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NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them
ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
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"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting.
The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.
Read it here:
The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.
Read it here:
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting.
The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.
Read it here:
The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.
Read it here:
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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The deliberate, systematic strategy of the Trump regime: Seize people indiscriminately, even if they’re going through the system exactly as they are expected to; detain them under brutally inhumane conditions specifically designed to break them - so that they will give up and waive all legal rights.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 18, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The deliberate, systematic strategy of the Trump regime: Seize people indiscriminately, even if they’re going through the system exactly as they are expected to; detain them under brutally inhumane conditions specifically designed to break them - so that they will give up and waive all legal rights.
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This article is on *fire*. Thanks, @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social .
One of the most shocking and horrifying references to Trump and the Epstein material I've seen yet. And, it came from a sitting member of Congress.
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This article is on *fire*. Thanks, @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social .
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That would only be true in a world without politics. The real future is protectionism: soon Americans traveling abroad will marvel at the amazing cars out there, and wonder why theirs are so bad.
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
February 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
That would only be true in a world without politics. The real future is protectionism: soon Americans traveling abroad will marvel at the amazing cars out there, and wonder why theirs are so bad.
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
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The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.
State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
But why was this happening?
For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
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The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
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U.S. State Department Cancels Americans’ Ability To Get Passports Under New Ban Rule That Blocks Applications At Many Facilities
www.thetravel.com/state-depart...
www.thetravel.com/state-depart...
U.S. State Department Cancels Americans’ Ability To Get Passports Under New Ban Rule That Blocks Applications At Many Facilities
A 50-year-old passport service is under threat from a new Cease-and-Desist issued by the U.S. State Department
www.thetravel.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
U.S. State Department Cancels Americans’ Ability To Get Passports Under New Ban Rule That Blocks Applications At Many Facilities
www.thetravel.com/state-depart...
www.thetravel.com/state-depart...
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Federal agents have created a climate of fear for families trying to maintain the routines and normalcy of childhood.
Exposure to ICE Violence Threatens Children’s Health and Future Wellbeing
Federal agents have created a climate of fear for families trying to maintain the routines and normalcy of childhood.
buff.ly
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Federal agents have created a climate of fear for families trying to maintain the routines and normalcy of childhood.
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"Hypocrisy isn’t the main issue here. Rather, it’s the loss of reliable federal support for vaccines, and how that loss is already dissuading companies from developing new shots that could someday protect hundreds of millions of people from dangerous, even lethal infections."👇
NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"Hypocrisy isn’t the main issue here. Rather, it’s the loss of reliable federal support for vaccines, and how that loss is already dissuading companies from developing new shots that could someday protect hundreds of millions of people from dangerous, even lethal infections."👇
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North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
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"In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
February 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM
"In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
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There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:56 PM
There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.
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Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.
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Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Almost every deformity of our politics, economy and culture are downstream of this essential problem.
A key element of our great elite impunity problem is that the ultrawealthy avoid taxation, in simple and legal fashion. (Because we have the wrong definition of income in our obsolete tax code.)
A key element of our great elite impunity problem is that the ultrawealthy avoid taxation, in simple and legal fashion. (Because we have the wrong definition of income in our obsolete tax code.)
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
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Almost every deformity of our politics, economy and culture are downstream of this essential problem.
A key element of our great elite impunity problem is that the ultrawealthy avoid taxation, in simple and legal fashion. (Because we have the wrong definition of income in our obsolete tax code.)
A key element of our great elite impunity problem is that the ultrawealthy avoid taxation, in simple and legal fashion. (Because we have the wrong definition of income in our obsolete tax code.)
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AI drones used in Gaza are now surveilling American cities…
And corporate media isn’t covering it.
www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ai-dro...
And corporate media isn’t covering it.
www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ai-dro...
February 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
AI drones used in Gaza are now surveilling American cities…
And corporate media isn’t covering it.
www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ai-dro...
And corporate media isn’t covering it.
www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ai-dro...
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Remember: Everyone who says that athletes or artists should stay out of politics does not just fail to understand that in moments like these politics infuses every aspect of every life in our country--they are actually part of the problem. Silence is a position. Silence serves autocrats and thugs.
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Remember: Everyone who says that athletes or artists should stay out of politics does not just fail to understand that in moments like these politics infuses every aspect of every life in our country--they are actually part of the problem. Silence is a position. Silence serves autocrats and thugs.
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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
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
Second Kentucky Woman in 6 Weeks Charged With Homicide After Pregnancy Loss
Both women were criminalized after they sought medical care, one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion.
www.autonomynews.co
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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
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
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.