on August 4 to impose a one-year moratorium on new data center permits, giving the city time to write permanent data-center zoning into its Unified Development Ordinance. Meta's nearly-complete facility at t</description><category>Meta Platforms</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">indiana</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category><category domain="tag">meta</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Jeffersonville (Clark County, IN) City Council voted unanimously 8-0 on August 4 to impose a one-year moratorium on new data center permits, giving the city time to write permanent data-center zoning into its Unified Development Ordinance. Meta's nearly-complete facility at t</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Meta Platforms</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--jeffersonville-in-8-0-data-center-moratorium-meta-exempted/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--senate-judiciary-advances-blanche-ag-nomination-doj-regularity-catalog/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-04</dc:date><description>The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines on August 4, 2026 to advance Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General, clearing the path for a floor vote. Blanche — Trump's former personal criminal-defense attorney, acting AG since Trump fired Pamela Bondi on Ap</description><category>Todd Blanche</category><category>Senate Judiciary Committee</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">doj-capture</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines on August 4, 2026 to advance Todd Blanche's nomination as Attorney General, clearing the path for a floor vote. Blanche — Trump's former personal criminal-defense attorney, acting AG since Trump fired Pamela Bondi on Ap</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Todd Blanche, Senate Judiciary Committee</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-04--senate-judiciary-advances-blanche-ag-nomination-doj-regularity-catalog/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--abbott-freezes-texas-data-center-grid-connections-ercot-audit/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT on August 3, 2026 to audit every data center in the grid interconnection queue before approving new connections, immediately freezing large-load tie-ins statewide. ERCOT suspended its "Batch Zero Large Loa</description><category>Greg Abbott</category><category>ERCOT</category><category>Public Utility Commission of Texas</category><category>Meta Platforms</category><category>Google</category><category>Microsoft</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">grid-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">texas</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT on August 3, 2026 to audit every data center in the grid interconnection queue before approving new connections, immediately freezing large-load tie-ins statewide. ERCOT suspended its "Batch Zero Large Loa</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Greg Abbott, ERCOT, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Meta Platforms, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, xAI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--abbott-freezes-texas-data-center-grid-connections-ercot-audit/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>La Crosse WI City Plan Commission Advances 18-Month Data Center Freeze; Council Vote Aug 13</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--la-crosse-wi-city-advances-18-month-data-center-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>On August 3, 2026, the La Crosse City Plan Commission voted to advance an 18-month moratorium on data center development, mirroring La Crosse County's 18-month moratorium enacted in June. The city moratorium covers facilities storing more than 1 petabyte of data or consuming more</description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">wisconsin</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>On August 3, 2026, the La Crosse City Plan Commission voted to advance an 18-month moratorium on data center development, mirroring La Crosse County's 18-month moratorium enacted in June. The city moratorium covers facilities storing more than 1 petabyte of data or consuming more</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--la-crosse-wi-city-advances-18-month-data-center-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>NC Data Center 'Moratorium Fever': 11 Counties, 17 Towns Ban Hyperscale Development; Durham Hearing Set Aug 24</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--nc-moratorium-wave-11-counties-durham-hearing-aug24/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>At least 11 North Carolina counties and 17 towns have enacted data center moratoriums as of August 2026, typically 12 months, in what Carolina Public Press calls a statewide "moratorium fever." Durham City passed a 60-day moratorium in May 2026, since extended to 12 months; Durha</description><category>Mike Lee</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category><category domain="tag">north-carolina</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>At least 11 North Carolina counties and 17 towns have enacted data center moratoriums as of August 2026, typically 12 months, in what Carolina Public Press calls a statewide "moratorium fever." Durham City passed a 60-day moratorium in May 2026, since extended to 12 months; Durha</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Mike Lee</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--nc-moratorium-wave-11-counties-durham-hearing-aug24/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance Tools to Identify Columbia Gaza Paint-Splatter Protester, Documents Show</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--nypd-surveillance-identifies-columbia-gaza-paint-protester/</link>
