We all saw the same image of how slave ships were laid out in grade school, right?

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE. A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

A staffer for TX GOP Rep Tony Gonzales said she was having an affair with the congressman before she set herself on fire outside her home last year.

"Once you set those ground rules, once you build a wall around a certain class so they don’t have to pay any price for their actions, it’s inevitable that the actions will get darker and darker." txst.us/w6aw3i

seems like the north texas community pressured the company not to sell this warehouse to ICE www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Spring election season is here. So I’m curious: what’s most important to you this spring election – and why? Primaries? School board? Something hyper-local most folks aren’t talking about? Leave us a voice memo at texasstandard.org/talk. We want your voice on the show. @texasstandard.bsky.social

The decision was made over urgent objections from the administration’s own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need. txst.us/nkokif

The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted a temporary flight restriction for El Paso and Santa Teresa. The FAA had announced flights to and from El Paso would be prohibited for 10 days, according to a notice from the FAA released on Tuesday night. txst.us/rgpeop

Israel used illegal, US-made bombs to "evaporate" almost 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

this might be the highest gross things per line ratio piece I've read - if Americans are really following this story, the anti-elite backlash will be fierce. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

This is scathing. Kash Patel and anyone else involved in this must be impeached. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.pAnP.FE6p37Nwd1TA&smid=nytcore-ios-share

So when I heard about Trump and the racist 'Obamas as apes' video, I knew what they were talking about. It's another clip from the guy who made the video of fighter pilot Trump shitting on protesters. I made a video essay about him for a grad school class I took last fall. Here is part of it:

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

The only tool ICE has is force. They cannot penalize legal activity through the courts and their efforts to do so are destroying the DOJ.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The GOP-led State Board of Education on Wednesday showed support for a plan that would make Texas the first state in the country to mandate all public school students read passages of the Bible. txst.us/89atda via @expressnews.com

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

He is a 5-year-old asylum seeker who entered the country legally with his dad. "Liam...is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He comes into class every day and just brightens the room,” his teacher says. Older sibling came home from middle school to find his dad and little brother gone

Whistleblowers say multiple DHS personnel faced retaliation for balking at DHS's unconstitutional new policy, and one instructor resigned rather than teach agents to comply with it. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ICE abducted a 5 year old boy and put him in a Texas detention center. A 5 year old. Liam Ramos. His family was following all legal asylum parameters and were not under deportation orders.

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

A lot of new nuggets in here, including the context in which ICE arrested a 5-year-old U.S. citizen and deported her to Honduras: Austin’s police chief says the girl’s mom called cops after a man she had an expired restraining order against showed up at their home.

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Doing the spongebob "five years lay-tere" voice in connection with january 6

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Watching BRAZIL (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam) really prepared me for authoritarian cultists being proud of their tacky plastic surgery

Scenes from a Chicago area gas station: Gregory Bovino playing rock paper scissors with an agent over who gets what piece of beef jerky while a community member shouts “you’re a piece of shit, you’re a fucking loser!”

Catching up on all my end-of-year funeral doom listening. Great vibes for when the cold snap hits

nothing makes women feel safe like receiving ocular patdowns from guys who look like this btw

Gonna tell my kids this was Josh Homme

Homegirl must be trapped in the ethereal horizon

I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Produced a really interesting interview with Hayden Pedigo on his newest solo LP, his Chat Pile collab and making a "record store album," moving away from Texas, making art first and finding the meaning later, becoming a dad! What a great guy and great Q&A by @laurarice.bsky.social: txst.us/yi13a9