Burung Hantu
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Guardian US
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EPA’s records show one environmental consent decree filed in last year – 26 were filed in year one of first Trump term
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Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/environmental-laws-enforcement-polluters?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1770988517-1
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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.
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US spent $40 million on roughly 300 deportations to third nations, Democratic report finds - WTOP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own as immigration officials expanded the practice over the last year...
https://wtop.com/national/2026/02/us-spent-40-million-on-roughly-300-deportations-to-third-nations-democratic-report-finds/
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Disfunction
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A bipartisan effort to save health subsidies failed. Will ICE reform be different?
A bipartisan effort in Congress to restrain immigration enforcement tactics is flailing despite a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The pattern is increasingly familiar.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/13/g-s1-109818/bipartisan-effort-save-health-subsidies-failed-ice-reform-different
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Affordability and housing in a K-shaped economy
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Where Are Mortgage Delinquencies Rising the Most? - Liberty Street Economics
Though still near low long-term levels, mortgage delinquencies are up, especially in areas with rising unemployment and worse housing market conditions.
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/where-are-mortgage-delinquencies-rising-the-most/
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This makes not sense economically (let alone environmentally). Where are the GOP budget hawks?
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Trump orders Pentagon to invest in 'beautiful, clean' coal power
President Donald Trump announced an executive order on Wednesday aimed at sustaining the United States’ coal industry through federal funding.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-orders-pentagon-invest-beautiful-clean-coal-power/story?id=130071474
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Robert Reich
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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
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Rolling Stone
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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:
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Where is the new samizdat?
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Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist's underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Bloch produced 96 editions of 'The Underwater Cabaret' while he and other Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawlspace.
https://forward.com/culture/803182/underwater-cabaret-curt-simone-bloch/
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"The machinery built to manage a dying tyrant did not disappear with him."
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ACLU
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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.
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When cold weather becomes a death sentence
Inmates across the country have died or been hospitalized due to hypothermia. Climate change is poised to make winter in prison even worse.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/08/winter-prison-deadly-climate-change/88300893007/
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Andrew Karre
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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.
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'... 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."'
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'Not only is Trump not crazy, but he is dangerous': Historian Laure Murat salutes Minneapolis 'lesson in democracy'
OP-ED. The essayist argues that the US is experiencing 'the greatest institutional crisis' in its history, not because of the madness of a single man, but due to a calculated agenda. According to her,...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/02/05/not-only-is-trump-not-crazy-but-he-is-dangerous-historian-laure-murat-salutes-minneapolis-lesson-in-democracy_6750188_23.html
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David Simon
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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.
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ProPublica
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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.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1770868805&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ACLU
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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.
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The Tennessee Holler
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From
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: “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…”🤔
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Anybody want to try to convince me this decision wasn't made under duress?
www.axios.com/2026/02/11/g...
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Gallup's presidential approval ratings poll is ending after eight decades
Gallup said it will remain committed to polling on issues that shape everyday lives.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/11/gallup-ends-presidential-approval-rating
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Welcome to the panopticon
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Going rogue
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As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-agents-arrested-misconduct-crimes-abuse-corruption-45b0d2248c0add9523e0bf5a953faaea
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Shameful
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The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global corruption index | CNN Business
The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures views of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/business/corruption-index-transparency-international-united-states-intl
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PBS News
4 days ago
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
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New Gallup poll reveals depth of Americans' gloom about the future
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 ...
https://to.pbs.org/3MxuWJg
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ProPublica
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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)
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
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 discriminat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1770782408&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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All out of ham sandwiches
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Grand jury declines criminal charges against 6 Democrats who urged military to reject illegal orders, multiple sources say
A federal grand jury refused to indict six Democrats who drew President Trump's ire by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject "illegal orders," three sources told CBS New...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-jury-declines-charges-against-6-democrats/
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ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer
The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/aclu-lawsuit-wilder-idaho-ice-raid-la-catedral-racetrack/
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After Disputed ICE Raid, Lawsuit Tries New Approach to Accountability
It’s nearly impossible to sue federal officials for civil rights violations, but a new ACLU filing could become a test case for how to do it.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/10/ice-idaho-raid-aclu-lawsuit
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ACLU
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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.
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ProPublica
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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.
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Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges
The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Ⓜ️𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊 💙 🦋
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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...
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ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds
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. Carolina Rosario De Abreu told MPR N...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-arrests-transplant-patient-cuts-201159357.html
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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?
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Marisa Kabas
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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 🙃
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Washington County Backs ICE Detention Facility, Then Cuts Meeting Short Amid Protests
Board votes unanimously to support immigration enforcement, then clears room as demonstrators respond with shouts and whistles
https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/washington-county-backs-ice-detention
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Aaron Rupar
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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
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Boy howdy, that's a lot of concentration camps.
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You need a vast 'police' bureaucracy to fill and run all those concentration camps.
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Aaron Rupar
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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."
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OpenSecrets.org
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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
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The billion-dollar middlemen: How a handful of firms dominate political ad buying - OpenSecrets News
Political ad buying is concentrated among a small group of vendors, a dynamic that could influence how campaigns and super PACs spend millions in 2026.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/02/this-handful-of-firms-dominates-political-ad-buying/
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Aaron Rupar
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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."
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Jezebel
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A former ICE employee has spoken out against the grotesque and inhumane conditions at an ICE detention center in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Former ICE Worker Says Women Detainees Were Given Diapers Instead of Sanitary Products
A former ICE employee has spoken out against the grotesque and inhumane conditions at an ICE detention center in Baltimore, Maryland.
https://www.jezebel.com/former-ice-worker-says-women-detainees-were-given-diapers-instead-of-sanitary-products
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Carrie Brown
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"Wherever ICE unleashes its controversial deportation tactics, the audience’s attention follows."
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/ice-...
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ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities
From Somalis in Minneapolis to Nepalis in New York City, immigrant communities turn to trusted local news sources. Here's our regular ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/ice-activity-is-pushing-readers-to-nonprofit-news-sites-that-cover-immigrant-communities/
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Meanwhile in Serbia
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Thousands rally in Belgrade against crackdown on student-led protests
Thousands of people have protested in Serbia’s capital against a government crackdown on universities.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-belgrade-students-d130989de248aa4a768cde2509d8b017
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Alt CDC (they/them)
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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.
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With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients - KFF Health News
The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical co...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/ice-immigrants-medicaid-data-sharing-hospitals-states-deportation/
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Never gonna happen.
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omfg
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What does a concentration camp cost? In dollars, I mean, not human suffering or national shame.
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AFL-CIO
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America’s unions are fighting for a better and more secure future for young workers across the country ✊
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ACLU
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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.
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Tell HHS: Hands Off Our Care
Take action with ACLU People Power!
https://act.aclu.org/a/tell-hhs-hands-our-care?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_m
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Follow the money
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Concentration camps are expensive. Who knew?
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Meanwhile in Japan
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Japan’s First Female Prime Minister Pushes the Country Further to the Right
Sanae Takaichi secured a supermajority in Japan’s lower house of parliament, giving her significant power to push a harder line against China and pursue a more restrictive immigration policy.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-woman-behind-japans-rightward-shift
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