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Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

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A win! A federal judge has instructed the Interior Department to restore signage and video exhibits at George Washington’s former Philadelphia residence that explain his ownership of enslaved people.

Civil rights groups ask court to protect Fulton County voter data seized by FBI The federal government should be expressly banned from copying or sharing the seized records, the groups said.

🚨BREAKING: A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on Fulton County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Trump recently suggested that he is getting ready to issue a new anti-voting executive order. Last time he issued one, we sued and won. If he does it again, we will sue and win. Trump knows this. It is why he and his allies hate and attack me.

I will never back down or stop fighting for democracy.

Monday 2/16: Skokie canvass, 12–3 PM at Onöndowa’ga Park. Blind Faith fundraiser. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Tuesday 2/17: Skokie canvass, 12–3 PM launching at Donald W Lyon Park. Park Ridge canvass, 1–4 PM at Hinkley Field Park. Volunteer Recruitment Bingo, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank led by Abby, 6–8 PM. Wednesday 2/18: New Trier canvass with Andre, 12–3 PM at Roemer Park. Argyle canvass with Paul, 10 AM–1 PM at Carmen Park. Business canvassing in Edgewater, 2–4 PM at Cochran Park. Office clean up, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Thursday 2/19: Edgewater Glen canvassing, 1–4 PM at Senn Park. Volunteer Recruitment Bingo, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Friday 2/20: Skokie canvass, 1–4 PM launching at Donald W Lyon Park. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Knitting at Nabala, 7 PM in Uptown. Saturday 2/21: Evanston canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Ridgeville Park District, 908 Seward St, Evanston. Morton Grove canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM launching from National Park. Buffalo Grove Day of Action, 12–3 PM at Mill Creek Park. Buena Park canvass, 1–4 PM at Joseph Gil Park. Virtual phone bank led by Shayna, 2–4 PM. Iftar party, 5–6:30 PM at Rohingya Center. Sunday 2/22: Evanston canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Ridgeville Park District, 908 Seward St, Evanston. Edgewater canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Senn Park Playground, 1500–1520 W Elmdale Ave. Knitting and Crochet Circle and Mutual Aid Day, 11 AM–2 PM at HQ. Postering shift, 2–4 PM in Rogers Park at HQ. Eli Tea Bar knitting circle for mutual aid, 4–5 PM in Andersonville. Virtual phone bank, 4–6 PM.

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YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office Welcome The Stranger

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

“She’s not from here.”

Seriously. If they weren’t so “elevated to a higher plane of consciousness by not being uniparty sheeple,” we would not be in this situation.

I really hope that when midterm elections roll around everyone that can vote DOES VOTE. No more of the stupid excuse there is nobody that I like. I don't wana vote.
Everybody pull your adult pants up and figure out how not voting already screwed everything up once. So let's not make it twice.

Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event.

They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spent 100s of thousands of dollars and expended thousands of man-hours of labor all to send just NINE people in chains on a Boeing 737 from Minnesota to Texas today 👀

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

i really think that the worst thing about this era of politics is that we're so far from even basic liberalism that i have to actively argue FOR liberal ideals before i can even begin to touch on socialism

If Weird Al did a parody of your song, congrats on your success.

If Weird Al does a original song in your style, congratulations, you are a badass musician who won the approval and admiration of a musician's musician.

If you can't find a Frog and Toad quote to meet your mood, you are probably a horrible person.

An Instagram called frogandtoadstories. It posted an illustration from f&t with the text: "I have made a decision," said Toad. "Today I will not solve any problems."

This is not a genuine Frog and Toad quote.

Oh man, they know they’ve lost. Going full J.D. Vance.

I work at an indie bookstore and there’s a guy who orders hundreds dollars of books at a time because he’s worried that books will be abolished and he doesn’t want knowledge to be lost.

Had to pull over in WeHo last week to snap this pic. Dumbest shit imaginable. Nobody was buying bagels.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Maybe a better way to look at this is ‘people preparedness’. One way for people to be prepared (for the next pandemic) is to be healthier, eat better and exercise, so you’re less likely to get sick or have a poor outcome,” Powers added.

Right. This will protect you from a novel pathogen.🤦‍♂️

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

Trump: ‘There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!’ "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," wrote Trump, who is not a lawyer.

Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.

Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

Two cases and the grease that breaks democracy The obvious lesson many are drawing is that ordinary citizens are more reliable protectors of democracy than judges in black robes.

The problem for democracy is that it will not survive three more years of such a system. We cannot hold free and fair elections if judges blindly accept the word of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel’s minions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-...

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

If you like making love to music, put on a live album. That way, you get applause every two to four minutes.

swear to god I’m gonna mute the phrase Gavin Newsom if this doesn’t die down soon