White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

‘The Industry Comes In and Kills the Work of Local Citizens’ States and feds aren’t doing much to affect data center growth. Residents here in one Virginia county are trying to push back — but running into some big obstacles. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

We just entered the 3rd government shutdown of Trump‘s second term, which has only been a year. THIRD GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, y’all.

This is a breathtaking article about the complete clown show at DHS being overseen by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski (gift link)

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE. Nope! I don’t want my tax dollars funding DHS brutality, and I definitely don’t want it paying for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around the country and fuck in a private cabin on a luxury $70M 737 Max. Listen to this mess.

Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash apnews.com/article/amaz...

DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants. The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son. Cashing in on cruelty.

ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine's adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand The justices wrote that a Virginia law cements adoption orders after 6 months even if the adoption was obtained by fraud. apnews.com/article/afgh...

A privacy breach at the IRS: Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says apnews.com/article/trea...

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

OMG, it is Jared Kushner's name that came up in a sensitive conversation about Iran and Tulsi Gabbard has tried to bury it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

Video in investigation into Nancy Guthrie's abduction raises questions about surveillance Nest Cameras: Google's privacy policy — a document that users often blindly agree to after purchasing a device — makes it clear that videos can be captured when a device is offline. richmond.com/news/nation-...

It really takes a lot of effort to stand out for awfulness in this administration. Well done, Pamela Jo Bondi!

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Cohen to Bondi: "You tried to investigate Ms. Good's widow and you tried to investigate Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before. Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Grand jury refuses to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with illegal military orders video apnews.com/article/trum...

Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine apnews.com/article/mode...

Annual governors’ gathering with White House unraveling after Trump excludes Democrats apnews.com/article/trum...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy’s headquarters on Arthur Ashe Boulevard is currently assessed at $4,766,000, which would mean its real estate tax would be $57,192.

"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*." Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.

A 100-year-old Halifax County quilt artist says she learned through social media that U.S. Rep. John McGuire honored her on the House floor — without consent.  Edith Younger Edmunds calls it appropriation, not recognition, and says silence “serves no one.” virginiamercury.com/2026/02/10/i...

The costs of the federal drug war are concrete, immense and well documented, while its ostensible benefits remain vague and modest. That goes double now that Trump and Hegseth have accelerated it into aggressively literal military action. [Peter Goettler, SF Chronicle / cato.org]

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...

Had enough of this shit yet, Michigan?

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American. States that joined after Puerto Rico: • Oklahoma — 1907 • New Mexico — 1912 • Arizona — 1912 • Alaska — 1959 • Hawaii — 1959 Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

“LESS THAN 14%” They have been lying all along www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

Lawmakers want to ban the use of herbicide paraquat in Virginia, which has been linked to Parkinson's Disease and is banned in 70 countries worldwide. But farmers are pushing back, saying alternative weed killers are too pricy and not as effective. virginiamercury.com/briefs/bill-...

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"

As hypocritical as it is for Dr Oz to switch to supporting a vaccine, it’s still good to finally see someone in Kennedy’s team FINALLY encourage people to have the MMR as measles cases continue to soar in largely unvaccinated people

March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

Perfect

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

The wealthy ramp up spending while other Americans tread water, new study finds apnews.com/article/weal...

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...