Rep. Delia Ramirez met face to face with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday in a combative closed-door meeting in Washington and told her in no uncertain terms — twice — that she’ll work to impeach her.

LinkedIn has heard this for a bit, but Bluesky should, too: my books are open for freelance and contract work for spring & summer. But more critically, I'm looking for a place to land to do more research + investigative, data and enterprise reporting full-time! 🔎 gist.github.com/cam-rodrigue...

Five states hold all of their primaries in March, and there’s so much at stake—from the high-profile Senate primaries you’ve heard of, to local elections where ICE has become a defining issue. Enter Bolts’ guide to the 75 elections to watch in March.

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

NEW: A Homeland Security PDF uploaded to the New Hampshire governor's website included notes and metadata that revealed the DHS personnel involved in its creation. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/metada...

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Army chopper circling around the southwest and western suburbs. G8624497

A must read. investigatemidwest.org/2026/02/18/p...

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

my body is a temple

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

Looking forward to the part where the AI companies run us out of computers and I get to write books with a quill

if testament of ann lee doesn't win best something or somethings next year i am going to cry

53° outside... 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I am READY for that BIPA check. Curious how much Meta specifically has given the residents of the state of Illinois lol

🚨IT’S HERE🚨: @injusticewatch.org’s guide to the 2026 Cook County judicial primary elections is live! With detailed info on all the judicial candidates on your ballot, from their legal experience, to bar ratings, top campaign donors, and more. #checkyourjudges injusticewatch.org/checkyourjudges

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

"He is the most transparent president in the nation's history!" -- Bondi is stammering as she attacks Democrats and tries to downplay Epstein as a distraction from the stock market

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

as someone who helped to run a high school model un conference i have to say that the house judiciary committee hearing right now is so... familiar

Confirmed: tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

OpenAI fired a VP who opposed their erotica rollout (and had started a company-wide peer mentorship program for women), allegedly telling her it was because she discriminated against a man 🤔 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

For decades, Texas let drillers spread staggering amounts of radioactive and PFAS-ridden waste on the fringes of the nation’s fourth largest metro area — while making it virtually impossible for the public to know where. Absolutely fucking insane story from @saulelbein.bsky.social today

goethe next

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Whoa: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4. This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m. So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

NEW via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Blase Cupich, who runs the Archdiocese of Chicago, says that DHS has stopped priests under his purview and demanded proof of citizenship “because of their color.” religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

aggressive nodding and mhm-img coming from over here while reading this

How dare a guy sing in Spanish in a place named Santa Clara.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

no hyperbole this is the best

Ahora todos quieren ser Latino Pero les falta sazón

There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...

INBOX: Washington Post announces that Will Lewis is OUT, replaced by Jeff D'Onofrio as acting CEO and publisher.

insane

interesting how the peacock broadcast omitted the booing

I talked with @camrodriguez.bsky.social about how to look for historical documents in this @muckrock.com "FOIAFriday" episode, which you can now watch on YouTube: youtu.be/igCzQLTiJbs...

new: the first piece in a @chicagoreader.com’s series on quantum shore chicago looks at community resistance to the megadevelopment. contributor grey lucas traces the neighborhood’s history of fighting disinvestment and environmental racism from the former south works steel plant to present-day.

it's funny to me how hard brain fog makes articulating my thoughts about how hard brain fog makes articulating my thoughts (etc etc etc)

A young woman committed at psychiatric hospital in a flood zone said the river feels like a moat trapping her inside. “My first feeling is doom,” Aurora said, watching a simulation of the river rising. The facility is one of many. By @hackwriter.bsky.social et al kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

i promise i'm taking my foia project very seriously. access to records and government transparency are very serious issues. when governments shirk their responsibilities to their constituents and bury records in the public interest we all suffer that said, butter cow buttondown.com/foiaday/arch...

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