"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." That was an ICE officer in Minnesota, clearly violating the First Amendment. From threatening onlookers with violence to telling people recording them that they are going into a “domestic terrorist” database. This must end.

SLOTKIN: So the fact we have ICE agents saying out loud to people they're trying to arrest that 'we're gonna put you in a database,' they are making that up? LYONS: We do not do that

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Countless articles over the past year quoted hundreds of employers stating that Latino-American workers who are citizens are afraid to show up to job sites for fear of being profiled and detained. If they are afraid to go to work, they damn sure won’t go to vote with ICE there.

Mullin is lying. Here's the explicit demand from Democrats: "DHS officers cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant." It's about entering private homes and businesses. The Democrats are *not* demanding a judicial warrant before any arrest of an undocumented person.

We still don’t know why Maxwell was moved to a nicer jail

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception – a myth propagated by a punditry vying for relevance, hellbent on presenting grandiose reckonings and sweeping narratives rather than careful empirical assessments.

If enough women start refusing to take their husband's name due to the difficulty of getting drivers licenses and being able to vote then maybe, just maybe that will make the bastards doing this to women think twice.

🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Children cutting themselves, talking about suicide, getting sick from moldy, worm-ridden food — this is what “border security” looks like when cruelty is the point. A nation that does this to kids has already crossed the line.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.

Felon Trump did this through his failed tariffs and denial of new energy and EV. There could be no bigger boost for foreign economies than the USA isolating itself. www.techinasia.com/news/xpeng-t...

“The news is reporting”

This sure looks to me that they get rid of the entities that make the things you need to be able to vote then change the laws on how to vote under the new rules and SAVE ACT.

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

"A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16... "He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants... www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

i think it is a massive fucking problem that the first best use for LLMs was to cheat in school

What are Republicans focused on today? Creating loopholes that allow weapons be sold without background checks, serial numbers, and basic accountability safeguards.

These dudes think this is so clever. Beyond the difference in harms that accompanies the age limits for booze and voting, there were 26,000+ arrests of minors for liquor law violations in 2019. It’s a relatively common crime. There are functionally no arrests each year for in-person voter fraud.

What's next? Encouraging people to vote?

under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them

A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law

The SAVE America Act isn’t saving anyone. Congress should be expanding access to the ballot box—not restricting it. This bill could make it harder for millions of married women to vote if it passes. It’s voter suppression disguised in the name of election security. I will be voting HELL no.

Fun fact Ron: Two people are dead in Minnesota because ICE ASSASSINATED THEM

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

Administrative Burdens: Policymaking by Other Means

Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it …. it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

Almost all people in power are writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions.

A new study has shown that miscarriage or induced abortion is NOT a potential risk factor for breast cancer, contrary to continued anti-choice propaganda. Even several abortions or miscarriages does not increase risk. The study used high-quality Finnish registry data.

Alternatively: We are imposing new requirements to private businesses that will discourage them from serving people on SNAP.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Advancing bill would criminalize ‘harassing’ law enforcement, ICE agents and medics in Kentucky. Democrat worries it could punish people who are exercising their constitutional right to film officers. @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/12/a...

Thank you, Julie Johnson, for speaking out against the grotesquely misnamed SAVE act. We need you to keep fighting for us in the House.

A ProPublica investigation found that > 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested or detained by immigration agents, including cases where agents ignored or dismissed REAL ID–compliant driver’s licenses and other proof of legal status during enforcement operations. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

The SAVE Act is a poll tax in order to vote. It's voter suppression, pure and simple. #ProtectTheVote

1/ I made a comment the other night while watching @jbf1755.bsky.social Freeman at Night (A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep). She mentioned the importance of ID. I took a screenshot of my comment with a reply received. I fear folks really aren’t comprehending the severity of this issue.

Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"? Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?

Trump tried to throw Members of Congress in jail for reminding servicemembers they don't have to follow illegal orders. He is weaponizing the DOJ to silence dissent & not one Republican has stepped up to stop him. Thankfully, a grand jury rejected it. We will not be intimidated.

Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are

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.

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."