A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes. It led to confusion in Texas | Houston Public Media DHS rolled out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

“Jennings added that to get quick access to the Social Security data” for inclusion in the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge system, “USCIS partnered with DOGE…DOGE has since been accused of misusing Social Security data…Jennings did not respond to questions from ProPublica and the Tribune.” 2/16/26 … 1/

I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.

"...what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China."

Married and own a home by 30 years old in the US

1960: 52%
1970: 48%
1980: 45%
1990: 43%
2000: 35%
2010: 25%
2025: 12%

I’m sure everything is fine.

Kudos to the Metro Louisville teens who organized and led an anti-ICE protest this afternoon on the Big Four Bridge!

“I’ve never seen somebody send an email like they were wearing a wire”

☠️

Abortion rights and voting rights: two things that Republicans think are a Constitutional right for men but not for women.

Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. The latest disclosure from the Trump administration seemed to confirm...

7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

By @richardawebster.bsky.social

Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?

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.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

These Companies Have The Biggest ICE Contracts Demonstrations have demanded an end to federal funding for ICE, after two protesters were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

"These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire."

This story has a bit of details re: the types of services these companies provide to ICE (No paywall) www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

The fleecing of America continues. "Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

Some people need to hear this from a white man.

Five months. Locked in the same room for 4 1/2.

Over 70,000 humans in immigrant detention right now, thousands of them kids.

youtu.be/qE78V6DptBY?...

“They’re coming to get us!”

*shots fired, object falls*

“Thank goodness we defeated our nation’s worst enemy, Timmy’s 5th birthday.”

😕 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Fixed it

The Best Source of ICE Detention Data Just Got Better: "Detention Reports" Now Includes Map, New Graph, & Facility Contracts DetentionReports.com now features an interactive national map of all 237 ICE detention facilities, comparative scatter plots showing facility populations and length of stay, and a contracts archive.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

bsky.app/profile/mary...

I think storming the concentration camps and freeing everyone is an increasingly likely scenario

Maxwell's lawyer publicly offering a quid pro quo: She'll clear Trump of wrongdoing related to Epstein if granted clemency by Trump.

This suggests that if Maxwell doesn't "clear" Trump, things will come out that will further implicate him. Otherwise, the offer makes no sense.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

There seems to be a not insignificant number of people in the Epstein Files who hold prominent positions at colleges.

Yet, there’s no uproar over what these elites are teaching students. Or how many of them overlook sexual assault on their own campuses.

How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel One woman who helps track suspects down says the little-discussed problem is widespread; "the exact same thing" as the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

The newspapers and history books of the time depicted Israel as a refuge for organized crime. Because it was and still is. It's also a refuge for pedophiles:
www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jew...

www.timesofisrael.com/diaspora-ped...

If the Republicans want to save the integrity of elections, how about outlawing things like Musk handing out US$ 1 million checks to voters?

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.

In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.

This is how he did it (published 2021):

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

A dire lack of self-respect on the part of an entire nation is keeping Elonia and its ilk alive.

Statistics for Christian Nationalists to Ponder

NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:

Over 38,000 times.

NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:

Never. Not even once.