🧵 CoreCivic execs & investors are monetizing kids in detention at ICE's Dilley Patrick Swindle, CoreCivic CEO, led efforts to reactivate idle facilities prepping for "windfall of immigrant detainees under the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown" #DIVEST www.propublica.org/article/life...

Every. Word.

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

ICE is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people. It's $38.3 billion plan to launch a “new detention center model” would expand the agency’s detention capacity by 92,600 beds by the end of FY26. newrepublic.com/post/206591/...

despicable scumbags

When ICE shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg, they claimed it was justified They said the agent was “ambushed” by men who hit him with a shovel They blamed Governor Walz and Mayor Frey for the attack It was all a lie The charges against Celis were dismissed And the agents might be charged

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

Been saying that we're way too lenient with ICE and CBP agents on the street; that we're way too lenient on fascists in general. Brown hoodie kid understands this.

Good gawd...

Excellent idea:

Hyping up Team USA with my guy Dan Barefoot on Ice #Olympics #Skeleton

how we got here

"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A pair of Washington-area golfers have sued over Trump’s plan to overhaul a public golf course here, alleging it violated several laws and the original spirit of the park. More from Rick Maese + me

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

I could fix her. But why would I want to?

Five European nations have determined that Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny. This was a cowardly act from a frightened leader. Russia has long acted as a terrorist state, relying on terrorist methods. 
Poisoning political opponents.
Silencing journalists.
Invading peaceful neighbors.

The right successfully leveraged Antonin Scalia’s death to seize the Supreme Court for a generation because the conservative legal movement had spent decades preparing for such a chance. In my view, THE political project for the left is putting in the work to take it back

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

He can say whatever he wants and issue whatever executive order he wants, but he has no legitimate power to actually do anything like this. Panicked posts like this one give the impression that he can make good on his threats. He can't.

Pam Bondi came to Congress with a list of insults instead of answers We came with a DOJ Inspector General complaint This week's @contrariannews.org publisher's note breaks down our 1-2 punch against her lawlessness 👇

Watch this.

Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Sometimes, things in life are just bigger. 🙏 Honour, principles, and integrity, all intact, brother. 🇺🇦

She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??

Apropos, always: www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

Why was Dr. Oz inviting Epstein to parties 8 years after Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution?

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The President, Stephen Miller, Secretary Noem and others are labeling people like Renee Good as domestic terrorists. ICE agents are saying that people are being added to a domestic terrorist list. I asked ICE leadership about this.

Not tired of winning.🥳

Huh, some hellhole. “Leaders also said Choose Chicago secured 65 citywide conventions, up from 49 last year, and a record $2.9 billion in hotel revenue compared to $2.8 billion in 2024.”

The House GOP will do literally anything to avoid investigating what looks to be the largest pedo ring on the planet. Now they want to probe Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl appearance. Complicit clowns.

Incompetence Check: El Paso airspace closed so CBP could shoot down a party balloon? You truly cannot make this stuff up.

How utterly embarrassing. It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

The Justice Department is taking steps to throw out Stephen Bannon’s conviction for defying a congressional subpoena about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Trump.

The Trump administration is expected to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official.

1. Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been caught brazenly lying about his relationship with Epstein. In October, Lutnick claimed his relationship with Epstein was "absolutely done" after a single meeting in 2005. That is absolutely false.

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Proof that it's all been about racial profiling.