WHy invade? Why no just offer assistance to the Nigerian govt to wipe them out. The orange pea brain is getting super annoying.Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."
The US government will also immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Trump said the US may "very well go into that now disgraced country, 'guns-a-blazing,' to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities."
Nigeria vows to fight extremism after Trump adds nation to watch list
The Nigerian government on Saturday vowed to keep fighting violent extremism and said it hoped Washington would remain a close ally after Trump added the West African nation to a US watch list over what he said were threats to Christianity.
"The Federal Government of Nigeria will continue to defend all citizens, irrespective of race, creed, or religion. Like America, Nigeria has no option but to celebrate the diversity that is our greatest strength," its Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Nigerian soldiers from the Multinational Joint Task Force against Islamist terrorists in Borno, northeastern Nigeria, July 5, 2025. (credit: JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images)
"Nigeria is a God-fearing country where we respect faith, tolerance, diversity and inclusion, in concurrence with the rules-based international order," the ministry added.
On Friday, Trump said he was putting Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer and most populous country, on a "Countries of Particular Concern" list of nations the US finds have engaged in religious freedom violations, which also includes China, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia and Pakistan.
The Republican US president had designated the country a concern during his first term in the White House, but his Democratic successor Joe Biden removed it from the US State Department list in 2021.
"Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter," he wrote in a social media post on Friday without offering any specifics.
A nation of more than 200 ethnic groups practicing Christianity, Islam and traditional religions, Nigeria has a long history of peaceful coexistence with mosques and churches dotting its cities.
But it also has a long history of violence breaking out between groups, in which religious differences sometimes overlap with other fault lines such as ethnic divisions or conflict over scarce land and water resources.
For 15 years, the extremist Islamist armed group Boko Haram has also terrorized northeast Nigeria, an insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of people, mostly Muslims.
Trump also asked the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee to examine the issue and report back to him. A US congressional subcommittee held a hearing on Christian killings in Nigeria earlier this year.
Appropriations Committee Chairman US Representative Tom Cole, in an X post on Friday, said the designation "sends a strong message: the US will not ignore Christian persecution."
update - Trump threatens invasion of Nigeria to wipe out Boko Haram
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Because none of this is real. It's just Trump's weekly presidency reality show "I'm the President"
Each week has a new plot point - bomb Venezuela; starve the poor; abduct and detain black and brown people; send Democrats to jail.
But the season has one over arching theme - Whites must hurt, humiliate and injure non whites.
So the Black government of Nigeria cannot be given guns. They're not white. Instead, whites must take an opportunity to threaten and injure non whites. Get it now?
Immigrants sue over ‘horrific’ conditions inside Chicago ICE facility
A Chicago facility that has emerged as a flashpoint for protests against Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda has been cramming immigrant detainees into unsanitary conditions without adequate food and water, according to a new lawsuit.
As many as 100 people have been packed into small rooms overnight or for days on end “like a pile of fish” with no room to lie down, forcing detainees to sleep on top of each other or while sitting up, or in bathrooms near urine-soaked floors and clogged toilets, the lawsuit says.
Holding rooms at the Broadview facility are infested with cockroaches, centipedes, and spiders, with blood and other bodily fluids in sinks and on the walls, plaintiffs wrote. Windows are sealed or boarded up, bright security lights stay on all night, women are denied menstrual products, and rooms “smell strongly of feces, urine, and body odor,” according to the lawsuit.
“They treated us like animals, or worse than animals, because no one treats their pets like that,” one detainee wrote.
The lawsuit is the latest from immigrants and civil rights groups targeting alleged conditions at ICE detention facilities across the country, coming under intense legal scrutiny as the Trump administration accelerates immigration arrests and jails tens of thousands of people marked for removal.
Daily demonstrations outside the facility in Broadview, roughly 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, are taking aim at the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz, which has seen a a flood of federal officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection surging into the streets and suburbs.
The ICE facility in Broadview is meant to serve as a “processing center” to temporarily hold detainees before they are transferred, deported or released.
But the lawsuit accuses ICE of operating more like a jail, where people are held for two days or more, on average. The average holding time at the facility was five hours in 2023.
“This lawsuit is necessary because the Trump Administration has attempted to evade accountability for turning the processing center at Broadview into a de facto detention center,” according to Kevin Fee, legal director for the ACLU of Illinois, which is representing plaintiffs in the case.
