SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED.
UNPAYWALLED:— WIRED (@wired.com) June 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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As protests swell across the US in response to aggressive ICE actions, civilians are turning to homebrew tools to track ICE arrests and raids in real time. But restricted government documents, seen by WIRED, show that US intelligence agencies are now eyeing the same tools as potential threats.
— WIRED (@wired.com) June 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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"Transparency is not terrorism, and the real security threat is militarized secret police invading our communities and abducting our neighbors," Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People, tells WIRED.
Full story, unpaywalled:— WIRED (@wired.com) June 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
As protests continue to swell across the United States in response to aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, civilians are turning to homebrew digital tools to track ICE arrests and raids in real time. But restricted government documents, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog Property of the People, show that US intelligence agencies are now eyeing the same tools as potential threats. A law enforcement investigation involving the maps is also apparently underway.
Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest—specifically those in California—are also under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained exclusively by WIRED…
The bulletin is based on information initially shared by a US Army threat monitoring center known as ARTIC. While it acknowledges that most of the users appear to be civilians working to avoid contact with federal agents, it nevertheless raises the specter of “malicious actors” potentially relying on such open-source transparency tools to physically target law enforcement…
The documents identify maps and information shared across Reddit and the website Padlet, which allows users to collaborate and build interactive maps. An “OPSEC” warning concerning the maps was also separately issued in February by the Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center (WSIC). That report indicates the sites are being treated as a “strategic threat” and are under monitoring by a special operations division.
WSIC, which could not be immediately reached for comment, warned in its report about persistent online threats aimed at ICE officers, highlighting posts on social media apps like X and TikTok that include messages calling for Americans to stockpile weapons and “shoot back.” While some posts were judged to contain “explicit threats,” most appear to reflect cathartic outrage over the Trump administration’s punitive immigration enforcement tactics, with intelligence analysts noting that many of the users were “discussing hypothetical scenarios.” Nevertheless, the analysts flagged the sheer volume and tone of the content as a genuine officer safety concern…
Jay
To a hammer, everything is a nail.
cain
We are certainly living in dangerous times when our federal govt is now working against us. When you think we are the enemy we have problems.
lowtechcyclist
The obvious solution, from the Federal and LEO side, is to just have ICE and CBP stand down. Take them out of the picture, and there’s no need or motivation for citizens to track and prepare responses to them.
Of course, they’d never consider such a thing. Stephen Miller would lose his reason for existing.
opiejeanne
How is this a surprise to any of them?
Jay
@opiejeanne:
Nazi’s never think that what they are doing is wrong.
ICE loves that they can just “drop” a case, in front of an ICE Judge, and all the legal hoops that an Immigrant, Refugee, Asylum seeker has gone through to become ideally a Legal Immigrant or a Citizen is gone. Sometimes, 10+ years of jumping through the legal hoops.
They immediately become an “illegal”, and can and are kidnapped and sent to a Concentration Camp.
There is no legal way to immigrate to the US anymore, other than TACO47’s $5 million dollar, paid to him, “gold card”.
YY_Sima Qian
The domestic pathologies of the American polity (white supremacy, Christian fundamentalism, proselytism, militarism, mercantilism, etc.) have tended to find expression externally, & the excesses in foreign policy (militarism, securitization) have tended to rebound domestically.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
In honor of Pres. TACO’s b-day, I had three chicken tacos tonight.
Baud
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
You are a true patriot.
Sally
A point that really stands out to me, aside from all the others, is that the unmasked Marines are considerably less kitted out than the masked cosplaying police. One lot are a bunch of scaredy cats, and the other lot are grown ups.
prostratedragon
@Sally: And with a calmer and more relaxed demeanor.
Sally
@prostratedragon: Calm comes with being a secure, trained, adult instead of a fascist cosplaying scaredy cat.
Glory b
And now the CTOs of Palantir, Meta and OpenAI have joined the Army Reserves, immediately appointed to be Lt Colonels.
Can any of our military Juicers explain how this works?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339333657578356736-Fjdt?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAALVg_YBrQe_7T3LBk8uCoiDwj4UORfUQ8w
karensky
Ah, so it is now Statsi time in the US.
RevRick
A tyrannical regime is a paranoid regime. Always.
Gvg
@Jay: frankly I don’t understand this. The immigrant applied to immigrate. Why does ICE. “Dropping” anything change that they are still an applicant? Seems like there is a problem with our laws, but I think it’s Bull and the courts need to rule that this is not what happens. Also that no arrests are valid in this situation because it is bad faith and causes fear of the courts so that regular business can’t happen.
JetsamPool
@Jay: When all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like a horror movie.
Another Scott
@Glory b: People can be appointed to be military officers in time of war or “national emergency”. I don’t know if that’s at play here. A story at TheRegister has a (very) little more.
Made me look…
Planatir blog at Medium saying FTFNYT got a May 30 story very wrong. Unpossibly Shocking!!1
As always, big companies doing work for the government have to follow the rules and the contracts. And there always needs to be government oversight, conducted by government experts who understand the rules, the technology, the contracts, and the implications, to make sure they are doing so. Rumor mongering has a history of illustrating potential problems, but also has a history of being used to drive clicks and distrust. I have no idea which is happening here with these giant companies, myself.
FWIW.
Best wishes,
Scott.
kindness
The No Kings protest forces the media to talk about what Democrats want. The MSM hates that. The protest is the start of what seems to be the only way we can fight authoritarian take over. God knows Democrats in Congress are powerless to do it and Republicans are wallowing in their triumph. My only fear is false flag folk will infiltrate protests and start trouble. If that happens I hope fellow protestors will nip that in the butt before the police/state guard units/marines react to the provocation.
artem1s
sounds like that report could have been written circa 2010 to me. White militias, the KKK, and the Aryan Nation have been “discussing hypothetical scenarios” and been “a genuine officer safety concern” since the 1980’s, David Koresh, Eric Rudolph, and Timothy McVeigh. Where was the concern that those hypotheticals would become reality then? Too soon to discuss after the 1200+ school shootings in the last 2.5 decades?
If there are “messages calling for Americans to stockpile weapons and shoot back” those are going to be the MAGAts and glibertarians who have finally woken up to the fact that the usefulness of violent White Nationalist movements to the GQP may be at an end. Wouldn’t want them to reflect badly on Orangemandius and his new rich Russian and Saudi oligarch mobster friends now would we? The same tactics were used to try to start the race riots on J6 they’ve all been dreaming of since Helter Skelter. Only that time the libs and antifa wisely decided not to show up and be targets of the Proud Boys. Unfortunately I think these wannabe dictator assholes are about to wish they had started with the Night of the Long Knives and erradicating ammosexuals and white militias instead of refugee families, restaurant, construction, and migrant farm workers.