We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Start with Kristi Noem, then Lewandowski, & especially Stephen Miller!

I thought it was Noem who liked to get rid of dogs

I *thought* it had been pretty cold lately. vtdigger.org/2026/02/16/l...

The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution. fox9.com/news/residen...

"I never saw her again, just as I never saw a black cashmere sweater that had cost me a small fortune and possessed the woeful merit of being cut to suit a woman just as well as a man." (from my current read, "The Siren," by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)

Wow not only did Bari Weiss whiff on getting Anderson Cooper as evening news anchor, now AC is leaving 60 Minutes completely.

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

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

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

I don’t want to carry my marriage license into my polling place, though

starting to get the feeling that Kristi Noem will not in fact win the 2028 presidential election

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...

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan.

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

"At no point did ICE give any kind of warning, order, or instruction — not even a verbal 'back up' — before pepper spraying me." We just submitted this sworn declaration and over 80 other stories as part of our lawsuit defending people protesting and documenting ICE abuses in Minnesota.

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.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

‘Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkers’ reminds us that spikes in childhood leukaemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer and all cancers around nuclear facilities have been confirmed by German and other independent researchers talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/m...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

That's not the way it works. Again, it's a political move with midterms not based on any sort of financial or legal reality. #propertytaxes

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago

"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

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.''

"Polls show Democratic demands, such as unmasking, are very popular. Rs face a tough time trying to turn this into a border security issue, bc it's Rs who made the border recede in public consciousness w/ the ICE terror campaign" New ep of @davidnir.com & Rupar: www.publicnotice.co/p/ices-failu...

Right-wing racists are convinced that everyone is as feckless, cowardly, racist, and evil as they are, and they are simply wrong.

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

*Science fiction writer from Minneapolis *Where are the Minnesota abductees going. Somewhere in Texas, commonly. *Outside Austin-City-Limits, for the time being

ai guys???? they wanted to do stuff with ai that was too much for AI GUYS???????

This is the type of law that gets passed when lawmakers value their own feelings (or appearance of feelings) over what actually keeps children safe. Disgusting.

"UK Labour over the past couple years has tried to out-fash the fascists in many ways—particularly on immigration, where Labour officials sound a lot like far-right German parties—and now their popularity has plummeted" liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...

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

"Anthropic insists that two areas remain off limits: the mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry." archive.is/YonHM

How did Hegseth get into Princeton?

TL;DR: Anthropic and the Pentagon are in a dispute over the permitted uses of Claude, specifically regarding its potential application in mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry.

Those Who Agree - "It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power" 🟢 All: 81% 🟢 BC: 86% 🟢 ON: 83% 🟢 ATL: 83% 🟢 SK/MB: 82% 🟢 QC: 72% 🟢 AB: 69% Read it free: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Laughing and crying and then laughing some more

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

Shut down Dilley. www.thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped

South Carolina Lowers Another Confederate Flag 🗃️ #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

*Well, they're sure selling a lot of Mac Minis *I wonder if there's some way to really hippie-this-up, Jobs-style. "The Desktop Shoggoth That Gandhi Would Use," something along that line

Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...