‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Appalling. In our name:
"‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks.
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?"

From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today:
zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi Owned Palantir Stock While Voting to Fund Homeland Security Palantir is doing huge business with the federal government as its share price soars.

Well, well, well,
www.notus.org/money/tom-su...

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Virginia judge blocks vote on Democrats' redistricting referendum A Democratic redraw could give the party as many as four new congressional seats.

LOSS: A county judge in Virginia granted a Republican request, blocking voters from deciding whether Democrats can redraw the state’s congressional map to counter mid-decade partisan GOP gerrymanders nationwide.

The ruling marks the latest development in Virginia’s redistricting battle.

From @nowthisimpact.bsky.social : “Trump is sending all pregnant minors to one detainment center in Texas… so they can’t get abortions.” #ForcedBirthNation

U.K. action helps expose DOJ coverup:

Feb 7: Bondi DOJ memo: "We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties."

Sept 16: Kash Patel testimony: "There is no credible information, none" that Epstein trafficked girls to other men.

U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025 The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

Wow. Per NBC News U.S. had almost *no* job growth in 2025.

After years of record-breaking jobs numbers under Biden that’s just…pathetic.

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

New VA rule could lower veterans’ disability rating if medication improves their symptoms Under a new rule, the Department of Veterans Affairs will lower veterans’ disability pay if medication improves their condition.

Trump screws veterans out of benefits…again!

taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.

🤣🤣🤣

America Just Lost Another of Its Great Institutions. This One Was a Filmmaker. Frederick Wiseman leaves behind a body of work as massive as all the institutions he chronicled.

More for Frederick Wiseman:
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
@rifewithkatie.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/the-a...
@timgrierson.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
@samadams.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2026...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

“There’s nothing prohibiting the military from buying coal if it wanted to. If it made economic sense or energy sense for them, they could do that.

"The fact that they’re not doing it suggests the cost is too high.”

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

How Trump Put Veteran Care in Crisis - The American Prospect Thousands of staff have left the health care side of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and those who remain are approaching burnout.

There hasn't been enough of a look back at agencies that have seen significant attrition during Trump's assault on the federal workforce. Today we do that with a profile on those who departed the VA health care system, many of them vets themselves. The system is struggling to survive.

Irate Stephen Colbert flouts lawyers' orders as Trump admin kills interview: 'FCC you' Stephen Colbert went off on Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr after he pressured CBS into scrapping the broadcast of an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, who is runnin...

Irate Stephen Colbert flouts lawyers' orders as Trump admin kills interview: 'FCC you'

www.rawstory.com/stephen-colb...

Nazi Scumbag running as a Democrat in CA-26 Kyle Langford was running for Governor of California as a Republican… when that didn’t cut it, he decided to run for Congress as a Democratic candidate in the 26th District (Ventura County). This same...

CA-26 is Ventura county.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

TikTokers Came to Springfield Looking for ICE. Then the Child Trafficking Rumors Began. This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet...

TikTokers Came to Springfield Looking for ICE. Then the Child Trafficking Rumors Began. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tiktoke...

Implementing this idea would quickly help fix the problem.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Ongoing, staggering betrayal of the West, of democracy, of America itself. We are now functionally aligned with Russia, and not Europe. And why? What in the world is in it for us?

All of this is making us less prosperous, less safe, and less free and our leaders should be fighting it far harder.

The thing is, I am not here now to argue against or advocate for Janet Mills, Susan Collins, Bernie Sanders, or Gaza. I am just saying Nazi tattoos are bad. This should be inarguable.

Thomas Massie Is No American Hero Rep. Thomas Massie has gained a following thanks to his pursuit of transparency with the Epstein files, but his track record reveals a strong alignment with Vladimir Putin.

america2.news/thomas-massi...

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

If the SAVE Act passes , passports will be needed by many to vote.

Irishman detained by Ice appeals to Taoiseach to raise case with Trump amid ‘torture’ Seamus Culleton from Kilkenny has been in Texas Ice facility for nearly five months despite holding valid work permit

An Irishman living in US for 20 years with a valid visa, no criminal record, married to a US citizen, kidnapped by ICE and sent to a concentration camp 2000 miles away for 5 months.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Koh: I wish that Kristi Noem had as much passion for homeland security as she has passion for Corey Lewandowski.

What Happened in El Paso? The MAGA clown show takes to the skies. In a dangerous way.

open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...