News for the Week of March 7, 2026
ICE's war on America
The Guardian interviews five young people who've been kidnapped by ICE, and are currently being held in detention.
- A federal judge in Minnesota has ordered ICE leadership to appear for a contempt hearing, to address their consistent disregard of court orders.
- Ilhan Omar's State of the Union guest arrested in retaliation for testifying against ICE.
- DHS admits that it has deported more than 80 DACA recipients, despite the protections of US law, sometimes abducting them right from their green card hearings. This week, DHS admits that it has arrested 270 DACA recipients, and deported 174.
- Guards at the Camp East Montana concentration camp in Texas took bets on which prisoners were likely to commit suicide.
Ilhan Omar's op-ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune, outlining what must come next after Operation Metro Surge: accountability, prosecutions, and restoration.
The American War on Iran
Mondoweiss provides a searing analysis of the political causes and ramifications of the American-Israeli war on Iran.
- Trump is completely disinterested in the Americans his war has gotten killed, and the Pentagon admits that Iran was not going to attack the US.
- The American Prospect lays out the shocking cost of the war on Iran, resources wasted on a conflict with no obvious strategy or resolution.
- The US has sunk an unarmed Iranian naval vessel thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf, and left its stranded crew to drown.
Will Bunch with the Philadelphia Inquirer, on the Minab bombing in Iran, in which American forces struck a girls' elementary school, and then struck again 40 minutes later.
CORRUPTION
ProPublica has released a new tool to help the public track the financial conflicts of the Trump regime.
- Kalshi and Polymarket take bets on the war against Iran.
- Gambling and sports betting companies are set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to influence elections.
- RFK Jr is institutionalizing the lies and dishonesty that he used to gain public office, and destroying American health in the process.
- DOW Chemical has asked Texas for unprecedent permission to pollute the Gulf of Mexico.
Project Saltbox, an independent organization that tracks public records and has been following federal contracts with DHS, reports on a San Antonio staffing firm with no federal contract history filling roles for a Maryland concentration camp.