Support independent media. It might seem impossible right now that any of the tiny indie journalists and collectives of journalists could rival CBS or CNN. But Netflix once sent ppl DVDs in the mail - they're one of the big guys now. Support the real deal. See what happens. You never know!

Meanwhile, the IRS has been in cahoots with ICE. Judge Kollar-Kottelly explains. “Of the 47,289 taxpayer addresses that the IRS disclosed to ICE through these two mutually exclusive matching processes, 90.3% (i.e., 42,695 addresses) were matched by TIN Matching, while the other 9.7% (i.e., 4,594 […]

When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, she guessed what they might be after. She quickly donned her puffy winter jacket, then slipped a manila envelope […]

For example, ICE has already posed as stranded motorists, then arresting the good Samaritans who come to help them. The society they want is one where no-one trusts one another. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Mainstream reporters are desperate not to cover what's happening to trans ppl in the US. The narrative was activists got a little too uppity and some mild hand smacking was needed to put them in their place. The reality of a genocidal campaign of terror against a vulnerable 1% makes them look bad.

This is an inspirational thread on Bluesky you can see all the commented donations on. A lot of Kansas and Texas, but come on #utah! Where are your donations? I'll add mine. #lgbtq #trans #utpol

I'm sat here in wonder at the incredible folks following me! We did it! This little call out this morning just raised over $40,000 for red state queer orgs! I hope this serves as a reminder for all of us that there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. bsky.app/profile/kate...

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116138624721565588 Who knew the IRS was still doing these investigations? I guess a Trump bribe is in process for a pardon?

If you have an Amazon wishlist, Amazon's just decided it's going to reveal your address to gift buyers from 25 March. There appears to be no actual reason to do this. www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE | Federal News Network https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/02/court-says-the-irs-can-continue-to-share-immigrants-taxpayer-data-with-ice/

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

"... leaving him to find his way home..." Trump and his BP and ICE thugs keep murdering people.

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A https://finance.yahoo.com/news/less-trump-erased-12-years-195408202.html

Judge blasts ICE ‘sloppiness’ for claiming 4-year-old kid had a marijuana conviction | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-sloppiness-judge-contempt-rulings-b2927381.html

Israel kills more journalists than any nation on record: Media watchdog | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/25/israel-has-killed-more-journalists-than-any-government-on-record-cpj?traffic_source=rss

"DHS, with the help of the Department of War (née Department of Defense), are laser-focused on outfitting industrial warehouses into prisons for the people they round up. They call them detention centers, but we can call them what there are— #ConcentrationCamps […] [Original post on newsie.social]

For what it is worth, I have also submitted a letter to the editor to the New York Times. I doubt it gets published, they rarely ever publish trans journalists on this topic.

Trump admitted to insiders that Jack Smith had him 'dead to rights': report - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/judge-cannon-jack-smith/

Need some hard numbers to put in your FCC comments? Or want to write a blog post and let other people know how terrible Reflect orbital is? You can get some good calculations here […]

Two things are true: 1. ICE cannot be reformed. 2. We don’t need armed ICE officers anyway. So nuke the entire agency altogether. If someone legitimately dangerous needs to be removed, that task can be delegated to another Fed agency or local cops.

This is the future folks like Milhoan and Kennedy want: reduce vaccination with #polio vaccine and invite a resurgence of the disease. @melodyschreiber.com spoke with survivors @candidkitten.bsky.social and @artcap.bsky.social about what that future might entail.

Timeline cleanser 🐋

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

"For months, Trump and his allies painted GA as ground zero for fraud, insisting Dems were manipulating absentee voting. This week, state officials delivered a different conclusion: the mail campaign that triggered outrage and violated election law was tied to a political op backed by Elon Musk […]

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920 #utahns, it is our responsibility to press #govcox #governorcox and #tacojcolds #lds #mormon church about this potential concentration camp. It is our shame that #utah lobbied for the Topaz concentration camp in 1942, and we can't condone […]

ice is using a random, free walkie talkie app to do its raids www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

ICYMI — Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee realized he helped Dems make the point that ICE wearing masks makes them like the cartels… so he deleted the tweet 🤡

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116117316056514587 So many people tried to tell her that before and after the DNC.

ICE kidnapped a 16 yo with legal status in MN then shipped him to a DeVos associated facility in MI where he was given five vaccines. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Without the paywall:

Les Wexner's attorney intervened here after Wexner disclosed that—apparently at Jeffrey Epstein’s suggestion—he had hired “a lady who had run the US Embassy in Rome” as his house manager. This is potentially significant because the US Embassy in Rome serves as a locus for intelligence operations.

She was an orphan in Iran adopted by US veteran. The Trump admin wants to deport her | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-veteran-orphan-adopted-deport-ice-trump-b2924983.html

"Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say" Trump administration keeping underage pregnant migrants in a single Texas shelter where abortion is outlawed: report | The Independent […]

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116109911589215753 GOP=Grand Ole Pedophiles

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

'How Many Other Killings Are They Concealing?' ICE Shot Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Last March | Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-shooting-texas

"According to docs obtained by Wired, Cantor Fitzgerald had purchased rights to tariff refunds from affected companies, paying 20% - 30% of what companies had paid out. In effect, the firm now led by Lutnick’s sons wagered that Trump’s tariffs would be struck down in court, and now stands to […]

Relatedly, days before DHS released the files that revealed DHS was behind this killing, Todd Lyons boasted that ICE had opened a whopping 37 use of force investigations, when the number of incidents must be well over 400. emptywheel.net/todd-lyons-b...

The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications. Well, well, well. Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk #bankrupttesla #teslatakedown #cancelstarlink #boycottspacex #ElonMusk […]

DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maxxwell-blackmail-evidence/

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116099829200922224 This reminds me of the cases against Christian Science parents in the 1980s and 1990s, only there are a lot more MAHA true believers. From this article: "at least 50 Christian Scientists have been charged with murder or manslaughter after […]

George Retes sued the Feds on Wednesday. The suit really lays out the extent to which USG had disappeared him until UFW figured out where he was. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's part of the detention memo for one of the people Pam Bondi let go free in MN while she focuses on Don Lemon and her felony-turned-misdemeanor spitting cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...