“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

as always the New York Times frames this catastrophe in a way that downplays the fact this is an extremely unpopular decision being driven entirely by corporate corruption that will avoidably kill untold millions of people

ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

Trust The Plan

I spoke to another woman who lost her Global Entry status after a confrontation with CBP.

The real news here is Peter Navarro saying lower jobs numbers *are good* because they (supposedly) indicate fewer immigrants are working in the US. Trump-MAGA ideology values sheer numbers of removals over pretty much all else because their top priority is ethnic reengineering.

New from @awhf.bsky.social & @alixgouldwerth.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? Did you know that your former employers can contest your unemployment benefits? They have a strong incentive to do so, and private companies like Equifax are helping them. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-your-b...

ICE shows the classic warning signs of a paramilitary force: ideological recruitment, financial incentives for arrests, extremist symbolism, and effective immunity from the law. This is not enforcement—it’s erosion of democracy. #RuleOfLaw #CivilRights #ICE #1stAmendment #Constitution

If Democrats had any fucking brains the next administration would immediately pay @victorpickard.bsky.social giant gobs of money to help them frame up a media reform policy so the country doesn't get devoured by autocratic propaganda

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

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

#OtD 10 Feb 1979, striking lettuce grower Rufino Contreras was killed by a foreman in California. 4300 workers in the United Farm Workers union were on strike in Imperial Valley in a violent dispute. Authorities declined to prosecute the murderer. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8191...

While the Trump administration has been quick to investigate those who were shot or fired upon, there are only two cases in which civil rights or criminal investigations into the officers’ conduct have been announced. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

“The SAVE Act will require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections…” “Only half of Americans hold a valid passport…Birth certificates are also problematic for many married women [whose] name may be different than the name on her birth certificate.”

Even though ICE was assigned billions and billions by Congress recently, that money is earmarked for contractors and graft so they're loathe to spend it. Moreover, despite the money they're effectively shortstaffed even when they try to flood the zone, so they shift resource spending to the locals.

Jeffrey Epstein emailed the photograph to himself on in August 2015, one day after he bragged about meeting tech chiefs for a swanky dinner, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg

Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health. CW for basically everything

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Republicans want to increase the defense budget to $1.5 trillion in 2027. That defense budget alone would add an additional $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

MAGA: Teachers are such powerful influences on students they can turn them into political radicals by assigning an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates or convince them to change their gender based on pronoun use -- but not when by praying right in front of them on school property during the school day.

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

“[Trump’s] whole shtick is everybody has got their hand in the till. Everybody's as bad as everybody else.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and Financial Times editor @edwardluce.bsky.social dive into Jeffrey Epstein’s social circle covering up for one another. Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...

A special Saturday edition of @thelatinonewsletter.org is by @vaquero2xl.bsky.social, who heads up our San Juan Bureau and is filing stories about federal immigration enforcement in #PuertoRico Puerto Rico’s Municipal Police Is Calling Immigration Enforcement on People

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC. www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

“For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump” 🎁🔗 @kenvogel.bsky.social, Lisa Freeman, @fahrenthold.bsky.social for @nytimes.com

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

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.

"The deployment is on track to exceed $600 million at the one-year mark, in August. “Despite that significant investment of taxpayer dollars, the National Guard has been unable to identify any measurable public safety outcomes attributable to their presence...” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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*.

This Trevor Loudon guy being promoted by Naomi Wolf has been a special favorite of right wing Republicans in Oregon since the Obama era. He's a leading proponent of the Zenith Applied Philosophy (ZAP), which is a combination of Scientology, Eastern Mysticism, & John Birch Society anti-communism.

Related:

MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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

Historian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.

My take: it is “simply misleading to suggest that we know that ketogenic diets can improve schizophrenia symptoms, much less that they can ‘cure’ the condition.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Every American needs to watch this:

Here legally and married to a U.S. citizen. He's a contractor charged with grand larceny for failing to complete a job. He disputes the accusation, but his immigration detention prevents him from fighting the criminal charge. And he was arrested during a home raid without a judicial warrant.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.