www.rawstory.com/heavily-arme... In total, the report released by Schiff (D-Calif.) finds that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) committed to spending over $144 million on weapons and ammunition over the last year

"Abigail Spanberger brought exactly what this moment demands in her State of the Union response...the kind of commonsense leadership Americans are looking for. You made Virginia proud, @GovernorVA." - Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07) bluevirginia.us/2026/02/vide...

"They have killed American citizens in our streets." Gov. Abigail Spanberger criticizes Trump's immigration enforcement in the Democratic response to the State of the Union. READ NOW: www.ms.now/liveblog/sta...

NEW: A federal immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against our client Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained for his protected speech. This is good news, but the government can still appeal or refile their case. We won’t stop fighting until he is free for good.

This will also be aired Friday morning on Spotify! Yahoo!

Any Democrat who sits through that fascist turd’s lies like a potted plant is a dangerous tool. It’s not even constitutionally required that you show up, or that this be a TV show! Presidents used to submit it to Congress by letter. Either don’t show up or use the dumb TV show to make some NOISE.

Follow up: @msifry.bsky.social has a good piece on this new thing. theconnector.substack.com/p/this-machi...

This is also going to be on Friday morning Feb. 20th posted on as a Spotify podcast. Hip hip hooray!

We say this a lot: "We get the Democratic Party that we demand." This afternoon we've got a special guest who is demanding a Dem Party that fights. Come join the conversation!

A dozen is good but too few. If you are an elected Democrat in congress, there are 2 ways to engage with the SOTU with integrity: 1) Don't go. 2) Go and get kicked out, Al Green style. Everything else is wimpy.

This is an amazing idea! A lot of hearts are going to come around. Hate can’t exist with this kind of love.

Andrea Pitzer an expert on concentration camps appeared on my SiriusXM show where she warned that history tell us that the massive new ICE detention centers being built will be used to not just imprison migrants--but also Americans who oppose Trump. youtu.be/mnTxt2v1K3Q?...

BREAKING: NEW MEXICO has banned I.C.E. detention centers. The Immigration Safety Act (House Bill 9) was approved by the Senate, 24-15. All GOP opposed the bill. It will become law. 😎✨

Dozens of juvenile detention centers in 25 states reported holding children weeks or months as they awaited space at long-term psychiatric treatment facilities, according to a new survey.

68% of Americans and more each day express opposition to NEW ICE DETENTION CENTERS These are FOR-PROFIT Concentration camps Horrible Abuse Horrible Food and Medical ICE is supposed to get rid of only hardened criminals, right? CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 202 224-3121 STOP ICE FUNDING

We’re estimating 38B for Trump’s massive new detention centers. That’s not securing a border. That’s rapidly building an industrial scale detention system. History shows that the larger the detention infrastructure, the easier it becomes to repurpose. So, what are we building?

New Mexico is. New Mexico is also the only state to outlaw ICE Detention Centers as well. Rock on New Mexico!!

Everything about this story should fill you with horror and fury.

Every story out of Dilley makes me think of Rep. McIver asking DHS officials: "Do you think you're going to hell?"

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Have y'all seen this? The "Singing Resistance" toolkit. Practical guidance on how to use this tactic to build community and grow the movement against fascism. Might be useful for your Indivisible group or other local organizing hub. Check it out: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

They've got a whole song book too! This is so cool and useful. docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Tell Citizens Bank: stop funding ice prisons” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

A report on the horrible conditions of this detention center for children. youtu.be/9l4-j0UJxq8?...

New surveillance footage shows kids running from a NJ bus stop after ICE agents were spotted nearby. One of the students, a 10-year-old-boy, tearfully said he fears his parents will be targeted. @ahylton26.bsky.social : "This is what we're doing to children all across the country right now."

