T. Lacy

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

In the UK, there's this drive to restrict children's access to social media, whereas it's the Boomers who've become radicalised by it.

Potomac Sewage Spill Becomes Ecological Disaster and Political Fight

Wow. Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw human waste have spilled into the Potomac River, threatening the health of the river and the safety of those who use it.

It appears to be the largest discharge of its kind in US history. The smell must be something. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/c...

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia.

Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.

ChatGPT cuts in action

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.

Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

We urge all voters to vote NO on the question about the federal voucher program.

#publicfundspublicschools
#novouchers

Vote NO on Vouchers Taking action for the public good

A stealth referendum question about federal school vouchers may be on your March 17th ballot! We urge all voters to vote NO. Here’s more info, including if your county (or, in a few cases, your township) will have the ballot question: www.ilfps.org/votenovouchers 🧵

MEDIA RELEASE: Coalition Urges Governor Pritzker To Say No To Federal School Vouchers Taking action for the public good

FYI. Thank you as always to Cassie Cresswell and IFPS for staying on top of these kinds of things.

www.ilfps.org/coalition_ur...

The bloodbath at the Post is the worst day in US media in quite some time. Hundreds of talented journalists laid off because a billionaire wants to curry favor with an authoritarian president.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
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1. Philosophy 101: Logic
2. History of American Environment
3. Econ 101 I Macroeconomics
4. Organic Chem
5. History of American Religion

Above all, I wish I had taken more philosophy.

he always had trouble with anti-virus measures

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

Suburban teen brothers on ICE watch in Minneapolis: 'This is nothing like Chicago. This is so much worse.’

After Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by federal immigration agents, Ben and Sam Luhmann, 17 and 16 years old, traveled to Minneapolis, where they continue to observe and record U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents' aggressive tactics.

Everyone: go vote for Florence Scala, the woman who led a valiant battle against Richard J. Daley’s bulldozers.

Done!

but don't call them Nazis

I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

A former Illinois deputy is sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black women who dialed 911 asking for help.

Sonya Massey will not be forgotten.

Nothing we ever say or do will bring her back, but today’s decision is a step toward change and justice.

May her memory be a blessing and may it continue to fuel our work to build a system that protects all its citizens.

Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving Border Patrol employee Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, was charged with drunk driving in St. Paul.

Hm. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

From everything I’m hearing and reading, nothing in the ground in the Twin Cities has meaningfully changed.

Flagg made 20 buckets last night. No one else in the league has done that all year. In the last decade there’s only been a couple of dozen games where an individual got 20 buckets.

(Wilt Chamberlin did it 226 times — as many as the next dozen guys on the career list… COMBINED.)

Jamie's book. Several other books try to tackle the GBs as related to Gen Ed (including mine). I'm guessing that on this specific topic, to get the breadth you may want, you'll have to dive into the academic journals for piece-by-piece looks.

U.S. Reaches Trade Deal with Pedotopia

Not sure how @theonion.com stays on top of breaking news like this but the print edition just showed up at my house with this:

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

FYI: My Facebook account was suspended, again*, for some vague community standards violation. I had posted about Don Lemon. Maybe that tripped a wire? Or maybe it's my constant complaining about ICE and CBP? Or maybe it was calling Rahm Emanuel garbage? You pick.

*2nd time in the past 10 months.