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...

WATCH: “So you think we’re done with immigration now? When did we hit that point?” Rep. Monty Fritts, a Republican candidate for governor, opposed a pro-legal immigration resolution because he says 🇺🇸 is losing our “culture” — but wouldn’t get specific about what he meant.

“Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids *** Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism” 8/22/25 … 1/

The calls were coming from inside the White House. An FBI search warrant shows the criminal investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County was triggered by a leading election denier in the Trump administration relying on nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

“‘This is probably the most extensive fraud that we’ve seen,’ [county clerk] Davidson told a local Fox News outlet. ‘They’re not just fraudulent signatures. [It’s] making up names and addresses. It’s like a non-existent person.’”

NEW: The White House and NARA must preserve and prevent the destruction of presidential records created on President Trump's Truth Social, including his now-deleted post of debunked 2020 election fraud claims and racist images depicting the Obamas. Read our full letter:

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

You might remember the superbowl MAHA ad featuring Mike Tyson. Go to the page, which clearly labeled as a US government website, and you are encouraged to use Grok.

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social) www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak will compete against Russia's Petr Gumennik at the Winter Games. He says Russians shouldn't be allowed to compete even as neutral athletes because their nation is a "representative of terrorism". 📹: DW

Can we talk about how batshit crazy it was for Trump to post that China was going to permanently cancel the Stanley Cup if Canada signs a trade deal with them, or do we just assume at this point that he’s completely psychotic?

⚡️ Zelenskyy slams IOC over ban on Ukrainian athlete's memorial helmet. "This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or labeled a 'political action at sports competitions.' It is a reminder to the entire world of what modern Russia is," Zelenskyy said.

A story broke last week that everyone should be following: a foreign government official (an Emerati royal) bought a major ownership stake in an incoming US president’s company just days before he took office. That's truly unprecedented.

Sick-O's, one and all.

What clearly happened is that the move to minimum security and self-exculpatory testimony to Blanche were intended to give Trump the *political* room to pardon her and that backfired. So now she's making that self-exculpating offer *again* even as she's *also* pleading the Fifth.

Just a reminder that Trump’s former criminal defense attorney turned Dep. AG Todd Blanche transferred Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed where she now plays with puppies and goes to yoga classes.

MAXWELL IS A MONSTER! youtube.com/watch?v=pQjI...

Tesla isn't going to build EVs, it's going to build humanoid robots. SpaceX isn't going to Mars, it's going to the Moon. X was going to be where you did all your banking. Forget we ever said that. This is what bullshit looks like when it starts to unravel.

Who could have ever known, watching the GOP Convention, that this is what they would do?

Keep him! “Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“

🚨Hundreds of millions of dollars generated by the sale of Venezuelan oil are now sitting outside the U.S. Treasury, held in offshore custodial accounts that include at least one in Qatar. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/hundreds-o...

She lied to Blanche, demonstrably so (about cameras in the brownstone and Giuffre, among other things). If she told THE VERY SAME LIES to Congress, they would have independent cause to refer her once Trump pardons her. emptywheel.net/confirmed-to...

Or she was intending to lie to Congress because telling the truth might prevent her from getting the pardon she seeks.

Maxwell pled the 5th about Epstein to Congress She’s already convicted & the statutes of limitations have run What possible basis could she have? The only one I can think of: she lied to Todd Blanche - TN

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...

NEW: House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"[The Framers would] be appalled at what we're seeing today. That you're having a president who thinks he can run roughshod over Congress." I stopped by #Unfiltered this week to talk about the state of Democracy, and what's at stake. link to the entire conversation: youtu.be/_DLwKr7bif8?...

Look everyone, for now no one in the Trump administration will be held accountable, no one will be investigated for their corruption or their treason, no one will stop their stealing and their taking of bribes. The only way this stops is a massive Democratic victory in 2026. That's it.

This is the truth.

It's important to remember: The Washington Post's business problems are a direct result of decisions Jeff Bezos has made—not the newsroom. Yet it's the newsroom paying the price. Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnMG...

We have a president who is selling off our national security and alliances. No Republican will hold him accountable. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

The Birther-in-Chief's disgusting history of racism has its own page on Wikipedia. See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ

Tired: Carrying coals to Newcastle Wired: Carrying food to Italy

SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring. Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The "young intern" at the White House who has been retweeting juvenile, racist, and otherwise embarrassing material from Donald Trump's account for at least 11 years was born on June 14, 1946 at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, New York, NY. He sometimes goes by the name John Barron.

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

Are they going to also "blame a staffer" for Obama permanently living, 24/7, rent-free in his head? #pathetic

.@eliothiggins.bsky.social, founder of @bellingcat.com, on how real-time analysis of the videos showing federal officers shooting and killing Alex Pretti were crucial to countering the Trump administration’s lies: on-the-media.visitlink.me/krPz7l

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Not the first time Republicans have depicted Obama as an ape. The NY Post did it years ago and had cops shooting him. This is who Trump and the Republicans are. They are racist. This isn't new. Birther conspiracy anyone?

Weren’t these the same people who wanted everyone fired who said anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk?

The way forward for Dems is to abandon the "turn-the-page/turn-the-cheek ethos" and replace it with "proud accountability for enemies of democracy," says @brianbeutler.bsky.social. Post-Trump era must be about accountability, not hollow reconciliation. www.offmessage.net/p/immigratio...

This is nuts. So the President is openly tying federal funding to putting his name on airports and train stations. Quick question, where is Congress on this? They control the purse strings. Or did we skip that part of the Constitution too?