“These conditions are unconstitutional and threaten to coerce people into sacrificing their rights without the benefit of legal advice and a full airing of their legal defenses,” he said.
Homeland Security has strongly denied the allegations of poor conditions at the facility and suggested that the complaints contribute to death threats and other abuse against federal agents.
“Any claims there are subprime conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are false,” Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Independent.
“As ICE arrests and removes criminal illegal aliens and public safety threats from the U.S., the agency has worked diligently to obtain greater necessary detention space while avoiding overcrowding,” she said.
She stressed that “Broadview is a processing center, not a detention center,” and “detainees are briefly processed before being transferred to detention facilities.”
“Some of the worst of the worst including pedophiles, gang members, and rapists have been processed through the facility in recent weeks,” she said. “The ACLU should just change its name. It’s clear they only care about criminal illegal aliens — not Americans.”
A lawsuit accuses ICE of packing detainees into unsanitary cells at the Broadview facility with inadequate access to food, water, medication and legal counsel (REUTERS)
Guards at the facility “refuse” to provide detainees with “basic hygiene items,” including soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, wet wipes, shampoo, lotion, or tissues, according to the complaint.
One woman held at Broadview in June with nearly 30 other women was not provided any menstrual products, the lawsuit says.
Detainees can’t bathe; one of the holding rooms has two showers, but they’re inoperable and used for storage instead, according to the complaint, citing a 2023 internal report.
Facility staff told auditors that “detainees do not shower while at this facility,” nor do they change clothes, and must remain in the clothes — and underwear — they arrived in, according to the lawsuit.
Detainees cannot shower or change their clothes at the facility, which is infested with cockroaches and reeks of urine, feces and body order, according to a federal lawsuit (REUTERS)
Detainees are also routinely denied prescription medicine and medical care, and “making matters worse,” the heavy use of tear gas and pepper spray outside the facility to push back against protesters has tracked into the cells.
“Over the last several months, people have gathered outside of the facility to protest the conditions inside, as well as to protest the immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area,” according to the lawsuit. “Rather than address these concerns, federal agents have responded with violence.”
A separate lawsuit stemming from the use of riot weapons against protesters, reporters and faith leaders outside the Broadview facility prompted a federal judge to issue a sweeping court order that blocks indiscriminate use of force, drawing Homeland Security officials into a wider legal battle over the actions of masked Border Patrol and ICE officers storming into neighborhoods across the city.
Guards at the Broadview facility, meanwhile, are “physically and verbally abusive,” and are keeping detainees there “in a state of hunger and thirst,” lawyers say.
Detainees receive “two to three small, cold sandwiches per day,” and pregnant detainees are “not provided with regular access to meals, nor additional snacks, milk, juice, or any of the extra nutrition recommended for pregnant people,” according to the lawsuit.
Guards are also blocking detainees from legal counsel, the lawsuit says.
One man was allowed to call his wife using his cellphone, but when the officer realized an immigration attorney was also on the other end of the line, “the officer then reached for the phone and hung up the call himself,” lawyers wrote.
“Access to counsel is not a privilege. It is a right,” said Nate Eimer, partner at Eimer Stahl and co-counsel in the lawsuit. “We can debate immigration policy but there is no debating the denial of legal rights and holding those detained in conditions that are not only unlawful but inhumane. Justice and compassion demand that our clients’ rights be upheld.”
The allegations echo claims in a lawsuit surrounding a separate facility in New York City, where a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to iimprove conditions in a makeshift holding area where detainees said they had little access to food and water, slept on cement floors near toilets, and didn’t have anywhere to bathe for days or weeks at a time.
In court filings, detainees said they were fed inedible “slop” and were forced to sleep in cells surrounded by the “horrific stench” of sweat, urine and feces in rooms with open toilets.
Other detainees reported spending as much as three weeks inside the facility without a chance to bathe or brush their teeth. Another man said he watched a detainee have a seizure for 30 minutes before medical help arrived.
A Chicago facility that has emerged as a flashpoint for protests against Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda has been cramming immigrant detainees into unsanitary conditions without adequate food and water, according to a new lawsuit.