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<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>Documents obtained by The Intercept, published August 3, 2026, show the NYPD deployed advanced surveillance capabilities to identify a student protester who splattered paint near Columbia University during a pro-Palestine demonstration highlighting the university's ties to the Is</description><category>New York Police Department</category><category>The Intercept</category><category>Columbia University</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">facial-recognition</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Documents obtained by The Intercept, published August 3, 2026, show the NYPD deployed advanced surveillance capabilities to identify a student protester who splattered paint near Columbia University during a pro-Palestine demonstration highlighting the university's ties to the Is</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> New York Police Department, The Intercept, Columbia University</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--nypd-surveillance-identifies-columbia-gaza-paint-protester/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>RNC Demands Michigan Poll Workers' Home Addresses and Medical Records — Benson Partially Denies</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--rnc-foia-michigan-poll-worker-personal-data-benson-partial-denial/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>The Republican National Committee filed a FOIA request with Michigan's Secretary of State on July 31 demanding the full personal records of every citizen enrolled in the state's Democracy MVP poll-worker program: home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and medical or disab</description><category>Republican National Committee</category><category domain="tag">electoral-manipulation</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">michigan</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Republican National Committee filed a FOIA request with Michigan's Secretary of State on July 31 demanding the full personal records of every citizen enrolled in the state's Democracy MVP poll-worker program: home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and medical or disab</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Republican National Committee</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--rnc-foia-michigan-poll-worker-personal-data-benson-partial-denial/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--scotus-sets-response-deadline-trump-mail-ballot-emergency-appeal/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-03</dc:date><description>The Supreme Court ordered states challenging Trump's mail-voting executive order to file their response to the administration's emergency shadow-docket application by August 3, 2026, with a ruling expected imminently as the November midterms approach. The underlying order — issue</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>Supreme Court of the United States</category><category>United States Postal Service</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">voting-rights</category><category domain="tag">shadow-docket</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Supreme Court ordered states challenging Trump's mail-voting executive order to file their response to the administration's emergency shadow-docket application by August 3, 2026, with a ruling expected imminently as the November midterms approach. The underlying order — issue</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, Supreme Court of the United States, United States Postal Service</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-03--scotus-sets-response-deadline-trump-mail-ballot-emergency-appeal/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Sets Second-Term Monthly Record: 46,000 Detained in July 2026 as In-Custody Deaths Reach 24+</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-02--ice-july-2026-record-46000-detentions-24-custody-deaths/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-02</dc:date><description>ICE detained more than 46,000 people in July 2026 — the highest single-month total of the Trump second term — as Enforcement and Removal Operations widened its target set across visa overstays and illegal entry. ICE in-custody deaths reached at least 24 for 2026, including 41-yea</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE detained more than 46,000 people in July 2026 — the highest single-month total of the Trump second term — as Enforcement and Removal Operations widened its target set across visa overstays and illegal entry. ICE in-custody deaths reached at least 24 for 2026, including 41-yea</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-02--ice-july-2026-record-46000-detentions-24-custody-deaths/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--california-drop-platform-live-first-centralized-data-broker-deletion/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-01</dc:date><description>California's Data Removal Platform (DROP), the centralized deletion mechanism created by the Delete Act, became operational on August 1, 2026. Registered data brokers must check DROP at least every 45 days and process consumer deletion requests within 90 days, with per-request ci</description><category domain="tag">data-brokers</category><category domain="tag">surveillance</category><category domain="tag">california</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>California's Data Removal Platform (DROP), the centralized deletion mechanism created by the Delete Act, became operational on August 1, 2026. Registered data brokers must check DROP at least every 45 days and process consumer deletion requests within 90 days, with per-request ci</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--california-drop-platform-live-first-centralized-data-broker-deletion/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--doj-solicits-us-attorneys-judicial-impeachment-fodder-blanche-war/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-01</dc:date><description>The