The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

The SAVE Act is a literal poll tax for married women who changed their last name.

NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness. 
The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Maybe this is the inevitable result of decades of Republican doublespeak and dog whistles. Their own voters can't tell when they're being serious or when to take them literally

UNREAL: Irish Man Held by ICE for Months Calls Facility a ‘Modern-Day Concentration Camp.’ Seamus Culleton has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and is married to an American citizen. He has no criminal record and was getting green card www.mediaite.com/media/radio/...

Yup. Gift link: The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

To put that in visual terms, imagine how far off the chart 15% would be.

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social piece is a must read on how angry the Democratic electorate is and how badly some moderates are still misreading it (gift link)

NEW: Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.

Trump appointee to his "Religious Liberty Commission" embraces Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, claims that "Catholics do not embrace Zionism." jewishinsider.com/2026/02/reli...

I used "smooth-brained" as a dig until a father of a boy with lissencephaly -- the medical term for the condition -- wrote me an incredibly patient note to explain what his son had to deal with. This phrase is a gratuitous insult to parents and children who are already suffering. Don't use it.

One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 billion in financial relief.

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Turkey Says It Could Be Dragged Into Nuclear Arms Race Over Iran www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pope Leo is quietly reviving America’s Catholic left

NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......

The unredacted files are available for Congress Jamie Raskin, House judiciary ranking member, criticized the department after reviewing the unredacted Epstein files at a government facility in Washington DC on the first day they were made available to lawmakers www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“They’re fearful of not being invited to baseball games or out with friends…There were no attacks on members of the KKK, it was a boycott of them in public life. That’s what we’re trying to do to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved” wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page

Howard Lutnick claimed he vowed-in 2005-that he would never spend time with Jeffrey Epstein Yet it appears the relationship between them became so close-even after Epstein was convicted of a child prostitution charge in 2008-that Lutnick apparently went to Epstein’s island IN 2012 Lutnick must go

The operator of Eddie Bauer, a sportswear company known for selling goose-down coats and other outdoor apparel, filed for bankruptcy on Monday, citing declining sales and supply chain issues.

Something too few people know is that there were potentially more deaths in just three months in Mariupol than in Gaza during the entire war, despite Mariupol having a much smaller population. Russian war crimes and their magnitude are underestimated by many

In honor of Liam Ramos, the 5 year old detained by Ice,(now released) for the next 75 days, I will post one Democrat per day of the 75 who signed a letter expressing gratitude for ICE. We can and must do better. Everyone should know who these people are. #75icedems Day 20 Golden, Jared (ME-2)

Good morning Bloomberg has published a piece about an “asset” that’s lost 94% of its value in its under one year of existence. The theme of the piece? It’s holding up surprisingly well! I can’t

Even redactions have redactions. Those horrible people have the luxury of remaining anonymous while victims are exposed and left with nothing but traumas. Release the unredacted Epstein Files.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue THIS. RIGHT. HERE. ⬇️

I can't afford that shit! #fascism abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

3) IMPROPER CONDITIONS: When judges order an ICE detainee released, ICE is sometimes requiring them to submit to "conditions" like GPS monitoring, even though they're not criminal defendants. Judges say this is a plain violation of their orders. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

2) BLOWING OFF DEADLINES: When detainees sue for release, the administration is increasingly blowing off court-ordered deadlines to response. It's become almost routine and has led judges to order release in some cases. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

1) WHISKING DETAINEES TO OTHER STATES: ICE has made a practice of pinballing people from where they're arrested to facilities in Texas, New Mexico or elsewhere, and sometimes more than once. It can complicate or defeate challenges to their detention. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

They hit another boat. They’re still doing that. Without Congressional approval. Or any accountability whatsoever. And there’s a survivor on this one. Who is this person? Where is that person now? Will that person tried? America will probably never know.

"When civilians ask large language models questions about their health, the technology often gets it wrong." "The advancements could inadvertently expose more people to medical misinformation." h/t POLITICO Pulse www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Top Iran security official is in Oman today, likely carrying a nuclear message for the US apnews.com/article/iran...

“But for now the best Congress can do is deny Trump’s paramilitary forces an additional $16 billion. This would at least put a dent in their already built-in growth.” www.thebulwark.com/p/good-bunny...

February 9, 2026

⚡️Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medical supplies to Ukraine. Pope Leo XIV has sent 80 electric generators and thousands of medical and food supplies to Ukraine to help civilians cope with freezing winter temperatures and constant attacks, the Vatican announced on Feb. 9.

Pardoned insurrectionists commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants.

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

The Epstein Files claim another high profile person outside America. Norwegian police are now investigating diplomat Mona Juul the day after she resigned as ambassador to Jordan and Iraq.

“The SAVE Act will require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections…” “Only half of Americans hold a valid passport…Birth certificates are also problematic for many married women [whose] name may be different than the name on her birth certificate.”

It's staggering how this political eunuch has not just done nothing at all as Speaker of the House, but has actually worked to prevent his colleagues from doing anything at all as well. For all the right's fetishization of "originalism," this is a development that would've made the founders weep

Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

NEW: Dr. Maya Angelou's estate has joined an ACLU of Utah lawsuit after 2 Utah school districts banned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings under the state's "sensitive materials" law. The government doesn't get to decide what we read.

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Abortion is legal in Missouri. Abortion is not accessible in Missouri.