if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.

Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. 

That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!

And New Mexico did the same last week:

here it is if you’d like to watch it! it’s so joyful

if you did not watch Alysa Liu’s free skate earlier today I implore you to watch it tonight it I promise it will make you happier

This really is a great picture:

Weird that they didn't just send him home so that he could regroup and try again 4 years later

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

The possibility that pre-Elon Twitter was limiting the reach of conservative tweets was the greatest story in the history of journalism, while a vast network of sex trafficking pedophiles that included billionaires, celebrities and two presidents is just a big yawn.

Clown franchise

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

AIPAC is toxic with Dems now, so they appear to be disguising themselves as they attack progressives in Democratic primaries.

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

Viral Videos Helped Mamdani Win. Can They Help Him Govern?

Mamdani is absolutely our first influencer mayor and that's a good thing!! It's obvs not the *only* part of the job, but we'd be better off if more politicians think of their role as "public communicator trying to build community & move people toward action." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/n...

Me: "Why does Scott Jennings have such an annoying face?"
@mizzwelch.bsky.social: "He should be fired... he is such a disgrace to human beings, intelligent conversations, to the truth."

Watch Zeteo's full podcast 'We're Not Kidding':
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Mind blowing few paragraphs

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“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-...

"Two-month-old baby ‘choking on his own vomit’ while detained in Dilley ‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility."

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

From the @status.news on Anderson Cooper's decision not to renew his contract at CBS.

"Weiss not only failed to persuade Cooper to grow his footprint at the network, but ultimately helped chase him away from it entirely."

MLB doesn’t even have the labor protection excuse tennis had, because while automated line calling in tennis eliminated every single linesperson job, in baseball no one is suggesting ever getting rid of the other three umps on the field

Similar to what happened in tennis, they for some reason can’t just do the obvious thing to get all the calls right, and instead have to create a convoluted game show out of it for a few years before inevitably moving to robot home plate umps

it really seems like “entered politics during the Trump era” is a dividing line among Dems, it’s hard to write all of this off as a game when one of your very first political experiences was a literal mob invading the capitol at the behest of some of your colleagues

I was initially not the biggest fan of Spanberger but it turns out she has the heart of a world class hater and that is 100% the kind of energy we need right now

This is how you live a life

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand

it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp: "You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose. @andrewrsorkin: "What's your lower purpose?" Karp: "I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us."

Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive

Good. Hope it’s down forever

Bluesky user says: This is what I am talking about, no one is pushing Newsom besides Newsom. The issue isnt that Ds are scared of a radical candidate, it is normies are scared of the left throwing a tantrum if the candidate isn’t a more radical leftist one Quote tweeting: ‪A.R. Moxon‬ ‪@juliusgoat.bsky.social‬ If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.

This is—ironically enough—what I am talking about.

RW voters who demand their bigotries be accommodated are never "radical" or "throwing a tantrum." No—those are "swing voters" to pursue, even as they fail to show up time & again. The goal here isn't a bigger tent, but to prevent movement leftward.