👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to bring back Venezuelan men it wrongfully sent to El Salvador. Some say they won’t return—because they don’t trust they won’t be locked up again. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

NEW: As Trump politicizes Justice Dept… there’s another wave of damaging resignations youtube.com/shorts/IXxFh...

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

American history offers a medium through which Trump can wage the all-encompassing cultural, political, and legal battles animating his administration. This President’s Day, let’s revisit Trump’s plans to control the country by bulldozing its past.

In a nutshell, the Dem lodestar should be: "ICE is bad, and immigration is good"

16 February 1939 | A Greek Jew, Elazar Kovo, was born in Thessaloniki. In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

ICE is being sued for-among other things-using unconstitutional racial bias while detaining families and zip tying children during a raid in Idaho

(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)

France & UK have enough of a military presence in the North Atlantic to defend Greenland now and there may or may not be a nuclear warhead in the mix. The US military is on lease to Israel, Ukraine is getting stronger, China is replacing US influence, and Russia is still shitty.

“Trump hasn’t defied a single court order” is a wild thing to say

The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn

RFK, jr & team are trying to squash the market for vaccines and US funding for vaccine R&D and thereby cut off vaccine development globally. It's incumbent on other powers (including e.g. US states) to act to preserve the vaccine development system with research and vaccination funding.

Instances of racial profiling we *documented* - a war vet grabbed by agents and held for three days. -construction worker who gave agents his ID, which they dismissed as false. He was arrested 2x. -A man who was tased and grabbed All are citizens -and Latino www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: The Department of Justice clearly worked to hide these videos from the American public in spite of the law. Audio has been removed from what appear to be victim interviews with the Palm Beach police department. Epstein associates have their faces hidden. prolib.substack.com/p/i-found-vi...

DHS just hired a 21-year-old whose biggest résumé highlight is flooding government social media with white-nationalist slop. This is what federal “communications” looks like now. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

THE NEW COUNTDOWN MONDAY PODCAST DROPS AT MIDNIGHT and in it: Trump has just let his plot to steal the midterms slip. How to STOP. HIM. Cuz... just because we're paranoid doesn't mean Trump's not out to get us.

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

16 February 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Jesayes Visser, was born in Rotterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://bit.ly/3MtiLwY

Today, February 15th, is the birthday of Stacey Glasgow. He died at 8 in a 2025 accidental shooting in New Haven, Connecticut. Stacey was a 2nd grader with an electric smile, a melodious voice, and a passion for extracurriculars…especially gym, art, and technology.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spent 100s of thousands of dollars and expended thousands of man-hours of labor all to send just NINE people in chains on a Boeing 737 from Minnesota to Texas today 👀

This past Wednesday a U.S. Marshal shot and killed Julian Bailey in the Mayfair neighborhood of Ward 7. This shows us yet again that DC must end cooperation between MPD and federal forces. Tomorrow at 6 PM join Julian’s family for a vigil and remembrance in his honor.

Federal agents convinced an 11 yr old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m., then detained this Hmong grandmother for 2 wks in TX, where she shared a cell w 20 women. What did she do wrong? She still has no idea, ICE keeps returning to her door She's still in hiding www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...

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What they do to immigrants, they will do to us.

Epstein survivors believe the Trump DoJ illegally released the names of survivors in an effort to intimidate them.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer who fought for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. She was one of the first Black people to publish a short story, authored many celebrated poetry collections, and helped enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "With immigration, it really is notable: the extent to which they just are no longer just winking at white nationalist tropes, but openly deploying them—and then calling anybody who says anything the real bigots." youtube.com/shorts/KgDn9...

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

The claim adds to a growing pile of information challenging what Trump knew about his dead friend’s history of abusing and raping young women, and when he knew it. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely not get us out of here." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Don Huffines, the new owner of Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, “is ignoring calls for an independent investigation into whether children’s bodies may be buried on the property”. #Epstein #DonHuffines

Meet Texas Republican, Bo French. One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported. He might win statewide office in Texas.

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Heather Cox Richardson points out that Pam Bondi’s bizarre testimony makes more sense when you realize she couldn’t talk about the Epstein files without perjuring herself. Watch our discussion here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Backlash to Trump’s immigration crackdown is putting vulnerable Republicans in a tough spot, forcing them to shift their tone to appease frustrated Hispanic voters — or risk losing key battleground seats.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...

We are far too tolerant of this and will eventually regret not taking more radical action to end it

This is what an authoritarian police state does