A Court security guard at the Licht Judicial Complex in Providence, Rhode Island noticed a masked man taking photographs inside the courtroom. The guard approached the man and asked asked him to identify himself. He said he was working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The guard told him to stop taking photographs inside the courthouse.

A few minutes later, ICE agents arrested a high school-age boy outside the courthouse and placed him in handcuffs. Security recognized the teenager and reported the arrest to Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney, who came outside and told the ICE agents they’d made a mistake and had arrested his high school intern. A heated argument ensued between the judge and men from ICE. After reviewing the boy’s identification, ICE admitted they’d arrested the wrong person and released the student.

Disturbed by the arrest, the boy asked the Judge if he could go home for the day. The judge agreed and offered to drive him. At that point, the ICE agents returned, surrounded the judge’s car, told them to get out and threatened to smash the car windows if they didn’t comply. At that point, the Head of Security Operations for the R.I. Superior Court, Dana Smith, approached the car and told the Judge and the boy to remain in the vehicle. Then Smith confronted the ICE agents, who eventually left the scene without making an arrest.

“This egregious incident underscores both the community’s and the Judiciary’s concerns about how ICE is conducting its operations in Rhode Island,” said R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell.

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The New York Times: Epoch Times Reporter Resigns After Publication Signs Pentagon Rules
The reporter, Andrew Thornebrooke, also cited a recent editorial directive to refer to antifa, the far-left ideological movement, as a terrorist organization.

From Occupy Democrats

BREAKING: A reporter for the far-right Epoch Times resigns in protest over his outlet's decision to sign the MAGA Pentagon's anti-free speech pledge — and exposes how they regularly push pro-Trump lies.

This is beyond scathing...

“I can no longer reconcile my role with the direction the paper has chosen, including its increasing willingness to promote partisan materials, publish demonstrably false information, and manipulate the reporting of its ground staff to shape the worldview of our readers,” wrote national security reporter Andrew Thornebrooke in his resignation letter, which was obtained by The New York Times.

He further stated that his now-former employer has chosen to “abdicate our responsibility as journalists in favor of merely repeating state narratives.”

Thornebrooke also drew issue with an editorial directive at the Epoch Times that forces reporters to refer to "antifa" as a "terrorist organization," part of a broader conservative smear campaign to paint all of Trump's political enemies as violent insurgents. His administration is increasingly using this amorphous "antifa" bugaboo to justify brutal, fascist crackdowns.

Thornebrooke revealed to the New York Times that reporters for the Epoch Times "are not permitted to review final versions of articles before they are published" and editors would often "suddenly be taking accurate information out of my stories and putting in false info.” He said such changes were intended to "cast the Trump administration in the most positive light possible."

The Epoch Times was one of only three U.S.-based outlets to sign Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "pledge" which limits their ability to cover information not officially authorized for release. It also limits the number of areas within the Pentagon that journalists may visit without escort and bars them from soliciting leaks of unauthorized information.

This past Wednesday, between 40 and 50 reporters for the publications with enough integrity to refuse the pledge handed in their press credentials and vacated their desks inside the Pentagon.

The attacks on our free press from Hegseth and Trump come as the administration is escalating its homicidal strikes on boats in the Caribbean and pushing the Unites States closer and closer to war with Venezuela. Now, more than ever, we need reporters who are brave and free enough to report on what's really going on at the Department of Defense.

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From The Guardian, September 30, 2025 (10:37 AM EDT)

Trump suggets 'dangerous cities' should be used 'as training grounds' for the military and national guard

“I told Pete [Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard, but military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon, that’s a big city with an incompetent governor,” the president says.

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"Chicago"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

🎜🎜🎜
Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing

In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help that we can bring

We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It's dying ... to get better

Politicians sit yourselves down
There's nothing for you here
Won't you please come to Chicago
For a ride

Don't ask Jack to help you
'Cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you please come to Chicago
Or else join the other side

We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It's dying ... if you believe in justice
It's dying ... and if you believe in freedom
It's dying ... let a man live his own life
It's dying ... rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door

Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago
Show your face

From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains on the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago
No one else can take your place
🎝🎝🎝

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