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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.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.
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In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer.
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
How Minneapolis taught America to fight back
Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:38 PM
In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer.
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:
If Palestine were free, we would all be free.
February 10, 2026 at 6:28 AM
If Palestine were free, we would all be free.
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The Rafah border crossing reopened Monday for medical evacuations and humanitarian travel, w/ a 6th group of patients leaving Gaza for treatment abroad under Red Crescent coordination & WHO supervision. Since reopening last Mon., a combined 189 patients & companions have departed, and 88 stranded...
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The Rafah border crossing reopened Monday for medical evacuations and humanitarian travel, w/ a 6th group of patients leaving Gaza for treatment abroad under Red Crescent coordination & WHO supervision. Since reopening last Mon., a combined 189 patients & companions have departed, and 88 stranded...
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Top Trump DOJ officials shut down a civil rights probe into ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good and instead withheld key evidence from Minnesota investigators after Trump spread false claims about her, a new report finds.
DOJ Nixed Probe Into Renee Good’s Killing After Trump Made False Claims — Report
The Department of Justice has withheld evidence from state investigators examining Renee Nicole Good’s killing.
truthout.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Top Trump DOJ officials shut down a civil rights probe into ICE’s killing of Renee Nicole Good and instead withheld key evidence from Minnesota investigators after Trump spread false claims about her, a new report finds.
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In early January, a St. Paul woman and her husband tried to follow a caravan of ICE officers. The couple told Minnesota Public Radio that ICE agents soon surrounded their vehicle. One of them and greeted the woman by her name, suggesting they had used her license plate to identify her.
‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations
ICE observers and critics report being audited, pulled over, called by name or followed home by agents.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
In early January, a St. Paul woman and her husband tried to follow a caravan of ICE officers. The couple told Minnesota Public Radio that ICE agents soon surrounded their vehicle. One of them and greeted the woman by her name, suggesting they had used her license plate to identify her.
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In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy.
Under Capitalism, Democracy Stops at the Economy
In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy.
jacobin.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
In Escape From Capitalism, economist Clara Mattei offers an uncompromising defense of a Marxist account of society and makes the case for democratic control of the economy.
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🚨 Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
The Sec. of State has told the pres. that talks are happening w/ high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.
Story for Drop Site News from...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubi...
The Sec. of State has told the pres. that talks are happening w/ high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.
Story for Drop Site News from...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubi...
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
🚨 Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
The Sec. of State has told the pres. that talks are happening w/ high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.
Story for Drop Site News from...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubi...
The Sec. of State has told the pres. that talks are happening w/ high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.
Story for Drop Site News from...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubi...
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Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away.
Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Trump’s gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
From our colleagues at the @dailyyonder.bsky.social:
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“ICE messed with the wrong profession.” National Nurses United is honoring ICU nurse Alex Pretti after his killing by federal agents—and joining calls to abolish ICE.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on-the-ground from the D.C. vigil.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on-the-ground from the D.C. vigil.
“Ice Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti
In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.
inthesetimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
“ICE messed with the wrong profession.” National Nurses United is honoring ICU nurse Alex Pretti after his killing by federal agents—and joining calls to abolish ICE.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on-the-ground from the D.C. vigil.
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on-the-ground from the D.C. vigil.
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“Republicans could lose a wave election thanks to Trump, so he’s laying the groundwork to seize voting machines, intimidate voters, and limit participation.”
@justinglawe.bsky.social documents evidence that Trump is preparing to disrupt the midterms.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-thre...
@justinglawe.bsky.social documents evidence that Trump is preparing to disrupt the midterms.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-thre...
February 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“Republicans could lose a wave election thanks to Trump, so he’s laying the groundwork to seize voting machines, intimidate voters, and limit participation.”
@justinglawe.bsky.social documents evidence that Trump is preparing to disrupt the midterms.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-thre...
@justinglawe.bsky.social documents evidence that Trump is preparing to disrupt the midterms.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-thre...
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Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.
Who paid for the Super Bowl ICE ad?
The group behind Sunday's bizarre commercial has a sparse paper trail.
www.motherjones.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.
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Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders are designed to recognize the violence that shapes Palestinian life but not challenge the systems that produce it.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/libe...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/libe...
