Bullet-point article factory Axios’s reporters say they’re increasingly hearing from ICE agents that morale at the tip of Stephen Miller’s spear of compensation is pretty low as the pressure to increase arrests mounts and that they haven’t once met their collective quota of 3,000 a day.

There aren’t any direct quotes to this effect but it tracks with other reporting of a sagging esprit d’corps. “Some agents are stressed by the tactics some of their colleagues are using in making arrests. Others are disheartened by the response that masked, heavily armed agents have received in several communities,” Axios writes in one of their bullet points, ending it there without an “Oh wow, you mean people have been upset by seeing their neighbors get ripped out of their homes by fucking masked stormtroopers? Wonder where you got the hint about that.”

Anyway, good. Fuck them. For four years all we heard from the MAGA kids was that the FBI should be disbanded and replaced and blah blah blah. How successful Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are going to be at making that remains to be seen but the fact that they both came out and said Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself probably speaks to the FBI running them than them running the FBI. The point of that tangent being that the next Dem administration should actually disband ICE or barring that just completely cripple it beyond repair. The culture cannot be changed. ICE needs to melt.