NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.
A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing traders to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in case tariffs were struck down. trib.al/be2l16x
The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.
20.02.2026 03:40 — 👍 19149 🔁 9009 💬 507 📌 392
"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting.
The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.
Read it here:
The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
17.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 8058 🔁 2836 💬 162 📌 82
SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."
17.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 284 🔁 123 💬 18 📌 39
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
📰 Drop Site News Monday Morning Brief | February 16, 2026 🇵🇸 Gaza Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza continue ahead of the upcoming meeting of the so-called “Board of Peace,” announced by President Trump, scheduled for Thursday (19th). Since dawn Sunday, at least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. Three Palestinian bodies were recovered from a new bombing in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza this morning. (🎥Video) Nasser Medical Complex said two people were injured by gunfire from Israeli forces outside their declared occupied areas in central Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said its troops killed six additional fighters inside an underground tunnel shaft in Rafah, following what it claimed was close-quarters combat last week. It said three trapped resistance fighters were confirmed killed in the earlier encounter and six more were killed during subsequent attacks inside the shaft on Sunday. The attacks come despite an agreed ceasefire.
📰 Drop Site News Monday Morning Brief | Feb. 16, 2026
🇵🇸 Gaza
Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza continue ahead of the upcoming meeting of the so-called “Board of Peace,” announced by Pres. Trump, scheduled for Thu. (19th).
Since dawn Sun., at least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli...
TRICKLE UP!!!💯💯🤬🤬🤬💯💯
tRumpstein's budget chief Russell Vought reportedly DIVERTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EARMARKED FOR USAID!!!
THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT ONCE PROVIDED GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AND ECONOMIC AID 😪
IN ORDER TO PAY FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL!!!
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🚨 GROUNDBREAKING NEWS! 🚨
The Virginia Supreme Court has decided our Redistricting Vote can move forward. Please mark your calendars ➡️ Early Voting will begin on Friday, March 6, and Election Day will be Tuesday, April 21. VOTE YES! #virginia #VoteYES #vote
New data offers further confirmation of a crisis in the U.S. student loan portfolio, in which too many borrowers are not repaying their student loans.
14.02.2026 11:17 — 👍 203 🔁 67 💬 35 📌 21Klein: People are afraid to come into clinics or hospitals because they’re afraid they’ll be snatched. So they’re staying home with acute conditions like appendicitis. They’re not going to their follow-up neonatal appointments. They’re allowing their jaundiced babies to go untreated.
13.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 4145 🔁 1669 💬 146 📌 60
MEMPHIS: “Memphis Safe Task Force” (U.S. marshal) caught KICKING A PUPPY 😳 as they arrested a guy for on a drug warrant
“He was harmless. There’s no reason he should’ve done that.”
@GovBillLee this is what we’re paying $1 Million a day for?🤔
Full: wreg.com/news/video-u...
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
28.01.2026 05:46 — 👍 25181 🔁 11779 💬 917 📌 1052
I guess he just got lucky.
27.01.2026 16:29 — 👍 20579 🔁 8548 💬 1507 📌 779
Venezuela's legislature advanced a bill on Thursday to loosen state control over the country's vast oil sector, the first major overhaul since parts of the industry were nationalized in 2007. n.pr/46aqlmO
23.01.2026 08:51 — 👍 73 🔁 18 💬 9 📌 3Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
21.01.2026 22:48 — 👍 3650 🔁 1871 💬 216 📌 731
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.
Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
22.01.2026 02:13 — 👍 25630 🔁 12108 💬 1420 📌 1213
16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over.
They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said.
Read the full story: https://propub.li/4qSnVkQ
Guy puts his greatest accomplishment in his bio: sabotaging a Democratic presidential candidate.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
"One of Trump's most consistent beliefs is that the world will end in nuclear annihilation. He mentions this often in older interviews. He fears it. I worry the way he copes with his fear of annihilation is by becoming the annihilator. The man who can end the world." www.youtube.com/watch?v=htdw...
06.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 437 🔁 176 💬 38 📌 15Not true
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
"Mar-a-Lago spa’s practice of dispatching workers to Epstein’s home has not been previously reported ... The Mar-a-Lago bosses told the message therapist Epstein preferred spa services in the privacy of his own home, and warned the employee Epstein sometimes exposed himself during massages."
31.12.2025 18:12 — 👍 1660 🔁 710 💬 109 📌 51
WSJ breaks significant news reporting that Mar-a-Lago’s spa *for years* regularly sent young staffers to Epstein’s home purportedly to give him massages, contorts its scoop to find a more flattering angle for Trump, and still gets an icy blast of a comment from Leavitt. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
31.12.2025 02:24 — 👍 2890 🔁 1032 💬 80 📌 60
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. has died at age 71. Whitlock played the corrupt state Sen. Clay Davis on "The Wire." He also appeared in several Spike Lee films, including "25th Hour" and "BlacKkKlansman." n.pr/44Qkbry
31.12.2025 09:06 — 👍 305 🔁 45 💬 13 📌 23
Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT)
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social Governor Newsom, you stupid prick, what the hell is the matter with you? Are you some kind of a fucking dunce?! Snap out of it. Snap out of it right this second, Governor. Cut the crap.
29.12.2025 06:10 — 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0This could be one of the worst crime of this admniatration after the enabling of Israels genocide.
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