Danielle Gross, laughs at funny public comment

Neocon motto: Real men go to Iran!
MAGA motto: Real men deport the Irish!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Which is kind of meta if you think about it

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Epstein files: Congressional lawmakers call for Trump Commerce chief Lutnick to resign, or be fired Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick previously said on a podcast that he had cut ties with the notorious sex offender since an initial 2005 encounter.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, called on Howard Lutnick to resign amid revelations that the Commerce secretary had more extensive dealings with Epstein than he previously disclosed… www.cnbc.com/2026/02/08/e...

“The USDA says food prices will rise another 3% in 2026. [...] Beef prices are up more than 15% from 2025, and costs are expected to climb in 2026.”

Trump’s economic chaos isn’t doing families any favors in the checkout line. Prices are climbing while their paychecks stay the same.

“After baby Amalia had been hospitalized for 10 days, ICE thought this baby should be returned to Dilley, where she was denied access to the medicines that the hospital doctors told her she needed."

These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway. A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions.

A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions.

From our colleagues at @thefern.org:

This is who the government said was “the worst of the worst”

Here's an excerpt -- I hope you'll reward me for getting off the couch and doing some reporting by reading the whole column and telling me what you think

An email from giant grocery stores detailing a “new lower price”- 5.99- for a pack of ball park franks

When the grocery store is bragging about $6 for a pack of hot dogs being a lower price…what the hell

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

While Sec. McMahon claimed that layoffs at the Department of Education were to improve efficiency, the GAO found they are driving higher costs, growing backlogs, and weakening enforcement of civil rights protections for students. www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

"But then I couldn't help but wonder: should I be grateful that I'm barely referenced in the Epstein Files, or disappointed that all of these famous, wealthy New Yorkers were never talking about me?"

it's just so wild how the Qanon message board cult somehow missed the freely operating pedophile sex trafficking ring comprised of America's biggest, richest assholes

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

(looks like the vest joke about Secy Redding was unscripted)

Governor Shapiro’s 2026-27 Budget Address as Prepared for Delivery Governor Shapiro’s 2026-27 Budget Address as Prepared for Delivery

Here's the Governor's budget speech as prepared: www.pa.gov/governor/new...

Here we go...

Not that it *really matters* but it sounded to me like Lehigh County Executive (and former Representative) Josh Siegel got the biggest round of applause in the welcoming remarks. (AG Dave Sunday's seemed longer but not louder)

Here we go...PA House being called to order for Gov Shapiro's FY 26-27 budget address.

Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.

Senate bill seeks to give West Virginia private schools ‘freedom from government oversight' • West Virginia Watch The Senate is advancing a GOP-backed bill that strikes out many current requirements for West Virginia private schools.

Critical to the success of school "choice" aka privatization is removing any transparency and accountability as they divert public funds to private schools.

The inability to measure the results of vouchers given to these mostly religious institutions strips choice from taxpayers and parents.

Should data centers pay up front or build their own power plants? • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Elected officials, the tech and energy industries and PJM itself appear motivated to implement solutions, but relief won’t be quick.

“PJM is the regional transmission organization in the country that is most short of electricity right now,” said Jon Gordon, director of the renewable energy industry group Advanced Energy United.

From @petehallpa.bsky.social

Trump Tirade over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits As Trump grows more delusional about how hated his ICE raids have become, a longtime pro-immigrant organizer explains why this may be a watershed moment in terms of public opinion on the issue.

Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.

And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.

This is digging deep into Trump's base.

We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée