NEW: President Trump is taking credit for Denver's impressive drop in homicides, which seems to conflict with his claims that the city is a lawless, leftist hellhole ravaged by crime. @marcsallinger.bsky.social reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social:

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Question for the Supreme Court: Would it be an official act if the President used the US military to commit election fraud?

That would explain why Tulsi Gabbard "investigating" voting machines in Puerto Rico & present at FBI raid in Fulton County even though DNI prohibited by law from participating in domestic law enforcement operations

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Irishman detained by Ice appeals to Taoiseach to raise case with Trump amid ‘torture’ Seamus Culleton from Kilkenny has been in Texas Ice facility for nearly five months despite holding valid work permit

An Irishman living in the U.S. for over 20 years who has been detained by ICE since last September describes the experience as “torture.”

“I don’t know how much more I can take,” Seamus Culleton said, calling for Prime Minister Micheál Martin to raise his case with Trump during his upcoming visit.

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

🚨 BREAKING News: An internal DHS document shows that less than 14% of nearly 400,000 individuals arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in power had violent criminal records.

It's the most detailed look yet at who ICE has arrested. | CBS News

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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

I see American Conservatives as among the most brainwashed and misinformed people on the planet.
No 20th century totalitarian thug could have imagined a propaganda machine as pernicious and effective as U.S. Conservative media.

I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.

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.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide.

This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling.

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He should read 18 U.S.C. 592, which makes it a crime for anyone in the "service of the United States" to "order[], bring[], keep[]," or supervise "under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held."

That includes ICE/CBP ("armed men").

A first step, sure. But there’s usually only 150 in the entire state. This drawdown means there will still be around 2,300 (15x the normal amount) unaccountable federal agents roaming our streets.

At least the Nazis went to the trouble of passing the Nuremberg Laws and making the brutality and totalitarianism street legal. The gutlessness of the American run at fascism is that they want to do it simply by pretending the Bill of Rights never existed or meant anything.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

STAR TRIBUNE: “No Humanity” in the detention centers. Overcrowded cells where immigrants “have to take turns lying down”

Private prisons raking in billions while they cut costs, feed them little, ignore health issues.

All in our name. 🇺🇸
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Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Thread Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

Before the 2024 election, I outlined 9 ways Trump had damaged Constitutional democracy, saying the 10th and final barrier was We the People.

We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown refused to execute search warrants over Trump’s long-running fraud claims, sources tell MS NOW.

The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Justice Department’s renewed push to probe Fulton County’s role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.

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Some of us are still being told that we're overreacting and to calm down.

The Danger of Turning Americans into Enemies In Minnesota, "Trump has redefined dissent not as a civic act, but as an enemy force," writes Andrew Weinstein.

I’ve written a lot about democracy, but this may be the most important post I’ve shared here. It’s about the moment when political rhetoric stops being careless and becomes dangerous — when leaders start calling their own people “enemies.”

That moment is now.

OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR HOLT:

“.. It’s roiling the country. .. We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”

@politico.com
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.

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There was no protest. Armed, masked federal agents were just harassing people as usual. He was not a protester and not protesting. They killed him anyway. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Badge Is a Burden Not a Privilege The power of state violence comes with the obligation to uphold a higher standard, not permission to excuse a lower one.

"Being willing to face down the full force of irrevocable, inevitable violence, to carry the bright light of the law into the mouth of darkness, (. . .)requires people who give a shit. Fixing the system on paper and fixing the hearts of those who operate it must be part of the same project."

Wall Street Grapples With New Risk: A European Buyers’ Strike US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the elites gathered in Davos that the Trump administration believes globalization is “a failed policy” that left America behind. A day later, his boss, Presid...

Concern is growing on Wall Street that Donald Trump's belligerence and belittlement of Europe could take some of the biggest buyers of US equities out of the market. There are signs that’s already beginning to happen.

"Don't forget to add the bit about people only having rights if they agree with what the government is doing."

"This is a criminal president and a criminal administration. This is straight-out fascism. This is about ending democracy. These people are destroying the Constitution. And if we say it in words that are any less blunt, we are not telling the truth."

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