Rita Banerjee

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

When I check on the British politics page for @the-independent.com, my politics reporter colleagues are all Epstein all the time (as they should be). But in the U.S., the closest thing to accountability is... Bill Clinton testifying before Congress.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Mainstream outlets are now confirming that the FBI has called state election officials into an unusual midterm briefing.

Trump removed his post that included a racist video portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Simply deleting it is not enough a public apology is warranted.

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

As ICE uses Palantir tech to find neighborhoods to raid and Flock cameras track people across the US, how can you protect yourself?

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social + @josephcox.bsky.social take your questions in an AMA today at 12 pm ET.

Get your questions in now:
www.reddit.com/r/technology...

This is civic action.

Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.

130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

Seems 💯 accurate.

Where did these Epstein folks find the time to do anything given the volume of their emailing? It’s almost parodic how much they liked to chat about crimes in their dumb emails.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

Hello?

‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.

Sarah Matthews: "AG Pam Bondi, sending the letter to the Minnesota lawmakers telling them 'we'll remove ICE from your state, but only if you hand over your voter rolls'…just shows that there is zero Independence between the DOJ and the White House."

@EricMGarcia: What do you make of Kristi Noem calling Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist?

AOC: Kristi Noem’s actions in Minnesota and her leadership on ICE in general are grounds for impeachment.

Dashcam shows masked agents nabbing a US citizen driver at gunpoint.

These aren't arrests. They are outright kidnappings.

The woman was just driving down road.

The red SUV suddenly swerved in front of her.

3 masked federal agents jumped out and aimed their guns at her. shouting “Out of the car!”

Like a scene out of Fallujah, Iraq, but it's Minnesota.

Reps. Khanna and Massie ask Blanche for access to unredacted Epstein files Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Blanche today requesting a meeting to review the unredacted Epstein files.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

From Maine to Minnesota and Beyond, Tens of Thousands March to Demand 'ICE Out!' | Common Dreams "We want to show solidarity," said one employee at a worker-owned bakery in Los Angeles. "We've seen historically that strikes work. I hope the violence stops. I want ICE out of our communities."

From Maine to Minnesota and Beyond, Tens of Thousands March to Demand 'ICE Out!' www.commondreams.org/news/anti-ic...

Thank you Minnesota. 💙

Hit the streets with us TOMORROW to speak up for those who have been silenced. Let’s bring the noise to their doorstep and make sure we’re heard.

Tomorrow, stand in solidarity with Minnesota by finding a local protest near you through the ICE Out of Everywhere link in our bio.

Do we finally get to see his tax records?

Dumping people has always been a brutal law enforcement sport; doing it in this weather could be a lethal one. (David is responding to Jeffries deciding to take a stand against deporting citizens, which is not what they're doing; it's a catch, abuse, and release program when it's not lethal.)

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Way to go, Philadelphia! The city has introduced new legislation putting real limits on ICE activity. Federal agents will no longer be allowed to operate anonymously no masks, visible identification required, and arrests must be backed by warrants signed by a federal judge.

Ghislaine Maxwell Drops New Epstein Allegations—and They’re a Doozy Ghislaine Maxwell accused the Department of Justice of failing to investigate nearly 30 of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates.

Ghislaine Maxwell Drops New Epstein Allegations—and They’re a Doozy newrepublic.com/post/205806/... via @newrepublic.com

The deadline to release the Epstein files was 40 days ago.

Morning!!

Release the Epstein files!!

My heart is a crowded metro station and I’m doomed to fall in love whether I aim to or not, it finds me spilling from drowsy train doorways into uncaring tube light white. Love hides where you don’t expect, kicked into corners with fallen change by the clamour of callous feet. It finds those who’re waiting quiet to find their way home again.

Love is a train ride to a place you can rest

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Based on a fragment of conversation while taking the metro home the other day. Unfortunately, I’m a poet, so I fall in love regardless of whether or not I intend to.

#poetry

Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced Kevin Couch, appointed the Kennedy Center’s senior vice president of artistic programming, resigned less than two weeks after his hire was announced.

Breaking news: Kevin Couch, who was appointed the Kennedy Center’s new senior vice president of artistic programming earlier this month, resigned less than two weeks after his hire was announced.

Ecuador says ICE agent was blocked from entering its Minneapolis consulate The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said it had issued “a note of protest” to the U.S. embassy in Ecuador.

Ecuador is filing a diplomatic complaint after an ICE agent attempted to enter its consulate in Minneapolis. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immi...

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan