If you're not paying attention to the Texas Senate primary, you should be. It could decide the fate of the Democratic Party. It's between two Democratic rising stars who couldn't be more different than each other: Reps. James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. 1/3 🧵

Voters in two major Texas counties were turned away at polling locations and directed to different precincts Tuesday, after a recent change in how the primary is conducted created confusion and frustration.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

Two additional American service members were killed in the conflict with Iran. The latest fatalities bring the total number of U.S. troops lost so far to six. 💔🙏

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

“He cannot use a phone,” Macaluso told Investigative Post. “He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.” www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... Wake up call everyone. Trump and his ilk are come for us!!! The fascist state is running hard to destroy our constitution. Vote out all Ratpublicans.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

“could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history…by accepting grants, institutions would open themselves up to scrutiny and control, like the administration’s wide-ranging audit of Smithsonian exhibits “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals.”

NY politicians defiantly raised a 🏳️‍🌈 at the Stonewall National Monument, rebuking the Trump regime. Until a few days ago, the flag had flown for several years in a park across from Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“The added pollution could lead to as many as 58,000 premature deaths and an increase of 37 million asthma attacks between now and 2055, the group said. “ Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

This is just insane at this point. apnews.com/live/trump-i...

After nearly 9 decades of tracking presidential approval ratings, Gallup has decided to end their poll measuring following threats from the orange felon after showing his historically low approval ratings. This is what cowardice and bending the knee to a tyrant looks like.

Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota apnews.com/article/minn...

Attorney General Pam Bondi tells a member of a co-equal branch of government during a public hearing: “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer.” The disdain for our own government is appalling. This administration is destroying our democracy.

“ICE…occupation of Minneapolis is not an anomaly; it’s a blueprint. Communities deserve to know that they might be next. People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when they amount to an invading force.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

MPR: 'Twin Cities health care workers describe 'fear,' 'intimidation' due to ICE in hospitals' 'MPR News has verified the identity of the hospital employees and is granting them anonymity due to their fears of retribution.' www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers…leaving them at a higher risk of harm.” US forced deportation, language exclusion, and disability justice - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed the DOJ’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NYT: '‘We’ve Found Our Voice’: Many in Twin Cities Emerge With a Sense of Power' 'Two months after federal agents began operations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, residents say they have found strength in uniting as a community' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis

The “evidence” cited in search warrant affidavit for Fulton County turns out to be unconfirmed reports of human error that have already been debunked, with no allegations of criminal intent, in a matter where the statute of limitations has long since expired. It’s slow-motion election interference.

NEW: The unsealing of the FBI’s search warrant affidavit for its raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility prompted swift condemnation from voting rights advocates, election experts and former federal officials. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Ending today with a bit of good news. Turns out that telling the military not to break the law is...not breaking the law. Glad a grand jury could clear that up. Goodnight 💚 www.timesunion.com/news/politic...

February 10, 2026

MPR: 'Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers' “We have rapid response around the clock, seven days a week. We are actively responding to a case every six minutes across the state of Minnesota.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4. This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m. So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

NYT: '‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up' 'In their first sit-down interview, Michael and Susan Pretti..recalled the son that Michael called “an exceptionally kind, caring man.”' “He said, ‘Mom, they’re kidnapping kids" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

The removal of a large rainbow Pride flag that flew over the Stonewall National Monument by the Trump administration drew sharp reactions from New York City residents and visitors.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

The Trump administration removed a Pride flag at the NYC monument honoring the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point for LGBT rights in America

“Four days after ICE arrested a Rochester man who is the recipient of a kidney transplant, federal authorities still have not given him the life-saving medications he needs to prevent his body from rejecting the donated kidney” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists.” www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...

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

“The report points out the department was supposed to have done this math already…required that the department document the full costs and savings of its staff cuts….could not demonstrate that it included all potential costs and savings" and that it had not documented its analysis.”

New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Could you even imagine if President Obama made the troops sit through a a doc about Michelle??

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

“after Amalia’s return to Dilley on Jan. 28, federal officials “denied her access to the medication that doctors prescribed for her at the hospital…, forcing her parents to “wait in long lines for hours outside daily” to request the medicine, only to be turned away.” apple.news/ADriXntoiTOW...

“Northeast Canyons and Seamounts is a truly special place: a living scientific laboratory, a refuge for creatures as varied as cold-water corals and sperm whales…” Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

Can you imagine some ICE "just following orders" goon disappearing into the police force or worse, teaching your kid? California has the right idea.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

🧵 1/6 A few articles on the U.S. Public Health Service are making waves this week. Deploying USPHS officers to care for undocumented migrants in prisons and concentration camps pulls them away from their actual jobs at IHS, CDC, and other agencies—work that protects patients and the public.