Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Doesn't seem like there's much downside to not supporting the current White House administration if this is how they treat you if you're viewed as an ally for them www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Trans people have existed thru all of time and in every culture. Invalidating the licenses of trans people in Kansas should stop every American in their tracks. This is not different than what Nazis did. Please speak out. #ChristoFascism #Kansas #TransRightsAreHumanRights

ICE lies and people die

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student. "It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

Via @seamushughes.bsky.social, Treasury has blocked Francesca Albanese, her spouse, and their US citizen daughter from accessing her property based in IEEPA sanctions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

Wtaf? #SOTU #Ilhan #FDT #Trump #Epstein #ICEOUT #Fascism #Censorship #EpsteinClass #EpsteinAdmin

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Should alarm us as much or even more that DHS has spent almost $30 Billion already and includes another $60 Billion in funding for NSA level spyware capable of identifying and tracking the location every immigrant or anyone critical of what they are doing.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Mike Johnson: "If we lost the midterms -- heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the House -- it would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect."

Mike Lee deleted this tweet lmao

Rep. Ilhan Omar shouts repeatedly at Trump: "You have killed Americans!"

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

“ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution,” says whistleblower Ryan Schwank: people.com/former-ice-i...

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says that Congress didn't actually repeal D.C.'s tax-policy bill, pushing the city into direct confrontation with Capitol Hill over who's in charge and what tax-filing season will look like this year. 51st.news/congress-dc-...

This really sums it up.

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

"Musk's understanding of USAID is that it was not merely wasteful spending, but also a left-wing indoctrination machine. He said it had "been run by radical lunatics" and backed conspiratorial claims that a Chinese research lab which received a grant from USAID created COVID."

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Just In: Congressional Republicans’ changes for D.C. taxpayers don’t affect this tax season, D.C.’s attorney general argues.

According to Boston Globe, plans for Merrimack detention warehouse are scrapped! Our tracker is up to date to reflect the cancelation of the sale thanks to community pushback. Merrimack = 🟢 h/t @altstategov.altgov.info

Exclusive: An internal State Department email obtained by @hana-kiros.bsky.social reveals that the U.S. plans to end all of its current lifesaving aid to seven African countries.

Breaking NBC: Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

“These are repeated acts of dehumanization.” I am demanding that ICE immediately review Rodney Taylor’s request for release. What he and others are experiencing in detention is absolutely horrifying.

BREAKING Maryland AG Brown files lawsuit to block Hagerstown ICE warehouse. “The lawsuit alleges that DHS and ICE violated NEPA by purchasing the property and moving forward with construction plans without conducting any of these required steps.”

The US Women’s Olympic Hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to attend the SOTU speech. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."

where are these factories being built jd

Trump judge now acting like Trump DOJ or Trump media: blocking release of unflattering information

"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."

it's time to deploy our most powerful weapon, acting gravely concerned about what these new projects will mean "for the parking situation"

There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism. The American people have rejected it. The only question is whether our leaders have the courage to do the right thing.

Chicken-black eyed pea stew with cornbread

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

If only we’d known he was building concentration camps. If only we’d known he was a child rapist. If only we’d known he would foment insurrection. If only we’d known he was grifting billions. If only we’d known he was owned by Russia. We know NOW. Call your reps: 202-224-3121 #RemoveTrump

Breakfast

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

🙄 Back to using travelers as leverage now, even though DHS is sitting on enough unspent money to last multiple fiscal years. They didn’t even stop PreCheck & Global Entry during the last government shutdown because those programs actually require *less* staffing.

A great post from @fisherdanar.bsky.social danarfisher.com/2026/02/21/w...

I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media.