Justice Department directed all US Attorneys' offices to submit examples of "judicial activism" — in practice, rulings adverse to the administration — to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly used the word "war" to d</description><category>Todd Blanche</category><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">doj-capture</category><category domain="tag">separation-of-powers</category><category domain="tag">impeachment</category><category domain="tag">court-defiance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The Justice Department directed all US Attorneys' offices to submit examples of "judicial activism" — in practice, rulings adverse to the administration — to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly used the word "war" to d</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Todd Blanche, Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--doj-solicits-us-attorneys-judicial-impeachment-fodder-blanche-war/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Dies at Delaney Hall After Medication Denial, 23rd ICE Custody Death of 2026, Second at GEO's $1.2B NJ Facility</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--edwin-lopez-cornejo-dies-delaney-hall-second-death-geo-1-2b-contract/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-01</dc:date><description>Edwin Giovanni Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old man from El Salvador, died on August 1, 2026, in ICE custody at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey, after being denied his epilepsy and diabetes medication. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE custody in 2026 and </description><category>GEO Group</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</category><category>House Judiciary Committee</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">medical-neglect</category><category domain="tag">delaney-hall</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Edwin Giovanni Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old man from El Salvador, died on August 1, 2026, in ICE custody at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey, after being denied his epilepsy and diabetes medication. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE custody in 2026 and </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), House Judiciary Committee</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--edwin-lopez-cornejo-dies-delaney-hall-second-death-geo-1-2b-contract/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Electronic Monitoring Triples to 54,000 Immigrants; GEO Group Projects Growth to 450,000</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--ice-ankle-monitor-surge-54000-geo-group-isap-profits/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-08-01</dc:date><description>ICE's ISAP ankle-monitor program has tripled from roughly 17,000 to 54,000 GPS-monitored immigrants, following a June 2025 directive mandating ankle monitors "whenever possible" for all adult participants in ICE's Alternatives to Detention program. GEO Group, the program's sole o</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE's ISAP ankle-monitor program has tripled from roughly 17,000 to 54,000 GPS-monitored immigrants, following a June 2025 directive mandating ankle monitors "whenever possible" for all adult participants in ICE's Alternatives to Detention program. GEO Group, the program's sole o</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-08-01--ice-ankle-monitor-surge-54000-geo-group-isap-profits/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Clark County, IN Residents Demand Oversight of $3M Jail-ICE Detention Contract</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-31--clark-county-in-jail-ice-3m-oversight-demand/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-31</dc:date><description>Advocacy group Do Something Southern Indiana appeared at the July 31, 2026 Clark County Commissioners meeting demanding review of the county jail's ICE detention agreement, which has generated nearly $3 million across 783 detainees since April 2025. Residents raised concerns abou</description><category domain="tag">detention-ice</category><category domain="tag">igsa</category><category domain="tag">indiana</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Advocacy group Do Something Southern Indiana appeared at the July 31, 2026 Clark County Commissioners meeting demanding review of the county jail's ICE detention agreement, which has generated nearly $3 million across 783 detainees since April 2025. Residents raised concerns abou</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-31--clark-county-in-jail-ice-3m-oversight-demand/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Kalshi Launches Prediction Market Letting Traders Bet on ICE's Daily Arrest Count</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-31--kalshi-launches-ice-daily-arrest-count-betting-market/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-31</dc:date><description>Kalshi built a prediction market letting traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count, structured as a zero-to-100,000-arrest range priced in pennies that traders can bet on one day at a time — disclosed in a federal filing that included confidential appendices the public never saw.</description><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Kalshi built a prediction market letting traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count, structured as a zero-to-100,000-arrest range priced in pennies that traders can bet on one day at a time — disclosed in a federal filing that included confidential appendices the public never saw.