ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Show this to the KSTP chucklefuck who insisted to Minneapolis Council Members that DHS “found” 3,300 missing kids: www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

ICE is a bipartisan approved and funded project.

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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."

— Anat Shenker-Osorio

The fact that Larry Ellison’s new wife, current age 33, was a student at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Bard’s _all early admissions_ residential program, seems like the largest piece of unexploded ordinance here. Where did Ellison and Zhu meet, and more importantly: when?

Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter I.D. Bill

i say let them do it. if i were a senate democrat i would relish the opportunity to let the country know that republicans don't think you should vote if you are a married woman www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

Opposition to Mega Prison Project Shapes a Local Election in Rural Arkansas Incarceration has become a central issue in Western Arkansas, where the governor wants to build a new prison that has angered and mobilized residents.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ plans to build a mega prison in a rural county have stalled after lawmakers refused to release funding for the project, with its costs now estimated at more than $1 billion.

The Army will soon have senior warrant officers bid against each other in an eBay-style auction for retention bonuses and six-year service commitments. Soldiers who agree to take a “minimum” bonus can cash in, while those who ask for larger ones will lose out, Army officials announced in a recent press release. Dubbed the “Warrant Officer Retention Bonus Auction,” the system will debut in March, an Army official said Friday. In the news release, Army officials said the new system represents a “shift from traditional, fixed‑rate bonuses to a more flexible, market-driven system and that the auction encourages warrant officers to bid their “true value.”

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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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More context about Quakertown: the Liberty Bell was temporarily stored during the Revolutionary War. It was also the site of a 1799 tax revolt and a hub in the Underground Railroad.

It is currently represented by Brian Fitzpatrick, widely seen as one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress.

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
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Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi Owned Palantir Stock While Voting to Fund Homeland Security Palantir is doing huge business with the federal government as its share price soars.

god he’s the fucking worst

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

i think employers have started doing things like that to save them on premiums. it's something insurance providers have cooked up to deny coverage and a way out of approving GLP-1s. can't cut into profit margins, you know.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

just once i would love to hear an elected official use the phrase "achieving efficiencies and cutting waste" when it comes to the police.

Taking page from Adams, Mayor Mamdani proposes NYC library cuts Library advocates called the mayor’s proposed budget “terrible.”

Don't appreciate the most prominent socialist mayor in the country's spokesperson using the phrase "achieving efficiencies and cutting waste" when it comes to THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES that his budget did not even fund sufficiently to keep up with inflation.
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Goodbye, 'rules-based order.' Hello, Trump World? With a knock-off UN tackling real estate in Gaza, US warships in Haiti, threats against Iran, and a blockade of Cuba, something shifted this week.

@katz.theracket.news on the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, "a macabre joke, focused mainly on the plan by #Trump, Steve Witkoff, and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner to raze what is left of #Gaza and turn it into Atlantic City with concentration camps." theracket.news/p/goodbye-ru...

does your job provide your health insurance?

"Until the State is held to account, not only will Ms. Footman and other women with pending lawsuits continue to be needlessly retraumatized, but the women still in State prisons will continue to remain easy targets for the sexual predators the State is protecting."

Everyone can be a war profiteer in Gaza or Iran, thanks to online betting markets Polymarket and Kalshi let people bet on exactly when and where bombs might fall

"The likelihood of the U.S. striking Iran is currently the top trending market on Polymarket, with $313 million wagered." From @miraefox.bsky.social

Reminded of the guy who said that the US and Israel were emphatically not planning indiscriminate attacks that would debilitate the maintenance of civilian life in Iran

The court did say no tariffs during peacetime

Odds of bombing Iran went up 3x, and sadly I’m not kidding at all in the least

when the tariffs are gone but the prices stay high, that's Trumpflation

If you have a problem with Newsom doing this, you should have a problem with Mamdani doing this.

I don't give a fuck how cute or charming or adorable he is. This is unconscionable.

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.