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A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says.
"I just spoke with DHS Secretary Noem about the proposed ICE detention facility in Marshall County,” the Mississippi Republican said.
"I just spoke with DHS Secretary Noem about the proposed ICE detention facility in Marshall County,” the Mississippi Republican said.
Byhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker Says
A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says.
www.mississippifreepress.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM
A proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says.
"I just spoke with DHS Secretary Noem about the proposed ICE detention facility in Marshall County,” the Mississippi Republican said.
"I just spoke with DHS Secretary Noem about the proposed ICE detention facility in Marshall County,” the Mississippi Republican said.
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In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion."
That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts
The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion."
That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Removing a post doesn’t remove the racism.
Just like redacting names doesn’t redact the truth.
Just like redacting names doesn’t redact the truth.
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Removing a post doesn’t remove the racism.
Just like redacting names doesn’t redact the truth.
Just like redacting names doesn’t redact the truth.
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“Some people believe that films should not involve politics. I really find it almost impossible to make a film that doesn’t.”
'The Secret Agent' Revisits a Dark Chapter in Brazilian History that Resonates with this Moment
Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho talks about the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated political thriller set during
contrarian.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
“Some people believe that films should not involve politics. I really find it almost impossible to make a film that doesn’t.”
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In 2024, Trump stated that only himself and Dan Scavino have access to his Truth Social account.
This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.
This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.
February 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
In 2024, Trump stated that only himself and Dan Scavino have access to his Truth Social account.
This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.
This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.
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NATO is splintering. Ukraine is burning. Iran is unstable.
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Pete Hegseth’s Latest Enemy: Scouting America
While global conflicts rage and alliances fray, the Pentagon’s leadership has found time to target Scouting America for admitting girls and confronting its past.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
NATO is splintering. Ukraine is burning. Iran is unstable.
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Cancel your Amazon prime while you’re at it. #JeffBezos is funding the oligarchy and he just laid off hundreds of @washingtonpost.com journalists. He could’ve saved it with his billions of $$ but he decided not to.
February 6, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Cancel your Amazon prime while you’re at it. #JeffBezos is funding the oligarchy and he just laid off hundreds of @washingtonpost.com journalists. He could’ve saved it with his billions of $$ but he decided not to.
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The historian and Gulag archivist, Yuri Dmitriev, remains in prison in Russia
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« La libération de l’historien Iouri Dmitriev est particulièrement urgente, c’est une question de survie ! »
TRIBUNE. L’un des plus anciens prisonniers politiques de Vladimir Poutine est détenu en raison de son travail sur l’histoire de la terreur stalinienne, au sein de l’association russe Memorial. Dans un...
www.lemonde.fr
February 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The historian and Gulag archivist, Yuri Dmitriev, remains in prison in Russia
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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People have been trying find some use for these abandoned stores, but I don’t think Big Box Gulag was on anyone’s list — not just because no one anticipated cruelly warehousing thousands of people, but because these buildings are singularly unsuited to the task.
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM
People have been trying find some use for these abandoned stores, but I don’t think Big Box Gulag was on anyone’s list — not just because no one anticipated cruelly warehousing thousands of people, but because these buildings are singularly unsuited to the task.
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"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Democracy Under Occupation
What we’ve learned in Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE
What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE
I'm an expert, and the misconduct and corruption runs far deeper than even the deadly surges have shown.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE
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When you think you’ve won the war, chest bumping and all puffed out, and then a strong woman enters the arena with a case of beer for you to hold.
I give you Hilary R. Clinton.
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#DemVoice1
I give you Hilary R. Clinton.
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#DemVoice1
February 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
When you think you’ve won the war, chest bumping and all puffed out, and then a strong woman enters the arena with a case of beer for you to hold.
I give you Hilary R. Clinton.
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#DemVoice1
I give you Hilary R. Clinton.
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#SheShed
#DemVoice1
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Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan ahead of opening ceremony reut.rs/3OpvykC
Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan ahead of opening ceremony
Hundreds of protesters chanted slogans, blew whistles and set off flares at a rally on Friday to oppose the presence in Italy of U.S. immigration agents and the closure of streets ahead of the Milano Cortina Winter Games' opening ceremony.
reut.rs
February 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan ahead of opening ceremony reut.rs/3OpvykC
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Good.
Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia all took steps this week to stop cities from deputizing local police officers as immigration agents to help ICE deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.
Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia all took steps this week to stop cities from deputizing local police officers as immigration agents to help ICE deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.
Several states move to ban local cooperation in immigration arrests
So-called 287(g) agreements that allow local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials are being targeted by Democrats across the country.
wapo.st
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Good.
Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia all took steps this week to stop cities from deputizing local police officers as immigration agents to help ICE deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.
Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia all took steps this week to stop cities from deputizing local police officers as immigration agents to help ICE deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.
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"If careerists had not been so easy to bribe and blackmail, ordinary people would not have to suffer under this group of sadistic oligarchs and politicians. Our era is the culmination of complicity."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
Jackhammering Into the Sewer
A look through the Epstein files.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM
"If careerists had not been so easy to bribe and blackmail, ordinary people would not have to suffer under this group of sadistic oligarchs and politicians. Our era is the culmination of complicity."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...
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AIPAC also knows this. That’s why none of their political ads discuss their actual issue at all and why they use vaguely named Super PACs so people don’t connect them with their own stated political mission and intent.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
AIPAC also knows this. That’s why none of their political ads discuss their actual issue at all and why they use vaguely named Super PACs so people don’t connect them with their own stated political mission and intent.
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place themselves at odds with our responsibility to represent the electorate and the views of the majority of Americans, who find the genocide in Gaza an appalling affront to American values and do not want to see US taxpayer funded weapons used to perpetuate it.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
place themselves at odds with our responsibility to represent the electorate and the views of the majority of Americans, who find the genocide in Gaza an appalling affront to American values and do not want to see US taxpayer funded weapons used to perpetuate it.
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I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
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They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
It can happen here - in Pa. coal country
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
I went to tiny Tremont, Pa. to see how a former Big Lots warehouse for cheap goods would become an island in a U.S. gulag archipelago, warehousing 7,500 human beings from ICE raids
My special report on an American nightmare www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont, Pa., that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in a $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They are building a GULAG archipelago run by private contractors. Like the "KZ" of Nazi Europe, its us without any kind of public scrutiny or oversight, but also public knowledge of who goes there and rumors about what happens inside.
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As a mother drove her 10-year-old girl to the bus stop, they were intercepted by federal agents. The girl thought the officers were going to take her to school. Instead, she and her mother were flown to detention center in Texas. https://cnn.it/4bAYcJn
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
As a mother drove her 10-year-old girl to the bus stop, they were intercepted by federal agents. The girl thought the officers were going to take her to school. Instead, she and her mother were flown to detention center in Texas. https://cnn.it/4bAYcJn
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Donald Trump’s unbelievable year of pardons, visualized.
How to get away with anything: Trump’s sordid year of pardons
No president has ever forgiven this much fraud—or stiffed this many victims.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Donald Trump’s unbelievable year of pardons, visualized.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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President Donald Trump shared a racist video on his social media platform Thursday night that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, sparking intense condemnation. https://cnn.it/4azvOWV
February 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
President Donald Trump shared a racist video on his social media platform Thursday night that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, sparking intense condemnation. https://cnn.it/4azvOWV
Trump shares video with racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama in late-night posting spree - The Guardian
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Trump shares video with racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama in late-night posting spree - The Guardian
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.