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Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids.

Classic Good Guy behavior.
“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-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Eagles draft. Traded back a pick in the second round to get a seventh rounder to draft Jake’s replacement. I don’t think they go receiver in round one, but Concepcion would be such a great weapon across from Smitty. Love Davison as CB2. Lance is a Packers system type WR for Manion to leverage
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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it is a transparently ideological project for people like jain and it's sort of hard to see it any other way
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Go birds
February 17, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Well, today's 12z weather model run is one for the ages. EVERY SINGLE model—ICON, GFS, AIGFS, CMC, UKMET—shows a ~12"+ snowstorm for Philly & NJ Sunday-Monday. Have never seen anything like this type of agreement this far out. Euro comes out in a bit and we'll see if it holds. Still a long way out.
February 17, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Weather models are absolutely barking about a potential big storm this weekend
February 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”

(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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You and I both know @jerusalem.bsky.social, that the clear purpose of the piece is to try to get Dems to run even further away from protecting trans people's civil rights. Your publication is just another cog in the anti-trans machine. You're a liar for saying you wouldn't be running stud like this.
February 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Jesse v Marvin
February 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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I have a paper coming out soon that (among other things) details how SSA has become more hostile to immigrant claimants and those in mixed status families.

But this is several steps more horrifying. Like, honestly kinda shocked, and I’m hard to shock.
February 13, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I think it’s kind of trendy to crap on Pearl Jam but Ten was a legitimately great album with a top 5 songs that’s really hard to beat: Black, Jeremy, Once, Even Flow and Alive. The rest of the album is really solid. It’s really one of the best albums
Do any of Pearl Jam’s albums qualify as the greatest albums of all time?

Vote for up to ten albums—across their and other artists’ discographies—in our readers’ poll here: album.ink/GOATAlbumsPoll
February 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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February 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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White supremacy is just a job you do, like architect or serial killer
Chicago Magazine named Nick Fuentes #7 in its list of Top 50 powerful Chicagoans of 2025.
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Check out Andreas Wine Malm here
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Democrats who didn't vote in 2024 were _less_ progressive than those who did. Really seems like it was broad-based dissatisfaction with Biden that sunk Harris, not the ideological direction of her campaign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
What Caused Democrats’ No-Show Problem in 2024?
New data sheds light on the policy preferences of nonvoting Democrats in the last election. It may disappoint some progressives.
www.thenation.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I love when I listen to a new band and my Apple Music algorithm takes me back to a band I already listen to in a few songs. It’s like validation that I should be listening to the new band. Like, here’s the Mannequin P*ssy stamp of approval on your new musical interest
February 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Anyone who has this opinion - Democrat or not - is an enemy of a free and just society and an ally of fascism. They must be defeated just as badly as Trump and the goons terrorizing human beings on our streets
Hillary Clinton on illegal immigration: "Migration went too far. It's been disruptive and destabilizing. It needs to be fixed in a HUMANE way with secure borders that don't torture and kill people."
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Turns out independents don’t love to see the secret police murdering normies
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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::taps the sign::
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Canadian and European countries opening their markets to Chinese EVs is also great for the environment as a whole
I mean whatcouldgowrong with americans constantly putting the worst business people imaginable in washington? Oh maybe america's economy is destroyed so bad that the few things america still did went out the window too? www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea...
U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars
NADA CEO on Chinese cars coming to America: "It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers."
www.thedrive.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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I mean whatcouldgowrong with americans constantly putting the worst business people imaginable in washington? Oh maybe america's economy is destroyed so bad that the few things america still did went out the window too? www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea...
U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars
NADA CEO on Chinese cars coming to America: "It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers."
www.thedrive.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I think as a voter you have a responsibility to vocally declare when a potential candidate from your party isn’t acceptable to you. Do that early so the party and other voters can hear it and make decisions with all available information. That shouldn’t be a controversial stance
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:16 AM