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Sleepy Hudson Valley

Will be invaded by ICE

Protesting before the sale

Will continue
ICE buys the Chester, NY warehouse. It was sold by Icahn Enterpises — a company with ties to Trump insider Carl Icahn — for an undisclosed sum.
ICE says it has purchased Hudson Valley site for detention facilities
An ICE spokesperson said Thursday that it had purchased a site in the Hudson Valley.
spectrumlocalnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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Today, in Arlington, VA, we celebrated both Valentine’s Day and the one-year anniversary of #TeslaTakedown.

“Honk if you love immigrants!”

Go, Axolotl, go! #TalesofTeslaTakedown
February 15, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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We face a clear and urgent choice this year. We can take back the House and put an end to Trump’s agenda, or we can give him two more years to govern by cruelty, division, and abuse of power. There is no middle ground, and no illusion about what’s at stake.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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“South Texas will never be red again”: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids, which have destroyed the region's once thriving economy. Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss immigration busts on job sites.
‘South Texas will never be red again’: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids
Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss immigration busts on job sites.
www.politico.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.
February 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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A perfect capture. This take is reflected in pretty much all the European reporting. In the American reporting: gibberish and delusions.
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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If you’re tracking the warehouse developments, @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is a must-follow. Doing great work!
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.

The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
ICE Gains Fast-Track Access to Private Prison Giant as It Plans to Nearly Double Detention Capacity
Navy contract allows immigration agency to bypass normal bidding and hire one of its largest detention operators directly as it plans to add 92,000 beds by November
projectsaltbox.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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🚨 Dept of Homeland Security is sending tech companies administrative subpoenas for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize ICE agents

Google, Meta & Reddit complied

🎁 @nytimes.com
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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YOU CAN PRINT THAT... honestly, too many outlets not being able to share this obvious and dangerous truth is a big part of how we've gotten to where we are.
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”

Sounds accurate to me.
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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My take: what the fuck are you talking about dude
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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NATO’s Mark Rutte on Russia at Munich: “They lost 65,000 people in December and January. They are not winning this…

“If there is a dictator in Moscow willing to do that…we have to take that seriously, because this is crazy behaviour.”
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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The only license plate type in NH without the state motto on it is a Hearse
February 14, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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The US is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders an attack, US officials told Reuters - a far more serious conflict than previously seen.
Exclusive: US military preparing for potentially weeks-long Iran operations
The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes a shot at Vance at the MSC: “The battle of cultures of MAGA in the US is not ours.

“Freedom of speech here ends where the words spoken are directed against human dignity and our Basic Law.

“We do not believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade.”
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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New York Pride. 🌈🗽

#SheShed #Voices4Victory
February 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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ICE offices are based in the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Repost if you think the local authorities should rename its address "One Renee Nicole Good/Alex Pretti Plaza."
February 13, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
February 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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this case was first filed almost exactly 11 months ago. one-year anniversary on march 15
BREAKING

Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing.

Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says.

Doc buff.ly/rccakD7
February 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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My take is that DHS does not yet have the manpower to conduct multiple assaults on US cities of this scale at the same time. Hence, they are conducting them serially.

Will be interested if that changes with ICE surging recruiting.

Welcome other thoughts.
February 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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The 2024 H1B visa record showing The Washington Post CEO being paid $3 million can be seen here. (There's no similar record for 2025, including under variants of the company name.) h1bdata.info/index.php?em...
Wp Company Llc H1B Salary 2024
Wp company llc H1-B Salary
h1bdata.info
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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More military incompetence under Hegseth. When you fire all the best people, and have our military run by a drunkard Fox News host.

www.wsj.com/us-news/two-...
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM