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They're trying to convert one in Merrimack, New Hampshire that sits very close to Nashua's water supply. It was built as a warehouse expecting a few hundred workers at most; I bet its sewage infrastructure isn't ready to handle 5000 prisoners and the guards etc. Lots of local opposition.

This is Bob Coveiro. He sat by his human's grave for 10 years until his own death in 2021. Pets were not permitted to be buried with humans, but he was given an exception. Now 5 years later, inspired by his loyalty, Brazil passed the Bob Coveiro Law allowing pets to be buried in family graves. 14/10

Andrea Pitzer an expert on concentration camps appeared on my SiriusXM show where she warned that history tell us that the massive new ICE detention centers being built will be used to not just imprison migrants--but also Americans who oppose Trump. youtu.be/mnTxt2v1K3Q?...

The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

It’s as if he’s drawing a line between who belongs here and who doesn’t.

The vast majority of Republican politicians would rather be officeholders in a dictatorship than citizens in a democracy. They have chosen to be traitors.

Perhaps a better way of saying this would be to say that in just his first year in office Donald Trump ordered the illegal detention of well over 4,000 human beings—and that that number is undoubtedly wildly low because it only considers those people who filed lawsuits to try to regain their freedom

@barackobama.bsky.social: "Bad Bunny's halftime show... This is what a community is. People who did not speak Spanish and have never been to Puerto Rico saw that elderly woman serving a drink and the kids dancing with their grandmas... There's room for everybody here. That I think is where we win."

This is giving me Quatermass and The Pit vibes

"The government cannot punish a person without first convincing grand jurors of something...In savage times, that permission is no mere formality. It is the line between a society that flirts with barbarism and a society that plunges into it," . www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Those with college educations and upper-middle class incomes are abandoning the Republican Party in record numbers

"When I asked why Valery’s treatment for self-harm seems to be exclusively a prescription for sleeping pills, ICE did not respond." Valery is a 13-year-old girl in detention.

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

Well Trump is gonna give our kids & grandkids an OrangeSky instead of a Bluesky just to eek a bit more cash out of destroying our planet. www.latimes.com/environment/...

youtu.be/KRKS52J-WOw?... Ben Meiselas of Meidas Touch and Harry Litman discuss how Trump and Bondi have destroyed the Department of Justice.

Every lawyer knows the rules: candor, decorum, respect for the tribunal. Pam Bondi shredded all of them, shouting over members, spitting insults, dodging basic oversight. In any courtroom in America she’d be held in contempt before her first outburst.

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In 2023, under Joe Biden, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs. You read that right - Trump is just that amazing.

⚡️Ukraine needs 'specific date' for entry into EU, Zelensky says. "I am absolutely confident that if ... there is no date, then Russia will do everything to block the process," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 11.

"Trump no longer has the bandwidth to enforce his own edicts. His popularity is in free fall, Ds are over-performing in every election, and, while he can certainly punish Rs who fail to parrot his increasingly unhinged narratives, he can’t make them commit political suicide." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Today I’m introducing simple legislation: If a corporation receives an incentive paid for by YOUR tax dollars – they cannot give that money to their shareholders. No stock buybacks. Your tax dollars should be reinvested in you, not shareholders.

U.S. sinks to its lowest spot in new global corruption ranking - Global News globalnews.ca/news/1166101...

Grand jury fails to indict Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey any illegal orders from President Trump. https://cnn.it/4apwQ6u

Trump claims he has the authority to impose tariffs to respond to an economic “emergency.” Is getting his feelings hurt an emergency? This shows how absurd is tariff crusade is.

Wildfires. Extreme weather. Drought. Sea level rise. Food insecurity. Pandemics. What do they all have in common? Climate change will make them more frequent and intense. Ignoring that fact won't make climate change less dangerous.

We have important work to do, together, in the coming days: - Roll back Trump's terrible tariffs - Rein in ICE - Block Miller's detention centers - Force accountability for allies of Epstein Let's get to work people! 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/rolling-ba...

Following the constitution should be non-negotiable.

📌On this date in 1936, Nazi Germany passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority exempt from any legal review. Just in case you are still somehow confused by the chilling parallels with Republicans’ murdering ICE.

1. The tariffs that Trump imposed on “liberation day” were under IEEPA which - among other provisions - says that if the President declares an emergency, Congress can declare the emergency over within 30 days.

Indomitable Principled Brave Thank You 🙏

Phantom Fossils Upon the beach, in golden sand, The receding tide withdraws its hand. Where phantom fronds and branches rise, A fossil forest born of salt and sighs.

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Except for the blowback and backdown, this was not a one-off. Trump&Co. have been moving the window of acceptable racism for years now. Friday’s post was genuinely shocking, but it also had a feeling of inevitability. They were always going to end up here. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-bad...

trump is blackmailing the Epstein perps, according to this article in Raw Story. www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

“A letter tossed over the detention center fence said they’ve been held 290 days… haven’t had a single piece of fruit… no pain meds…” @corecivic, folks

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Thanks to my friend Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social for this good conversation! And for cajoling me into a bet I didn't want to make!

This story just came out today www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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