from the impossible-to-trust-or-verify dept The administration’s anti-migrant tactics are now months into an indefinite period of continuous escalation. That protest efforts have escalated alongside it apparently means nothing to the officials spearheading this brazen attack on non-white people. It wasn’t until federal officers began killing people in front of witnesses that the administration decided to dial things back a bit. But did it ever actually do it? Or did it just sideline the most famous faces associated with this wave of violence and unlawfulness? Punting former DHS head Kristi Noem into the nosebleed section of the federal government didn’t do much to change things, not when “Border Czar” Tom Homan (the guy who more or less said protesters were to blame for the Minneapolis murders) is still hanging around and her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, looks like just another expendable MAGA footsoldier .…