NOTUS reviewed dozens of habeas corpus lawsuits filed in Minnesota and interviewed several detainees, many of whose stories paint a very different picture of the deportation surge than the one described by the Trump administration. via @josepagliery.bsky.social www.notus.org/immigration/...

It's been almost a year and the Trump administration is still fighting efforts to hold it accountable over the unlawful March 15, 2025 deportation flights to a Salvadoran gulag. www.notus.org/immigration/...

The chief judge in DC federal court just ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return back to the USA for any of the willing 137 Venezuelans it improperly sent to the Salvadoran gulag last year. The feds have *a month* to get this going. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Homan announced an end to the operation in Minneapolis *at the very moment* Minnesota's AG testified on Capitol Hill asking for it to stop.

EXCLUSIVE: Justice Democrats & the new PAL PAC are endorsing Kat Abughazaleh in IL-09. This comes as AIPAC is flooding IL with cash to influence four upcoming races. Abughazaleh is JD’s 12th endorsement this cycle & PAL PAC’s first insurgent candidate theintercept.com/2026/02/12/a...

More than 8,200 permit to carry applications were filed in the state in January. For populations worried about their safety during the ICE surge, ownership seems like a path to security.

"Per FBI policy, if an evidence item remains undisposed, the investigative case file must remain open." Wait, that sounds recursive. Does that mean the FBI destroys all evidence to close a case file? Huh?

I just got a copy of the property receipt the FBI gave Fulton County after taking its election records.

Pam Bondi got torn apart for mishandling the Epstein files. She pointed out that the Dow is at all time highs. www.notus.org/congress/pam...

When the FBI raided Fulton's elections center, they fulfilled a promise first foreshadowed on stage at a MAGA campaign rally in Atlanta on Aug 3, 2024. Donald Trump interrupted his speech to personally thank Janice Johnston. This story connects the dots. @notus.com: www.notus.org/courts/janic...

Are these Border Patrol agents stress smoking while they're on the prowl? I'd know that pack of Marlboro lights anywhere.

Epstein files. FBI slideshow presentation. "prominent names" Donald Trump is person number one. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

"The Dow is over 50,000 right now! The S&P at almost 7,000! And the NASDAQ smashing records! The Americans' 401ks & retirement savings are booming. That’s what we should be talking about. We should be talking about making Americans safe. What does the Dow have to do with anything? Are you kidding?”

Here we go again.

Make this the one thing you watch today, then log off.

At least 32 kids entered foster care in 2025 after immigration agents detained their parents. That includes four toddlers ages 1-3 in Vermont. Here’s my story on the patchy tracking of family separations through the foster care system. www.notus.org/immigration/...

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Are you an Irish person in the US concerned about Ice raids? Share your story

The deputy attorney general is being flayed alive.

NEW: Prominent conservative groups created a campaign to overturn Obergefell, the SCOTUS ruling that legalized gay marriage Republicans don’t want anything to do with it “I don’t think it’s a viable effort, legally, politically or otherwise,” one House R said www.notus.org/republicans/...

Judge Kai N. Scott went a step further and compared her and her colleagues on the bench squaring off with the Justice Department in a manner similar to Heracles’ confrontation with Hydra, the serpentlike monster that grew two heads every time one was chopped off.

Jesus Christ

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

That quote. My God.

Wait what

Tulsi Gabbard went straight to Susie Wiles! This is... not how sensitive intel is supposed to be handled. What a scoop from @catebrown.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Link: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Hey members of Congress, any of you taking requests? I've got very particular requests.

I keep thinking about this Epstein "torture" email. If you look up people who told Epstein at other times that they're "in China," there's a shortlist: Raiders board member Larry Delson, Harvard math professor Martin Nowak, international consultant Joshua Cooper Ramo, and others.

Federal judge in Chicago lifts protective order on Border Patrol bodycam footage in case of American woman shot by agent reut.rs/4qn58xl

Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon exchanged frequent friendly iMessages—thread:

Here's the 2015 Benghazi attack indictment, sealed until recently, against the Libyan man Zubayr al-Bakoush who was just sequestered and brought to the United States overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I said this years ago, and I'll say it again. An entire generation of Americans grew up playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare and these maladjusted boys all wanna be Ghost. It's an endless cosplay.

Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

he's getting called out for being racist on his own platform.

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

A year ago I told my incredibly racist former friend that he should not invest in bitcoin. He ignored my advice, essentially to troll me, and bombarded me with right wing memes for months. Oh buddy lol

To understand the significance of this, consider two things: 1. Suddenly "finalizing" immigration cases this way will spur even more ICE deportation arrests 2. DHS is currently buying warehouses across the country for mass detention camps @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

new details in here with @justinglawe.bsky.social, who I’ve had the privilege of reporting with at the daily beast, rolling stone, and now at @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/trump-geor... Subscribe to his @americandoom.bsky.social

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today. "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..." Law Dork:

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...