{"id":15658,"date":"2026-03-05T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15658"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:10:01","slug":"noem-iced-at-dhs-bradcast-352026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15658","title":{"rendered":"NOEM ICED AT DHS: ‘BradCast’ 3\/5\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were forced to take a last-minute swerve once again for today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>. Happily, for a change, it was for good cause this time. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

ICE Barbie, sometimes known as Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/b>, was fired<\/a> by Donald Trump<\/b> today. The precise reasons are unknown. There are many potential culprits, from giving a huge, no-bid, $143 million DHS contract<\/a> to her friends (to create DHS publicity videos starring herself); to her alleged long-term sexual tryst<\/a> with her top “Special Government Employee”, former Trump Campaign chair and alleged sexual harasser Corey Lewandowski<\/b>; to her lack of oversight of out-of-control federal agencies such as ICE and CBP; to the Minneapolis murders<\/a> by federal immigration thugs of Renee Good<\/b> and Alex Pretti<\/b> on her watch in January, after which she falsely described the two American citizens as “domestic terrorists” and has refused to apologize ever since.<\/p>\n

Of course, pretty much all of those things would seem to win her favor<\/i> with Trump. So, what exactly happened here? Still unclear. Of course, rather than fire her from the federal government outright, our FIFA Peace Prize winning President just made up a new, ridiculous sounding, pretend position for her to have (and you to pay for), called “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas”.<\/p>\n

All of this comes after two days of Noem’s testimony in brutal hearings in both the U.S. House and Senate, including angry questioning even from a few Republicans on the Committees, if you can believe it. We cover all of that, and some of the sharpest Committee exchanges today, along with a preview of what we might expect from Trump’s appointment of Oklahoma<\/b>‘s yahoo, former MMA fighter Senator Markwayne Mullin<\/b> to fill the role of DHS chief, heading up the government’s third largest Cabinet department with a budget well in excess of $100 billion. It should all go very well!<\/p>\n

With another trenchant reminder of just how horrible Noem’s reign of terror and error has been at DHS, we share a story today from former Republican attorney Keith Barber<\/b> at Daily Kos<\/a>. He breaks down a stunning ruling this week from a Trump-appointed federal judge who cites the “abhorrent and illegal practices” — not to mention “laws of human decency [that] condemn such villainy” — of the Trump Regime, in the case of a legal resident who came here from Honduras 15 years ago when he was just 9 years old. He was granted protected status and has been a model resident ever since. We share the harrowing story of his unlawful arrest by ICE, as told by Barber and the judge, and the judge’s blistering ruling [PDF]<\/a> in Hesler Asaf Garcia Lanza v. Kristi Noem<\/i> in which the judge highlights the Administration’s “trampling our system of laws…which has safeguarded this nation for close to 250 years.”<\/p>\n

THEN…<\/i> In some of today’s 2026 Midterm Election news that we didn’t<\/i> sideline for the breaking Noem news, Montana<\/b>‘s sleazy, two-term, Republican Sen. Steve Daines<\/b> — at precisely 3 minutes before the legal deadline — filed papers to withdraw<\/a> from his reelection bid this year. He had only just filed for reelection at the end of February.<\/p>\n

Making it all the more sleazy, Montana’s Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme<\/b> filed his<\/i> papers to run for the seat just five minutes before Daines filed his own to drop out. Both Daines and Trump almost immediately endorsed Alme thereafter. Go figure.<\/p>\n

We discuss what all of that<\/i> means<\/a>, and who, other than Alme and the Republican Party, may benefit from Daine’s chicanery on today’s program. <\/p>\n

FINALLY…<\/i> We’re joined by Desi Doyen for our latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as Trump’s expanding War on Iran<\/b> continues to roil world markets and disrupt global energy supply chains<\/b>, even as renewable energy<\/b> may ultimately — and ironically — turn out to be the winner in all of this idiocy…<\/p>\n

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We were forced to take a last-minute swerve once again for today’s BradCast. Happily, for a change, it was for good cause this time. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] ICE Barbie, sometimes known as Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, was fired by Donald Trump today. The precise reasons are unknown. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,1300,1186,299,513,479,2053,1129,134,1335,1606,477,2037,2085,2084,183,498,540,300,1458,909,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-cbp","category-corey-lewandowski","category-democrats","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-election-2026","category-ice","category-iran","category-jamie-raskin","category-joe-neguse","category-kpfk","category-kristi-noem","category-kurt-alme","category-markwayne-mullin","category-montana","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-republicans","category-steve-daines","category-thom-tillis","category-us-house","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}