</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-31--kalshi-launches-ice-daily-arrest-count-betting-market/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>9th Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Deepening 4-2 Circuit Split Toward Likely SCOTUS Review</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ninth-circuit-rejects-mandatory-detention-deepens-circuit-split/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-30</dc:date><description>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 on July 30 that immigrants must receive bond hearings, rejecting the Trump administration's expansion of mandatory no-bond detention — with a Trump-appointed judge joining the majority. The ruling deepens a circuit split n</description><category>Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">immigration-detention</category><category domain="tag">due-process</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 on July 30 that immigrants must receive bond hearings, rejecting the Trump administration's expansion of mandatory no-bond detention — with a Trump-appointed judge joining the majority. The ruling deepens a circuit split n</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ninth-circuit-rejects-mandatory-detention-deepens-circuit-split/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Widens Airport Arrests to Legally-Present Migrants Using TSA Checkpoint Database Matching, No Warrants</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ice-widens-airport-arrests-legally-present-migrants-tsa-checkpoint/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-30</dc:date><description>ICE, working with TSA at airport check-in counters and gates, has arrested at least 27 people in nine states who entered the US legally — spouses of Americans, asylum applicants, pending green-card holders, tech workers — using database name-matches at travel chokepoints rather t</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category>Transportation Security Administration</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">due-process</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE, working with TSA at airport check-in counters and gates, has arrested at least 27 people in nine states who entered the US legally — spouses of Americans, asylum applicants, pending green-card holders, tech workers — using database name-matches at travel chokepoints rather t</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ice-widens-airport-arrests-legally-present-migrants-tsa-checkpoint/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Mother Jones Investigation: Anti-ICE Protesters Prosecuted as Antifa Under Trump's Terrorism Framework</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--mother-jones-anti-ice-protesters-charged-as-antifa/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-30</dc:date><description>A Mother Jones investigation published July 30, 2026 documents how anti-ICE protesters are being swept into the Trump administration's antifa prosecution campaign, facing federal charges that carry enhanced terrorism penalties. The reporting traces the machinery now being applied</description><category>Mother Jones</category><category>Federal Bureau of Investigation</category><category>Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">domestic-terrorism-framework</category><category domain="tag">civil-rights-suppression</category><category domain="tag">surveillance-infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Mother Jones investigation published July 30, 2026 documents how anti-ICE protesters are being swept into the Trump administration's antifa prosecution campaign, facing federal charges that carry enhanced terrorism penalties. The reporting traces the machinery now being applied</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Mother Jones, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--mother-jones-anti-ice-protesters-charged-as-antifa/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>New York AG Orders 12 Jurisdictions to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements by August 25; Madison County Sheriff Publicly Defies</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ny-ag-orders-287g-termination-madison-county-defies/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-30</dc:date><description>New York's Attorney General's Office of Immigrant Trust sent formal termination letters to 12 local law enforcement agencies under the "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act" (signed May 2026), ordering full termination of 287(g) ICE agreements by August 25. Broome County announced compli</description><category>New York Office of Immigrant Trust</category><category domain="tag">state-federal-conflict</category><category domain="tag">287g</category><category domain="tag">new-york</category><category domain="tag">immigration-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>New York's Attorney General's Office of Immigrant Trust sent formal termination letters to 12 local law enforcement agencies under the "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act" (signed May 2026), ordering full termination of 287(g) ICE agreements by August 25. Broome County announced compli</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> New York Office of Immigrant Trust</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-30--ny-ag-orders-287g-termination-madison-county-defies/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Data Centers Emerge as Wedge Issue in Michigan's 2026 Democratic Primary, Traverse City Resistance Grows</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--michigan-data-centers-divide-democratic-primary-el-sayed-stevens/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>Drop Site News, reporting with Barn Raiser, documented July 29, 2026 that hyperscale data-center siting has become a wedge issue inside Michigan's 2026 Democratic primary. A resistance movement opposing warehouse-scale data-center development has grown in Traverse City as rural M</description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">electoral-politics</category><category domain="tag">community-resistance</category><category domain="tag">michigan</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Drop Site News, reporting with Barn Raiser, documented July 29, 