Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

The NYT style guide

Key questions to ask every time these tragedies happen in one of Elon's death traps: 1) Was he driving or was it in "autopilot/FSD"? 2) Did the electric doors fail and trap him inside? 3) Were first responders unable to open the doors from the outside? #TeslaTakedown

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

‪Mike Hixenbaugh‬: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water. He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him. www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

On Friday, a Catholic hospital in Nashville canceled a woman’s scheduled sterilization surgery because the hospital’s religious ethics oversight committee was concerned that it was failing its “duty to protect her sacred fertility.” It's the law in Tennessee. www.jezebel.com/woman-says-c...

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Twelve years stolen from Medicare’s future. Money collected from workers, promised to the elderly. Reassigned to those who already have too much. trump's wealthy donor tax cuts are literally killing us. The hunger at the top is never satisfied, it only asks who will be trimmed next.

So sick of being told by centrists that we have to be bigots to win over the bigots. No, fuck that.

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

newsone.com/6850568/body... Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

Today, despite giving eight days’ notice of my visit to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, I was denied the ability to meet with detained people. No matter what obstacles this administration throws at us, I will continue to come back and conduct oversight.

A crisis manufactured by Noem‘s requirement to approve every expense over $100k. Some if these hospitals are already being forced to reduce services and close units. Without these funds…promised to them…I bet some will be forced to close. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

I am not exaggerating when I say this. This will kill autistic people, particularly #ActuallyAutistic children.

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

You cannot reform this. Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth. Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Ed Luce: Why MAGA hates London because it prospers because it is an immigrant city — is a provocation to the MAGA movement on both sides of the Atlantic. London serves as the most visible symbol of a Europe that Trump’s national security strategy claims is facing “civilisational erasure”.

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's jarring to see how much money is going to ICE instead of education, healthcare, public transportation, international aid, green energy infrastructure, and the arts, but I guess that's the point.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

This is a policy choice.

I know we are all tapped out, but if you have anything to spare, the mutual aid place I volunteer at is desperate for funds to keep the lights on and folks fec. Venmo: @chef-collective-1123 or casapp: $chefcollective1123. Please share widely.

This direct mutual aid fund is tax deductible and your employer can match it, if any of my followers have been looking for one like that!

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

The first person I donated miles for is safely home. That's a good feeling.

I'm a Columbia Heights resident. ICE is still here, terrorizing, breaking laws, harassing people, causing chaos. Tell your family and friends. No matter what this administration's minions report: Nothing Has Changed.

Please take a moment to make your voice heard to protect the Boundary Waters. The vote is being held sometime this week (February 9 - 13). #AltCitizen

He lied at the National Prayer Breakfast to take credit for a prisoner freed who was actually freed during Obama. You heard that right — Lying 🤥 at 🤥 a 🤥 prayer 🤥 breakfast 🤥 www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

"These people, when they're hobbling up the steps in chains, a lot of them are pausing for a moment at the top of the steps, and they're taking a look around, and I can't even imagine what they're thinking." www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself. 25th Amendment now.