Kathy Fredrick

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Majority (71%) of the public says Trump is not focusing enough on domestic affairs, such as addressing the cost of living in the U.S.
Majority (55%) also say Trump is focusing “too much” on foreign affairs, such as actions in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Gaza.
www.kff.org/public-opini...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled. https://cnn.it/4kHhwqR

WHEN TRANS YOUTH ARE UNDER ATTACK WHAT DO WE DO?

ACT UP FIGHT BACK!

Susan Collins says she's in favor of the SAVE Act, which is the Trump push to overhaul how elections are administered. wgme.com/news/local/c...

The bill would impose voter ID requirements... which Mainers literally just rejected in a referendum in November. boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

The FCC has given the gift of incredibly good free PR to the Talarico campaign

"Two-month-old baby ‘choking on his own vomit’ while detained in Dilley ‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility."

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

FOX: Ds are winning congressional vote preference by 6. We've got a long way to go, but obviously that number would not be good.


VANCE: That would not be good. I will say, as much as we love Fox News, we always think Fox has the worst polling

FOX: I could show you other ones that are very similar

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

How much money do you think the Feds have expended on trying to make an example out of this man?

Vance opens his mouth, guaranteed a lie comes out.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Gateway Work Still Paused as Hardhats and Pols Beg Trump Admin for Full Funds The courts forced the feds to cough up some of the $200 million owed to the tunnel megaproject, but officials say work can’t restart without more.

“These people supported you,” Hochul said. “How can you throw them out of their jobs, how can you tell them to go home?”

Hardhats join NY's governor in her latest jab at President Trump over stalled work on $16B Hudson River rail tunnel

NEW story in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/17/g...

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

If your legislation to stop "voter fraud" prevents 21 million legitimate voters from voting, your legislation itself is voter fraud.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Unprecedented corruption doesn’t even begin to describe what man Bag Man Homan, Miller, and Noem are doing here….

The termination of removal proceedings against Mohsen comes right after a judge did the same for Rümeysa Öztürk — the Tufts student the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin kidnapped for an op-ed asking her school to heed a student vote to acknowledge the genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.

"Kennedy, in a bestselling 2021 book, explicitly rejected germ theory...in favor of 'miasma theory,' which pediatrician and vaccine inventor Paul Offit describes as 'a long-abandoned medical theory that holds that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors.'" 👇

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

NEW: A federal immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against our client Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained for his protected speech.

This is good news, but the government can still appeal or refile their case. We won’t stop fighting until he is free for good.

Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"

This repulsive fool is in Congress because Trump gave him an early endorsement in the primary. Trump went out of his way to elevate Fine. The leader of the Republican Party wanted this scumbag in Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis at least $203 million, city officials say Minneapolis officials have released an estimated tab on what Operation Metro Surge has cost city residents so far.

So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.

www.fox9.com/news/operati...

He’s getting smaller, and more ridiculous.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

For the last few weeks, I have taken to beginning my days by leaving a voicemail for Fetterman’s office, calling out this utter bullshit he spews on right wing media and reminding him which party’s voters are responsible for him holding this esteemed position.

I cannot wait to vote him out.

It’s no accident that the censored interview is with Talarico, whose brand of politically progressive Christianity offers an alternative to the wealth-driven Christian Nationalism that put Trump back into office

Selective enforcement of rules and laws against opponents of the government is a common feature of authoritarian regimes

This should simply encourage more people to criticize ICE on social media.