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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Barack Obama BREAKS SILENCE on Trump's ape video, Bad Bunny, and 2028 election

Can we please trade-in the current deranged model for this sane and thoughtful one? youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?...

How ICE Failed to Justify the Shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis The collapse of the Trump administration’s version of events in the case was only the most recent instance in which officials gave an account of a shooting that was later contradicted.

When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.

The Secret Plan to End U.S. Climate Regulations A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.

The administrator of the EPA is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the U.S.

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A Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from the Winter Olympics in Italy on Thursday because he had planned to wear a helmet commemorating countrymen who were killed in the war with Russia. Officials said that the helmet violated the Games’ ban on political speech. Read more: nyti.ms/4qDNF3T

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Verge headline: ‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE by Hayden Field Photo illustration depicts a person in a window on a PC, typing at a laptop. Looming in the background are ICE law enforcement agents

“The dissent I’ve seen is like a whisper. It’s a fear-based culture right now.”

Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘

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Who's paying for Trump's tariffs? We are.

"A paper last week from the non-partisan Tax Foundation think-tank found that the tariffs amounted to an average tax increase on US households of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026"

Saw that you can now buy insurance for "unexpected car repairs," and that's a real sign of the times.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station, Dulles for Trump

The Grifter in Chief is holding up federal funds to have Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This guy has no shame or concept of what being a functional president looks like.
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Do they seriously think we're that stupid?!?

Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer."

It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?

Every day I keep thinking they can't possibly get more despicable and evil, and every day they top their last diabolical deed. #ICE
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A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

More helpful policies of this administration.

In January, Mr. Trump was more explicit. “My goal,” he said, “is to not let any windmill be built.”
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Thank goodness we still have judges who uphold the Constitution!

Now they're breaking windows and coming inside houses with no warrants! F*ck #ICE!

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

Trump’s Online Drugstore Opens for Business

“TrumpRx is a side show,” Sean D. Sullivan, a health economist at the University of Washington, said. Threatening drug companies with tariffs to get them to participate. Only 43 drugs. Yet another distraction.
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Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...

Corporatist fascism, plain and simple.

DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics.

This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany.
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

TrumpRx Is Set to Go Live on Thursday

So tonight TrumpRX will be unveiled. Curious to know if this is just another grift where he gets kickbacks from the drug manufacturers as that's what the name implies.
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Starbucks is halving the amount of stars you earn through their loyalty program. Even with their 3 new tiers, you won't get to the current 2 stars for every $1 spent.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Someone needs to tell Steve Bannon that several court cases and investigations have shown that no election was stolen. Also, ICE stands for "Immigration and Customs Enforcement." Trying to use them as voter intimidation will not work!
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If you're looking for a way to make your voice heard about frustrations with the US government and their activities, hit 'em in the pocketbook. Money is the only language they understand. Resist and unsubscribe!

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

Why a Scared 5-Year-Old Boy Shook Our National Conscience What the image of Liam Ramos, grabbed in Minnesota and thrown in detention in Texas, means for our democracy.

"Two clients Lawyer Eric Lee visited last week, a boy and a girl who are twins, turned 5 in the detention center....The twin 5-year-olds, and their family members who are 9, 16, and 18, have been there for an appalling eight months."

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.