John Refior

A Chicago High Schooler Had Just Returned From Chemotherapy. Then ICE Arrested Her Father Ofelia Torres is being treated for Stage 4 cancer while her father faces sudden federal detention. An emergency motion has been filed arguing that her father's detention is unlawful and violates his c...

"For almost a year, Ofelia Torres, a student at Lake View High School, has been receiving treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer. She had been home from the hospital for less than a day when the call came"

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

I generally assume everyone still on Xitter is a Republican, a bot, a corporate shill, a foreign disinfo worker, a racist, or a misogynist.

(Or some combination.)

> not Sanders or Warren

Good thing too.

If your goal is to cripple American power, what better way than to make Americans sick?
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4 Massachusetts State Police officials indicted in connection to recruit's death in training A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit have been indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match in training.

"A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit were indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match"

"White people are becoming second class citizens in America because of the radical left agenda." Is it Jeremy Carl in 2026, or an Oregonian's white supremacist screed written in 1959 in opposition to a proposed Civil Rights bill?

Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.

A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

Update: it’s now more than 400 judges in nearly 4500 cases. Thank you @reuters.com for doing the math!

Budget data confirms Dept of Ed grants running -50% Y/Y. Grants make up ~8% of public sector ed budgets & cuts are weiging on hiring. Budget cuts, tariffs & other headwinds are factored into new CBO projections (not just OBBB) of a deficit steady at 5.8% of GDP in 2025/26. No huge fiscal tailwind

A critique I hear of him sometimes is that he produces content aimed to help white supremacists win elections

UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off.

Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering.

Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

BREAKING: DHS waives dozens of laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend State Park.

They want to rob this iconic western landscape from all of us, locking away our fishing holes & campsites behind concrete and steel. It's a grotesque act of political vandalism.

YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic Bracero

Come bring your hungry body /
to the golden fields of plenty /
From a peso to a penny /
bracero

Free market capitalism isn't supposed to capture the government. In none of the theoretical models where free market capitalism "works" does that happen.

Yeah I think it was racism, the internet, social media, and corporate capture of government that did it. Good reporting wasn’t the problem, sort of the opposite.

Yes racists turned to Rush Limbaugh and FOX News. But the answer isn’t “be racist.”

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

I still don’t understand how people haven’t organized to raise funds and buy up the Sinclair stations that air them across America. Like you want to win the Senate, isn’t that a necessary step?

Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say Five European countries say tests confirm Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin found in poison frogs, and they blame the Russian state.

I guess Putin didn’t have a window high enough to throw him from…

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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’

US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
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We can impeach Noem. But we all know the real problem is Trump. She's following her boss's illegal orders, and he'll nominate a new awful person to do the same.

Constitutional violations are unacceptable. Congress must remove Trump from office.

Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat

“it’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.

Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

President Zelensky said no power plant in Ukraine remains undamaged after Russian attacks. He warned that hearing air defense missile stocks are empty is one of the worst reports for a wartime leader, especially when intelligence signals a new mass strike within 1-2 days. #Ukraine

Hundreds join Waltham High walkout protesting ICE policies – Waltham Times Students marched from Waltham High School to Lexington Street. Photo by Joseph Sharkey. Hundreds of students walked out of Waltham High School on

"Hundreds of students walked out of Waltham High School on Thursday, Feb. 12, shortly after 1 p.m. to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and voice concerns about immigration enforcement and its impact on students and families."

👀 A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of a roster of DOGE employees and affiliates, as well as a text message revealing a top NEH official’s views on “woke” and “progressive” grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow, attacking a woman and a black person. Totally out of character for him.