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Rep. Kennedy: "Do you believe your agency has a legal obligation to follow court orders?"

ICE Director Lyons: "Yes."

Rep. Kennedy: "You have a very strange way of showing it, with a federal judge finding that your agency is in violation of 96 orders in one month alone."

Lavrov cites illegal referendums Russia conducted that were not recognized by the international community.

These statements show Russia's real intentions, not their statements about negotiations. Russia doesn't want to end the war.

Ukraine war briefing: UK promises to double troop numbers in Norway to deter Putin Defence secretary John Healey says Russian president is ‘rapidly re-establishing military presence in the region, including reopening old cold war bases’. What we know on day 1,449

UK promises to double troop numbers in Norway to deter Putin

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy.

If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.

ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.

Thousands of people across the country have been arrested and charged with impeding ICE agents for following at a safe distance and filming.

The intimidation campaign continues

Rep. Khanna: There were 6 wealthy, powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason. If we found 6 men that they were hiding in 2 hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files.

Trump's refusal to open the new bridge between Ontario and Michigan is ALL ABOUT preserving an income stream for parasite and possible pedophile Howard Lutnick.

I can’t lie, this was pretty cool. At intermission of the USA vs Switzerland Women’s Hockey game, a sold out crowd joined together to sing ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon.

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!

Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

The man who got Trump elected claims to care about victims of rape. He clearly doesn’t

If Donald Trump told the police that Ghislaine Maxwell was “evil”, why did he “wish her well” during his first term and relocate her to a bougie club fed during his second?

Scoop: Dem House candidate Analilia Mejìa won't commit to voting for Hakeem Jeffries "I look forward to sharing my concerns," the New Jersey progressive told Axios.

I love her more.

www.axios.com/2026/02/11/a...

So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What? Howard Lutnick searches for a way out of his Epstein pickle.

So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What?

(Why would he lie? Hmm....)

www.thebulwark.com/p/so-you-lie...

Going to Epstein’s island five years AFTER Epstein pled guilty to child prostitution. And bringing his kids AND their nannies (and his wife, with whom he claimed had agreed with him that he would never be alone with this disgusting man who told them he got the “right kind” of massage).

60 kids and over 10,000 adults have died from flu so far this season.

VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children

"Nannies" plural?

the thing is it’s remarkably easy to live your life in a way that you never find yourself saying this to a congressional committee and these guys can’t even clear that bar

Jeffries: "We can either have dramatic reforms of DHS, ICE, CBP and the way in which immigration enforcement is undertaken here in the country, or Republicans are gonna make the decision to shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard, and TSA"

This is the spot Dems have put republicans in. It's literally as good a spot as they could have possibly put republicans in. "We'll shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard, and TSA forever unless you agree to abolish ICE" is a STUPID position for Dems to take, because the GOP will never agree to it and Dems

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump

Story published here, today:

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

Contact Your MOC

It's already ILLEGAL for non-citizens to vote. This voter suppression bill—the "Save America Act"—solves a non-existent problem while disenfranchising millions of actual citizens. It's a lie from start to finish.

#StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/mOd2mHm5
#sheshed

ICE director refuses to commit to pausing operations for 2026 World Cup Acting ICE director Todd Lyons told a congressional committee that his agency was ‘key’ to World Cup security plans

Srsly, do not come here for the World Cup. Do not come here for the LA Olympics. Just don't. It's not safe

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

It isn't an empty gesture, it may not do anything now, but it's a signal to history, and to the world and to ourselves, that this is not ok.

Zelensky says Russia is proposing huge economic deals with U.S. The Ukrainian president said the Trump administration was pushing for a June deadline to end Russia’s war.

As @samagreene.bsky.social points, out, the investments economic agreements Zelenskyy says that Putin is offering the US would be about 5 times the size of Russian GDP www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. "Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.