Leqaa Kordia, a New Jersey woman who was detained by federal immigration agents during a 2024 protest at Columbia University, suffered a seizure after she fell and hit her head in a Texas detention center, her lawyers and federal officials said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4asLPg1

“The violence we see today is a direct consequence of the $170 billion that Congress handed to Homeland Security in last year’s reconciliation bill, fueling the administration’s mass detention & deportation agenda at an unprecedented scale, “ said Setareh, from DWN in an op-ed for the @thehill.com

Local communities are courageously taking on ICE to fight detention warehouses from entering their towns and winning! People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people & keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, & demanding ICE out of their communities.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - The New Yorker

an immigration court has dropped the deportation case against grad student Rümeysa Öztürk, after trying to revoke her student visa over an op-ed she’d co-written in a Tufts University student paper. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Rep. Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

Good Morning Today I rise with HOPE & INSPIRATION The Buddhist Monks arrive in Washington DC ! Itinerary below 🕊 They have touched millions The journey long and hard PRESERVERANCE, HOPE, & ALWAYS LOVE May their walk carry this gentle message "THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY BACK TO THE LIGHT" 🕊PEACE

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

BYHALIA, MS ICE WAREHOUSE CANCELED!! This denies ICE 798K sq ft of detention space and 8,500 beds. It prevents an estimated $650M/year operating cost at tax payer expense.

Visiting the Underground Railroad wing at the B&O Railroad Museum in beautiful West Baltimore, and revisiting and reflecting on this period of American history.

Meanwhile, around the corner at East Camp Montana at ICE’s detention camp on Fort Bliss…

ICE HAS PURCHASED A WAREHOUSE NEAR EL PASO, TX. The cost of this warehouse was $123M. It will operate at an estimated cost of $620.5M per year. It removes $300K from the state’s annual tax revenue. It will hold up to 8,500 detainees.

And while you’re at it, use our warehouse tracker tool to see who owns each facility, and apply the power of public pressure to dissuade them from selling to ICE! tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Communities in OK, MS, VA, and MN have stopped warehouse sales to ICE. You can, too: ✅ Go to city council meetings & SPEAK UP during open comment ✅ Call your state delegates — local + state pressure is our best bet. The Fed Gov won’t save us. ✅ Register to vote now. The 2026 midterms are coming.

Today in the Salt Box... 📧A Washington County, Md. resident shares her grief over the looming ICE detention warehouse 🪧 MD residents have a brief — but impactful — opportunity to make their voices heard 📬 We want to hear from you! Send us your stories at [email protected]

I feel like a really unfun fun fact the general public should be aware of: when you reach out to ICE with media inquiries or for statements, they usually just respond with a list of mugshots of people they’ve arrested.

One of the commissioners voting tomorrow is Derek Harvey — retired Army colonel, former Trump NSC adviser (fired by H.R. McMaster), then Devin Nunes staffer who worked to challenge the Russia investigation into Trump between 2017 and 2019.

Quick correction to the above: the STATE and county collected $300K in property revenue.

One month after DHS bought a Hagerstown warehouse for $102M, Washington County, Md. board of commissioners will vote to pledge support for ICE operations. The facility will cost ~$110M/year to operate. The county collected $300K/year in property taxes when it was a warehouse.

A kind reader made this set of instructions on how Marylanders can sign up and provide testimony on HB 630! Comprehensive, easy to follow — thanks, Ira! To my fellow crabfolk, let us know when you’ve signed up and submitted testimony on Feb 16! If you’re wondering what you can be doing, this is it

It's a military expeditionary structure funded to at least $65 billion for operations in TITUS. Yes, it's a slush fund, an end run on oversight/control, and something that should be adjudicated as illegal. But right now it's a freight train.

Mike from PSB will be live on Rachel Maddow tonight to talk about our data tools, and using data for good. Tune in at 9:00 ET.

As the outcry over ICE abuse and violence continues to grow, we must demand an end to family detention. No one is safe in ICE custody, especially children. We must continue to unite to say no more money for ICE, no more neglect and death at the hands of ICE, no more family detention.