How Trump will fill his immigrant gulags DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.

The contours of a dual state are coming into view, one in which anyone targeted by Trump’s deportation and detention program has no rights that can save them.

Read @pemalevy.bsky.social on how DHS is rewriting its detention rules to ignore the law—and entrap millions.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A big thank you to Anthropic!

After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.

Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration

“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote.

“[The government] knows this.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

NEW! From the same clueless Republicans who brought you doubling premiums: $31,000 deductibles.

Only an out of touch billionaire would think that counts as affordable.

Trump's war on national park signs is even dumber than you think Inside the administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

Inside the administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

Inside the Trump administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

Iran Is Far From Building ICBMs, Experts Say, Despite Trump’s Warning of a Looming Threat The U.S. is demanding Tehran curb its missile ambitions, but Iran denies seeking an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Iran would need to master significant technological challenges before it could field an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the U.S. homeland, according to U.S. intelligence estimates.

Bible-infused public school curriculum in Texas to undergo corrections for thousands of errors

Optional textbook contains factual and punctuation errors, and images with licensing or copyright issues

Labor secretary’s spouse not charged but remains banned from agency The agency’s inspector general recommended that the Labor Department ban Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband from the building’s Washington headquarters, after three female political staffers comp...

"Three Labor Department staffers, all political appointees, accused the husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer of touching them inappropriately...

"He remains banned from department headquarters amid an inquiry by the department’s inspector general

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

oh dear

Kash Patel was using the FBI's private jet to visit his mom...

"The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm..."

www.ms.now/news/senator...

Stop trying to make like there's some kind of grand strategy or secret plan at work. It's not that. Truly. It's the simplest thing you can possibly imagine.

Don't think "four-dimensional chess"

Think "toddler + cheerios"

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

Work alongside New York City's Strongest as we get through this historic storm. 
 
Emergency shoveling pay is now $30/hour. Walk into any sanitation garage to sign up TODAY BY 8PM or TOMORROW from 9AM to 8PM.
  
Let's get NYC back on its feet— together.

bit.ly/NYCShovel

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

I live 10 minutes from this location, across the PA border. Washington County folks and many from surrounding areas are fighting this. Washington County officials doubled down on their “support for 🧊 “ Many of us are hoping and praying that this suit is successful.

Maryland -- suit filed today

oag.maryland.gov/News/Pages/A...

Trump illegally jacked up costs on the American people. The Payback Act says: run us our money back.

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

‘I Voted for Trump and Now I’m Going Bankrupt’: Farmers Say the $12B Aid Is ‘A Slap in the Face’ While Corporations Pocket Billions US President Donald Trump has unveiled a long-awaited US$12 billion farm aid package aimed at supporting farmers affected by the US-China trade tensions. He credited his tariff policies for making the...

Here's another perspective

thedailysight.com/2026/01/25/i...

Trump administration announces $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers The payments are targeted at row crop farmers in the wake of this year's tariff hikes.

Classic republican solution

Welfare

And don't let them tell you otherwise.

Welfare ranchers are the biggest single recipients of social programs in the US.
Trump's solution to his own idiocy, create an entirely new welfare class; farmers.

www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...

Lends legitimacy to the term they should be using in court.

UNQUALIFIED IMMUNITY

Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia's Independence Mall after Trump administration ordered its removal Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Tru...

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Very powerful thread.

West Virginia
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: 30+ signs flagged related to John Brown and abolitionist history.

Wyoming
- Grand Teton National Park: Sign explaining Gustavus Cheyney Doane’s participation in a Native American massacre.

Thank you to Democracy Forward for compiling and documenting the growing list of National Park sites and public exhibits where the Trump administration has attempted to remove, alter, or flag historical and scientific materials.

Supreme Court could greenlight geofence warrants A new case may legalize suspicionless mass surveillance of journalists and whistleblowers

A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.

Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.

A Supreme Court case could make it worse.

Here’s how.

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Gordie Howe bridge opponent donated $1 million to MAGA fund days before Donald Trump’s threat to prevent its opening Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge, gave $1 million to a PAC that supports Trump days before Trump threatened to block the opening of the new, competing span

Gordie Howe bridge opponent donated $1 million to MAGA fund days before Donald Trump’s threat to prevent its opening

Green graphic with white and blue text: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees. After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.' – Judge Richard Leon, Blocking the Trump administration's retaliatory attempt to downgrade Senator Mark Kelly's military retirement rank and pay"

The First Amendment extends to all of us, no matter what the Trump administration says.