EPA’s records show one environmental consent decree filed in last year – 26 were filed in year one of first Trump term

Where are the GOP budget hawks? This is like $133K per person. If you live in a red state or district, this is the kind of thing to hassle your members of Congress about. wtop.com/national/202...

Disfunction www.npr.org/2026/02/13/g...

Affordability and housing in a K-shaped economy libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/wher...

This makes not sense economically (let alone environmentally). Where are the GOP budget hawks? abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote. Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple. Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121

The Senator Who Has Made It Her Mission to Stop RFK Jr. @alsobrooks.senate.gov on Kennedy's first year as health secretary: “His leadership has been absolutely disastrous.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Where is the new samizdat? forward.com/culture/8031...

"The machinery built to manage a dying tyrant did not disappear with him." www.facebook.com/share/p/1ATc...

Follow the money

When temperatures plunge, the lives of incarcerated people are put on the line. Frigid showers, worn down clothing, and inadequate heating systems have caused people to die in jail cells that reach reach freezing temperatures in the winter. Warmth shouldn't be a luxury.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

'... Newt Gingrich, whose pamphlet Language: A Key Mechanism of Control (1990) lists "positive" and "negative" words to use for "effective" speeches. Trump's entire vocabulary can be found there, from "common sense" to "pathetic."' www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

To her credit, Bondi did not shoot the pup dead as Noem did. She was instead ready to use lawyers to break the heart of its four-year-old owner, though in light of ICE nowadays grabbing children off the street and incarcerating them without their parents, she was just in training.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Anybody want to try to convince me this decision wasn't made under duress? www.axios.com/2026/02/11/g...

Welcome to the panopticon

Going rogue apnews.com/article/ice-...

Shameful www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...

In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost 20 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/3MxuWJg

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said. (Published Dec. 2025)

All out of ham sandwiches www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-j...

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration and an Idaho Police Task Force for an unlawful immigration raid at a family event in Wilder, Idaho. Masked agents zip-tied people at gunpoint, used flash-bang grenades, shot rubber bullets, and detained over 400 people, including children and citizens.

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

A kidney transplant recipient in Minnesota who was arrested by ICE has been denied access to life-saving medication for more than four days, according to his wife. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Ah, another recruitment ad for the US Park Police on the radio. $70k signing bonus. Why am I convinced the administration is assembling an occupying force for the District of Columbia?

In the rural Maryland county where an ICE concentration camp is planned, the county commission board voted unanimously to back it. One board member, Derek Harvey, has an interesting resume: He was Trump’s top NSC Middle East adviser in 2017 + later worked as lead investigator for Rep Devin Nunes 🙃

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face? LYONS: None SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back? LYONS: None

Boy howdy, that's a lot of concentration camps.

You need a vast 'police' bureaucracy to fill and run all those concentration camps.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Just five firms received about $2.1 billion in political ad-buying payments during the 2024 election cycle. OpenSecrets looks at how that concentration of spending could shape the 2026 midterms. 🔗 Read more www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/02...

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

A former ICE employee has spoken out against the grotesque and inhumane conditions at an ICE detention center in Baltimore, Maryland. www.jezebel.com/former-ice-w...

"Wherever ICE unleashes its controversial deportation tactics, the audience’s attention follows." www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/ice-...

Meanwhile in Serbia apnews.com/article/serb...

1/2 Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. ICE access to Medicaid data breaks longstanding promises of confidentiality, including for Emergency Medicaid used in many births.

Never gonna happen.

omfg

What does a concentration camp cost? In dollars, I mean, not human suffering or national shame.

America’s unions are fighting for a better and more secure future for young workers across the country ✊

The Trump administration is trying to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. Send a message to the Trump administration and tell them: Hands off our health care.

Follow the money

Concentration camps are expensive. Who knew?

Meanwhile in Japan www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...