Field Intelligence
Fourteen, So Far
A man goes in for a conviction already served. He does not come back out. The file lists a date, a facility, a cause left blank.
Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano was found unresponsive at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center on March 25, 2026, arrested a month earlier over a past drug-possession and theft conviction. CPR didn't save him. He died at a nearby hospital; cause of death undisclosed. He is one of at least 14 people to die in ICE custody as of March 30, 2026, a pace that has already outrun 2025's count of 33 and 2024's count of 11. Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss alone logged three deaths in six weeks, one ruled a homicide, alongside outbreaks of tuberculosis and measles. ICE was holding over 68,000 people as of mid-February 2026, among the highest populations on record.
Fifteen Billion Points a Day
No one followed you home. They bought the record of it, legally, from a company whose name you've never heard, and will never need to.
ICE has purchased access to driver's-license and home-address records covering roughly three-quarters of the U.S. population, and buys over 15 billion location data points a day, harvested from around 250 million mobile devices, through data brokers Venntel and Babel Street. Senators Ed Markey and Ron Wyden petitioned the agency to stop, calling it an "Orwellian data-gathering effort," citing a Georgetown Law investigation. Wyden has proposed legislation requiring a court order before agencies can buy this kind of location data at all. As of this writing, no court order is required.
Three Billion, Clawed Back
The money was for the places that flood first and are heard last. It was signed, allocated, and then it was simply taken back.
In June 2025, the Southern Environmental Law Center, Earthjustice, and the Public Rights Project filed a class-action lawsuit against the administration's termination of roughly $3 billion in EPA Environmental and Climate Justice Block grants. The six nonprofit plaintiffs represent Black, Indigenous, rural, and low-wealth communities from Appalachia to the Southwest, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Mississippi, and the South Carolina Lowcountry. The grants funded climate-resilience hubs, flood mitigation, air-quality monitoring, and workforce development. A federal judge ordered the funding reinstated in an earlier, related case in May 2025; that order is currently stayed pending Fourth Circuit review. The case remains open.
8.20 → 8.04
since pre-industrial. the acidification boundary — crossed by 2020, confirmed 2025.
third interstellar object ever confirmed. its outer 15–20m altered by cosmic rays before it ever reached us. it is already leaving.