>Video of Crash: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1956901770271031438

https://cbs12.com/news/local/man-in-us-illegally-charged-after-crash-kills-3-on-florida-turnpike-fort-pierce

>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — An illegal immigrant has been arrested in connection with a deadly crash on Florida's Turnpike. The crash occurred around 3 PM on Tuesday near Fort Pierce.

>Troopers said a semi-truck tried making a U-turn in an 'official use only' area, causing a minivan to crash into the truck. Three of the minivan's passengers died.

>The driver, Harjinder Singh, has now been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. Officials said he entered the US illegally by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018.

>“Three people lost their lives as a result of his recklessness, and countless friends and family members will experience the pain of their loss forever. Harjinder Singh is in custody on state vehicular homicide charges and immigration violations. He will no longer be able to damage and destroy the lives of Floridians and visitors,” Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Executive Director, Dave Kerner said.

>Singh is currently being held on an ICE detainer. FHP said that once he's done serving his time for the charges in Florida, he will be deported.

One of the two Ukrainian men responsible for the single largest event of ecoterrorism ever committed, which released 36 million tons CO2e has been arrested in Italy. The second still remains at large.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkz1jl5j06o
Ukrainian held in Italy over Nord Stream gas pipelines blast mystery

German prosecutors say a Ukrainian man has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, several months after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The man, identified only as Serhii K, was arrested in the province of Rimini and was part of a group who planted explosives under the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines from Russia to Germany, federal prosecutors say.

The blasts severed a key source of natural gas for Europe when leaders were facing an energy crisis triggered by Russia's war.

No-one admitted carrying out the attack, and Ukraine has denied involvement.

The Ukrainian, who was detained by Italy's carabinieri military police stationed in the northern coastal resort of Misano Adriatico, is suspected of being one of the masterminds of the operation.

Prosecutors said he was part of a team that had charted a yacht and sailed from the German port of Rostock to an area of the Baltic near the Danish island of Bornholm.

Although Nord Stream 2 never went into operation, Nord Stream 1's two pipelines had provided a steady supply 1,200km (745 miles) under the Baltic from the Russian coast to north-eastern Germany.

Shortly before Russia's invasion, Germany had cancelled its process to approve Nord Stream 2, which was 100% owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom. Months later, Russia shut down Nord Stream 1.

Then, on 26 September 2022, several explosions were recorded that ruptured three of the four pipelines.

Mystery surrounded the identity of the saboteurs, with Russia coming under Western suspicion and Moscow blaming the US and UK.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/fbi-raid-john-bolton-trump-patel.html

FBI agents on Thursday morning raided the Maryland home of John Bolton, the former national security advisor to President Donald Trump and a staunch critic of the president, NBC News confirmed.

The raid is part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.

An FBI official said, “The FBI is conducting court authorized activity in the area. There is no threat to public safety,” but declined to comment on Bolton, according to NBC.

FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” at around 7 a.m. ET, the same time his agents reportedly arrived at Bolton’s residence in Bethesda, near Washington, D.C.n the 2020 election.

Attorney General Pam Bondi retweeted Patel’s tweet, writing, “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

And Patel’s deputy director at the FBI, Dan Bongino, in his own post on X wrote, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.”

The New York Post first reported the raid.

Patel ordered the investigation into Bolton, according to the Post, which cited a Trump administration official.

The Justice Department sued Bolton in 2020 in an effort to block the publication and sale of his book “The Room Where it Happened,” which was a damning account of his time serving as Trump’s national security advisor from 2018 to 2019, during Trump’s first term in the White House. The lawsuit was filed during Trump’s last year of that term.

A Justice Department lawyer told a judge that year that the book was “a flagrant breach of” Bolton’s agreement not to write about classified matters.

The department dropped the lawsuit in June 2021, five months after then-President Joe Biden took office.

A federal judge has ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to the state’s immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades and known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The judge also called upon the government to begin dismantling much of the facility.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida gave both the state and federal government 60 days to move out existing detainees and to begin removing temporary fencing, lightning features, and generators, gas, sewage and other waste and receptacles installed to support the project.

In her 82-page decision, Judge Williams cited extensive harm to the Everglades caused by operation of the facility, which was built in eight days.

The state of Florida filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit immediately after the order was released.

Two environmental groups — Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity — filed a lawsuit in late June, shortly after the state announced that the facility was about to open, claiming the plan had not gone through any environmental review as required under federal law. They were joined in the lawsuit by the Miccosukee Tribe.

In her ruling, Judge Williams agreed, saying that under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the government was required to issue an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or conduct an Environmental Assessment (EA). “The Defendants chose not to do so,” she wrote.

>https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/22/federal-judge-halts-operations-at-alligator-alcatraz/

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-tariff-pain-knocking-at-your-door
Right now, the U.S. economy has a lot in common with Wile E. Coyote.

Like the hapless Looney Tunes predator, Donald Trump’s economy went charging off a cliff after his April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, which—despite endless tweaks, revisions, abrupt extensions, and equally abrupt reversals—are gradually settling into a new status quo in which the costs of global trade are far higher than before.

But we’re just starting to feel the true impact of that status quo. Because until recently, a series of ameliorating factors have kept things looking artificially normal.

Trump’s sudden about-face on the most psychotic tariff rates reassured markets that he wouldn’t simply melt the economy down to slag on a whim. Instead, he introduced traders to the TACO model and gave them an object lesson in the pleasures of buying the dip. Monthly jobs reports kept coming in strong, seeming to complicate expectations that tariffs would force companies to be more aggressive managing their payroll. And consumer prices continued to rise relatively slowly, making Trump’s insistence that companies would simply “eat” the cost of the tariffs look facially plausible.

But much of this now appears to have been a mirage. The latest jobs report found that earlier estimates of strong job growth post-April 2 had been incorrect; hiring has slowed dramatically under our new tariff regime. And the temporary lifelines that had been holding consumer prices at reasonable levels are quickly vanishing too: Companies that stampeded to import as much as they could before tariffs took effect are burning through that pre-tariff inventory.

> Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGMk_roNaE

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-reviewing-55m-people-190214669.html

> Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations

> WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Thursday that it’s reviewing the records of more than 55 million foreigners who hold valid U.S. visas for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules.

> In a written answer to a question posed by The Associated Press, the department said that all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” with an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for the document.

> Should such information be found, the visa will be revoked and, if the visa holder is in the United States, he or she would be subject to deportation.

> The department said it was looking for indicators of ineligibility, including visa overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.

> “We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department said.

> Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has thus far focused on deporting migrants illegally in the United States as well as holders of student and visitor exchange visas. The State Department's new language suggests that the re-vetting process, which officials acknowledge is time-consuming, is far more widespread.