#Palestine #Israel
Liberal institutions are designed to acknowledge Palestinian oppression but not end it
Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders are designed to recognize the violence that shapes Palestinian life but not challenge the systems...
mondoweiss.net
February 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Two recent episodes have shown how liberal institutions like Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders are designed to recognize the violence that shapes Palestinian life but not challenge the systems that produce it.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/libe...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/libe...
#Palestine #Israel
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The family of Palestinian Columbia protester Leqaa Kordia says DHS is hiding where she’s been hospitalized after a seizure, days after she told her cousin she feels like she is “slowly dying” in ICE detention.
Family Says DHS Is Withholding Location of Hospitalized Pro-Palestine Protester
Kordia said last week she “feels as though she is ‘slowly dying’” in ICE detention, her cousin said.
truthout.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The family of Palestinian Columbia protester Leqaa Kordia says DHS is hiding where she’s been hospitalized after a seizure, days after she told her cousin she feels like she is “slowly dying” in ICE detention.
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🔴 BREAKING | U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has released his private WhatsApp and text messages with Peter Mandelson, a close Keir Starmer confidante who recently resigned from the Labour Party amid fallout over his relationship w/ convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The messages reveal...
February 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🔴 BREAKING | U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has released his private WhatsApp and text messages with Peter Mandelson, a close Keir Starmer confidante who recently resigned from the Labour Party amid fallout over his relationship w/ convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The messages reveal...
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An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
An Irish immigrant with a valid US work permit has been held in ICE detention in Texas for nearly 5 months despite having no criminal record, the Irish Times reports. Seamus Culleton, who has lived in the US for over 20 years, is married to a US citizen & was in the final stages of a green card...
Abolish DHS. It is my First Amendment right to say that.
February 10, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Abolish DHS. It is my First Amendment right to say that.
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No DHS funding without stronger oversight and accountability, civil liberties protections, curbs on violence. Congress must "flex its muscle" - by @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social, @margyoh.bsky.social, @hannahajames.bsky.social
Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms
Experts detail targeted reforms and legislative pathways Congress could enact to improve ICE and CBP accountability.
www.justsecurity.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
No DHS funding without stronger oversight and accountability, civil liberties protections, curbs on violence. Congress must "flex its muscle" - by @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social, @margyoh.bsky.social, @hannahajames.bsky.social
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“I followed the rules. I’ve done great in the community. I’ve never abused any of the conditions of the stay or of my supervision…I’m so scared, I cannot go back."
ICE brutally detained a minister in Vermont. Now, the Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda, where he was tortured.
ICE brutally detained a minister in Vermont. Now, the Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda, where he was tortured.
He fled torture in Uganda. ICE is trying to send him back.
People like Pastor Steven Tendo “are exactly who our asylum system is meant to protect.”
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“I followed the rules. I’ve done great in the community. I’ve never abused any of the conditions of the stay or of my supervision…I’m so scared, I cannot go back."
ICE brutally detained a minister in Vermont. Now, the Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda, where he was tortured.
ICE brutally detained a minister in Vermont. Now, the Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda, where he was tortured.
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After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.
In this town, one school keeps kids divided.
(Published May 2024)
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Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. Via @propublica.org:
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no…
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight. Via @propublica.org:
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Surya Bonaly
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Surya Bonaly
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Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.
Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.
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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:
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:
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem t...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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:
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:
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Why Was Bad Bunny Singing on Top of a Broken Utility Pole at the Super Bowl?
It was a powerful moment to bring attention to the energy crisis in Puerto Rico--and a reminder to U.S audiences of the injustices Puerto Ricans endure at the hands of private energy companies.
It was a powerful moment to bring attention to the energy crisis in Puerto Rico--and a reminder to U.S audiences of the injustices Puerto Ricans endure at the hands of private energy companies.
Why Was Bad Bunny Singing on Top of a Broken Utility Pole at the Super Bowl?
Bad Bunny’s 13-minute performance at the big game was an ode to Puerto Rico — and its energy woes.
earthjustice.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Why Was Bad Bunny Singing on Top of a Broken Utility Pole at the Super Bowl?
It was a powerful moment to bring attention to the energy crisis in Puerto Rico--and a reminder to U.S audiences of the injustices Puerto Ricans endure at the hands of private energy companies.
It was a powerful moment to bring attention to the energy crisis in Puerto Rico--and a reminder to U.S audiences of the injustices Puerto Ricans endure at the hands of private energy companies.