Dog Has Thoughts
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Lover of humans. Watcher of neighborhoods. You know, dog stuff.
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While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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"Many of these agents are trained for isolated, high-tension environments where the public is framed as the threat. That conditioning does not vanish just because they are suddenly stationed in a city. The result is a “you versus us” mentality so thick it becomes the air you breathe."
What It's Really Like: A First-Hand Account of the Portland ICE Facility Occupation
In Portland, members of the community have been standing up to ICE for most of Trump's second term so far.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
"Many of these agents are trained for isolated, high-tension environments where the public is framed as the threat. That conditioning does not vanish just because they are suddenly stationed in a city. The result is a “you versus us” mentality so thick it becomes the air you breathe."
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However, student newspaper the Bard Free Press shows photos of Botstein meeting the helicopter on the 2013 trip, and giving a tour of Bard campus to Epstein as well as two female guests who arrived with the financier, described as "young" and "girls." www.thedailycatch.org/articles/jef...
Jeffrey Epstein’s May 3, 2013 Bard Visit: The Day in Photos - The Daily Catch
Jeffrey Epstein and several women visited Bard's campus on May 3, 2013, landing at Blithewood in a 14-seat chartered helicopter.
www.thedailycatch.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:37 PM
However, student newspaper the Bard Free Press shows photos of Botstein meeting the helicopter on the 2013 trip, and giving a tour of Bard campus to Epstein as well as two female guests who arrived with the financier, described as "young" and "girls." www.thedailycatch.org/articles/jef...
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After it was revealed that Epstein made two helicopter trips to Bard campus in 2013 and 2016, landing on a lawn on campus in front of students, Botstein said he was not present at the helicopter landing. He also said that he never saw Epstein with any young female assistants.
February 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
After it was revealed that Epstein made two helicopter trips to Bard campus in 2013 and 2016, landing on a lawn on campus in front of students, Botstein said he was not present at the helicopter landing. He also said that he never saw Epstein with any young female assistants.
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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.
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Making up the rules as they go . . .
Another week, another ICE transgression.
The lawless agency is now saying that merely revealing its new office locations is “a national security concern.”
Spoiler alert: It’s not!
It’s a transparent effort to evade accountability.
Watch and subscribe: freedom.press/newsletters
The lawless agency is now saying that merely revealing its new office locations is “a national security concern.”
Spoiler alert: It’s not!
It’s a transparent effort to evade accountability.
Watch and subscribe: freedom.press/newsletters
Trump fails to deport Öztürk; DOJ bar complaint; ICE’s latest transgression revealed
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
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February 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Making up the rules as they go . . .
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An angry but also useful newsletter/post today on some topics we need to forcefully reclaim. Yes, MAGAts throw the words "evil" and "Western Civilization" around too, but they're *provably* evil, unwise, anti-civilization, and wrong about literally everything. It's not a debate.
Evil, Wisdom, and Western Civilization
On refusing to cede Western Civilization to evil people who insist their map is the territory.
how-to-get-things-less-wrong.ghost.io
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
An angry but also useful newsletter/post today on some topics we need to forcefully reclaim. Yes, MAGAts throw the words "evil" and "Western Civilization" around too, but they're *provably* evil, unwise, anti-civilization, and wrong about literally everything. It's not a debate.
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If there's a Democrat you don't want to vote for, then go work your ass off in the primary for the candidate you want in the general. That's what happened in NJ with Analilia Mejia. But don't just whine about centrist Dems. And if the nominee is a centrist Dem, shut the fuck up and vote for them.
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
If there's a Democrat you don't want to vote for, then go work your ass off in the primary for the candidate you want in the general. That's what happened in NJ with Analilia Mejia. But don't just whine about centrist Dems. And if the nominee is a centrist Dem, shut the fuck up and vote for them.
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shorturl.at/i2H9i "The 'Pantsir' is 1 of Russia's key air defense systems, costs of single system $15 - $20Million. The anti-aircraft missile systems are most effective in countering Ukrainian long-range drones. The strategic goal of making Russia vulnerable to long-range strikes
Ukraine destroys half of Russia's 'key' Pantsir air defense systems, security service says
The Alpha unit of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) destroyed half of Russia's stockpile of the coveted Pantsir air defense system, the SBU announced Feb. 14.
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February 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
shorturl.at/i2H9i "The 'Pantsir' is 1 of Russia's key air defense systems, costs of single system $15 - $20Million. The anti-aircraft missile systems are most effective in countering Ukrainian long-range drones. The strategic goal of making Russia vulnerable to long-range strikes
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📌Barack Obama was a damn fine president, yes, but he is an even a better man.
He still believes in all the good, while the abhorrent, racist monster currently in our WH dines off of all the bad.
The difference is stark.
Who you vote for doesn't build character, but it damn sure reveals it ...
He still believes in all the good, while the abhorrent, racist monster currently in our WH dines off of all the bad.
The difference is stark.
Who you vote for doesn't build character, but it damn sure reveals it ...
Barack Obama BREAKS SILENCE on Trump's ape video, Bad Bunny, and 2028 election
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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February 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
📌Barack Obama was a damn fine president, yes, but he is an even a better man.
He still believes in all the good, while the abhorrent, racist monster currently in our WH dines off of all the bad.
The difference is stark.
Who you vote for doesn't build character, but it damn sure reveals it ...
He still believes in all the good, while the abhorrent, racist monster currently in our WH dines off of all the bad.
The difference is stark.
Who you vote for doesn't build character, but it damn sure reveals it ...
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I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
February 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +
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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.
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building on a topic we were discussing yesterday: in large portions of the United States, there is a *very strong* cultural norm that the highest social faux pas is to imply moral deficiencies in others even *or especially* if those things are true. It is because half the country were slavers.
I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
building on a topic we were discussing yesterday: in large portions of the United States, there is a *very strong* cultural norm that the highest social faux pas is to imply moral deficiencies in others even *or especially* if those things are true. It is because half the country were slavers.
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I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
February 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language."
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.
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Those DAMN leopards!
Colombian congresswoman cheered ICE raids, but is crying after her son, Rafael Alfonso Vergara, was detained by ICE and is kept in "inhumane conditions".
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
Congresista de Colombia denuncia que su hijo lleva 18 días retenido por agentes migratorios de ICE
YouTube video by RED MÁS Noticias
youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Those DAMN leopards!
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Colombian congresswoman cheered ICE raids, but is crying after her son, Rafael Alfonso Vergara, was detained by ICE and is kept in "inhumane conditions".
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
Congresista de Colombia denuncia que su hijo lleva 18 días retenido por agentes migratorios de ICE
YouTube video by RED MÁS Noticias
youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Colombian congresswoman cheered ICE raids, but is crying after her son, Rafael Alfonso Vergara, was detained by ICE and is kept in "inhumane conditions".
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
Far right, Angela Vergara was all in on tRump’s policies until it affected her.
#FAFO #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Resist
youtube.com/shorts/jg-HX...
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MINNESOTA Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social : “They are still racially profiling… Dems need to hold the line. The senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn’t stand their ground at this moment in time, and I don’t think the 🇺🇸 people will either.”
(From @atrupar.com
(From @atrupar.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM
MINNESOTA Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social : “They are still racially profiling… Dems need to hold the line. The senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn’t stand their ground at this moment in time, and I don’t think the 🇺🇸 people will either.”
(From @atrupar.com
(From @atrupar.com
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Started… Going
Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
February 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Started… Going
Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
Pro-Trump far right Colombian congresswoman Angela Vergara cries over ICE snatching her son
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shorturl.at/sVAPk Illusion to believe war can be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine, just as sacrificing Czechoslovakia might save Europe from WWII w Hitler. It has become primary historical example of failures of appeasement, granting concessions to aggressor hoping to achieve peace.
Territorial concessions by Ukraine won't bring peace, Zelensky says in Munich
"It would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine – just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a greater...
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February 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
shorturl.at/sVAPk Illusion to believe war can be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine, just as sacrificing Czechoslovakia might save Europe from WWII w Hitler. It has become primary historical example of failures of appeasement, granting concessions to aggressor hoping to achieve peace.
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Thank you! Everyday she is defying her oath. Pet Noem is unqualified.
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.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Thank you! Everyday she is defying her oath. Pet Noem is unqualified.
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The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.