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"Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push. Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training."

Found the ICE fail line.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Amerika glijdt nog verder af naar de middeleeuwen. 69 miljoen vrouwen die heel veel dingen moeten regelen om te kunnen stemmen. Niks SAFE act ...Handmaids tale wordt werkelijkheid.

You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.

Vrijdag de 13e en Carnaval begint.
Dat kan geen toeval zijn.

Goedemorgen Nederland

Palantir and the Heritage Foundation should be IRS-ed out of existence. And Musk's subsidies cut and his companies re-regulated down to the ground. Day 1's early morning agenda...next, the Trump administration's perp walks.

Organisaties voor kinderrechten waarschuwen Tweede Kamer: sluit asielkinderen niet op Door de Nederlandse invulling van de nieuwe Europese asielwetten dreigen kinderen in afwachting van hun asielprocedure opgesloten te worden in een detentiecentrum in Zeist. Dat is expliciet in strijd ...

Terwijl de gesloten jeugdzorg wordt afgebouwd omdat we wéten dat opsluiting leidt tot trauma en schade bij kinderen…

… zijn er plannen om asielkinderen wel in detentie te kunnen plaatsen.

Het is de volgende stap in het dehumaniseren van mensen in nood.
😢

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Na het #datalek zou #Odido klanten die getroffen zijn persoonlijk benaderen. Inmiddels mail gekregen, maar ze zijn allesbehalve duidelijk óf en wat er gelekt is. En het bedrijf biedt geen mogelijkheid om andere vragen te stellen naast een algemene Q&A-pagina…

Zegt de ene auteursrechtenschender tegen de andere…

This is the inevitable result of hiring without filter the worst and most pathetic men in the country and then giving them guns, military cosplay, total impunity, and a monthly cruelty quota they can't hope to meet unless they snatch up everyone they see.

The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter. DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary's use. The purchase would be double the cost of each of seven other commercial planes the department is also buying at the pair's direction to carry out deportations. In official documents, the luxury plane is earmarked for "high-profile deportations," the people said. Staff have jokingly started referring to it as the secretary's "big, beautiful jet," after the bill that provided the funding for it.

The DHS spokeswoman said the plane was used for both deportations and cabinet-level travel. She said it was cheaper than military aircraft for deportations and saved American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The department rarely uses military flights for deportations because they are instead using chartered planes.

the scuttlebutt about noem and lewandowski’s relationship is fun, but don’t miss that they used OBBA money to lease/buy an expensive private plane that said was for deportations but are instead using to jet around the country

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Inspiring message for Latinos and every POC.

#BadBunny

"This isn’t an invasion; it's a homecoming. I don't represent those who draw borders. I represent the people who live between them, who create between them and who keep culture alive. If all you hear is controversy, you've missed the rythm of the entire song."

#BadBunny

I finally got the chance to watch that Pam Bondi hearing. Never in my life have I see an attorney so deserving of having their bar license suspended. Her refusal to answer basic questions, her obnoxious, snotty fucking attitude, just everything about her existence lacks redemption. Christ almighty.

I'm still not over this one.

I keep thinking about how they murdered a disarmed Alex Pretti, shot him in the back 4 times, paused, and then shot 6 more times.

That some psycho shit.

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

This is so embarrassing.

The cartel drones Pam Bondi was sounding the alarm about during the hearing turned out to be… party balloons.

This administration is so incompetent.

Netanyahu to discuss potential Iran strikes with Trump as Washington and Tehran resume talks | CNN Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to discuss possible military options against Iran with US President Donald Trump during his visit to Washington this week as Israel prepares contingen...

"Netanyahu plans to present Trump with fresh intelligence on Iran’s military capabilities, one of the sources said."

Oh do f--- off. Does anyone trust anything Netanyahu presents as "evidence"?

According to the IOC honoring the victims is a violation,
working for the murderer is not

jim jordan in a hearing said: you have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the capitol and disrupt congress"

I honestly can't even....

BREAKING: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports that CBER director Vinay Prasad overruled career #FDA staff and unilaterally decided to refusal to accept #Moderna 's #flu vaccine submission. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.

One reason why public servants have for cause job protections is exactly to protect against this: an expert public servant with years of training fired from their job because they failed to satisfy the personal whims of egotists.

So dark — Tennessee-based @CoreCivic wants to be making even more money on ICE detentions.

“ICE was our first customer 43 years ago, and has been our largest customer for over a decade,” CoreCivic CEO Patrick Swindle said on the earnings call.

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"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

Judge Rules Trump Must Return Men Deported to El Salvador Mega-Prison The Trump administration has been dealt a major blow after fighting this case for nearly a year.

Judge Rules Trump Must Return Men Deported to El Salvador Mega-Prison newrepublic.com/post/206521/... via @newrepublic.com

GIFT LINK:

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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

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FEMA staff were “told not to use the word ‘ice’ in any public messaging about the winter storm because they didn’t want any connection to the increasingly unpopular immigration operation in Minnesota.”

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Noem “closely monitored how her national profile compared with other officials. Top of her list was Homan, with whom she has been in a battle for power.

“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him”