Investigators found GEO Group staff falsely logged visits and failed to meet ICE standards on the morning of a detainee’s death in custody.

The new dismissals are in addition to at least three other instances of protesters who had charges dismissed in January and February.

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Per protocol analysis strikes again! Folks, if you randomize but then don‘t analyze some of the people who got randomized (maybe because they didn’t adhere to instructions, maybe because they dropped out), randomization will no longer do all the heavy causal inference lifting.

I'm 64 and I never thought I would see the day when our Constitutional rights would be called left-wing radicalism, or that SCOTUS & GOP would conspire to bring about the downfall of democracy. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said President Donald Trump’s administration has “lost credibility” on election security issues after a Wednesday call between top state elections officials and federal law enforcement agencies. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

KDKO became known as “the soul of the Rockies,” bringing R&B music to Colorado airwaves at a time when such music was rarely heard locally.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:

FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ouster of least 10 employees involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, four people briefed on the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/4r7IXMc

I see this idea pop up more and more. I mentioned it at the end of this piece from last month and call an interstate compact for holding federal taxes in trust "among the most powerful measures in a program of soft secession." coloradonewsline.com/2026/01/26/c...

This is evil.

I'm sorry. What?

1 in 4 federal lobbyists works on AI. They aren't protecting the public interest. They're advancing massive corporate profits at the expense of the public. A lack of AI regulation is causing serious harm to children, our environment & the job market. It will only get worse.

“Blue City Crime” is their effort to replicate the “Black crime” sections of other sites with a patina of plausible deniability, and it’ll really be up to y’all if that works...

It seems Casey Means hasn't disclosed all her product endorsements, and Sen. Murphy is suggesting she is hiding the fact that she has relationships with these companies. Casey Means is suggesting Murphy's staff did something to manipulate these claims. WHAT?

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

TRUMP CLAIMS: “This is the golden age of America.” FACT CHECK: As of publication, this is unfortunately untrue, as Donald Trump is still alive. @mcsweeneys.net for the win

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith.

Farmers were promised $400 million in drought aid. Trump's USDA ghosted them. [via @grist.org]

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

New in PN: The Trump boys are Making Corruption Great Again "Heck, if you can’t be bothered to fake a board seat and you’re not interested in Trump-branded monopoly money, you can just pay $500,000 to join Don Jr.’s private membership club. It’s called Executive Branch. Yes, for real."

It’s not that the Christian Nationalists propping up Trump want to force everyone into their (non-Christian) religion. It’s that they want no one else around. This is a politics of burning heretics, not converting followers. Everything from ICE to billionaire power to corruption comes to that.

We've reached the Nazi part of Trump's speech: "The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration ... "

FACT CHECK: It’s already illegal, difficult, and extremely rare for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, and there’s no proof of widespread voter fraud anywhere in this country. The SAVE Act 2.0 is an attempt to make it harder for American citizens to vote. It’s as simple as that. #SOTU

Here are the dates and theaters for Boulder’s first Sundance Film Festival

Red states are doing what Trump won't: Going after abortion pills in court

We women will never be able to solve misogyny. We need men to step up and do that work. And the men’s hockey team proved to us they were not up to the task. At least they weren’t in that locker room moment. My piece on that moment was so deeply upsetting. open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

Multiple people worked and paid taxes over the course of their entire lives so Kash Patel could go to a hockey game.

This is really well stated. By junior high and high school, many kids are dealing with all kinds of serious adult stuff at home and in their own lives. Banning books about all such topics is really destructive—they need the words to talk about hard stuff and models for empathy and resilience

Kristi Noem rehired a retired CBP officer w/a history of racism, and he nearly got himself and an innocent bystander killed with insanely irresponsible gun handling. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

Major news: Bombshell Epstein development as the FBI failed to search several storage units that allegedly contain videos and pictures. FBI Director Kash Patel faces significant calls to resign following taxpayer trip to Olympics. Trump lashes out at SCOTUS as his approval rating crashes.

The UT system populating is nearly 46% Latino. Calling the histories, literatures, and political realities of these communities “controversial” is not about neutrality. It is about deciding whose knowledge is expendable.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Crowd-sourced data shows that while ICE remains active, especially in the suburbs, arrests and sightings are decreasing. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/23/t...

No excuse to still be at the bad place! youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?...

WHY ARE SO MANY OF US DOING SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU, THE PERSON WITH POWER, IN THIS MOMENT.

ICE is a bipartisan approved and funded project. bsky.app/profile/chan...

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Remarkable: Trump has achieved the distinction of being a Republican president who's deeply unpopular on *both* the economy *and* immigration. Those are traditional GOP strengths, and he's thrown away both of them. Trumpism is a catastrophic failure. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

Major drugmaker Bayer — which sells the controversial, glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup — donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration last year. Bayer had never before donated to an inaugural committee.

god he’s the fucking worst

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

Mainstream media and the Trump administration praised Alpha School, an "AI-powered private school" that can cost up to $65,000 a year. 404 Media has learned that the school is AI-generating faulty lesson plans. www.404media.co/students-are...

This is the third time they've done this now.

Correct. Rep. Jody Barrett (Left) Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

Collins stood silently in the Oval Office clutching a red MAGA hat as Trump told lies about our elections and repeated his call for the federal government to take over vote counting in certain parts of the country. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...