What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on. And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOverWater Here's a Great White Egret carrying nesting materials. It's neon green markings near the eyes and at the end of the beak occur during breeding season. #Birds #Egrets #GreatWhiteEgret

We're getting the first indications that my/our fears were correct: ICE—according to an elected Georgia rep—"conducted a high-speed chase during rush hour" for a suspect who didn't qualify for such treatment under ICE SOPs. The result: the death of a beloved teacher. www.11alive.com/article/news...

Honey has graduated from his cone! His daughter, Ginger, is completely obsessed with helping him preen. (That would have been more helpful while the cone was on.) His mate Lemon didn’t care much when his cone went on, but also didn’t react when it came off. #cockatiel

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is on its way to the Middle East to join counterpart USS Abraham Lincoln, as U.S. warships, stealth fighters and air defense systems take up positions in one of the biggest military buildups in the region in years. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/19/0 “Andrew … the cows have come home.”

While at the local state park yesterday, I found a fish in a tree. Did an eagle or osprey drop it?

They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.

New Mexico approves comprehensive probe of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch reut.rs/4bZFN9d

A double shot of 80s nostalgia! She-Ra and Duran Duran fans alike will enjoy this.

Hold on I gotta take this call

I had an amazing time with a friend at the National Aquarium in Baltimore today.

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

AP devoted an article to feral lovebirds! abcnews.com/amp/US/wireS...

A head portrait of a breeding Great White Egret for the #Portrait theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social #Birds #Egrets

Jerry Berry Juicy Fruit in his happy place

Taps the sign: Giséle Pelicot and the women and girls whom Epstein trafficked weren't abused by trans people. Cis men, the women who enabled them, systemic societal misogyny, legal and policing structures, and the people who disbelieve women & girls are the problem.

ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show

Pleurocybella porrigens aka Angel Wings Fungus. Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from a couple of years ago, in autumn. #fungi #fungifriends

Reunited. These lab partners, me and this show. I won't let myself forget how much I love it and them ever again 💜❤️ #spop #entrapdak #fanart #art #digitalart

God, She-ra was so real for Entrapdak.

ミスティックトパーズとコザクラインコ

Protect your identity online with SecreTiel. #cockatiel

Cookie is still the only cockatiel I've ever seen eat with his foot like the conures do. Does your cockatiel do this?

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

Holy fuck this is horrific and utterly repulsive to any sense of constitutional government, law, due process, and basic human decency. We must destroy ICE et al.* & smash fascism. *border patrol, etc, most or all of DHS…

At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 and the wrongdoing includes patterns of violence, sexual abuse and corruption, a review by The Associated Press found.

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

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

The girl writes that she had her own bed, but not her own room. DHS has not told MPR News whether detaining unaccompanied children in hotels with federal agents is a regular practice.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Dominic is getting ready for #AEWGrandSlam

Air Canada suspending service to Cuba effective today as the Caribbean island's major airport warns it will run out of jet fuel due to US actions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mexico promises food support for Cuba as US stifles the island’s fuel supply https://aje.news/0yrnpv

Have you ever been seized by an irrepressible urge to make a huge batch of tapenade? I acted on that impulse last night.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts reut.rs/4tpRxYJ

A twink, a Vietnam vet, and a Dane blow things up.

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world? NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

This is Amalia. She was a healthy 18 months old until ICE threw her in a camp. She ended up with Covid, RSV, pneumonia & respiratory failure. She fought for her life in the ICU… and then ICE put her back in the camp. A court order got her released, but hundreds of other kids are still trapped.

All the other Chaos followers, to Nurgle’s devotees:

I’m trying a new tea tonight and marveling at its Baja Blast color.

Best safety video ever made. 😂 youtu.be/qOw44VFNk8Y?...

Happy Pancake: They’re not getting paid and they’re crying about it on Reddit youtu.be/fsjXOr-hbTw?...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Can we just call these what they are? Concentration Camps!!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...