Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website

If you don't want folks thinking these places are concentration camps, maybe don't run them as concentration camps.

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to watch this spectacular interview on the first amendment multiple times in order for it to have record pageviews.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone. deadline.com/2026/02/step...

Full on North Korea-Iran-Russian style censorship right here in the US. This is the Trump admin saying ‘no Democrats on TV’ & the Ellison’s & Bari Weiss saying sounds good to us. Truly terrifying times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Depressingly common anecdotes about medical care at Dilley and an example of why so many of us have fought against family detention since 2014.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

I have been known to suggest that I would watch Robert Duvall read the phone book. If you haven’t seen The Gingerbread Man, go see it. Duvall steals the whole show.

Our awesome local library was where we got our passports handled last time.

Trump nominating this Holocaust-minimizing white nationalist for a top state department job hasn’t been a big enough story. Will @SenatorHagerty help confirm him? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Helping the stranger is also a foundational tenet of virtually every religious faith

This is wild. 41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober. He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases. Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers. 1/2

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Remember all the "In Trump's Second Term, the Resistance is Dead" headlines?

This is obscene. This really is Nazi behavior.

The White House is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

America has concentration camps.

Good morning team! Today's profile in cowardice.

Big news tonight: Federal judge Tim Kelly has BLOCKED Bondi & Trump's attempt to transfer 20 men to an infamous super-max prison. Biden granted these men clemency, and Trump has been trying to retaliate by plunging them in a place that people describe as a "living hell," as Bolts reported here:

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Kris Harrison is a “father” who drank a bottle of wine and got into an argument about Trump with his 23-year-old daughter. He shot and killed her. Today, a Texas grand jury failed to indict him.

"ICE has raced detainees across state lines in ways judges say are designed to thwart legal proceedings...; [held] people for days or weeks after judges have ordered them released...; ignored other arms of the fed govt trying to ensure compliance...; given judges bad or incomplete information."

Current status of the GOP here in the land of the free: People who criticize the U.S. government can't represent the country; people who enjoyed an artistic performance should be prioritized for state punishment.

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

“LESS THAN 14%” They have been lying all along www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

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. 🧵

CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease, right?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition. That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

3 new books I am realllllllly excited about this spring: @unlawfulentries.bsky.social's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship @letsgomathias.bsky.social's To Catch a Fascist @thrasherxy.bsky.social's THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto (will thread links to buy these below!)

this should be disqualifying

There's nothing subtle or complicated about what's going on here

We used to fund USAID, which saved millions, but Elon Musk said it was a government propaganda front and so he shut it. Millions will die and the US govt is now funding actual MAGA propaganda.

I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Thank you, Sir Ian McKellen.

The Washington Post will shut down and refurbish for two years while Kid Rock writes most of the op/eds

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.

DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces

My latest, on the secretive legal weapon Homeland Security is using to target Americans. Last fall, Jon, 67, emailed a DHS attorney, urging mercy for an asylum seeker. Hours later, DHS subpoenaed his Google account. Then it sent investigators to his home. wapo.st/4rtfCw8

We love them so much we send masked men with guns to terrorize them for not thinking exactly like us. That's love you see. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Democrats should defund and restrain ICE to the degree possible. And they should insist on this condition at least: No ICE (or Border Patrol) anywhere near the polls or early voting election locations this fall.

...and when Republicans whine that this wasn't one of the earlier conditions Democrats specified, Democrats simply have to say 1) my bad, and 2) they're adjusting in light of Trump's and Bannon's comments, and this is now a red line for them.