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This is such an embarrassing interview. Good for CNBC for asking the most straightforward questions.

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Of course. She's a monster.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”
-Susej F, a 9-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Houston, Texas. Detained for 50 days

This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪

A screenshot of the daily Opening Statement newsletter, with the following first paragraph visible: " Immigration detention without a bond hearing is lawful, say Republican nominees on a federal appeals court. Courthouse News Service The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a major victory late Friday with a ruling that overturns the way that administrations have long handled bond hearings for people with no criminal record living in the U.S. Politico More: Read the ruling. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Related analysis: An opinion that ignored hundreds of federal trial judges who have recognized a right to a bond hearing and, “written by Judge Edith Jones and joined in full by Judge Kyle Duncan — two of the most reactionary, right-wing federal appellate judges in the country.” One First "

In today’s Opening Statement, we featured a landmark ruling that gives the feds more power to detain people without a bond hearing. There were also dozens of new links on Minnesota and sentencing news for a disgraced funeral home director. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

“At 237 facilities, the network has roughly doubled in size since the start of the Trump administration. The geography of ICE’s national detention network has expanded dramatically alongside a nearly $50 billion influx of funding from Congress late last year.”

Theater Owners Call Pending Netflix-Warner Bros Merger “Catastrophic” In Statement To Senate Lawmakers Cinema United, the trade org for exhibition, has made public its remarks about the pending Netflix–Warner Bros merger to the Senate antitrust subcommittee, saying, “If Netflix succeeds in acquiring Wa...

so you've got the valid criticisms of the Netflix merger (layoffs, price hikes)

you've got theater owners who just don't want antiquated release windows changed for obvious reasons

then you've got the Ellison/Trump alliance that wants to scuttle the deal so Ellison can buy CNN/HBO/Warner instead

Trump has publicly blessed Nexstar's pending acquisition of Tegna, which will strengthen the right-leaning Nexstar and shrink the number of station owners in the US. cnn.it/3Met4oM

A Federal Worker Developed A Brain Tumor. The Trump Admin's Next Move Was Unspeakably Cruel. Russell Vought is seizing every opportunity he can to dismantle a crucial watchdog agency.

A federal worker at the CFPB found out in December that she had a brain tumor that needed to be removed.

The next month, Russ Vought unilaterally ended her agency's short-term disability plan.
www.huffpost.com/entry/russel...

San Francisco teachers strike, highlighting a pay crisis in a city of tech bros In a region made wealthy by innovation, the woman-dominated teacher workforce says its wages can’t keep pace, shutting down schools for 50,000 students.

In a region where even earning a six-figure income may not be enough to make ends meet, the salary for a new credentialed teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is roughly $80,000. @nadrakn.bsky.social reports.

19thnews.org/2026/02/san-...

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

(Published Dec. 2025)

Who paid for the Super Bowl ICE ad? The group behind Sunday's bizarre commercial has a sparse paper trail.

maybe you saw a pro-ICE ad during the Super Bowl and wondered: who made that?

me too.

here's an attempt to find some of the people behind it

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid.

@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…

www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., tells me Senate Republicans are having a "big meeting tomorrow" to discuss the path forward for SAVE Act. He predicts the Senate won't nuke the filibuster but adds that he's "willing to listen" to ideas on how to proceed.

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools.

70+ years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white.

In this town, one school keeps kids divided.

(Published May 2024)

That would explain why Tulsi Gabbard "investigating" voting machines in Puerto Rico & present at FBI raid in Fulton County even though DNI prohibited by law from participating in domestic law enforcement operations

$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts Online traders are betting millions on war, airstrikes, and political unrest.

Want to bet on who the U.S. will attack next? An increasing number of people are using online prediction markets like Polymarket to gamble on war and other geopolitical events
https://restofworld.org/2026/polymarket-online-betting-politics-war-charts/

Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

“It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein,” Rep. García posted on X. “Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.”

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Medicaid Expansion Dead in Mississippi Due to Trump Cuts, Top Republican Says Mississippi won’t expand Medicaid this year because of federal Medicaid funding cuts under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

Veto-proof majorities passed Medicaid expansion in the Mississippi Legislature in 2024.

But they gridlocked as the Senate demanded work requirements—which Senate leaders said they'd be able to get when Trump returned.

Now, they say Medicaid expansion is dead thanks to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

Files released by the US justice department contradicted Howard Lutnick’s earlier claims that he had cut ties with the late sex offender more than 20 years ago, raising concerns from Democrats and Republicans. ft.trib.al/7eNpmiE

Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

The most important word in all of Musk’s space posts is “consciousness.” His utopian fantasy is mind uploading, not *people*

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Trump's Stablecoin USD1: Binance Holds 87% After Founder's Pardon World Liberty Financial's founding document describes the company as "pioneering a new era of Decentralized Finance." Its flagship stablecoin is anything but.

New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange.

Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119.

me, for @forbes.com

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Most Americans already reject Trump’s ICE brutality but wait till they see this…

“Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in Trump's first year had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal DHS document” www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.

Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

even the board of Burning Man isn't buying this bullshit