Encouragement. Inspiration. Incentive.

Trump officials began pulling back federal immigration agents in MN after weeks of sustained protests, public outrage, & bipartisan criticism. Protests intensified following the ICE murder of two US citizens, driving a powerful movement that forced a retreat from aggressive enforcement tactics.

A fed judge ordered the DHS to immediately give immigrants detained in Minnesota access to legal counsel before transferring them out of state. The court found that DHS created serious barriers to contacting lawyers & rejected the government’s claim that honoring due process would cause “chaos.”

Amazon-owned Ring canceled its planned partnership with police tech firm Flock Safety after backlash over a Super Bowl ad promoting its AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which civil liberties groups warned could enable mass surveillance. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...

NY officials & LGBTQ+ activists raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument after Trump officials ordered the National Park Service to stop flying it. Activists briefly raised it on a separate pole before re-hoisting it alongside the American flag.

US existing home sales fell 8.4% in January, the steepest monthly drop since 2022. Homeownership is slipping out of reach for millions of Americans. High prices, limited supply, & eroding confidence are freezing mobility and locking renters out of buying homes. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/j...

Rising debt, high interest rates, and cost pressures are turning everyday borrowing into “survival debt,” exposing fragility beneath headline job growth and consumer spending, and pointing toward a broader household debt reckoning. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

For years, Ukraine has faced an invasion powered by N. Korean troops, Iranian weapons, & Chinese supplied components, turning Russia’s invasion into a sustained multinational authoritarian effort, while normalizing foreign troop deployments in Russia’s genocidal war on EU soil.

A procurement official tied to Kushner’s business network is operating inside sensitive foreign discussions while pressuring contracting processes at home, collapsing the boundary between diplomacy, deal making, and personal access in ways that fuel corruption and weaken institutional safeguards.

Trump has damaged trust with allies to the point that Europe is preparing to operate without the United States. U.S. leadership within NATO is no longer assumed and is steadily eroding, with the U.S. viewed as a potential threat. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

By choking off Cuba’s access to oil and threatening suppliers, Trump is turning chronic infrastructure fragility into near-total energy collapse, crippling basic services and pushing the country toward a humanitarian crisis. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Pushing toward regime change and a potential war without congressional authorization concentrates war powers in the executive branch. Without a clear objective or defined strategy, the risk of another conflict continues to rise. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

The regime is rejecting clear scientific evidence that climate change is already killing Americans, dismantling health protections while shielding Trump’s fossil fuel interests & donors. Ignoring reality won’t stop climate harm & will only lead to more preventable deaths. apnews.com/article/clim...

SC is experiencing the worst U.S. measles outbreak in more than three decades, with over 930 cases tied to collapsing vaccination rates driven by “medical freedom” politics and disinformation. Doctors report being overwhelmed as federal leadership remains silent. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Slater had pursued aggressive enforcement against major corporate players, including figures later pardoned by Trump. Removing an antitrust chief who challenged powerful interests reaffirms that enforcement now serves loyalty and access, using the Justice Department as a shield for allies.

The nation’s immunization system is being weakened by conspiracy theorists. As outbreaks grow, children’s health is being put in danger by disinformation, leading to preventable illness, deaths, and long-term damage to public health protections. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

DHS is being run on chaos, purges, and loyalty tests. When enforcement, spending, and personnel decisions are driven by optics and personal power struggles, it weakens operational readiness, allows abuse, and directly endangers national security and the safety of all Americans.

Suppressing intelligence tied to Trump’s inner circle endangers national security. Blocking scrutiny during war planning & sensitive negotiations weakens analytic integrity, allows foreign manipulation, & reiterates that protecting family & political allies matters more than US national security.

Ending protections for people fleeing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises shows how immigration policy is being weaponized to expand deportation targets, regardless of war, displacement, or human cost. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

A betrayal of allies who risked their lives alongside US forces. Detaining & deporting Afghans who supported American troops shows that due process is disposable. If legally admitted evacuees with active asylum cases can be sent back to likely death, no humanitarian protection can be trusted.

Deporting a military veteran while an appeal is active, and ignoring clear notice failures, shows how Trump’s immigration enforcement is operating with speed and cruelty, treating even those who served the country as disposable. www.military.com/daily-news/h...

As Kristi Noem and DHS officials publicly labeled the incident an “attempted murder” to justify ICE’s violence, video footage revealed false testimony, showing how immigration enforcement is increasingly built on deception, force, and demonization of victims. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/u...

