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Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025 The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

My photo of the head of a buffalo sculpin, a small mottled brown fish with s big round armoured head and big round orange-trimmed pectoral fins. it is prominently displaying the thick, sharp defensive cheek spines that gave it its name

honestly, if you're gonna call a fish a "bullhead", this buffalo sculpin makes much more sense than a catfish. LOL

Also i'm pretty sure that if the Klingon home planet has fish, they all look like variations of this 😻

'Trump is worried': Experts say FCC move to kill Colbert interview backfired big time President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission began its long-threatened crackdown on political late-night talk show interviews by pressuring CBS to pull an already-filmed interview on "Th...

'Trump is worried': Experts say FCC move to kill Colbert interview backfired big time

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Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother. Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today. Juan’s mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain. We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.

A two month old baby in one of the country's immigrant concentration camps is suffering from bronchitis and was recently unresponsive.

They are refusing him care.

A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?

YouTube video by MS NOW Political catastrophe: Republican governor botches ICE prison decision

Rachel Maddox exposed the Republican governor of New Hampshire for working with ICE for a detention center that people of New Hampshire are totally against.
youtu.be/0WdqphevyUY?...

tweet by Catherine na Nollag (@cafernblue): "i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said 'people change their minds when you show them facts' and I said 'actually studies show that's not true' and linked TWO sources and he said 'yeah well I still think it works'"

unfortunately evergreen

It's Psychologically Devastating for Workers to Constantly Be Told They're Being Replaced by AI, Paper Finds The stress arising from fears of being replaced by AI warrants an entirely new psychological dysfunction, researchers argue.

"An invisible disaster."

Excellent thread!
Don't forget about Republican Senator Rick Scott, Trump's stooge.

GOP Rep. Carter (GA): "We can't have a warrant every time"

You cannot be a "patriot" and be OK with lawlessness.

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tweet from a loser that says, "I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan? I’m supposed to have ideas by next week. cmon guys what would you want to see? I like sci-fi but it feels to obvious for AI 🤷‍♂️"

AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas One year into the second Trump administration, a new national survey examines support for Christian nationalism across all 50 states and examines connections between support for Christian nationalism ...

If you want to see how big the threat of #ChristianNationalism is to American democracy--the topic @jamestalarico.bsky.social addressed in his banned @colbertlateshow.bsky.social interview at CBS, @prri.org has data on its prevalence in all 50 states--just released today.
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"Two-month-old baby ‘choking on his own vomit’ while detained in Dilley ‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility."

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.

But why was this happening?

For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Trump’s New Voter I.D. Threat Is His Gravest Attack on Democracy Yet The president says he’ll do it “whether approved by Congress or not!” He can’t legally do that—but that hasn’t stopped him before.

@mjtoma.bsky.social

“Trump can issue an executive order changing the temperature at which ice becomes water, but that won’t make it happen. The Constitution couldn’t be clearer: Presidents don’t run elections; the states do.”

newrepublic.com/article/2065...

La La Greenland At the Munich Security Conference, American lawmakers struggled to reassure European allies who are still traumatized by Trump’s threats to invade Greenland. Lindsey Graham’s F-bombs didn’t help.

On Saturday, Sen. Lindsey Graham unloaded on the PMs of Greenland and Denmark, telling them that if Trump wanted to take Greenland, they'd just have to deal with it. “Lots of F-bombs,” said one person in attendance. “Picture Graham on his worst TV day,” said one source. puck.news/inside-linds...

How will Trump react?
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Reminder that Paramount Skydance needs approval from Trump's minions to buy Warner Bros.

Yesterday, its subsidiary CBS banned Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with TX Democrat James Talarico.

Larry Ellison is sucking up to Trump by turning his media empire into MAGA propaganda.

ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed.

They knew it and they DIDN'T rein it in!!

Impeach the Krusty Gnome!!

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech

🧵A lawyer who helped TPUSA set up campus chapters is now helping those fired for critical language about Charlie Kirk get compensation for wrongful termination over exercising first amendment rights.

He points to a settlement from January, when Tennessee’s Austin Peay State University ...

Armed man wearing tactical vest arrested outside the U.S. Capitol, police say Police also discovered a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask inside the suspect's vehicle, which was parked near the building.

Armed man wearing tactical vest arrested outside the U.S. Capitol, police say

"Police also discovered a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask inside the suspect's vehicle, which was parked near the building."

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Berks County ICE detention center angers residents Upper Bern Township, PA, residents are trying to figure out how to block ICE’s plan to turn an empty warehouse into a detention center.

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

Screenshot of an MSNBC segment shared by Aaron Rupar. The chyron reads, “Lawmakers slam DOJ’s defense of Epstein files redactions.” A split-screen shows a female news anchor on the left and Rep. Dan Goldman on the right. The post quotes Goldman suggesting the Epstein files be called the “Trump–Epstein files.”

I agree! The Trump-Epstein files it is.

Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of...

Last year, surveillance giant Palantir (who got an 8-figure contract from ICE) paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 BILLION, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill.

They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.

This monstrosity must be reversed.

On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The very polite, unheated rivalry between Jordan Stolz and Jenning de Boo The two top speedskating sprinters in the world are a cut above the competition. They battle fiercely on the ice, but refuse to trash talk

The two top speedskating sprinters in the world are a cut above the competition. They battle fiercely on the ice, but refuse to trash talk n.pr/4rqI3v4

The Epstein Cabinet

"Epstein Bombshell: Trump’s Cover-Up Erupts" full video | youtu.be/1kwjtJq5ByE

Since October, federal courts have ruled more than 4,400 times that ICE is illegally jailing immigrants.

Now the agency wants to spend $38B to turn warehouses across the country into detention camps.

Remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies running these camps.