Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁
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Today in white anxiety giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10mn
Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10mn
Country currently has 9.1mn permanent residents and experts fear the move would limit companies’ access to foreign talent
giftarticle.ft.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Today in white anxiety giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10mn
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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2. upon which, after consolidation, the equivalent of a European Visa or Mastercard can potentially be built”, said Aurore Lalucq, chair of the European parliament’s economic committee and a supporter of the project."
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
2. upon which, after consolidation, the equivalent of a European Visa or Mastercard can potentially be built”, said Aurore Lalucq, chair of the European parliament’s economic committee and a supporter of the project."
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1. "Europe “urgently” needs to reduce its reliance on US groups such as Visa and Mastercard, the head of a banking alliance has said, as officials warn that their market dominance could be weaponised if transatlantic relations were to deteriorate...
The digital euro could "provide this foundation
The digital euro could "provide this foundation
European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief
US payment processing companies account for about two-thirds of card transactions in Eurozone
www.ft.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
1. "Europe “urgently” needs to reduce its reliance on US groups such as Visa and Mastercard, the head of a banking alliance has said, as officials warn that their market dominance could be weaponised if transatlantic relations were to deteriorate...
The digital euro could "provide this foundation
The digital euro could "provide this foundation
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The problem with this strategy is that open election interference then becomes incorporated into the democratic settlement between the parties. You cannot treat electoral irregularities like this and preserve democracy
The best insurance against dirty tricks is landslide margins of victory.
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The problem with this strategy is that open election interference then becomes incorporated into the democratic settlement between the parties. You cannot treat electoral irregularities like this and preserve democracy
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Healthcare costs are up! Childcare costs are up! Food prices are up! Trump has NOT kept his campaign promises to lower costs. Trump's policies are costing families, businesses, our economy, and our democracy. #TrumpflationSucks
February 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Healthcare costs are up! Childcare costs are up! Food prices are up! Trump has NOT kept his campaign promises to lower costs. Trump's policies are costing families, businesses, our economy, and our democracy. #TrumpflationSucks
The problem with this strategy is that open election interference then becomes incorporated into the democratic settlement between the parties. You cannot treat electoral irregularities like this and preserve democracy
The best insurance against dirty tricks is landslide margins of victory.
February 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The problem with this strategy is that open election interference then becomes incorporated into the democratic settlement between the parties. You cannot treat electoral irregularities like this and preserve democracy
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HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
HOOOOOO boy.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"
Lyons: "Yes ma'am."
McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
Really the most interesting thing about AI is how absolutely desperate all the capitalists have been to believe without evidence that it would be a WMD in their arsenal for class warfare. A thing we definitely know about them now and should remind them of when they come begging for bailouts
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Really the most interesting thing about AI is how absolutely desperate all the capitalists have been to believe without evidence that it would be a WMD in their arsenal for class warfare. A thing we definitely know about them now and should remind them of when they come begging for bailouts
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
My 9 yo insisted on reading aloud the president’s entire crash-out post about Bad Bunny and said “wow he is such a whiner” and since then keeps bursting out giggling and saying she’s thinking about how crazy it made him
February 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
My 9 yo insisted on reading aloud the president’s entire crash-out post about Bad Bunny and said “wow he is such a whiner” and since then keeps bursting out giggling and saying she’s thinking about how crazy it made him
I pray to God every day that the people responsible for this suffering see it returned to them in kind
80,000 people is just a number that makes my stomach clench thinking about it
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I pray to God every day that the people responsible for this suffering see it returned to them in kind
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I remember when some “experts” said ‘don’t worry, they can’t enact their plan at scale because they don’t have the capacity.’ As if that was a limit rather than a step.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
I remember when some “experts” said ‘don’t worry, they can’t enact their plan at scale because they don’t have the capacity.’ As if that was a limit rather than a step.
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I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.
Columbia will never be free of this stain.
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 AM
I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.
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AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
How many times will this point be made before people call it what it is: persecution
This is obviously not targeted enforcement. And we still don’t know how many children they’ve taken.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.
www.cbsnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 PM
How many times will this point be made before people call it what it is: persecution
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February 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
There are elementary schoolers locked up eating food with worms in it in camps ridden with tuberculosis and measles around the country. The govt is buying up tens of millions of dollars' worth of square footage of warehouses to lock more children in.
We cannot go on like this.
We cannot go on like this.
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
There are elementary schoolers locked up eating food with worms in it in camps ridden with tuberculosis and measles around the country. The govt is buying up tens of millions of dollars' worth of square footage of warehouses to lock more children in.
We cannot go on like this.
We cannot go on like this.
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And five 737s from Avelo.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
And five 737s from Avelo.
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In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
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Moms told me there were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. Kids lost their appetites after finding worms in their food and were constantly sick. Recently, there were also measles cases at the center. 7/
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Moms told me there were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. Kids lost their appetites after finding worms in their food and were constantly sick. Recently, there were also measles cases at the center. 7/
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9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/