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“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
A reminder that while the warehouse scheme is unfathomably cruel, it is also very, very stupid.
"[The city manager's] concerns include: loss of property tax revenue and insufficient water, sewage, police, ambulance and hospital infrastructure, in a town that could soon triple in population."
Huffines has it.
19.02.2026 00:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
Remember this.
"In the first full year of President Donald Trump’s second term, many of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) top contractors saw massive year-over-year increases in the money they are making from the agency"
www.pogo.org/investigates...
Trump: “Herschel Walker speaking about loyal, how good a football player was Herschel. Herschel Walker now he's ambassador to the Bahamas. I don't know, Bahamas, Bermuda, I see Bahamas, whatever. It's nice.”
18.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 104 🔁 23 💬 39 📌 6Is there some kind of prize for the person who laughs the loudest at his pathetic jokes? Or are these people, all adults who presumably have agency, really out there doing that for free?
18.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Depressingly common anecdotes about medical care at Dilley and an example of why so many of us have fought against family detention since 2014.
16.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 1087 🔁 337 💬 25 📌 5
Screenshot of a Dallas Morning News “Breaking News” alert dated February 16, 2026 (1:06 PM CST) with the headline: “Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center.” Subhead explains that the owners of a Dallas County warehouse planned for use as a mega detention center announced they will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.
Great news from Dallas!
16.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 3Never, if I don’t use them I’m leaving those ketchup packets to my heirs
16.02.2026 03:07 — 👍 694 🔁 77 💬 22 📌 2
Bearing Witness
#monoprint Acrylic on Paper
#art #printmaking
A protester holds up a heart-shaped, handmade sign that reads, “Break up with Citizens Bank,” which is a major financial enabler of ICE’s for-profit prison camps.
Protesters hold signs that read, “break up with Bank of America”, “stop financing climate chaos”, and “stop melting the wrong ice” on the sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
A protester walks on the sidewalk holding a heart-shaped sign that reads, I love my small bank”.
A protester holds a sign that reads, “broken climate promises”.
Valentine’s Day breakup with the big banks financing ICE for-profit prisons and big oil. Boston, February 14, 2026.
15.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Can confirm.
16.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 22187 🔁 3345 💬 865 📌 391If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
This entire piece is a MUST READ.
David Leonhardt, the "Popularists"--their analysis of how the politics of immigration plays out is simplistic and, as Greg shows, belied by reality.
Morally decent politics around immigration ARE ALSO politically expedient.
Oh man, they know they’ve lost. Going full J.D. Vance.
15.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 1985 🔁 245 💬 11 📌 15
He was observing after Alex Pretti's killing. He says feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
12.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 206 🔁 146 💬 7 📌 10
Bad Bunny Scores As Super Bowl LX Draws 124.9 Million Viewers
11.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 3545 🔁 673 💬 119 📌 55
How AI Can Support Your Research Efficiency Automate routine or repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for experiments, analysis, and discovery. Creativity Spark new ideas, explore alternative approaches, or generate first drafts to move past the “blank page.” Clarity Translate complex data, technical language, or lengthy findings into clear summaries for colleagues, partners, or broader audiences. Organization Turn research notes, articles, or meeting discussions into structured summaries, action items, or literature maps. Accessibility Develop research outputs that are more inclusive and easier to share with collaborators, students, and the wider UNB community.
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."
unbcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/AI-at-...
Graphic showing two article headlines about ICE surveillance. Top headline reads “ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team,” with subtext about hiring contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms. Below, another headline reads “10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.” Background features red texture with security camera illustrations.
Two ICE surveillance programs.
One requires the capacity for quick turnaround on urgent leads tied to national security threats and people convicted of violent felonies. The other focuses on hunting down huge numbers of our neighbors.
Guess which one ICE plans to spend vastly more on. 🧵
"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).
12.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 4725 🔁 1788 💬 142 📌 92
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.
11.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 15301 🔁 6799 💬 1029 📌 520OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
24.08.2025 00:41 — 👍 2074 🔁 357 💬 42 📌 144
Way-hey! After concerted local pushback, New Jersey company decides not to contract with ICE:
"The contract with ICE will not move forward, a Holman spokesperson told Patch.
"I have been informed that we declined that particular body of work," the spokesperson said...
patch.com/new-jersey/c...
The results of the US Olympic women’s hockey, they have played 4 games so far. The US has scored 20 goals. Their opponents? ONE.
The US Women’s Hockey team is terrifying.
They have scored twenty goals in this Olympiad so far.
Their opponents?
One.
Spreadsheet-style table listing companies on a contracting vehicle, with columns for company name, city, and state. Rows are color-coded, with some company names in bold and others highlighted in pink to indicate different categories. Entries include firms such as 4 Marine Services LLC, Active Deployment Systems, Amentum Services Inc., CoreCivic Inc., and others.
Continuation of a color-coded spreadsheet listing contractor companies with columns for company name, city, and state. Formatting matches the previous image, including bolded company names and pink-highlighted rows. Companies shown include EEC-Lukos JV LLC, GardaWorld Federal Services LLC, KBR Services LLC, Logistics Worldwide 365 LLC, and more.
Final section of a multi-page spreadsheet showing contractor companies with columns for company name, city, and state. Rows are formatted with alternating shading, with some company names in bold and others highlighted in pink. Companies listed include Parsons Government Services Inc., SOC LLC, Taylors International Services Inc., Vectrus Systems LLC (V2X), and Weston Trolley Co. LLC.
More than a hundred companies hold spots on WEXMAC TITUS, the $65B Navy contracting vehicle designed for rapid ICE detention expansion. Here’s the list (so far) ⬇️
11.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 17 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
12.02.2026 01:35 — 👍 7621 🔁 3978 💬 241 📌 613This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
12.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 15824 🔁 7775 💬 524 📌 299Trump wants to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitian refugees. But many are caregivers keeping elderly and disabled Americans safe and cared for. New research suggests losing them could cost thousands of lives each year.
@citizencohn.bsky.social reports.