As many as 100 people have been packed into small rooms overnight or for days on end “like a pile of fish” with no room to lie down, forcing detainees to sleep on top of each other or while sitting up, or in bathrooms near urine-soaked floors and clogged toilets, the lawsuit says.
Holding rooms at the Broadview facility are infested with cockroaches, centipedes, and spiders, with blood and other bodily fluids in sinks and on the walls, plaintiffs wrote. Windows are sealed or boarded up, bright security lights stay on all night, women are denied menstrual products, and rooms “smell strongly of feces, urine, and body odor,” according to the lawsuit.
“They treated us like animals, or worse than animals, because no one treats their pets like that,” one detainee wrote.
The lawsuit is the latest from immigrants and civil rights groups targeting alleged conditions at ICE detention facilities across the country, coming under intense legal scrutiny as the Trump administration accelerates immigration arrests and jails tens of thousands of people marked for removal.
Daily demonstrations outside the facility in Broadview, roughly 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, are taking aim at the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz, which has seen a a flood of federal officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection surging into the streets and suburbs.
The ICE facility in Broadview is meant to serve as a “processing center” to temporarily hold detainees before they are transferred, deported or released.
But the lawsuit accuses ICE of operating more like a jail, where people are held for two days or more, on average. The average holding time at the facility was five hours in 2023.
“This lawsuit is necessary because the Trump Administration has attempted to evade accountability for turning the processing center at Broadview into a de facto detention center,” according to Kevin Fee, legal director for the ACLU of Illinois, which is representing plaintiffs in the case.
“These conditions are unconstitutional and threaten to coerce people into sacrificing their rights without the benefit of legal advice and a full airing of their legal defenses,” he said.
Homeland Security has strongly denied the allegations of poor conditions at the facility and suggested that the complaints contribute to death threats and other abuse against federal agents.
“Any claims there are subprime conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are false,” Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to The Independent.
“As ICE arrests and removes criminal illegal aliens and public safety threats from the U.S., the agency has worked diligently to obtain greater necessary detention space while avoiding overcrowding,” she said.
She stressed that “Broadview is a processing center, not a detention center,” and “detainees are briefly processed before being transferred to detention facilities.”
“Some of the worst of the worst including pedophiles, gang members, and rapists have been processed through the facility in recent weeks,” she said. “The ACLU should just change its name. It’s clear they only care about criminal illegal aliens — not Americans.”
A lawsuit accuses ICE of packing detainees into unsanitary cells at the Broadview facility with inadequate access to food, water, medication and legal counsel (REUTERS)
Guards at the facility “refuse” to provide detainees with “basic hygiene items,” including soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, wet wipes, shampoo, lotion, or tissues, according to the complaint.
One woman held at Broadview in June with nearly 30 other women was not provided any menstrual products, the lawsuit says.
Detainees can’t bathe; one of the holding rooms has two showers, but they’re inoperable and used for storage instead, according to the complaint, citing a 2023 internal report.
Facility staff told auditors that “detainees do not shower while at this facility,” nor do they change clothes, and must remain in the clothes — and underwear — they arrived in, according to the lawsuit.
Detainees cannot shower or change their clothes at the facility, which is infested with cockroaches and reeks of urine, feces and body order, according to a federal lawsuit (REUTERS)
Detainees are also routinely denied prescription medicine and medical care, and “making matters worse,” the heavy use of tear gas and pepper spray outside the facility to push back against protesters has tracked into the cells.
“Over the last several months, people have gathered outside of the facility to protest the conditions inside, as well as to protest the immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area,” according to the lawsuit. “Rather than address these concerns, federal agents have responded with violence.”
A separate lawsuit stemming from the use of riot weapons against protesters, reporters and faith leaders outside the Broadview facility prompted a federal judge to issue a sweeping court order that blocks indiscriminate use of force, drawing Homeland Security officials into a wider legal battle over the actions of masked Border Patrol and ICE officers storming into neighborhoods across the city.
Guards at the Broadview facility, meanwhile, are “physically and verbally abusive,” and are keeping detainees there “in a state of hunger and thirst,” lawyers say.
Detainees receive “two to three small, cold sandwiches per day,” and pregnant detainees are “not provided with regular access to meals, nor additional snacks, milk, juice, or any of the extra nutrition recommended for pregnant people,” according to the lawsuit.
Guards are also blocking detainees from legal counsel, the lawsuit says.
