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NEWS: Trump Moves Closer to Firing Kristi Noem as ICE Sent Attack Dogs on Migrant

Aaron Parnas Dec 7

Good evening, everyone. Today was a relatively slow news day on the surface, but there are major developments unfolding inside the Department of Homeland Security that demand your attention. We learned that President Trump may be preparing to push out DHS Secretary Kristi Noem—an extraordinary move given how central she has been to his mass-deportation agenda. And in Washington state, ICE agents unleashed an attack dog on an undocumented man who was not resisting, leaving him with devastating injuries. An image of those wounds is below, and I want to warn you in advance: it is graphic and deeply disturbing.

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Thank you for standing with us—and for refusing to look away. Here’s what you missed today:

• Despite overseeing Trump’s flagship mass-deportation agenda with unwavering loyalty, the Bulwark is now reporting that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is increasingly rumored to be on her way out, as senior White House officials grow frustrated with her leadership—especially her reliance on controversial adviser Corey Lewandowski—while former DHS officials say she has recently taken a diminished role in directing department memos; Trump may replace her soon to reset the administration’s immigration effort and refresh public perception, potentially bringing in a prominent GOP figure expected to be newly available.

• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged in a new court filing that she personally ordered Venezuelan detainees sent to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s directive to return them to the U.S., reviving a major separation-of-powers clash as Judge Boasberg considers contempt proceedings over the Trump administration’s defiance of his order.

• After an Afghan asylum recipient shot two National Guard members, immigration hardliners and senior Trump officials are using the incident to push sweeping new restrictions—including expanded travel bans, mandatory in-person asylum interviews, re-vetting or deporting up to 2 million recent arrivals from “countries of concern,” and a full overhaul of adjudications—marking what insiders call an “inflection point” toward far more aggressive screening and mass-deportation policies.

• Senator Patty Murray accused ICE of using an “attack dog” to severely injure an unresisting man, Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, after agents allegedly lured him outside under false pretenses, denied him timely medical care, and traumatized his family—an incident emerging amid other reports of violent ICE enforcement actions in the Pacific Northwest. This is an image of the injuries:

• NBC reports that Adm. Frank Bradley told Congress the 11 people killed in a Sept. 2 U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat were all on an internal military target list authorizing lethal action; he said Defense Secretary Hegseth ordered him to kill the listed individuals and destroy the vessel, leading to multiple strikes—including one that killed two survivors still on the capsized boat—amid growing scrutiny over legality, intelligence gaps, and the lack of evidence supporting the administration’s narco-terrorism claims.

• House Democrats are demanding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly release video of the controversial Sept. 2 boat strikes—citing Trump’s claim he’d “no problem” making it public and alleging Hegseth ordered forces to “kill everybody”—after lawmakers who viewed the footage said the two surviving, unarmed men appeared in clear distress.

• Pete Hegseth will not commit to releasing the video:

• Trump said that if he can’t outperform Jimmy Kimmel as a host, he shouldn’t be president, noting that no previous president has personally hosted the awards ceremony he’s now leading.

• U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau blasted the EU for policies he says harm U.S. security—citing green regulations, tech enforcement (including a €120M fine on X), and migration rules—arguing that Europe cannot rely on NATO while pursuing what he calls “civilizational suicide” through the EU, escalating tensions in transatlantic relations.

• A Daily Beast report says FBI communications aide Ben Williamson furiously denounced allegations that Director Kash Patel ordered agents to act as chauffeurs for his girlfriend’s drunk friends—claims multiple sources say reflect a broader pattern of Patel allegedly misusing FBI resources for personal benefit, even as Patel, his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, and his defenders dismiss the accusations as fabricated.

• At a Christmas party honoring Sylvester Stallone, VP JD Vance recounted an Oval Office moment in which Trump derailed a serious meeting with a crude joke about men’s shoe sizes—offering staffers shoes, teasing a politician with size 7 feet, and implying a penis joke—an anecdote Vance used to illustrate the president’s distractibility and penchant for off-color humor.

• The Trump administration revised the National Park Service’s 2026 fee-free schedule by removing MLK Day, Juneteenth, and other long-standing access days while adding Trump’s own birthday, Fourth of July weekend, and other “patriotic” dates limited to U.S. residents—changes that come amid broader criticism of politically driven alterations to federal historical and cultural content.

• A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a remote region near the Alaska–Yukon border, strongly felt in small communities such as Whitehorse and Haines Junction but causing no reported injuries, structural damage, or tsunami threat, with impacts largely limited to items falling from shelves and followed by several minor aftershocks.

• California health officials are warning the public after 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning—linked to deadly “death cap” mushrooms—caused one death and severe liver damage in several people, including children, prompting urgent advice to avoid all wild mushroom foraging during the high-risk season.

• The IAEA says Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement structure was severely damaged by a February drone strike and can no longer reliably contain radioactive material, prompting urgent calls for major repairs even though core structural supports remain intact, as the site again becomes a flashpoint amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

See you in the morning.

— Aaron

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