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Hold on for one more day.

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This tracks

The National Geographic voice caps it off though ☠️

18.02.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2651    πŸ” 991    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 82
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Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025 The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

17.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1929    πŸ” 797    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 64
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 21409    πŸ” 7644    πŸ’¬ 293    πŸ“Œ 632

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

17.02.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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These are the oligarchs who seek to rule every aspect of our lives, and the current US regime is doing everything possible to facilitate that because it is owned by them.

16.02.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8741    πŸ” 3737    πŸ’¬ 1087    πŸ“Œ 449
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ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

14.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4232    πŸ” 2071    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 119

Good lord.

13.02.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 1
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees β€” it was for the staff.

13.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10879    πŸ” 5562    πŸ’¬ 878    πŸ“Œ 2409
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"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.

Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

13.02.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2933    πŸ” 1341    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 66

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

13.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5968    πŸ” 2681    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 54
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The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections β€” starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.

Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)

11.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 328    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8
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"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

12.02.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4723    πŸ” 1787    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 92

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

12.02.2026 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 15817    πŸ” 7772    πŸ’¬ 524    πŸ“Œ 298
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

11.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15299    πŸ” 6799    πŸ’¬ 1029    πŸ“Œ 520
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Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

11.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14721    πŸ” 3899    πŸ’¬ 485    πŸ“Œ 195

Bondi has spent this entire hearing crashing out, talking about the stock market, and trying to do anything but talk about Epstein.

The American people see through this bullshit.

Innocent people don’t act this way.

11.02.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9398    πŸ” 2251    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 61
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11.02.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9101    πŸ” 3838    πŸ’¬ 519    πŸ“Œ 231

Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.

11.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12990    πŸ” 4576    πŸ’¬ 1565    πŸ“Œ 427
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Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

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Rep. Stansbury: I viewed the unredacted Esptein files earlier today
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury: I viewed the unredacted Esptein files earlier today

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

10.02.2026 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2204    πŸ” 1116    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 121

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27148    πŸ” 9638    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 360

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.

She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

10.02.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 23104    πŸ” 5618    πŸ’¬ 762    πŸ“Œ 293
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It’s true. The emperor has no clothes

08.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

07.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3946    πŸ” 1710    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 65
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The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

07.02.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7337    πŸ” 3142    πŸ’¬ 506    πŸ“Œ 223

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

06.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 27720    πŸ” 8175    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 301

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

05.02.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4603    πŸ” 1807    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 37
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πŸ‘€Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy β€˜mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.

05.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1983    πŸ” 1209    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 134

I think this is an assault and these guys, too, ought to be arrested.

Federal agents have no right to go around pointing guns at people without cause.

03.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

02.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12709    πŸ” 4454    πŸ’¬ 650    πŸ“Œ 452

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