trying to think of Spokane names to search in the Epstein Files is harder than I thought

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

why didn't the the great Froyo bubble burst of the 2010s get this spot? Coeur d'Alene frozen yogurt shop says Charlie Kirk cups are about Christianity, not politics share.google/LgvTcjEZ50NE...

To be fair conspiracy theorists have been having A Time lately.

I really like how this headline+photo combo makes it look like the bear is one of the parties colluding and also that it's caught out with the plant matter in its mouth

We *almost* made a "leave room for Jesus" joke in the photo caption.

"Women are too powerful, too loud, too good, too human" is what this means. I am once again advocating for women to rule the world

The Mississippi Free Press is seeking a full-time Capital Bureau Reporter. Read more at mfp.ms/jobs. buff.ly/kbxgOA1

We're migrating our website this week and I'm thrilled for the new/better features and also terrified I'm gonna break it all, so pls wish me all the good #womeninstem vibes

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration and an Idaho Police Task Force for an unlawful immigration raid at a family event in Wilder, Idaho. Masked agents zip-tied people at gunpoint, used flash-bang grenades, shot rubber bullets, and detained over 400 people, including children and citizens.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Before her retirement, this judge oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail. In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist. Revisit our 2021 story with @wpln.bsky.social:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

I finally went to Spokane's amazing giant yarn store and holy shit it's glorious. AND they have a great online store paradisefibers.com?srsltid=AfmB...

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” writes Becca Good in a thank-you note to the people of Minneapolis.

Our local library has nerf nights for kids and other cool programming like that!

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

this is great news but it's crazy that instead of our tax money funding universal healthcare and comprehensive social services run by the government, we have to keep coming up with solutions to fix the "connective tissue problem" in our nonprofit industrial complex www.inlander.com/news/spokane...

brb googling "can you own an alpaca in Spokane"

Petition for STA to do this exact commercial again www.tiktok.com/t/ZThfBj1bU/

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

The fucked up part about living in this timeline and also having my job is that I often find myself too exhausted at the end of the day to find the social energy to go be in community…and ALSO community is probably what I need the most. Ugh

women are amazing and should run the world.

gonna need Phil to direct some of that winter snow to WA pls

Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:

While it’s still unclear why this letter was re-issued on Jan. 5, it’s likely sparked by increasing national unrest caused by ICE activities. The last time postal workers received a similar letter was during the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest after the murder of George Floyd.

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Me: "I don't know if I'm responsible enough for an intern." @merrywanderer.bsky.social: "Val, you're my boss."

its hard to focus in this hellscape so I'm motivating myself to answer emails by coloring in little hearts for each one I do. It's like a reward

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Just got my first tariff bill and I really wish FedEx et al would put an explanation in the bill of what exactly it is and also that it's all trumps fault

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

A local pizza place in Idaho posted this. Haven't seen these kinds of posts since 2020.

This sounds like a ceasefire deal headline

This is the camp where both Karla, the ten year old taken from Spokane, and Liam, the five year old taken from Minneapolis are being held. Abuses and inhumane conditions have already been documented here: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Maybe this is a silly question, but what exactly is stopping local and state police from arresting ice officers doing illegal shit?

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again

This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.

After a Spokane activist requested photos of a van used to transport detained immigrants to holding facilities, he got a call from the lawyer of GEO Group, which operates the van. Spokane County had given GEO Group a heads up about the request.

it feels like every headline is just: "President Trump gets to just declare things and then they happen with little to no resistance"

NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father. They remain in a Texas immigration detention center. The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Voted for ICE funding

I've just encountered something I thought went extinct: an online shoe company that has "use our contact form to start a return" as their entire return process.