2026 that hyperscale data-center siting has become a wedge issue inside Michigan's 2026 Democratic primary. A resistance movement opposing warehouse-scale data-center development has grown in Traverse City as rural M</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--michigan-data-centers-divide-democratic-primary-el-sayed-stevens/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>DeSoto County, FL Commissioners Approve One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Preserving Carve-Out for 800-Acre Project</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--desoto-county-fl-moratorium-approved-loophole-preserved/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>DeSoto County, Florida commissioners voted July 29, 2026 to formally approve the one-year data center moratorium the board had directed staff to draft on June 25 ([[2026-06-25--desoto-county-fl-data-center-moratorium-dcip-carve-out]]). The final ordinance preserves the carve-out </description><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">community-resistance</category><category domain="tag">moratorium</category><category domain="tag">datacenter</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>DeSoto County, Florida commissioners voted July 29, 2026 to formally approve the one-year data center moratorium the board had directed staff to draft on June 25 ([[2026-06-25--desoto-county-fl-data-center-moratorium-dcip-carve-out]]). The final ordinance preserves the carve-out </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--desoto-county-fl-moratorium-approved-loophole-preserved/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>GEO Group Signs 5-Year, $80M/Year ICE Contract for Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC, Over Governor Stein's Objection</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--geo-group-signs-5yr-80m-rivers-correctional-contract-hertford-nc/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>GEO Group confirmed a signed 5-year contract giving ICE exclusive access to the shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina — one of the largest ICE detention facilities planned on the East Coast, at 1,400 beds. The contract is projected t</description><category>GEO Group</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">north-carolina</category><category domain="tag">accountability-elimination</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>GEO Group confirmed a signed 5-year contract giving ICE exclusive access to the shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, Hertford County, North Carolina — one of the largest ICE detention facilities planned on the East Coast, at 1,400 beds. The contract is projected t</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--geo-group-signs-5yr-80m-rivers-correctional-contract-hertford-nc/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Adds 5,500 Beds Toward 100,000-Person Detention Goal as June 2026 Arrests Hit Record 43,000</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--ice-100k-bed-push-june-arrests-record-43000/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>ICE announced four new detention centers adding 5,500 beds as it races toward a stated 100,000-person capacity target. June 2026 arrests topped 43,000 — the highest monthly total of the second Trump administration — with 65,765 people held in detention as of July 11, at a pace of</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">ice-expansion</category><category domain="tag">enforcement-statistics</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE announced four new detention centers adding 5,500 beds as it races toward a stated 100,000-person capacity target. June 2026 arrests topped 43,000 — the highest monthly total of the second Trump administration — with 65,765 people held in detention as of July 11, at a pace of</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--ice-100k-bed-push-june-arrests-record-43000/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Posts Emergency SAM.gov Solicitation for 5,500 Detention Beds Across Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Miami — Courts Embedded On-Site</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--ice-issues-emergency-solicitation-5500-beds-four-cities/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>ICE published a solicitation on July 29 seeking contractors to stand up turnkey detention facilities near Seattle (1,500 beds), Denver (1,500), the Philadelphia field-office area (1,800), and Miami (700) — all required to be operational within 30 days of contract award. Each faci</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">procurement</category><category domain="tag">ice-expansion</category><category domain="tag">due-process</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE published a solicitation on July 29 seeking contractors to stand up turnkey detention facilities near Seattle (1,500 beds), Denver (1,500), the Philadelphia field-office area (1,800), and Miami (700) — all required to be operational within 30 days of contract award. Each faci</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--ice-issues-emergency-solicitation-5500-beds-four-cities/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump and DOJ Jointly Petition SCOTUS to Vacate $83M Carroll Verdict, Substitute Government as Defendant</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--doj-trump-scotus-carroll-83m-verdict-executive-substitution/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date><description>President Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a joint petition on July 28-29, 2026 asking the Supreme Court to vacate E. Jean Carroll's $83 million defamation verdict and substitute the federal government as the defendant in Trump's place. The move deploys DOJ — the ex</description><category>E. Jean Carroll</category><category>Donald Trump</category><category>U.S. Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">supreme-court</category><category domain="tag">executive-power</category><category domain="tag">accountability</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>President Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a joint petition on July 28-29, 2026 asking the Supreme Court to vacate E. Jean Carroll's $83 million defamation verdict and substitute the federal government as the defendant in Trump's place. The move deploys DOJ — the ex</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> E. Jean Carroll, Donald Trump, U.S. Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-29--doj-trump-scotus-carroll-83m-verdict-executive-substitution/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Augusta Township, MI Voters Overturn Thor Equities $1B Data Center Rezoning 89.5%-10.4%</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--augusta-township-mi-referendum-thor-equities-data-center/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>Residents of Augusta Township (Washtenaw County, MI) organized a successful referendum petition against the township board's approval of agricultural-to-industrial rezoning for Thor Equities' proposed $1B, 800-acre data center near Milan. The Planning Commission had recommended d</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Residents of Augusta Township (Washtenaw County, MI) organized a successful referendum petition against the township board's approval of agricultural-to-industrial rezoning for Thor Equities' proposed $1B, 800-acre data center near Milan. The Planning Commission had recommended d</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--augusta-township-mi-referendum-thor-equities-data-center/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Columbia County GA Approves Google Data Centers, Sends Property-Tax-Relief Plan to November Referendum</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--columbia-county-ga-google-datacenter-tax-relief-referendum/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>Columbia County, Georgia commissioners voted to approve Google's White Oak and Pumpkin Center data-center complexes — 33 buildings across roughly 3,500 acres near Harlem and Appling — while denying a third proposed site at Byrd Farm. As part of the approval, Google committed to c</description><category>Google</category><category domain="tag">data-colonialism</category><category domain="tag">datacenter</category><category domain="tag">georgia</category><category domain="tag">fiscal-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Columbia County, Georgia commissioners voted to approve Google's White Oak and Pumpkin Center data-center complexes — 33 buildings across roughly 3,500 acres near Harlem and Appling — while denying a third proposed site at Byrd Farm. As part of the approval, Google committed to c</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Google</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--columbia-county-ga-google-datacenter-tax-relief-referendum/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Montgomery County MD Council Unanimously Passes 18-Month Data Center Moratorium, 25 MW Cap Into Law</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--montgomery-county-md-final-vote-18month-datacenter-moratorium/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>Montgomery County, Maryland's 11-member County Council voted 11-0 on July 28, 2026 to enact an 18-month moratorium on new data center permits and pass Expedited Bill 19-26 / zoning text amendment ZTA 26-01, barring any future data center larger than 25 megawatts county-wide. The </description><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">maryland</category><category domain="tag">zoning</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Montgomery County, Maryland's 11-member County Council voted 11-0 on July 28, 2026 to enact an 18-month moratorium on new data center permits and pass Expedited Bill 19-26 / zoning text amendment ZTA 26-01, barring any future data center larger than 25 megawatts county-wide. The </p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--montgomery-county-md-final-vote-18month-datacenter-moratorium/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ProPublica: Federal Judges Nationwide Chastise DOJ Lawyers for 'Unlawful,' 'Unethical' Conduct as Presumption of Regularity Erodes</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--propublica-federal-judges-chastise-doj-presumption-regularity-eroding/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>A ProPublica investigation published July 28, 2026 documents a nationwide pattern: federal judges — appointees of both parties, including Trump appointees — have repeatedly called out DOJ attorneys for "unlawful," "unethical," and "unseemly" conduct in courtrooms spanning D.C., R</description><category>U.S. Department of Justice</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category><category domain="tag">rule-of-law</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A ProPublica investigation published July 28, 2026 documents a nationwide pattern: federal judges — appointees of both parties, including Trump appointees — have repeatedly called out DOJ attorneys for "unlawful," "unethical," and "unseemly" conduct in courtrooms spanning D.C., R</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> U.S. Department of Justice</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--propublica-federal-judges-chastise-doj-presumption-regularity-eroding/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Researcher Austin Kocher: Over 600,000 People Booked Into ICE Detention Since Trump II Began</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--kocher-600k-ice-detention-bookings-since-january-2025/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>Independent researcher Austin Kocher — the primary quantitative beat source tracking ICE detention data — published an analysis July 28, 2026 documenting that ICE has booked over 600,000 people into detention facilities since Trump took office in January 2025, based on data ICE r</description><category>Austin Kocher</category><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Independent researcher Austin Kocher — the primary quantitative beat source tracking ICE detention data — published an analysis July 28, 2026 documenting that ICE has booked over 600,000 people into detention facilities since Trump took office in January 2025, based on data ICE r</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Austin Kocher, Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--kocher-600k-ice-detention-bookings-since-january-2025/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--trump-races-scotus-shadow-docket-mail-ballot-restrictions/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-28</dc:date><description>The First Circuit upheld a block on Trump's executive order directing USPS to compile voter eligibility lists and restrict mail-in ballot delivery, ruling the order would "sow confusion," threaten disenfranchisement, and encroach on constitutional election authority reserved to s</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category>United States Postal Service</category><category domain="tag">democratic-erosion</category><category domain="tag">voting-rights</category><category domain="tag">shadow-docket</category><category domain="tag">judicial-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>The First Circuit upheld a block on Trump's executive order directing USPS to compile voter eligibility lists and restrict mail-in ballot delivery, ruling the order would "sow confusion," threaten disenfranchisement, and encroach on constitutional election authority reserved to s</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump, United States Postal Service</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-28--trump-races-scotus-shadow-docket-mail-ballot-restrictions/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Congress Quietly Eliminated ICE Biweekly Detention Data Mandate — New Analysis Finds 16% Undercount</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-detention-reporting-mandate-eliminated-16-percent-undercount/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date><description>ICE released detention data on July 20 for the first time in more than 90 days, showing 65,765 people in custody — but the release was voluntary: the latest appropriations bill quietly removed the 2018 congressional mandate requiring biweekly updates. Research by Austin Kocher an</description><category>ICE</category><category>Austin Kocher</category><category>CoreCivic</category><category domain="tag">transparency-erosion</category><category domain="tag">accountability-failure</category><category domain="tag">data-manipulation</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE released detention data on July 20 for the first time in more than 90 days, showing 65,765 people in custody — but the release was voluntary: the latest appropriations bill quietly removed the 2018 congressional mandate requiring biweekly updates. Research by Austin Kocher an</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, Austin Kocher, CoreCivic</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-detention-reporting-mandate-eliminated-16-percent-undercount/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>EU AI Act Omnibus Enters Force, Delays High-Risk AI Deadline to December 2027</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--eu-ai-omnibus-delays-high-risk-ai-deadline-to-december-2027/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date><description>Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the AI Act Omnibus, entered force July 27, 2026, granting a 16-month industry reprieve on the EU AI Act's high-risk provisions: obligations for employment, credit, law enforcement, and critical-infrastructure AI systems move from an August 2, 2026 bindi</description><category>European Union</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the AI Act Omnibus, entered force July 27, 2026, granting a 16-month industry reprieve on the EU AI Act's high-risk provisions: obligations for employment, credit, law enforcement, and critical-infrastructure AI systems move from an August 2, 2026 bindi</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> European Union</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--eu-ai-omnibus-delays-high-risk-ai-deadline-to-december-2027/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens After Toll-Revenue Settlement Resolves Trump Threat</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--gordie-howe-bridge-opens-toll-revenue-settlement/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date><description>## Opening paragraph</description><category>Donald Trump</category><category domain="capture-lane">Systematic Corruption</category><category domain="capture-lane">Corporate Capture</category><category domain="capture-lane">Financial Capture</category><category domain="tag">infrastructure</category><category domain="tag">canada</category><category domain="tag">pay-to-play</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>## Opening paragraph</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Donald Trump</p><p><strong>Capture lanes:</strong> Systematic Corruption, Corporate Capture, Financial Capture</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--gordie-howe-bridge-opens-toll-revenue-settlement/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Extends No-Bid Amentum Contract for Camp East Montana Through 2027 at $776M Additional Cost, Over HRW/ACLU Abuse Findings</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-extends-amentum-no-bid-776m-camp-east-montana/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-27</dc:date><description>ICE announced July 27, 2026 that it is extending its no-bid, sole-source contract with Virginia-based Amentum for Camp East Montana — the largest ICE detention facility in the country, sited at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas — through