On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

journalism as a profession should be noble. on balance it is net monstrous

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

News: The Bari Weiss-led CBS News is set to slash its staff by at least 15% in the coming months, according to people briefed on the network's layoff plans. More details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

There's so much other stuff going on that's absolutely horrifying that I worry this won't make much noise. It's absolutely horrifying. www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/c...

Bianca Sonnenberg’s uniform has become her security blanket. Before ICE arrived in Minneapolis, she would change when she finished her route. Recently, she’s hoped her identity as a US Postal Service worker would protect her from getting targeted by ICE operations.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

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

Every Democratic candidate in NJ-12 except Sam Wang at a CAIR event say that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

I am pretty used to corporate self-interest, but even I'm shocked by what Ellen Ioanes dug up about the Board of Peace and its designs in Gaza. prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg. Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

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...

urbanomnibus.net/2026/02/wher... This is a very cool project reverse engineering Amazon shipping routes!

Here is the FBI's Epstein List open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

This week on @wired.com Big Interview: I talked to two tech workers who signed the ICEout.tech open letter about the momentum behind the movement, the pressure on Big Tech execs, and what they'd tell tech employees who haven't signed on yet. "The stakes are too high not to act and not to speak up."

Dominoes are falling, per @ruddock.bsky.social.

Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.

You’ve heard about the Don Lemon arrest, but have you seen the stories of the dozens of *other* journalists who’ve had their rights violated by ICE? “What we have seen out of Minnesota — just in the last month — is shocking.” Watch @freedom.press' @trevortimm.bsky.social explain.

👀 Bill alert: Data center moratorium 👀 S9144, from Liz Krueger and Anna Kelles, would block new data center construction for three years in NY while the state crafts rules for the industry. Food & Water Watch appears to be leading the organizing, with broad support from enviro/progressive groups

NEW: The FDA recently approved the contraceptive implant Nexplanon for use up to five years (instead of three). But it also placed the device under a REMS protocol, a special layer of regulation that could affect access. Many providers did not yet know about the REMS when I contacted them.

Camp East Montana is run by the contractor Acquisition Logistics, an LLC with no experience in immigration prisons that is registered to the Virginia home of the company's CEO, retired senior Naval flight officer Ken Wagner.

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people. So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The US oil industry is in trouble and trying to sell the magical thinking that they will somehow learn to double oil extraction rates from shale. Sure. Hart Energy is about as pro oil as you can get and they are now referring to US oil as "stagnant." (no link, paywalled)

Dump Duke was joined by Faith in Florida, Suncoast Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, St. Petersburg City Council Vice Chair Richie Floyd, and the Pinellas chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. www.cltampa.com/news/dump-du...

Okay imagine it’s that series of tweets that’s like “save me white girl” but instead of “white girl” it says “third cup of coffee.”

Any successful news operation that emerges going forward will have to be unabashedly left wing. Landlords fucking people over? That's a left wing cause. Businesses polluting? Left wing. City councilor is corrupt? Left wing. Workers being mistreated? Sports stadium displacing housing? Buddy,

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

wanted to follow up on this reporting from last week with a couple points on who is paying for all of this as well as methane emissions from natural gas:

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Hospital executives want to make the NYC nurses strike all about wages, but nurses told me that's the lowest priority on their list. What they want the most is a safe work environment and safer staffing levels. New from me in @prospect.org:

A Gloster resident sent me this video of a fire at Drax's wood pellet mill yesterday. No injuries reported. Most of the smoke was from burning wood products (chips, etc.) but the fire likely damaged the mill's dryer. www.mississippifreepress.org/drax-biomass...

Meta is sending $5 million to rehab the image of one data center outside of Des Moines Iowa. Their advertising campaign highlights all the jobs the center will add. While data centers are growing, they have been around for a while and studies show they add very few jobs to a community.

Read the full newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef... and the full story at @grist.org

Have you fallen in love with data centers yet? Likely not, but there is million-dollar PR campaign trying to get you there. Read about @hurwitz.bsky.social 's investigation into how big tech is trying to rehab data centers' image in light of their dropping favorability.

and of course, very thorough report from @hurwitz.bsky.social published at the time (sept 2024)

not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

on instagram ilhan says liam’s classmates wrote letters for ICE “to be nice to him and not be mean to him.” the trauma they’re inflicting on every single child here is monstrous

And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

If you had said to me two days ago “Bari Weiss is in the Epstein files,” I would’ve politely smiled before backing away.

The biomass industry promised these Southern towns prosperity. So why are they still dying?