Everything about this story should fill you with horror and fury.

ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.

Today, we mourn a giant in the civil rights movement who left an indelible mark on our politics and our world. All of us in the fight to build a democracy that works for everyone stand on the shoulders of Reverend Jesse Jackson.

The cruelty and corruption go hand in hand….

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A few things from the latest NYT focus group on Democrats that had me 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

Minnesotans travel to D.C. to press for ICE funding cuts after Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/m...

“Noem verbally instructed the acting commandant of the Coast Guard to pull the plane off the search and rescue mission [for a Coast Guardsman missing in the Pacific] so it would not miss the immigrant flight as part of the DHS’ so-called Alien Expulsion Operations”

Reverend Jesse Jackson was one of America’s greatest patriots. He spent his life summoning all of us to fulfill the promise of America and building the coalitions to make that promise real.

The billionaires want us fighting each other instead of banding together.

Shot: Colbert explaining to his audience last night that the Trump administration ordered him not to air an interview with Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico - or even mention his name. (Scroll to 1:30) youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA

" But his campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988 helped create the image of what the modern Democratic Party seeks to be but rarely seems to achieve: a multiracial coalition of voters dedicated to economic fairness." RIP Jesse Jackson. www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-...

ICE car chase leads to “preventable” death of beloved Savannah, Georgia teacher

"The United States under Donald Trump is still somewhere between highly unreliable ally and de facto adversary." Yet Ukraine - with an assist from Elon Musk (!) is not only hanging in there but possibly turning the tide:

There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children. Now, what are we going to do about it?!

💙👍 Heckuva protest/celebration out at The Springs today!

Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.

On the street. For our democracy. For our community. www.indivisiblealbany.org/event-collec...

An “administrative warrant” is a piece of paper. A judicial warrant is a legal determination by a neutral magistrate that probable cause exists. The 4th Amendment requires the latter. Our fundamental Liberty necessitates the delay; it’s kinda the point.

A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev." Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."

This is the type of messaging Democrats everywhere should be embracing when it comes to immigration. Though the Mayor frames the argument in multi-denominational terms here, the message is purely American at its core.

If your nation harms the very people Jesus called us to serve, namely the poor, the hungry, the sick, the immigrant, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and oppressed, all while calling your nation “Christian,” you are embodying the exact kind of religious hypocrisy Jesus raged against.

If you are a high schooler in Texas, Greg Abbott will defund your school if you dare protest against ICE.

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-squalor-of-the-epstein-class

The program will provide grants to nonprofit organizations and local governments to assist in documenting, interpreting, and preserving places and stories of historical and cultural importance to the Black experience in New York.

“Ocasio-Cortez described what has happened in Gaza since as a genocide, praised the idea of wealth taxes and condemned corporate monopolies.  Those positions are correct. They are shared by many Democratic voters. But not by most of the party’s other 2028 hopefuls.”

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Last week’s NYT article on local bipartisan fight against ICE purchase of Pep Boys warehouse for detention prison in Chester. Thanks to all protestors. Please keep fighting. Resistance matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/n...

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

ICE & CBP are violating human and civil rights with impunity, so of course 287(g) agreements imply to local law enforcement that they’re entitled to do the same thing. It frees the so-inclined locals to take the gloves off.

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

Though the Trump administration claims Massachusetts is a “sanctuary state,” some local police cooperate with ICE routinely. The relationships vary town by town, and departments largely decide for themselves whether to volunteer information to ICE — or even hand people over.

This decision by @massgovernor.bsky.social to rollout a ChatGPT assistant for state workers is deeply irresponsible for a governor of a coastal state already experiencing the impacts of climate change. news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

Now THIS is worth watching. Great job by the Economist. #epstein #epsteinfiles

Most people probably focus on the damage ICE has caused in Minnesota But their violent, fascist tactics affect people all over the country Here they are-terrorizing 4th and 5th graders at a bus stop in New Jersey May Trump and Stephen Miller rot in hell www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Can we just get some new ideas from the Democrats on immigration? When will that happen?

Last July, I wrote a follow up to "Fascism and the English Language" specifically covering immigrant rights language. Concentration camps was correct then & is now. So too is not using "immigration" as qualifier for acts that are crimes. contrarian.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

Do you have thoughts you’d like to share on the White House Ballroom proposal? Now’s your chance: savingplaces.org/public-comme...

President Obama, welcome to the fight against the gerontocracy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

Supermajorities of Americans think ICE and Border Patrol are out of control and want Congress to do something about it. Democrats are aligned with the public. Republicans hold the unpopular position — and keeping the heat on them is how we win this fight.

They are building concentration camps. They intend to turn a former warehouse twenty-five minutes from us -- between LEGOLAND New York and the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets -- into a concentration camp. ICE is now in our community, too. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers. ICE out.

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans