The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt. But why was this happening? For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Just absolute shit of a person

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water. “The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter. By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

“We’ve had a lot of ICE activity (since the press conference) in our neighborhood but far fewer observers. They just want the Anglos to think it’s over.” — a message from the inside in Minneapolis

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

FLASHBACK: “They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” 👇🏽a family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside ICE NOW ADMITS DHS/NOEM lied 🤥 that the man attacked agents with a shovel

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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

A Valentine playlist for your Sondheim-loving loved one (or, even better, you). 💞 1 song per Sondheim show, in show order: open.spotify.com/playlist/4VP...

🚨 Dept of Homeland Security is sending tech companies administrative subpoenas for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ICE agents Google, Meta & Reddit complied 🎁 @nytimes.com

Wow. www.levernews.com/the-complian...

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning. Finally. sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-amplif...

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky: "There were 3 times that Bondi could have turned around in that room & just looked us in the eye. Just the sheer acknowledgment that we were human would have been enough. And she couldn't even do that. She reminded us we are nothing to her." #sheshed

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Greater Minnesota, too: ‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

This visualization of daily activity of ICE is unreal.

DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:

We are just TWO WEEKS AWAY from our Welcoming Schools National Day of Reading! Support transgender and non-binary youth by pledging to read on 2/27: hrc.im/NDORreg

The Walker Art Center will be free all weekend. More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/the-walker-art-center-will-be-free-all-weekend

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Please send this jaw-dropping exchange to every MAGA who still thinks the DOJ isn’t blatantly protecting Trump and his cabal of wealthy pedophiles.

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.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

It's a natural extension of churches’ spiritual worldview—backed by scripture—that compels believers to help the vulnerable, reports @minnesotareformer.com . sojo.net/articles/new...

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, removing key basis for climate change fight.

NEW: Federal judges appointed a veteran litigator as the top federal prosecutor in Upstate New York to replace a Trump appointee who was disqualified from the role. Four hours after being sworn in, the White House fired him.

In a major win for my constituents, the Senate of #Virginia passed my bill SB 94 to restrict data center siting only to industrially zoned areas while including significant data center siting reforms proposed by Del. @jetforva.bsky.social and Sen. @adamebbin.bsky.social. On to the House! #valeg

this is fascinating on how Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have made his fortune: Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner claimed Epstein stole hundreds of millions of dollars from him www.ft.com/content/72c0...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Just got a message from a signal group saying ICE was photographing *children* getting on and off a school bus today.

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

🔉 Yesterday, faith, community, and labor leaders met with Congressman Brad Finstad, calling on him to halt funding for ICE and get #ICEOutOfMN. 🔗 Let Congress know how you feel at www.iceoutnowmn.com

A high-speed car chase involving a federal agent in St. Paul ended with a multi-vehicle crash and injuries to the fleeing driver, who was taken away in an ambulance. bit.ly/4kvJo0M 📸: Leila Navidi

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Rep. Raskin to Pam Bondi: "You redacted the names of abusers, enablers, accomplices, and co-conspirators — apparently to save them from embarrassment and disgrace…Even worse, you've shockingly failed to redact many of the victims' names…You ignored the law."