During jury selection in the Texas antifa trial today, Judge Pittman questioned a pool of 75 potential jurors. The Star-Telegram reports about 20 of the would-be jurors said they opposed ICE efforts. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/c...

The FBI interviewed a Jeffrey Epstein victim who alleged that President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a teenager, documents from the Justice Department file dump revealed. www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-intervie...

NEW: SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't sell his stocks. Roberts and Alito are the only two justices who own individual stocks. Today, at Law Dork:

Now, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-cha...

"The Trump regime is a disaster not just for public health in the US, but worldwide. There has been a great deal of discussion of the ways in which Trump’s reckless foreign policy has put global security at risk. But US abandonment of public health leadership may well be even more consequential."

US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Incredible story that is worth your time to read. It exposes the ways in which the Trump admin is turning the legal immigration system into yet another arm of the mass deportation machine, transforming a benefits agency into a trap for those seeking legal status.

Do you part. Watch the interviews. Contribute to record #s of views!!! Put the volume down behind your work, if necessary. Just view all of them.

We understood the assignment once again 🙌

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Imagine that. The “SAVE” America is here to save Trump, not America. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Mexico lawmakers unanimously approve $2.5M "truth commission" with subpoena power to probe trafficking and sexual assault at Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Starts tomorrow . And testimony can lead to prosecutions. 2019 email alleges Epstein & Maxwell buried two foreign girls nearby. Nothing was done.

Remember how in 2015 I told you it was not Clinton vs trump, it was also about control of SCOTUS, well here I go again...the Senate majority controls whether a nominee even gets a vote. The mid-terms are also about whether or not trump could put another ultra conservative in SCOTUS. #Vote

I am so going to miss rooting for USA after the Olympics. We are not a democracy when our media is censored AND our voting rights are diminished AND we have an unfettered police force.

The grifter in chief.

🚨 Trump has pardoned a former FBI counterintelligence agent who had refused to testify about his work for Oleg Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev – two Russian oligarchs with direct ties to Putin’s inner circle. @bylinetimes.bsky.social @hackingbutlegal.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t... ⬇️

Dear President Turnip, I have proof of the existence of slavery in the form of a notebook kept by one of my ancestors. Here are 2 pages, showing that "Vilet" was apparently kept as breeding stock. If we don't learn our history, we may repeat it. Or is that what you want? #slavery #history

Made me cry.

"The recent FBI raid on a Fulton County elections office functions as a test case for baseless claims about fraud as a pretext to seize ballots." This @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social piece gets the balance right between remaining vigilant without self-crippling fear, with a roadmap of what to expect:

This lawmaker, Cunningham, didn't just vote in favor of the pro-ICE bill. She also explained her vote on the floor of the House to say that "all cultures are not equal." She now faces a pastor, Sadler, who has been active in the Moral Monday's movement in North Carolina.

NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down. A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills. Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.

On Presidents’ Day 2026, a 77-year-old federal judge in Philadelphia issued a ruling that blocks the Trump administration’s efforts to take down or otherwise excise information from Independence National Historical Park relating to George Washington’s ownership of slaves. Law Dork:

The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

Major media have decided that openly racist members of Congress are normal now, not worth writing about.

Streisand Effect strikes again.

The Youtube for @jamestalarico.bsky.social appearance on the View received under 200K views. That segment motivated the FCC to try to shut down any more Talarico appearances. His banned segment with Colbert--online for only 10 hours--has almost 1 million views. 👀 Censorship can backfire. Badly.

"Bezos is determined to destroy this flawed but essential institution. And while my tiny and belated protest won't put a dent in Bezos's next mega-yacht, it makes me slightly less complicit in what he's doing to this newspaper, this community and this democracy." - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social

Two ICE officers were put on leave and are under criminal investigation for potential perjury in a shooting in Minneapolis last month. As has happened in the other shootings by federal agents in Minnesota, video evidence appears to have done in the officers. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

"The dramatic reversal in the case came after the Trump DOJ last week dropped criminal charges against the wounded man, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and his Venezuelan friend, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna. Both men had both been accused of assaulting the ICE agent who opened fire"

RIP to a legendary leader whose work rippled out in countless ways to make America more equal and more free, to make it better.

SAVE Act is voter suppression. SAVE Act is poll tax.

Why GOP loves the SAVE Act: “Women are smart. They should be able to provide 9 forms of ID to prove the discrepancies b/w their maiden and married names, argue their case with a poll worker, before having to fill out a provisional ballot which we can later contest and reject as a fraudulent vote”

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

My God…

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

Detention center script: “I’m calling to demand that two-month-old Juan Nicolas be immediately released with his mother into the care of a hospital. He is going to die if he’s not seen. Get him medical help now, and get him out of that facility. It’s no place for any child, let alone a baby. Thanks”

Congress script: “My name is ______ and I’m from [zip] I ask that Congressmember/Senator do everything in their power to get Juan Nicolas, the 2-month-old baby out Dilley Detention Center and into a hospital immediately. He is going to die if he isn’t treated. Thanks.”

Help save baby Juan Nicolas’s life! Please call Dilley Detention Center at 830-378-6500 (as soon as you hear the recorded greeting press zero and you’ll get a receptionist.) Then call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121

Trump remains frustrated that Ukraine refuses to be conquered by Russia.

Hi! Asking for your help! We're trying to reach as many Indiana University Alums as possible. If you could share or even send this letter to any alumni you know, our group would really appreciate it. There's a link to sign on to the pledge at the end of the letter.

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears is a 1985 synth-pop anthem about the human desire for power, control, and the inherent greed.

Great 🧵

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

This is bullshit from the head of the Epstein administration. Release *all* the Epstein files with no illegal redactions.

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.