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NEW: ICE finds Cuban man’s homicide at El Paso camp result of 'spontaneous use of force,' after initially claiming 'medical distress'

DHS responded: 'No lawbreakers in the history of human civilization have been treated better than illegal aliens in the US'

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My message at the Michigan Black Summit: We’re done with politicians who tell us we can't have and shouldn't fight for. It's too serious to wait.

"There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.” #aphiliprandolph #blackhistorymonth #blackresistance

The news media chose not to tell you the truth about tariffs | Press Watch Through normalization and sanewashing, our top journalists covered up how obviously illegal – and crazy – these tariffs were

NEW: The news media chose not to tell you the truth about tariffs presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

The DHS is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Minneapolis Park Board puts moratorium on evictions The action is the first in Minnesota as a result of the ICE crackdown. (And yes, the Park Board owns rental homes.)

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is suspending evictions for its rental properties in response to the ICE surge.

It's the first local government body in Minnesota to enact a rent moratorium because of immigration enforcement.

Yeah, the thing to understand is that only Thomas and Alito are loyal to the entire Trump package. The others are like the Heritage Foundation -- willing to use Trump to make Fascism go Up and Line Go Up but unwilling to let Trump risk Line Go Down.

The Roberts Court loves corporations. Corporations are their benefactor more so than Trump. Corporations were not happy with the tariffs. SCOTUS rules against Trump when it's Corporations v. Trump. End of.

Don't let this fool you into thinking this court as any goddamn legitimacy. It does not.

Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president The decision does not affect all of Trump's tariffs but invalidates those implemented using an emergency law.

Finally, SCOTUS reaffirms what we've known all along, Trump's tariffs are an unconstitutional tax on the American people.

Over the last year, working people paid an average of $1,000 more because of these tariffs. And Trump has no plan to put that money back in your wallet.

'I Am Simply Outraged': Despite 8-Day Notice, Jayapal Blocked From Oversight Visit at ICE Detention Center Rep. Pramila Jayapal expresses fury at Trump administration for blocking oversight at Tacoma immigration detention center, citing inadequate conditions.

'I Am Simply Outraged': Despite 8-Day Notice, Jayapal Blocked From Oversight Visit at ICE Detention Center

Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.

Free the Prairieland defendants!

Trump says Republicans will ‘never lose a race’ if Congress restricts voting “We'll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won't lose a race.”

🚨BREAKING: During a rambling rehash of false assertions of voter fraud, President Donald Trump claimed that Republicans will never lose an election “for 50 years” if his allies in Congress pass the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Immigrants can teach us how to fight dictators:

"Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured, and then imprisoned for two years."

And yet:

A recreation of a basketball hoop at Manzanar, with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background

A park ranger holding up a photo of gardens at Manzanar during WWII, up against where the gardens would have been

A view from camp, with huge, snowy mountains overlooking Manzanar

The Manzanar monument to those that died at camp, just beyond the camp grounds. Barbed wire is in the foreground of the photo.

In 2019 I had the incredible opportunity to visit Manzanar concentration camp with other young Japanese Americans. Feb 19th marks the day FDR issued orders removing and imprisoning 120,000 Japanese Americans, and my trip is especially top of mind today. I took these photos—more details in alt text.

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Here's an essay I did that explains it - perhaps a time saver. :)

www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

This is How Democrats Must Message To Win Back The Majority Timidity, playing possum, & leaning to the mythical "center" won't help Democrats excite the base or the majority. Instead, they must actually stand for something and communicate it with authenticity.

This is How Democrats Must Message To Win Back The Majority

I wish the Democratic Party listened to @anatosaurus.bsky.social, a brilliant American political strategist and messaging consultant.

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With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it

Obama and his entourage were so out of touch & entitled, they literally couldn’t believe promising hope & change — and then bailing out their bank donors who were throwing 10 million families out of their homes — might create the kind of backlash FDR warned about.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

The Uncanny Artifice of George Washington I got a number of fascinating replies to yesterday’s post about the...

i really love @alexiscoe.bsky.social's biography of washington because she gets at exactly this: the fact that "george washington" is a character created by george washington, a man so consumed with presenting himself as an example of republican virtue that he became one

The $12 Trillion Bailout Was Not "Paid Back" Liberals are still telling themselves a lie in order to pretend turning hope and change into more of the same wasn't responsible for the predictable backlash that fueled Trump's ascent.

With Obama back in the news expressing shock that Trump won, liberals are still telling themselves a lie in order to pretend turning hope & change into more of the same didn't ignite the backlash that fueled MAGA's ascent.

Somehow, Democrats still seem unwilling to learn from the cautionary tale.

JAMA Investigation: 26% of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth Have Attempted Suicide The highest attempt rates came out of North America amidst the United States’ war on trans kids.

The latest review from JAMA Pediatrics has uncovered that 26% of trans youth have attempted suicide. That's actual attempts, ideation was even higher.

The trend was most pronounced in North America, where anti-trans laws have been common.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

“The National Lawyers Guild has likened the Prairieland case to the post-1945 Second Red Scare, the FBI’s persecution of the Civil Rights movement, and the Green Scare of the early 2000s that targeted the radical environmental movement, arguing that a modern “Antifa Scare” is playing out”

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🧵 Since 1641, the Black man's ability to perform in combat was questioned by White commanders. The question should have been not whether he could fight—but why.

Meet Black patriot First Lt. John R. Fox. (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

Big Tech is selling an AI climate fairy tale.

Claims that “AI will fix the climate” mostly point to older, low-impact tools, while energy-hungry generative AI and data centres keep driving up emissions.

via @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

The man who taught nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr. Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the art of nonviolent resistance. Then why is he often left out of our history books?

On this week's More To The Story, @alletson.bsky.social tells the story of the most influential civil rights leader you've never heard of.

New Police Accountability Report premiere 9pm ET: What happens when federal agencies push past the limits of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments?

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NO KINGS FRANKLIN TENNESSEE · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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Its Time For Mayor Mamdani To Live Up To His Campaign Promises On Transgender Youth With NYU Langone's shuttering of its transgender youth care program, New York City has significant tools in its toolbox to push back.

1. Mayor Mamdani promised to hold hospitals accountable that capitulate to Trump.

He promised funding to trans youth care in the city.

There are very real steps he can take right now to maintain care for trans youth after NYU Langone's capitulation.

It's time for Mamdani to uphold his promises.

Where does she find the time to do all the package-stealing?

“Any time the Trump administration says ‘AI’ ... what you should hear is ‘repression as a service,’” @skiles.blue writes.

- AI as an excuse to consolidate data.
- AI to execute orders that humans would refuse.

The more data the admin. consolidates, “the further we travel down this dangerous road.”