in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Georgia Election Raid Initiated By Recently Hired ‘Stop the Steal’ Lawyer

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Somehow, in the attention to Howard Lutnick's lies about Epstein and his general toadying, attention has drifted away from his buying a house in DC for $25 million. In cash. From ... Brett Baier of Trump state media, aka Fox. (We walk past its gates frequently) washingtonian.com/2024/12/20/b...

Alarming new revelations about ICE's use of administrative subpoenas to get information about people the administration wanted to detain and deport because of their protests against government policies. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

So much money:

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

The Panican Brief

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

Harsh criticism of the US in the report ahead of the Munich Security Conference. The authors describe the Trump admin as authoritarian, saying it has brought the world into an era of "wrecking-ball politics,” and warn that Donald Trump has “a unsettling affinity” for Vladimir Putin.

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

“When it comes to choosing between storing a championship ring or trophy in a room, or providing kids with an opportunity to change their lives, the choice is pretty simple. Sell it all.” KAREEM RULES.

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

"going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.”

Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

A 1935 Sinclair Lewis political novel has a title almost identical to this.

So wait, Trump watched Bad Bunny's halftime instead of Kid Rock's? HT: @cynthiaann47.bsky.social

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

Unprecedented corruption

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

Imagine bringing American food to Italy

if we survive this kakistocracy can you imagine what the IT security audit is going to have to look like? the same corporations that enabled Trump will make a killing on the other end overbilling clean up of his traitorous dookie

5th Circuit gonna 5th Circuit.

Welcome to the world of selective enforcement, a hallmark of autocratic and hybrid governments. It doesn't matter if the underlying investigation has validity. Because the probe is not about the rule of law, but rather the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of allies of the regime.

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists www.404media.co/the-washingt...

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID Our case now moves into discovery As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

ICE repeatedly violated a court order by continuing to “indiscriminately” arrest people in Colorado without warrants and without first checking if they’re likely to flee, attorneys allege in a new legal filing // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

JUST IN: Despite moves by Trump to ease the surge in Minnesota, military lawyers have started taking over for civilian prosecutors in federal court there. More in POLITICO Playbook www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Heartbreaking read from my colleague @lvannsports.bsky.social. Mauro Henriquez, an 18-year-old Houston ISD student and team captain for his school’s soccer team, is in ICE custody. Now, his team is playing without him — and for him. www.chron.com/sports/highs...

Walmart, Amazon and CPS top list of employers where Illinois workers still need SNAP benefits. State data obtained by the Sun-Times identifies where SNAP recipients say they work as expanded work requirements could push as 400,000 off the food assistance program chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02...

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

Friend who didn't take any poli sci courses: This is just like animal farm but for the right? Me: So the horseshoe theory of politics tells us that authoritarian populist will pretty much all end up at the same place regardless of whether they started on the right or the left. Friend: . . .

U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis just took the bench for today's hearing in the case of Marimar Martinez, the woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago.

Must be some more of that economic anxiety.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

A 5 year old boy in a Spiderman backpack became a symbol for people to rally around. So, they decided to make an example of a 5 year old. The depraved evil of these people knows no bounds.

I have made a scholarly career off of trying to understand why people have historically done things they know they shouldn't because society has given them permission to, and the framing of this whole conversation is honestly disgusting to me

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.