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My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine.

The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

Micah Lee
@micahflee@infosec.exchange threw together a website visualizing this #ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

#DHS Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by "Department of Peace" and info about #ICE contracts with >6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies and even dozens of universities.

February 27, 2026 On Monday, February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton, and Cara Tabachnick of CBS News reported a newly uncovered document in the Epstein files shows that the U.S.

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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

“I kept begging for a divorce, and he’d threaten to kill my children.”

“I was in a very abusive, sick relationship.”

These women were imprisoned for crimes that stemmed from their abuse. A new law offered them a second chance.

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

Reminder: The commerce secretary apparently still hasn’t come clean on his connection with Epstein.

Americans Who Can't Afford Beef Have 'Many Proteins to Choose From,' Says US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Americans who can't afford beef a year into Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from," said U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Americans who can't afford beef a year into President Donald Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from," U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs.

www.mississippifreepress.org/americans-wh...

Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars

Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars

Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars

Your Taxes, Their Wars: How AIPAC Lobbying Dictates US Foreign Policy And Funds Israel’s Endless Wars
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@gailwaldby.bsky.social #AIPACReceipts #EpicFury

Inside El Refugio and the Stewart ICE Detention Center Editor Karina Teichert visits El Refugio, a hospitality house for those whose loved ones are held at the ICE Stewart Detention Center.

Yi Hui Xu had his last court hearing in March 2025. He hasn’t heard anything since. He says he just wants to go home, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) won’t let him. Maybe because he called them the Gestapo to their faces, he jokes.

He looks exhausted.

The Disturbing History of ICE’s “Death Cards” The Vietnam-era practice is yet another example of ICE agents thrilling to the brutality they have been encouraged to cultivate.

Death cards made famous in a war that ended more than 50 years ago have made a reappearance. It shouldn’t be a surprise that a war of extreme brutality rooted in racism would have resonance with ICE.
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Trump in 2020: “We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it?

“And we’re not fixing our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, our schools? It’s crazy.”

Senator Tim Kaine to CNN: “I'm on two committees that give me access to a lot of classified information.

“There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States that warrants sending our sons and daughters into yet another war in the Middle East.”

BREAKING: 3 U.S. service members killed, 5 seriously injured during operation against Iran, Pentagon says

Speaker Mike Johnson is all in on war with Iran, because the Iranians are "evil." Also, he sees no need for Congress to be involved in any kind of war-making decision-making because we have a God-anointed leader, and this democracy nonsense is all tiresome.

Cost us three American lives for literally no reason

may the creator help you with your journey across to the afterlife

thinking of these families today who lost loved ones

And here we go.....

Who's connected to Paramount buying CNN via WB? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.

Who in the Gulf benefits from Iran's demise? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.

Who's connected to D J T and family? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates.

There are no coincidences.

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact.

But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

First oil tanker attacked in the Strait of Hormuz according to Oman An oil tanker was attacked off the coast of Musandam in the Strait of Hormuz. Four people were injured and all 20 crew members were evacuated, according to Oman's Maritime Security Centre.

Oman's port of Duqm was also attacked. im sure it was israel, to punish Oman for blowing the lid on the lie of the negotiations in all the worlds news the day before war www.euronews.com/business/202...

Best question!

The media made inflation the defining issue of the 2024 race. Biden brought it down, and it was continuing its downward trend right up until the launch of Trump's "liberation day" tariff war. It has been climbing steadily since. The media? Crickets. #EconSky

So far Trump has bombed Venezuela, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen – and attacked Iran to destroy its nuclear threat before going to war with Iran to stop it using the nuclear threat he said he'd destroyed. He's also threatened to annex Canada, Greenland and Cuba, and reduced help for Ukraine.

Ajay Rajadhyaksha at Barclays warns that investors are well accustomed to buying dips on Iran news and that might not be a great idea this time

“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

It is wild this article is from 2024 and people still are ignoring all of the evidence about the dangers of COVID reinfections.

#MaskUp #AvoidCovid #VaccinesHelp

Brief: Re-reading Casey Means — Conspirituality Casey Means was grilled by some Senators at her hearing for nomination of Surgeon General on Wednesday. Others lobbed softballs. Derek revisits the book that made her a star on the MAHA circuit, Good ...

The number of methodological and statistical errors in Casey Means's book, Good Energy, is embarrassing. Yet it's a bit part of the reason she may become Surgeon General.

I re-read the book in light of this week's nomination hearing.

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

Montana lawmakers react to strikes on Iran NBC Montana reached out to Montana's Congressional delegation for comment following joint United States and Israeli strikes on Iran early on Saturday morning.NB

Spineless

Montana lawmakers react to strikes on Iran
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Montana activist speaks out after closed-door Interior secretary meeting - NewsBreak A Sierra Club activist is speaking out after Montana leaders held a closed-door meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior in Butte today.

Montana activist speaks out after closed-door Interior secretary meeting
Source: KPAX
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