Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

A Grand Jury Will Indict a Ham Sandwich? Not in the Trump Era. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... TACO variation

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... Trump has no vision of the future beyond his limited personal space, that is unless he can personally $$$ benefit from it.

In yesterday’s congressional hearing, ICE bristled at being called fascist This story from Idaho alleges they went well beyond fascism-all the way to an American Gestapo “Parents and children were zip tied at gunpoint” “officers used racial slurs and sorted..the crowd into groups” based on race

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

They not only failed to get an indictment, they failed to get a single grand juror’s vote. It’s probable that this has never happened before. Likely because the DOJ has never sent hack political appointees to attempt to get indictments on sitting Congress members over protected speech before.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

I'm pretty confident we wouldn't be seeing Kamala fighting to protect herself from allegations of raping children, nor her staff being dragged in front of Congress weekly for lying about raping children and murdering citizens.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Trump’s foreign (and domestic) “policy” (using that term loosely) is “whim of the day”. He wakes up each morning with a new “concept” and it disappears before he goes to sleep that night.

Crockett: "All this administration cares about is protecting the powerful and protecting pedophiles. They will do anything to distract from that, including deciding to put up in the middle of Black History Month the most racist thing that we've ever seen come out of a White House."

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

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Political therapy: watching some episodes of The West Wing where a TV President is more real than the actual “President”.

Binance Gives Trump Family’s Crypto Firm a Leg Up www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b... These are the folks who haunted and haunted Hunter Biden.

If I were AI savy I could make the necessary audio changes re: subject person and country. You get the notion. clip.cafe/the-ten-comm...

‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Trump reportedly told Schumer that he will unfreeze infrastructure funds for New York in exchange for support for renaming Penn Station and Dulles International Airport after himself.

Excellent Pulitzer-level reporting on how Trump and his personal lawyers, in the first months of his presidency, turned Dept of Justice into a partisan Trump org, serving his political priorities, allowing his corruption and that of his close friends and family. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.

“With Amazon’s role in ICE ops under greater scrutiny and Bezos’ dismantling of the organ that once proudly declared itself on being a defender of democracy, it’s worth examining how close Amazon and Trump are—& how closely aligned their projects are” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-jeff-b...

Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Today, I call on Congress to haul before the oversight committee every single person who emailed about going to Epstein’s island… the 🇺🇸 people are frustrated with the rich and powerful getting a different set of Justice.”

The next question should’ve been: Why don’t you answer her question? It’s outrageous that White House reporters let Trump get away with this and act as if it’s normal.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

It shouldn’t need to be said, but: Kristi Noem as DHS secretary is not a prosecutor. Criminal charging decisions should only be coming from the Justice Department. This is like saying the Commerce Secretary “ordered” the arrest of someone.

Just a reminder: Barack Obama — not in the files. Kamala Harris — not in the files. Happy Black History Month ✊🏾

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... The midterms are not “safe”. Nobody should expect a peaceful turn over of power. At best it will be chaotic. At worst, Jan 6 will look like a celebration. The election is an existential threat to the occupants of the current administration and they know it.

Accuse me of catastrophizing, but "‘We want to take over" is about as clear a warning as you will ever get.

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p... Clinton in Epstein, Congress subpoena. Trump in Epstein? Subpoena would be challenged (no precedent I believe). Trump voluntarily appear - nothing to hide? Equal treatment? At a minimum shouldn’t the Republicans at least invite him - show of nonpartisanship 😅 Just sayin.