Tracy Honn

Religion aside: Protests inside churches are rare, and the past example many point to is late-80s Act Up protests.

But there's actually an earlier example: in the late 70s, demonstrators repeatedly protested Jimmy Carter's church over concerns about nuclear weapons. www.nytimes.com/1977/10/17/a...

Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America

Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America

Is there anyone in the Trump admin who isn’t a complete scumbag?

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”

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“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”

Title 52, United States Code, Section 20701 requires election officers to retain election records for 22 months following an election for a federal office. The statute’s retention requirement applies to “all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any … act requisite to voting in such election.” Violation of this statute is a misdemeanor.

Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I really love this. A crisis is also an opportunity, and we need to start building toward a better future, even as we struggle against today’s authoritarian threats.

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

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what is with these people and dogs?

Pam Sandwich!

Carrying water takes real money.

Trump’s minions troll victims and defenders, and laugh at justice.

And Bondi keeps smirking, along with Jordan. GOP is a party of one, and their behavior shows they do not answer to anyone else. Contempt.

Coverup

Wow........

Opinion | We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net on the need for ICE hearings. Get it all out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

Hello from the House Homeland Security hearing w/ the heads of ICE, CPB & USCIS. Interested to see to what extent House Republicans voice criticism — this hearing was called amid the outpouring of horror after the Pretti killing, w/ some Republicans breaking w/ Trump & calling for an investigation

YouTube video by More Perfect Union The Secret Reason Grocery Prices Won’t Come Down

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“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety. What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.”
– ICE List Founder

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The only other time an immigration judge is known to have terminated deportation proceedings brought under the incredibly unusual INA 237(a)(4)(C)(i) grounds was in the only published case on this which reversed that decision. Big win for Ozturk, big fight ahead

Trump's Vile Obama Video Follows the White House's Official White Nationalist Line DHS and other agencies have been spewing racist goals as government policy

Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy.

My latest in @theunpopulist.net

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI.

one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated.

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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

"No I meant that shit" -- and he won't lose a single supporter because that's what we are as a country now. Dumb and racist

The racist video posted by the President is perhaps the most egregiously racist thing shown in the White House since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. Here's an article from Denver's Black newspaper in 1915 calling for Americans to denounce such racist imagery.