A researcher with the American Friends Service Committee and the national “Purge Palantir” campaign said the next phase is about scaling, helping communities identify where Palantir is embedded through political relationships, and sharing tactics that can be adapted locally.

Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today. www.propublica.org/article/dill...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

The EEOC just reversed its own position, which it held for over a decade, that Title VII not only protects trans workers from discrimination but specifically that banning a trans worker from using a bathroom aligned with their gender identity is against the law www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeo...

“I’m a real bug for poetry,” Malcolm wrote in prison. “When you think back over all of our past lives, only poetry could best fit into the vast emptiness created by man.” I explore the poetic sensibility of Malcolm X for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/poet...

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.

Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas. she can help you do it, too.

Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month! These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c

In this country, even being in prison doesn't guarantee someone a bed to sleep in or a meal. In gang-controlled areas of this prison in TN, it’s common practice to demand “rent” from any unaffiliated people. This violence is encouraged by guards. truthout.org/articles/thi...

wrote about the decline in people seeking careers in public service for @newrepublic.com -- a detrimental trend that existed before this administration but it is almost certainly going to accelerate during it. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Inside the first-ever Young Worker March on Washington: young federal workers are organizing for higher wages, affordable care/housing, union rights, and a future they can actually live in. Amie Stager reports, in partnership with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

if only there could’ve been a way for them to have learned this a year before the election. like the voters and youth organizing groups who said that would happen without a change in Gaza policy back in November 2023

In plain language, Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence in his hometown of Dallas.

"The raids at the family detention site an hour southwest of San Antonio are in response to a ProPublica article published Feb. 9, which features the letters and drawings of children inside, according to Manriquez.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

Pitch us! RNG is the only national U.S. newsroom exclusively dedicated to expert reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. For our first 2026 call-out, we especially seek timely, incisive story ideas from journalists covering disability justice, science, and parenthood.

The largest rent strike in a century? The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism www.patreon.com/posts/150947...

I wrote about having solidarity with young people in our struggles against ICE for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/in-t...

NEW: A Georgia railroad owned by a descendant of an enslaver is using eminent domain to take land owned by descendants of the enslaved. If you want to understand how slavery still shapes power today, start here: capitalbnews.org/georgia-rail...

Full write up on Tuesday’s Surprise City Council meeting where 1000+ community members showed up to oppose a recently purchased industrial warehouse located across from a high school, a preschool and middle school that DHS/ICE plans to use as a concentration camp. It’s the size of 7 football fields.

Our collaboration with the @transjournalists.org has been using public records and FOIA to see how the current administration has impacted the trans community. www.muckrock.com/project/the-...

if ICE is taking your photograph, seems like one of the best things you can do in the moment is tuck your chin and look down. maybe that's intuitive but the tech does seem to be really weak at that angle, fwiw.

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

solidarity w my new CWA siblings! 👠getting fired for union activity is despicable and sadly super common; the brothel owners claiming rights to any IP of any worker is truly disgusting!

philadelphia residents won a similar lawsuit back in 2020. it ended with a $9mil settlement & followed a city-council prohibition on the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions.

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

Internal documents obtained by LOOKOUT show two of Arizona's longest-running LGBTQ+ advocacy orgs. crafted a marriage equality proposal that one Democratic lawmaker described as a "rollback." It'd allow religious officials to refuse to perform same-sex weddings. www.lookoutnews.org/two-lgbtq-gr...

I dug into the transit tax proposal that Pima County residents can vote on in the next month, and how to weigh your vote depending on what transit future you're looking for: azluminaria.org/2026/02/13/r...

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.

Indigenous communities are hard at work restoring a relative: the buffalo, ray levy uyeda reports. Back from the brink of extinction, buffalo are at the center of an ecological revolution led by Indigenous leaders to heal cultural ties severed by federal policy & restore the wellbeing of ecosystems.

ICE pursued school buses, intruded on campuses, and abducted students in MN and beyond. “Our classrooms are sacred spaces… This government is defiling them.” Read this new story by Lily Seltz on Trump’s ICE abducting kids. #AbolishICE #children

After Trump elevated a video with unfounded claims of fraud in Somali-American run childcares and used it as context for the ICE occupation of Minnesota, childcare providers around the country have been subject to vigilante harassment and surveillance www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Pulitzer Center is launching a special call for journalism grants focusing on transparency and governance topics in the environmental sector. Submit your proposals by February 28, 2026. Learn more and apply now! 👉 bit.ly/49VCb6H #Journalism

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group. www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

Massachusetts is the only state run by Democrats that still partners with ICE. I dug into this and found that it’s had profound and very troubling consequences: at least 164 people funneled straight from state prisons to ICE since 2023 alone. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

The kind folks at @thesundaylongread.bsky.social let me guest edit the newsletter to share some stories I loved this week! Including pieces from @atavist.com, @us.theguardian.com, @thenation.com, @19thnews.org, @capitalb.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com, & more. Link: mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Much of the public believes violent crime is a major problem, even though it's at historic lows in the United States. This disconnect is "the product of carefully cultivated propaganda," says author @equalityalec.bsky.social. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/alec_karakatsanis

We decided to drop the paywall on @kwanetaharris.bsky.social because it's so powerful and urgent. Kwaneta writes about how the state is her abuser as an incarcerated woman. Read for free here: www.theflytrapmedia.com/aint-we-wome...

While real abortion clinics are disappearing, Sonia Chajet Wides reports, crisis pregnancy centers mislead patients, dodge medical standards, and siphon hundreds of millions in public funds—even as Medicaid faces historic cuts. inthesetimes.com/article/fake...

Many years ago, students told me that sometimes they're afraid to get politically involved and asked for advice. I told them I get scared too. And when I do, I try my best to not have it cause problems for others braver than me. That sometimes my contribution is staying out of the way.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.