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Hmong grandmother detained in Texas for 2 weeks still doesn’t know why After being repeatedly visited by ICE, Thi Dua Vang and her husband, both in the U.S. legally awaiting green cards, are in hiding.

Federal agents convinced an 11 yr old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m., then detained this Hmong grandmother for 2 wks in TX, where she shared a cell w 20 women. What did she do wrong? She still has no idea, ICE keeps returning to her door

She's still in hiding

www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

wow didn’t know you were the dashboard confessional guy

The commitment Southwest Airlines new private equity owners have shown to take the airline from “harmless, predictable, and affordable” to “expensive, rage-inducing, and deeply shitty” really is impressive!

To give a sense of how bad Texas politics are these days: Joan Huffman has been dragging around a decade + of corruption rumors, and she the *least* potentially damaging Republican running for AG. (And the 2 main Ds in the race aren’t running serious campaigns.)

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

this is Erin Brockovich all over again

Hard to think anything but “the Trump regime is about to conduct military strikes in Mexican territory” here.

'Come see me': Ex-Baylor president hosted Epstein at Waco campus in 2012 Newly released emails confirm an even deeper history between Epstein and Starr.

NEW: In addition to corresponding with Jeffery Epstein during the interview process to become Baylor president, DOJ emails reveal that Ken Starr hosted Epstein and his girlfriend Karyna Shuliak in Waco, on Baylor's campus in 2012 during Starr's presidency.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Not to diminish this work by a great reporter; but $6,000 in taxpayer funded Facebook ads doesn’t crack the top 10 list of corruption at Sid Miller’s Agriculture Commission.

As president of Baylor, Ken Starr was later alleged in court proceedings and in discovery documents to have helped protect a Baylor student accused of sexual assault. www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/c...

Reminder that Greg Abbott is allowing Ghislaine Maxwell, one of the most prolific child s*x traffickers EVER, to reside in a cushy facility in TX.

Just something to keep in mind while we watch her continue protect her fellow ped*philes...

“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.”

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...

leave jeans shorts out of this

Trump market tested his campaign with Birtherism and inaugurated his run calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers.” There’s no new information in the latest outrage. But there is further confirmation that commentators who denied racism was Trumpism’s central motivating factor should be shunned.

Lee Atwater told the world!

its ’cause nobody can afford to buy food

as soon as you become a political correspondent in America they take you into a little room in the White House and hit you on the head with a mallet until you lose the ability to retain long-term memories.

Steve Bannon calls for immigration agents at polling sites during midterms Ex-Trump adviser adds to elections officials’ concern about potential interference from Trump administration in voting

Another good reason for Democrats to try to get every reform possible, including reduced funding, for ICE while they still have leverage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s the shit-eating smirk that does it for me.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.

The body of a migrant who died at an El Paso immigration detention center was sent to a military hospital rather than the county medical examiner who investigated two previous deaths at the facility — and concluded that one of them was a homicide rather than a suicide.

a local PD tried to fabricate a criminal investigation against a city resident after he wrote a mild op-ed criticizing the department for investigating a local city councilwoman after a racist crank reported her as an illegal immigrant

there's literally zero news value in granting anonymity for a football player to say that Puerto Ricans aren't American.

Yes!

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.