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

Rumors were flying that Pam Bondi was moving too slowly and being too cautious. In Trump world, “not fast enough” quickly becomes “not loyal enough.” The other day, she was groveling to a party of one: Donald Trump.

Over in Hell, the billionaires are fighting with each other over who hung out with Epstein more. 🍿

great intel for the kidnappers 🤷‍♀️

📽️NEW: We’ve already seen the steps Trump is willing to take to rig the election: gerrymandering, political prosecutions. But that’s not all. In this video, Marc Elias unpacks how Republicans are passing bills that make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat👇 https://bit.ly/3MJoleT

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends. www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak

Nothing has brought this home for me like debating the electoral college online over the last decade. There's literally no contemporary justification for the EC that makes any sense that isn't "the cities and the people who live in them shouldn't be given the keys to the presidency."

It's becoming global now

I asked @barackobama.bsky.social if aliens are real.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Thanks to you, we made a lot of progress since yesterday! But the Democracy Docket growth team tells me we still need 250 new subscribers this weekend to hit their next benchmark. If you haven’t already signed up here is your chance to support independent, pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Aviator Kathrine Stinson was born #OTD in 1891. ✈️ 1st pilot to perform night skywriting, 1915 ✈️ 1st American woman to "loop-the-loop" ✈️ Set non-stop distance record (606 mi, 1917), outperforming all previous US pilots ✈️ 1st woman appointed a US Air Mail pilot on a regular route #AviationHistory

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress. The referendum will take place on April 21.

ICE observers in Minnesota are skeptical about the White House's claims of a federal drawdown. But they have noticed in recent weeks a shift from aggressive street sweeps in Minneapolis to instead target people in the suburbs or quietly waiting in unmarked vehicles of residential areas.

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Since 1989, nearly all net job growth in America has occurred under Democratic presidents — about 97% of the 52 million jobs created. That’s not spin. That’s the data.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

On Thursday the Chinese owner of TikTok released the latest version of its AI-powered video creation model, ushering in a wave of user-created videos featuring Hollywood stars and intellectual property and setting off alarm bells in entertainment.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

I just discovered mathematician @chrischirp.bsky.social created a “Trump Action Tracker,” a useful tool for understanding the #Trump admin’s blitzkreig attack on the entirety of the US government www.trumpactiontracker.info

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

we just rolled out an experimental integration with @germnetwork.com, an E2E encrypted chat app that integrates with atproto. Germ users can add a button to their profile so others can message them from Bluesky. we're exploring ways to connect your profile with other apps in the Atmosphere.

"I can give you a 15-minute history lesson that will explain ICE and our current politics.” “Can I use a timer?” he asked. I said certainly. I prepared the lesson, and my nephew started the timer. Here is what I told him: terikanefield.com/let-my-peopl...

Incredible www.instagram.com/reel/DUtTdIz...

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

NEW: For the second time in 2026, Kentucky state police have charged a woman with homicide after a pregnancy loss. Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co

“The only crime here is the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

we must not look away👇

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

(And let me note that immigration law FAVORS such horrific outcomes. Asylum is very hard to win. Immigration “court” isn’t a real court. It’s a kangaroo court where DHS is judge, jury, and executioner. You have no right to counsel. And the law tilts against non-citizens all conceivable ways.) 4/

🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract. The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.

my way or the highway, not what i'd call reassuring

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

A killer whale drops a water turd then returns for the splashing coup de grâce.

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

No taxation without representation. American citizens living abroad whose voting rights will be heavily restricted or taken away will stop filing taxes in the United States. www.myexpattaxes.com/expat-tax-ti...

U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers pushed back on a report that she had backed a program to fund far-right think tanks and institutes in Europe. She spoke to us at the #POLITICOPub on the sidelines of #MSC2026.

"By Wednesday morning, Susie Wiles, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, had ordered the F.A.A. to reopen the airspace..." sky safety peeps, this is not the "expert" we should be listening to 🤷‍♀️

also it won't just be white-collar jobs, lots and lots of the category of "things humans do for pay" is exposed.

Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice.

(KVOA) - A Shadow Hills resident tells News 4 Tucson that she witnessed three people being detained during a SWAT operation on Friday night. According to an unconfirmed report by a neighbor, another person shot himself in the head. www.kvoa.com/news/nancy-g...

"These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire." This story has a bit of details re: the types of services these companies provide to ICE (No paywall) www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.

The fleecing of America continues. "Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

I triple dog dare @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to make a speech saying, "Neither will we bail the US out after it commits unmanaged hegemonic suicide."