Trump is using the DoJ to target opponents and punish institutional resistance. By weaponizing investigations, fines, and data demands against a university that refused to bend, civil rights enforcement is being transformed into a coercive tool for political obedience and ideological control.

A domestic enforcement apparatus is being built without public oversight or consent. By hiding the scale of its expansion & treating journalists/watchdogs as criminals, the regime is normalizing an unaccountable system that operates in the shadows. Hallmarks of a police state.

A core public benefits agency is being converted into an arm of ICE. Allowing ICE to target people at Social Security offices without warrants, court orders, or formal safeguards further erodes due process, weaponizes social services, & destroys trust in institutions meant to remain safe & neutral.

The Epstein files show that powerful people were involved in horrific abuse & were protected instead of held accountable. The trafficking, rape, and abuse of more than 1,000 kids and young women was allowed to continue for decades, along with the corruption that kept it hidden.

Trump’s immigration enforcement is fueling a detention boom that rewards private prison companies for mass confinement, surveillance, and prolonged detention, despite mounting deaths and abuse in these facilities. Human rights violations are being monetized, as investors applaud.

Tech money is moving directly into state races to shape regulation before voters weigh in. As AI firms work to block state level oversight in favor of weaker federal rules, Florida is becoming a test case for how corporate money preempts democratic control over emerging technology.

Despite data that shows a relatively stable economy, middle-class Americans say they have had to start selling their plasma over the past year to cover basic expenses, from medical bills to a winter coat for their child. 200,000 people a day trade their blood for money.

A federal judge used part of a court hearing Thursday to read email and social media death threats she received following her ruling blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration protections for Haitians living in the United States. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Aliya Rahman: Nobody knew I was there. I wasn't told where I was going. I wasn't given a phone call. And I'm going unconscious and I'm wondering, is this it? They call us bodies. Is this it for me? Am I going to die? www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

To say it yet again: There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, including by noncitizens, as Mr. Trump claims. Still, he persists. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

OAC said Trump & Rubio seek to “carve out a world where Trump can command the western hemisphere & Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber-rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1 of 2: Rep. Melanie Standbury drops the names of Trump Admin Officials who appear in the Epstein files. Donald J. Trump (President) Melania Trump (1st Lady) Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce) John Phelan (Sec. Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Ctr Appointee) RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)

The Project 2025 architect, Russ Vought, who promised to put federal employees “in trauma,” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. newrepublic.com/post/206559/...

“The current DoJ has a focus on something different than victims & helping victims... Their focus instead appears to be on the important people, powerful people that are contained within these files and protecting them instead of protecting who needs the protection, the young victims in this case.”

Amazon has canceled its planned partnership with police surveillance company Flock Safety, following backlash over the Ring Super Bowl ad that raised privacy concerns. They say the integration never launched, and no videos were shared. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...

The name at the heart of the Tulsi Gabbard whistle-blower dispute on an intercepted conversation has been revealed: Jared Kushner came up in an intercepted communication about Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

"Ya know, they let you do that if you're famous." —DJT Trump pardoned 5 former NFL players — Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry, and the late Billy Cannon — for crimes including perjury and drug trafficking. www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...

Top Goldman Sachs lawyer & former Obama WH counsel, Kathy Ruemmler, resigns after DoJ emails show she once called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” and accepted expensive gifts. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Judge dismisses deportation case against Narciso Barranco, a Mexican father of 3 US Marines detained while clearing weeds at a CA IHOP. He is now on the path toward legal permanent residency. apnews.com/article/narc...

Senate Dems vote unanimously to block DHS spending bill, setting the stage for a partial gov't shutdown tonight, as Reps leave town for Presidents Day week-long recess. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Rep. Jayapal accuses DoJ of 'spying' on her searches of unredacted Epstein files, as Speaker Johnson calls DoJ surveillance of members reviewing Epstein files not 'appropriate.’ abcnews.com/Politics/dem...

Criminal investigation launched into BP agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago-teacher Marimar Martinez 5 times, as new evidence & photos contradict his account of the October shooting. www.ms.now/news/agent-i...

Sen. Jon Husted got $3,500 from alleged Epstein co-conspirator Leslie Wexner months before voting to block the Epstein Files Act, as an OH judge orders Wexner to testify in abuse lawsuits. tiffinohio.net/posts/husted...