I slapped ICE and Ouiser Boudreaux🥄😷

I always thought it was plausible. People told me I was catastrophizing.

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

The Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) program was created so the Navy could quickly respond in the wake of international natural disasters, pandemics, etc.

There were 26 designated regions—until last year when they added #27: TITUS (Territorial Integrity of the United States)

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

In case you were wondering how long it’s been since I meaningfully exercised at home, Pippa is 7 and she’s absolutely terrified.🐩

Hubs and I discussed this very question today.

Look, I can’t just obey laws every time I walk into a bank, be reasonable.

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

Not a chance.

Everyone, regardless of where you stand or what you believe in, is welcome — so come on out and join the United Free Republic of E Street Nation for an American spring of Rock 'n' Rebellion! I’ll see you there!

We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid He's incapable of learning lessons and actively resists it.

Not only did Trump fail to learn any lessons from covid, but his public health policies have somehow gotten far more dangerous and destructive in Trump 2.0. God forbid he and RFK Jr have to handle a global pandemic. We'll be pining for the days of Dr. Birx.

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Okay, THIS is the critique I was waiting for.

I have been really fascinated by the way people talked about this movie, and this author went for the jugular. It’s not just that the director made a weird horny indulgent movie, it’s that she gutted the politics.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

#BathrobeLady

What's really special about Bari is that everyone else involved in the oligarchical catch-and-kill of trusted journalistic institutions is fully aware of what they're doing but she genuinely thinks she's been brought in to save it

ICE purchases facility in Romulus, agency spokesperson says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased a facility in Romulus, Michigan, a spokesperson for the federal agency told CBS News Detroit on Sunday afternoon.

Romulus, Michigan

"Romulus Mayor Robert A. McCraight said he was telling lawmakers 'at all levels' that a detention center is not permitted and will be opposed by the city..."

www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

Same.

postmortem charitable donations are a dead giveaway

I didn’t know you were SCA. My SIL is still very active after many decades.

Mark Zuckerberg keeps coming up with these entirely unworkable ideas because he fundamentally has no idea what it's like to have a genuine relationship with another human

Tom Pritzker, Citing Epstein Connection, Steps Down as Hyatt’s Executive Chairman

Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Shoulder pads were my fave, loved the look they gave me.

Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centers ICE detention centers planned for Berks and Schuylkill Counties would burden residents and possibly violate state legal requirements, officials say.

"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..."

www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

This is all starts with Noem approving every contract over $100,000. This just sits there in my mind as this violates very norm of government contracting as a field of law.

i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people

Platform Ventures Backs Down From ICE Detention Center Sale After Weeks of Mass Organizing and Protest The people won. For now.

Platform Ventures planned "to sell a massive south Kansas City warehouse to the federal government for use as an ICE detention center."

"[N]ot moving forward."

"[T]he people of Kansas City forced Platform Ventures' hand."
#Missouri #USA #Protest #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Indeed.

Touché

Follow @projectsaltbox.bsky.social to see where those detention centers (where folks are sent without any trial or conviction) are.