On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Monday 2/16: Skokie canvass, 12–3 PM at Onöndowa’ga Park. Blind Faith fundraiser. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Tuesday 2/17: Skokie canvass, 12–3 PM launching at Donald W Lyon Park. Park Ridge canvass, 1–4 PM at Hinkley Field Park. Volunteer Recruitment Bingo, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank led by Abby, 6–8 PM. Wednesday 2/18: New Trier canvass with Andre, 12–3 PM at Roemer Park. Argyle canvass with Paul, 10 AM–1 PM at Carmen Park. Business canvassing in Edgewater, 2–4 PM at Cochran Park. Office clean up, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Thursday 2/19: Edgewater Glen canvassing, 1–4 PM at Senn Park. Volunteer Recruitment Bingo, 5–7 PM at HQ. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Friday 2/20: Skokie canvass, 1–4 PM launching at Donald W Lyon Park. Virtual phone bank, 6–8 PM. Knitting at Nabala, 7 PM in Uptown. Saturday 2/21: Evanston canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Ridgeville Park District, 908 Seward St, Evanston. Morton Grove canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM launching from National Park. Buffalo Grove Day of Action, 12–3 PM at Mill Creek Park. Buena Park canvass, 1–4 PM at Joseph Gil Park. Virtual phone bank led by Shayna, 2–4 PM. Iftar party, 5–6:30 PM at Rohingya Center. Sunday 2/22: Evanston canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Ridgeville Park District, 908 Seward St, Evanston. Edgewater canvassing, 10 AM–1 PM and 1–4 PM at Senn Park Playground, 1500–1520 W Elmdale Ave. Knitting and Crochet Circle and Mutual Aid Day, 11 AM–2 PM at HQ. Postering shift, 2–4 PM in Rogers Park at HQ. Eli Tea Bar knitting circle for mutual aid, 4–5 PM in Andersonville. Virtual phone bank, 4–6 PM.

30 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!
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I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

The waiter: And what would you like today young man?

My two year old:

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

Stripping the EPA’s authority to fight climate change is a dereliction of duty. More profits for fossil fuel executives and wealthy shareholders at the expense of our planet and future.

The climate emergency is here.
tinyurl.com/mryaaj9v

Good example of why I respectfully disagree with those who think bodycams are useless or actively harmful. In the last 13 months we have repeatedly seen bodycam footage refute ICE/CBP officers' flagrant lies, sometimes even exonerating protesters falsely accused of assault. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Computer, Enhance People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.

Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.

www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...

Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.

"Epstein had pitched [art school dept chair] on a potential art exhibit titled 'Statutory' that would showcase underage models dressed to look older than they were."

He was really just upfront with it.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

This has, no joke, been part of my nightly prayers since I was old enough to understand what HIV is

Artificial intelligence is all around us. Just open your phone and you can use natural language processing (reading) to parse unstructured data (texts from people I have a crush on) into semantic representations (mental list of who I think is most mad at me)

adhd is so silly sometimes, like why am I procrastinating playing a video game I want to play lol

Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’ In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop.

Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government.

This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

Was QAnon right about the pedophilic elite??

(um no we actually already knew that the ultra rich are addicted to power and abuse. that’s common sense i fear.)

Black History Month matters, especially now.

At the same time that politicians try to sanitize history, gut the Voting Rights Act, and roll back civil rights protections, we’re reminded that progress has always been contested.

This is a screenshot of an online newspaper headline from NC Newsline. It reads: Trump doubles down on calling for the feds to take over elections despite US Constitution"

See? You can just accurately describe what he's doing in the headline. It's possible! No need for sly wording. From @ncnewsline.com
ncnewsline.com/2026/02/03/r...

I promise I didn’t write this myself.... Hugest of thanks to Brian @escapistmag.bsky.social, for writing about It Takes A Village with so much kindness and appreciation. Amazed by how much it resonates with folk! Intrigued? All episodes here: www.YouTube.com/@samantha_be...

BREAKING: rotesters have taped 'Crime Scene' tape to the Buckingham Palace railings during a demonstration.

The Republic group is demanding that all connections to Epstein be revealed, as well as details about Prince Andrew's alleged encounters with trafficked girls.

California AG Bonta Files Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against Rady Children’s Hospital for Dropping Trans Youth GAC “If my child had a different diagnosis, they would likely have a surgery date tomorrow. But because of who my child is, the door was closed.”

For the first time ever, a state AG has filed a lawsuit to force a hospital back into providing gender affirming care for transgender youth.

Our writer, S. Baum, dove deep and spoke with families that helped make this happen.

You're going to want to read our latest, incredible story.

Bills are coming up and I'm still significantly short, been selling plasma and I still don't have enough; opening emergency comms. If you can't commission me, reposting helps as well.

Full renders discounted to $75
Transparent Renders discounted to $25
Icons discounted to $10

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Screenshot showing that r/Conservative, noted bastion of free/awful speech, is now ranked just one above us in weekly visitor numbers.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

I find it kinda astonishing all these people who have spent so many years in public life, many of them media/ PR pros, didn’t think to get ahead of these stories. Did they really think it’d never come out? Bowles & Weiss never thought to mention it to ‘Free Press’ subscribers?

The Epstein shit keeps getting worse and worse. My god.

BLACK GAME DEVELOPERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND CREATIVES AT LARGE I NEED YOU TO BE LOUD THIS MONTH*. I NEED YOU TO SHARE YOUR WORK LIKE YOU WILL DIE OTHERWISE, DO NOT BE PRECIOUS ABOUT ABOUT IT

*This message also applies to every other month of the year, but the extra attention should be leveraged

Brett Ratner:

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

Uhhh in other news a federal judge just took the death penalty off the table for Luigi Mangione. This is huge.

Being autistic and trying to psych myself up for literally anything I need to do like: