Palantir, known for equipping ICE with AI tools that hack into people’s phones, brags about being “the first company to be completely anti-woke.” ITEP found that a key part of being anti-woke is, apparently, not paying taxes.

Free the transit www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Democracy versus oligarchy is going to be the battle of the 21st century says @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

For those who remember Halliburton from a time when our Vice President was evil in a comparatively pedestrian "Austin Powers" sort of way, the oil company's new annual report gives a window into some not-at-all-pedestrian offshored income: looks like $138 M of income in the Cayman Islands in '25.

$51 billion could buy a lot of child care slots.

In Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill, ICE got a $75 BILLION funding boost, more than 7x their annual budget. ICE is out of control and Republicans are funding the chaos.

Trump paid off for Musk et al. What has he done for you?

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Name them shame them

If Biden were president and it took this long to restore power to people in red states, Jordan, Comer, and the rest would be jumping up and down yelling and screaming and pushing all sort of lunatic conspiracy theories

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

While Trump devotes public dollars to poisoning children in Portland, people in Tennessee and Mississippi go without power. But they’re out of luck, Trump’s DOGE defunded federal emergency management and redirected federal dollars to ICE (the other kind of ice).

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Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Fun fact: Only three OECD countries collect less corporate tax revenue as a share of GDP than the US: Latvia, Estonia & the Slavic Republic. Tax the rich & close corporate loopholes.

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor. You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought. They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.

Inequality hurts us all. Good tax policy can fix it.

Trump's "ceasefire."

This revelatory thread is frightening and confirms this meme!

A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

Again these plutocrats paid zero.

The plan would be the single largest legislated transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in US history. Dramatic tax spikes for working-class, plummeting taxes for the richest.

Beyond a certain threshold, extreme wealth becomes a public threat. A wealth tax is imperative to break up the destructive influence of extreme wealth before it breaks us, as our own Igor Volsky and @amyhanauer.bsky.social from @itep.org lay out in Democracy Journal.

In Democracy Journal, @igorvolsky.bsky.social and I ask “Should Billionaires Exist?” What do you think?

In a democratic society, we need a wealth tax, “not to punish the ultra-wealthy, but to prevent a tiny elite from wielding coercive power over everyone else’s lives.” @amyhanauer.bsky.social‬ democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/...

President Joe Biden defended Lee Zeldin when he was attacked onstage during a campaign event. Will House Speaker Mike Johnson or President Trump do the same when someone accosted Ilhan Omar?

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I'm a resident of the Twin Cities. A small team and I spent 3 days sculpting this for a competition/festival in extremely cold temperatures. We were disqualified for political messaging and one of the organizers defaced it. I have no regrets and I have never been more proud to be Minnesotan. (cont)

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Sen. Angus King: "I can't vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances"

NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight: 1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill 2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas. (cont'd)

Goddamit I should have known it was too good to last. Some senior editor decided to both-sides it after all. Cowards! Charlatans!

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

#NJ7 No statement from Kean. He voted for additional funding for ICE last week.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Lots of things are terrible but congestion pricing rocks.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Feds gave $1 trillion to top 1%. States can push back & restore resources for schools, health care & more.