One man was allowed to call his wife using his cellphone, but when the officer realized an immigration attorney was also on the other end of the line, “the officer then reached for the phone and hung up the call himself,” lawyers wrote.
“Access to counsel is not a privilege. It is a right,” said Nate Eimer, partner at Eimer Stahl and co-counsel in the lawsuit. “We can debate immigration policy but there is no debating the denial of legal rights and holding those detained in conditions that are not only unlawful but inhumane. Justice and compassion demand that our clients’ rights be upheld.”
The allegations echo claims in a lawsuit surrounding a separate facility in New York City, where a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to iimprove conditions in a makeshift holding area where detainees said they had little access to food and water, slept on cement floors near toilets, and didn’t have anywhere to bathe for days or weeks at a time.
In court filings, detainees said they were fed inedible “slop” and were forced to sleep in cells surrounded by the “horrific stench” of sweat, urine and feces in rooms with open toilets.
Other detainees reported spending as much as three weeks inside the facility without a chance to bathe or brush their teeth. Another man said he watched a detainee have a seizure for 30 minutes before medical help arrived.
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Four things to know as US ships move closer to Venezuela
Satellite images have revealed a US warship stationed off the coast of Venezuela, sparking concerns of further military escalation between the two countries.
The USS Iwo Jima has been positioned less than 200km from the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean Sea, with two other USS destroyers alongside it.
The US has also deployed aircraft and thousands of troops in the region in recent weeks, with 14 per cent of its Navy fleet now stationed in the Caribbean.
US President’s Donald Trump’s administration has claimed the concerted ramping-up of military capabilities in the region aims to tackle the flow of illegal drugs into the US. But the move has raised speculation the US might be seeking to attack key Venezuelan military targets without congressional approval.
What is the US campaign against Venezuela?
Since 2 September, the US has conducted air strikes on 10 vessels in the Caribbean Sea which authorities suspected of intending to illegally traffic drugs into the country.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that each boat destroyed saves “25,000 American lives” by reducing the amount of potentially fatal drugs like fentanyl entering the US.
But the US’s own intelligence suggests fentanyl is mainly supplied through its land border with Mexico, not through small vessels travelling from Venezuela.
The US Navy destroyer USS Gravely (DDG-107) sails from the Port of Spain, off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago (Photo: Andrea de Silva/Reuters)
The UN has said that these air strikes also violate international human rights law.
Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, said on Friday: “Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law.
The Canadian Press
Destroyer USS Gravely leaves Trinidad and Tobago after joint military exercises
“These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable. The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.”
Why is the US building its military presence?
Last week, the Department of Defence announced the world’s largest warship, USS Gerald R Ford, would be redirected from the Mediterranean Sea to US Southern Command’s Area of Responsibility near Venezuela.
Posting on X, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the enhanced “force presence” in the region “will bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere”.
The ship carries dozens of F-18 Super Hornet jets, and the announcement sparked fears of potential land attacks.
Yesterday, Trump told White House reporters that he had not yet made a decision on whether the US would strike military targets on Venezuelan land.
This came after a report in the Miami Herald that he could begin airstrikes as soon as Friday.
Trump raised speculation of an imminent US strike on Venezuelan soil last week after he told reporters: “The land is going to be next.
“The land drugs are much more dangerous for them. It’s going to be much more dangerous. You’ll be seeing that soon.”
What is the USS Iwo Jima doing there?
On Thursday, the US Southern Command posted photos to X, showing Marines conducting “live-fire training” aboard the ship.
The caption said they were stationed in the Caribbean to support Trump’s “priorities to disrupt illicit drug trafficking and protect the homeland”.
A live fire exercise is an opportunity for forces to practice firing live ammunition, rather than blanks, to prepare for real combat.
The USS Iwo Jima is a landing helicopter dock, which means it is capable of launching amphibious invasions.
Experts have said the deployment of the ship so close to Venezuelan land may be seen as an intimidation tactic against the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Along with the two destroyers in its vicinity, the warship represents another significant escalation of the US military presence in the area.
The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) at the US 5th Fleet area of operations in 2018 (Photo: Gado Images/Photodisc via Getty)
What is the response in Venezuela?
Maduro, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, has accused the US of mounting an attempted regime change.
In response to the announcement the USS Gerald R Ford would be moved to the Caribbean last week, Maduro said Trump was looking for conflict.
“They promised they would never again get involved in a war, and they are fabricating a war,” he told state media.
The US does not recognise Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, due to the absence of “basic transparency and integrity measures” in his latest election in 2024.
In August, the US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced there would be a $50m (£36m) reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest on drug trafficking charges.
It is widely believed that Trump is using the cover of drug cartels as an excuse to further mount military operations in Venezuela and oust Maduro from office.
Maduro has accused the US of “seeking a regime change through military threat”, though the Trump administration has strongly denied this.
Satellite images have revealed a US warship stationed off the coast of Venezuela, sparking concerns of further military escalation between the two countries.
The USS Iwo Jima has been positioned less than 200km from the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean Sea, with two other USS destroyers alongside it.
The US has also deployed aircraft and thousands of troops in the region in recent weeks, with 14 per cent of its Navy fleet now stationed in the Caribbean.
US President’s Donald Trump’s administration has claimed the concerted ramping-up of military capabilities in the region aims to tackle the flow of illegal drugs into the US. But the move has raised speculation the US might be seeking to attack key Venezuelan military targets without congressional approval.
What is the US campaign against Venezuela?
Since 2 September, the US has conducted air strikes on 10 vessels in the Caribbean Sea which authorities suspected of intending to illegally traffic drugs into the country.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that each boat destroyed saves “25,000 American lives” by reducing the amount of potentially fatal drugs like fentanyl entering the US.
But the US’s own intelligence suggests fentanyl is mainly supplied through its land border with Mexico, not through small vessels travelling from Venezuela.
The US Navy destroyer USS Gravely (DDG-107) sails from the Port of Spain, off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago (Photo: Andrea de Silva/Reuters)
The UN has said that these air strikes also violate international human rights law.
Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, said on Friday: “Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law.
Destroyer USS Gravely leaves Trinidad and Tobago after joint military exercises
“These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable. The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.”
Why is the US building its military presence?
Last week, the Department of Defence announced the world’s largest warship, USS Gerald R Ford, would be redirected from the Mediterranean Sea to US Southern Command’s Area of Responsibility near Venezuela.
Posting on X, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the enhanced “force presence” in the region “will bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere”.
The ship carries dozens of F-18 Super Hornet jets, and the announcement sparked fears of potential land attacks.
Yesterday, Trump told White House reporters that he had not yet made a decision on whether the US would strike military targets on Venezuelan land.
This came after a report in the Miami Herald that he could begin airstrikes as soon as Friday.
Trump raised speculation of an imminent US strike on Venezuelan soil last week after he told reporters: “The land is going to be next.
“The land drugs are much more dangerous for them. It’s going to be much more dangerous. You’ll be seeing that soon.”
What is the USS Iwo Jima doing there?
On Thursday, the US Southern Command posted photos to X, showing Marines conducting “live-fire training” aboard the ship.
The caption said they were stationed in the Caribbean to support Trump’s “priorities to disrupt illicit drug trafficking and protect the homeland”.
A live fire exercise is an opportunity for forces to practice firing live ammunition, rather than blanks, to prepare for real combat.
The USS Iwo Jima is a landing helicopter dock, which means it is capable of launching amphibious invasions.
Experts have said the deployment of the ship so close to Venezuelan land may be seen as an intimidation tactic against the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Along with the two destroyers in its vicinity, the warship represents another significant escalation of the US military presence in the area.
The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) at the US 5th Fleet area of operations in 2018 (Photo: Gado Images/Photodisc via Getty)
What is the response in Venezuela?
Maduro, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, has accused the US of mounting an attempted regime change.
In response to the announcement the USS Gerald R Ford would be moved to the Caribbean last week, Maduro said Trump was looking for conflict.
“They promised they would never again get involved in a war, and they are fabricating a war,” he told state media.
The US does not recognise Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, due to the absence of “basic transparency and integrity measures” in his latest election in 2024.
In August, the US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced there would be a $50m (£36m) reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest on drug trafficking charges.
It is widely believed that Trump is using the cover of drug cartels as an excuse to further mount military operations in Venezuela and oust Maduro from office.
Maduro has accused the US of “seeking a regime change through military threat”, though the Trump administration has strongly denied this.
