When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever. By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...

The Justice Department on Monday moved to dismiss its long-running criminal case against Steve Bannon, tied to his refusal to testify before the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Make sure if you have a ballot you VOTE and get it returned to a ballot box ASAP! Ballots must be returned by tomorrow at 8PM! Vote YES for your schools!!!

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “pleads the Fifth in front of House committee, offers to clear Trump's name in exchange for clemency,” people.com/ghislaine-ma...

Breaking MS NOW: Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise. Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

One of Justice Scalia’s last votes before his death on 2/13/16 was to usher in the Court’s practice of making sweeping rulings on the emergency docket without explanation or accountability. A rich reminder of that moment from @stevevladeck.bsky.social

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

I remember Trump suing CBS and the BBC about "unfair" edits. MAGA insisted they had to do this because such edits are illegal (they're not). But of course they have nothing to say about @nbcnews.com editing out the boos of JD Vance

Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

An 18-month-old baby held in ICE detention was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening respiratory failure. She was then sent back to detention, where she was denied daily medication.

Trump openly used the ‘n-word’ on the set of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ I heard his obese ass say it and so did the shows producers. If you still consume Mark Burnett products you are subsidizing their racism. NBC could have stopped him at the time but money mattered more to them.

This this this: “I actually think that now is the time to be preparing for this,” Hasen says. “I think states and localities should think about getting injunctions from federal courts against Donald Trump to prevent him from interfering with the tabulation of ballots.”

Jeff Bezos was once hailed as the ideal billionaire steward of a newspaper—but his recent actions have made clear that it’s time for him to sell The Washington Post. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

HELL NO. We’ve seen the violence and fear ICE and CBP are sowing in communities in Minnesota, Oregon, and across the country. Our state doesn’t want or need an ICE surge and I’ll fight like hell to protect Oregonians from Trump’s wrath.

Continuing with our commitment to publish on the ground accounts of the occupations and related conflicts with DHS, Audrey Lee this week provided a harrowing account of the punishing abuse that Portland protesters have been subjected to for more than half a year

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*.

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

The gutting of the Washington Post was not inevitable. Billionaires did it, on purpose. The opinion section -- Bezos's megaphone for right-wing, billionaire-friendly agitprop -- is doing just fine.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Sen. Fetterman: I'm cool with concentration camps, but not when they overload the sewer systems

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more on this, from last week from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...

“.. The orders .. came from senior officials .. several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation .. would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good ‘violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer’ ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Tulsi Gabbard and the White House killed a whistleblower report that someone close to Trump was talking to foreign intelligence. Trump and his allies are in the Epstein files, and likely controlled through blackmail by foreign intelligence. The Trump administration is a national security threat.

Someone should make Elon watch the terminator movies. @driftglass.bsky.social

In which @bluegal.bsky.social gives the best explanation of false equivalence centrism I have ever heard. If you want to understand the rightward creep of the political middle, listen to her at the 26:30 mark:

🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls. The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

US negotiator Steve Witkoff represents you and me while he has business dealing in Russia but NOT Ukraine!!!! This is a MUST watch video for anyone who stands with Ukraine youtu.be/5gMXp3z26gg?...

WOW! WHITE HOUSE SAYS TRUMP DOESN’T WRITE HIS OWN TWEETS??? AUTOPEN!

U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison visited the Whipple Federal Building on Thursday. "It's abundantly clear that Whipple is not at all equipped to handle what the Trump administration is doing with their cruel and chaotic 'Operation Metro Surge,'" Morrison said in a statement.

Donald Trump deleted a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes from his social media platform after a bipartisan outcry, including from Tim Scott, the only Black Republican US senator

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

The perfect way to enable other crimes is to focus all law enforcement on immigration

Name them shame them

Masks off: GOP FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor, who is now running for Congress, admits he “protected” Donald Trump from campaign finance investigations out of “loyalty” x.com/baylisswagne...

The bipartisan FEC didn’t take action against Trump committees in *any* of the dozens of cases before them, thanks to Trainor and his GOP colleagues blocking investigations. Really paid off, too: Trump just endorsed Trainor’s primary opponent! www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

Campaign says Jan 6 police responder Harry Dunn raised more than $500,000 in the first 24 hours of his campaign for Congress in Maryland

US cuts ties with the speaker of the Polish Parliament after he refuses US ambassador (former podcaster) Tom Rose's demand that he sign a nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee putting Trump forward for the Nobel Peace Prize. It gets more absurd every day.

🚨 Elon Musk’s gutting of USAID has fueled an estimated death toll that’s about to surpass 800,000—including 530,000 children. That’s 88 deaths every hour. Meanwhile, the federal deficit is the largest it's been since the COVID-era stimulus, with no reduction in sight.

The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff, despite being owned by the fourth-richest man on the planet. Billionaire control of the media is a threat to the free press.

Again, even if the Democrats win, & even if the Republicans cede power in January, it will still not be evidence that we are a democracy or that things worked. Elections under these conditions fail basic criteria of democratic process, & this stuff doesn't happen in any actual democracy anywhere.

A smart country would fund the hell out of education rather than giving all the money to billionaires and corporations.

RFK Jr. was more concerned about vaccines & Tylenol causing autism than he was about children getting encephalitis because they weren’t vaccinated against measles. More complications from measles: -hearing loss -dehydration -pneumonia -subacute sclerosing -panencephalitis (SSPE) -death

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. ordered tuberculosis cases to be hidden after more than 60 people tested positive at a San Francisco high school. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses. They start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

Meningitis. MENINGITIS. #ProLifeMyAss RFK Jr

She’s the RFK Jr. of journalism