This pos needs to get gone. Like, now.

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year. Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

Even though refugees CANNOT apply for green cards until one year after arrival, DHS now claims that the 1980 Refugee Act actually *requires* ICE to “detain and inspect” refugees who don’t have a green card at year one. Reaching this conclusion required overturning decades-old interpretations.

Six deaths in six weeks: What to know about ICE detentions in Texas www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/i...

This piece is a master class on how to report on the woefully unqualified quacks heading up the nation’s health agencies. No punches pulled, no both sides. “I think he’s safely locked up the position of worst NIH director in history.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump's eyelids get real heavy during Tony Blair's speech

The proposal is an effort to protect residents from excessive rent hikes as parks are increasingly bought by private equity firms and out-of-state investors. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/19/m...

This is where laws, for example, against insurrectionists running for office, are supposed to be the stopgap against public ignorance. Alas, laws are not self enforcing. We put people in charge to make sure of that. Roberts and his ilk failed their most basic job as caretakers of democracy.

My theory is that we're here specifically because of this. That we have not lived through dictatorship and have no living memory of war within our territory, so we take our liberties for granted, and wrongly believe we'll get to keep them even if we vote criminals into office.

Are we allowing supposed to just wait to finally, someday, hear the announcement that trump has dementia, 5 years after he leaves? The absolute corruption and destroying everything in this country isn't enough, COMBINED with the fact that he's a rapist? But the dementia is the cherry on top.

"Maybe" "You'll find out" Jfc, I'm so sick of this BS.

BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say.

Trump gives a batshit crazy speech to his "Board of Peace," and the initial impulse is to chuckle at the stupidity. But he commands the world's largest military and holds the nuclear codes. He has the ability to cause millions of deaths – even to end human life on this planet. We need to stop him.

Here is (I hope) a globally shareable link to this important op-ed piece on what can be done about pervasive #corruption in and around the Trump administration. A ray of hope. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

One in five people in poverty are working. This is not labour market failure alone. The Nicolson Report says the deeper issue lies in structural policy choices. Tom Burgess reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...

February 18, 2026 Letters from an American Heather Cox Richardson open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The word "Congress" is no where to be found in this NYT piece. The reporters/editors don't seem to care I guess and oh BTW ... this "would be at least the seventh American military attack in another country in the past year, and his second on Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Under any other regime this might be considered a positive step for free speech except we are now the knowledge-suppressing nation that is trying to make it easier for people overseas to get CSAM from the rocket guy.

Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

We are torpedoing a major advancement in vaccine development & public health due to fringe ideas and misinformation about the dangers of mRNA vaccine technologies. We will regret this & future generations will look back at this moment and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

The Germans ban Nazi speech and Twitter and other platforms complied with this long before the DSA so is State Dept is just going to go for it and make a Nazi website?

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Everything about this story is grotesque.

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this again. Unfortunately, it’s looking more and more likely that we are. And they didn’t even bother to engage in the theater that preceded the US attack on Iraq to try to manufacture public consent, which is more than a little alarming, tbh.

Jfc like we need this bs from the "peace president"

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited. www.wired.com/story/a-mega...

So funny youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?...

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

The SAVE America Act is about one thing—making it harder for everyday American citizens to vote.

I doubt wexner would even end up doing any/much jail time since he's so old.. he might as well give up what he knows. Creep.

“Me too,” said a field mouse. “I have not seen anything funny in a long time.”

h/t @nancychadwick.bsky.social YET ANOTHER REVERSAL: ICE retracted its claim of buying the Chester, NY site. That’s the 2nd walk-back in 48 hours (after Lebanon, TN). ICE can’t be trusted. Moving forward, we’ll only mark sites 🔴 on the map once a deed is officially recorded with the state.

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

"Becoming" is doing some very heavy lifting here.

DHS released an “economic impact analysis” on the Surprise warehouse and said they will be spending an additional $150 million to refit the facility into a concentration camp. I went by earlier today & some of the window covers have been removed from last time I was here but no major changes yet.

A resident expresses concern over those in the city who will be profiled by ICE, “This is not conjecture. This is the reality of cities impacted by ICE operations.” She also talks about the impacts to student safety, as there are multiple public schools directly across from the warehouse.

A resident criticized the Surprise City Council’s weak letter sent to DHS and Noem, saying they need to take more action to stop the camp. “We will protest and we will show up to every meeting. We will not go quietly into the night. I want you to feel the weight of every child kidnapped.”

Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...

My friend @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social was fired from the CFPB for standing up to DOGE. Now she’s running for Congress. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...

Investigators could not unlock an iPhone seized in the FBI raid on a @washingtonpost.com reporter’s home because Apple’s Lockdown Mode was enabled, court documents reveal. Read our digital security team’s analysis in our newsletter, and subscribe.

INSIDE WASHINGTON–Democrats lead the generic. Trump is unpopular. But Democrats have a few things going against them: -Their own voters don't like them -They have a tough Senate map -They risk blowing winnable races in primaries www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I think a lot of this "the left doesn't get AI" or "you can't talk with the left about AI" originates with annoyance by libertarians and the right at people reminding them ethics and empathy should still matter in technology development and adoption, and it isn't just about "work flow efficiencies"

“The Epstein files both reveal Bannon’s closeness to Epstein and his attempt to take down Pope Francis. Right-wing Catholic philanthropists later got behind the kind of outing campaign Bannon envisioned.” www.signorile.com/p/how-bannon...

"there's the #unpredictability. Some mornings u wake to find unexpected mercy..U might carefully venture out, attempt something normal, only to be ambushed by #pain's sudden intensification. Each time this happens, the #disappointment cuts deep.": buff.ly/vrwCprO by @remotetherapy.space #disability

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