i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

In honor of Chamberlain Harris being appointed to greenlight Trump's gaudy bunker, a reminder of how she deleted her Russian ties when it became clear she had copied classified records for Trump. emptywheel.net/trumps-recep...

A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The government is torturing kids in concentration camps

When corporate media obeys in advance, authoritarianism wins & the truth loses. This cowardice from CBS — & the Admin's weaponization of the FCC — threatens our 1st Amendment rights. We must not be silent as corporations keep bowing down to Trump. We must call them out.

"My family." By a 5-year-old imprisoned in a Texas concentration camp.

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

We're really not quite grasping how momentous it is that one of Europe's most pressing geostrategic challenges is figuring out how to rely less on the United States.

Clarifying. If I lived in Michigan, this would tell me a lot.

Simply horrific. What are we becoming?

Excuse me my what?

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This is a censorship state. Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this? No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.

Oh THAT Don Huffines. I reckon the new NM bipartisan commission to investigate Zorro Ranch activities will want to talk to him about what might have been lying around the place, since the feds never searched the property. Also any evidence of recent excavations there…

The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

They keep getting sicker.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Also in the story: Corey Lewandowski, an unelected "special government employee" who is basically co-running DHS because he and the DHS secretary are f*cking, tried to "fire" a Coast Guard pilot *mid flight*

Bobby is determined to kill as many people as possible.

AOC said ”um”

Major media have decided that openly racist members of Congress are normal now, not worth writing about.

“Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent,” Thomas Paine noted in Common Sense, "This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe."

I am somebody! This is one of Jesse Jackson's greatest gifts to me.

February 16, 2026

Atlanta teacher killed in car crash after ICE chases after undocumented immigrant with no criminal history. Local police say there was no reason for ICE to start a dangerous car Chase www.fox10tv.com/2026/02/16/t...

Did they miss all that stuff about a Streisand Effect?

We murdered 11 more people on boats last night

Wow.

Birds of a feather class.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

"Be as wise as my Grandmama." The New York Times obituary for Jesse Jackson concludes with these stirring words from his 1988 "Keep Hope Alive" speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

Here’s the Colbert interview of Texas Democratic Senatorial candidate James Talrico that the network wouldn’t allow him to air out of fear of FCC punishment. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

You must watch this

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

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Incompetence just trashing everything especially the planet.

Goldman: "Republicans have created distrust of our electoral system -- not based on evidence -- and then they're gonna say, 'Oh, we have to solve this mistrust we've created.' No. That's not how it works."

Dilley must be shut down and everyone inside must be freed and provided immediate medical care. www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

So freedom is not slavery?

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Exactly. Russian broadcasting media today are leading with Rubio's election campaigning on the stump with Viktor Orbán. "Your victory is ours," Rubio is quoted as saying. "Он наш," says the Russian reporter, "he's ours."

The essence of the Big Lie

Mike Luckovich

President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections. Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:

So… perjury?

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Still waiting for Senate to hang the Jan 6 plaque