September 30, 2027, at a potential additional c</description><category>Immigration and Customs Enforcement</category><category domain="tag">detention-industrial-complex</category><category domain="tag">regulatory-capture</category><category domain="tag">procurement</category><category domain="tag">camp-east-montana</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>ICE announced July 27, 2026 that it is extending its no-bid, sole-source contract with Virginia-based Amentum for Camp East Montana — the largest ICE detention facility in the country, sited at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas — through September 30, 2027, at a potential additional c</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> Immigration and Customs Enforcement</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-27--ice-extends-amentum-no-bid-776m-camp-east-montana/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>EU AI Act Full Enforcement Begins August 2 — Facial Recognition Bans, High-Risk AI Rules Binding</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-25--eu-ai-act-full-enforcement-facial-recognition-bans/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-25</dc:date><description>**Correction (2026-08-06):** the high-risk AI system obligations described below did NOT take binding effect as scheduled. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the "AI Act Omnibus," entered force July 27, 2026 and pushed the high-risk deadline (employment, credit, law enforcement, critical</description><category>European Union</category><category>Clearview AI</category><category domain="tag">ai-governance</category><category domain="tag">biometric-surveillance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>**Correction (2026-08-06):** the high-risk AI system obligations described below did NOT take binding effect as scheduled. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the "AI Act Omnibus," entered force July 27, 2026 and pushed the high-risk deadline (employment, credit, law enforcement, critical</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> European Union, Clearview AI</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-25--eu-ai-act-full-enforcement-facial-recognition-bans/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Escambia County FL Commissioners Vote 5-0 That Data Centers 'Not Permitted' Under Land Code</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--escambia-county-fl-data-centers-not-permitted-vote/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>Escambia County, FL commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 to adopt a resolution declaring data centers "are not permitted under the county's land development code and are not appropriate development in the county," with a formal ordinance codifying the ban scheduled for a public he</description><category domain="tag">datacenter-buildout</category><category domain="tag">local-resistance</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Escambia County, FL commissioners voted unanimously 5-0 to adopt a resolution declaring data centers "are not permitted under the county's land development code and are not appropriate development in the county," with a formal ordinance codifying the ban scheduled for a public he</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--escambia-county-fl-data-centers-not-permitted-vote/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>ICE Plans 1,400-Bed Detention Center at Shuttered Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-rivers-correctional-hertford-nc/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>Internal ICE documents obtained by the New York Times show the agency plans to reopen GEO Group's shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford County, NC by the end of 2026 — North Carolina's first dedicated ICE detention facility and one of the largest planned on the Ea</description><category>ICE</category><category>GEO Group</category><category domain="tag">detention-expansion</category><category domain="tag">geo-group</category><category domain="tag">institutional-capture</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>Internal ICE documents obtained by the New York Times show the agency plans to reopen GEO Group's shuttered Rivers Correctional Institution in Hertford County, NC by the end of 2026 — North Carolina's first dedicated ICE detention facility and one of the largest planned on the Ea</p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE, GEO Group</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--ice-plans-1400-bed-rivers-correctional-hertford-nc/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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<title>Nun Detained by ICE While Walking to Daily Mass in Texas — Speaks Out for First Time</title>
<link>https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--nun-detained-ice-walking-to-mass-texas/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:date>2026-07-24</dc:date><description>A Catholic nun spoke publicly for the first time about being detained by ICE while walking to daily Mass at her parish in Texas — she is a lawful permanent resident with a valid green card. The account details a multi-hour detention, demands for documents she did not have on her </description><category>ICE</category><category domain="tag">ice-enforcement</category><category domain="tag">religious-liberty</category><category domain="tag">wrongful-detention</category>
<content:encoded>&lt;![CDATA[<p>A Catholic nun spoke publicly for the first time about being detained by ICE while walking to daily Mass at her parish in Texas — she is a lawful permanent resident with a valid green card. The account details a multi-hour detention, demands for documents she did not have on her </p><p><strong>Actors:</strong> ICE</p><p><a href="https://capturecascade.org/event/2026-07-24--nun-detained-ice-walking-to-mass-texas/">Read full entry →</a></p>
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