Traci

Check out my list on Amazon

Hi folks! Some of our friends in the Twin Cities have come back with another request! It's a heartbreaking one but the need is real, so if anyone can help get them more masks & filters for those on the streets to deal with being gassed constantly, that would be amazing!

The Trump administration is deporting a Christian minister back to the country that tortured him, which seems like the kind of thing the Religious Right would care about if a dirty Democrat were doing it.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

If Republicans want to shut down the government to avoid requiring judicial warrants before DHS smashes down your door, that’s their choice.

The American people won’t agree with it.

How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.

Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Welcome to Nats Journal Your new home for Washington Nationals news, analysis, podcasts and community

Pitchers and catchers report for spring training tomorrow. And so do I.

Welcome to Nats Journal. Hope you'll join me on this new endeavor, and hope you'll help spread the word!
natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to...

Stunning stat from Mark: There’s now only 1 professional media outlet covering the Nats day to day: MLB.com, the league-owned outlet.

Support Mark’s newsletter if you can.

More accountability than anyone in Washington or in the news media

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

Don’t Be a Panican. We’re Winning — and We’re Not Slowing Down. Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, this Administration is smashing through the chaos and destruction left by Democrats and unleashing the most aggressive pursuit of the America First agenda in history. While the Fake News and Radical Left collude to distract, depress, and divide, they’re simply lying to mask the undeniable truth: America is safer, stronger, richer, and more secure than at any point in decades. Don’t take the bait. New victories pour in daily as President Trump delivers on his promises and rebuilds the foundation for long-term success in the greatest nation on Earth. Here are a few things to celebrate from just the past few days:

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club!

You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Screenshot of tweet by VAPLAN about the 21-19 party-line vote today in the VA State Senate on SB322

"Senate passes @adamebbin.bsky.social bill to have Virginia join the National Popular Vote Compact, after @ssurovell.bsky.social refers to the Electoral College as an idea having "arrogant, aristocratic and racist origins."" - @vaplan.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Everything you need to know about Washington Nationals Spring Training 2026, including key dates, schedules, roster updates, storylines, and what to watch.

Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and…

The Washington Post layoffs were a bigger bloodbath than you thought. New figures reveal 44 to 47.5 percent of the paper's newsroom was eliminated during last week's cuts.

A World Without Rules The consequences of Trump’s assault on international law.

“U.S. officials have discarded the idea of legal constraints altogether,” write ‪@oonahathaway.bsky.social and @scottjshapiro.bsky.social. “There is no real argument to defend the government’s behavior. No pretense. No attempt to persuade.”

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

it's BASEBALL time

Great Birnam Wood coming for King Donald

🚨🚨IT IS BASEBALL SEASON

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

downright scary

I see opinions mixed ewww

That Dunkin ad was frightful

Who thought that was a good idea?

‘Take the vaccine, please,’ Dr Oz urges amid rising measles cases in US Health official’s endorsement comes as South Carolina faces hundreds of cases and US risks losing elimination status

The Trump Administration provides us with yet another example of how NOT to conduct policy.

As HHS under RFK Jr. continues to undercut two centuries of vaccine science, the head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service, Mehmet Oz, is pleading with people to get vaccinated.

Clown show.