Laila Edwards' family talks about her becoming the first Black woman on the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

More than a dozen children—most of whom were born to surrogate mothers—were found in an L.A. mansion. Ava Kofman reports on the mysterious couple behind this story. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VOPv86

The Mexican restaurant in downtown Brainerd, Minn., that closed after an ICE raid last month is now up for sale. El Potro closed after federal agents, assisted by Crow Wing County sheriff's deputies, detained four employees Jan. 26. Video by Kim Hyatt

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

E.coli bacteria levels in the Potomac were hundreds of times higher than the level the EPA considers safe when the water was tested this week at the site of the spill, officials from utility company DC Water say.

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

A recent Congressional letter accuses DHS of not being compliant with a major civil rights law due to the mistreatment of disabled ICE detainees. As I reported for @motherjones.com, this is worsened by the fact DHS' office for civil rights has TWO EMPLOYEES now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The words "oy" and "vey" come to mind. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

Somehow rich dudes are frequently conned…

A year ago, men in black dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho. The video went viral. Here's the rest of the story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a new video, Bolts staff writer Alex Burness shares what he found while reporting in Alaska, where American Samoan residents have faced prosecution for voting in their local elections.

For years, the FDA website warned of products and remedies claiming to treat autism that were being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. Just a few: •hyperbaric oxygen therapies •chlorine dioxide •raw camel milk. Now, under RFK Jr, that advisory is gone. New, @megomatz.bsky.social

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

I think sometimes folks on the left forget that the most successful progressive leader in American history was a Baptist minister who used Christian faith to argue for racial and economic justice. Don’t buy into right wing framing that they have a lock on faith.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Southaven, Mississippi, residents have voiced concerns for months over the noise and pollution emanating from the 114-acre site that is largely hidden from public view—a site xAI is looking to expand.

Arkansas is holding an election for state supreme court on March 3. It pits Nick Bronni, who was appointed to the bench by Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and John Adams, an attorney who previously ran for office as a Democrat.

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

CONFIRMED: After getting 76 replies, it’s clear that wild turkeys run this whole damn country.

Documenting one man’s unravelling before a deportation flight to Nigeria, an observer had to rely on second-hand accounts. “I was advised that one deportee had been restrained in order to have him escorted through airport security.”

They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.

I think people usually call this going back to normal, you know, when they kill and kidnap nonwhite people and no one writes pop songs about it.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

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

This is insane. The stories coming out of these camps is gonna be the worst shit you've ever heard.

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

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

The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean. We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Seaman Bryan K. Lee was never found.

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.

1. Major corporations — including General Motors, State Farm, JPMorgan Chase, Delta, and Microsoft — are bankrolling a political ad from Senate candidate Andy Barr featuring a white nationalist slogan.

really sad about the death of rev. jesse jackson this morning and i'm gonna be writing something about it for @theringer. but in the meantime, a couple of recommendations. 1. @jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 about Jackson's groundbreaking presidential campaigns. www.slate.com/articles/new...

Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.

I think this is paywalled but you can get the gist www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced

After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

Spent my birthday hiking and at the renaissance faire with my mom. A great start to 36!

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”