Trump's Deplorable Moment

What did Jeffrey Epstein’s day actually look like? Using a random sample of the DOJ email release, I estimate his outgoing email volume and show how a steady stream of short, operational messages helped administer a trafficking enterprise. UPDATE: Andrew arrested--what did our emails have.

ICE’s hiring surge did not just add inexperienced agents — it purposefully dismantled standards meant to restrain them. With academy screening collapsed and first-line supervision stretched past professional limits, Trump's ICE has constructed a system that predictably loses control of force.

Normal law enforcement academies remove more recruits than quit. At ICE, the pattern is inverted—74% quit, only 26% are dismissed. Academy attrition collapsed from 12.2% to 4.2%. Two out of three recruits who would have washed out are now put in the field. Part 2 of 3.