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How Federal Judges Can Bring Down the Hammer On ICE Federal judges have plenty of tools at their disposal for punishing ICE’s lawlessness—if they feel like using them.

At some point, federal judges are going to have to go beyond issuing strongly worded orders condemning ICE's lawlessness, and start fining recalcitrant Trump administration officials and/or putting them in jail

My consistent observation of the Trump administration is that these people just fundamentally don’t want to do a real job and would prefer to just podcast all day every day.

- Bill Bramhall

French know how to protest

I love that there’s US military officials and their supporters who think that asking a Saul Goodman-esque attorney if this is legal gives them cover from international law

i am begging people to understand that without black church attendees, especially women, the democratic party is not a viable political party and religion isnt just about right wing evangelicals.

The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean.

We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com

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Trump 2024: "I won't send your kids off to die in yet another foreign war."

Trump 2026: *Sets the entire Middle East on fire*

If you’ve been on the fence about breaking up with mainstream political news to support independent journalism, do me a quick favor and Google AOC + Munich. Open a new tab and do it right now. No leading words, just enter AOC + Munich and scroll the headlines. You’ll likely notice a slight bias. We live in the Trump era, yet for some reason Democrats must meet a very high standard of gaffe-avoidance. You’ll see that establishment media (Google included) still enjoys the power to define politicians, and is simply selective about who’s subject to this kind of treatment. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fell short of an arbitrary bar, freeing political journalists to depict a topsy-turvy world in which one of the Democratic Party’s most articulate leaders is an incoherent amateur. Their imputation that clarity and polish are essential political skills is left unstated, because that might raise some questions about double standards.

Absolute thunder here from @brianbeutler.bsky.social re mainstream media's coverage of AOC's remarks at the Munich Security Conference

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Pope Rejects Trump’s “Board of Peace” Invite The Vatican wants nothing to do with Trump’s Gaza project.

Pope Rejects Trump’s “Board of Peace” Invite newrepublic.com/post/206719/...

Well, this explains a lot.

Blind leading blind, and all that.

ICE is secretly hiring medical staff for its planned concentration camps The warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire does not announce itself. It does not carry a sign that says Detention Center. It waits, squared and silent, in an industrial park where the business of Ameri...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

CBS not airing James Talarico’s interview with Stephen Colbert because they were supposedly worried about FCC backlash is a really big deal. Stephen Colbert was told not to say anything and did so anyways. This man is not getting enough credit for standing up for free speech.

@ReneeLibby95084 Dear Democratic Senators: If you are forced into a filibuster over the SAVE Act, I suggest you use that time to read the Epstein files out loud into the record.

The real reason CBS didn't let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico is that the Ellisons are still trying to buy Warner Bros.

David Ellison runs Paramount, which owns CBS.

He's using CBS to show what loyal oligarchs they are as they seek FCC approval for a WBD deal.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

A Slovenian sex worker on a "Einstien visa"........after 30 years you still need subtitles

Context Matters: Trump Administration Summons Secretaries of State And the context for this one isn't promising.

"Following the execution of a search warrant on election officials in Fulton County, Georgia...a bipartisan group 'fear[s] Trump is laying the groundwork to undermine results still months away.'”

Context Matters: Trump Administration Summons Secretaries of State
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ICE admitted to sexual assault. An agent beamed with pride, saying, “Yeah, you liked it. I remember you were shivering and crying in there.”
Portland, Oregon,

Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority.

There’s only one thing on the ballot this fall Forget about "left" or "right"

www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

'Did you even watch the hearing?' Massie mocks MAGA host over 'Epstein brain worm' Republican congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Monday tore into former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, accusing her of having an "Epstein brain worm" over a post that seemingly misunderstood his de...

www.alternet.org/thomas-massi...

Pam Bondi once again shows why she's unfit for public office (any public office) She thinks she's the Influencer General, and it shows.

"...House...led by Mike Johnson and this hearing...chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan...sufficient evidence that House Republicans would far rather rally around sex predators than condemn them. It's one of the few foundational beliefs left in the party."

www.unchartedblue.com/pam-bondi-on...

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

Aaron Reitz vows to “destroy the left” if elected Texas attorney general Reitz believes the nation is at war with liberals, and the best bulwark against them is a fully empowered Texas attorney general’s office — with him at the helm.

What a piece of work.

"...after Reitz said at his confirmation hearing that there was no 'hard and fast rule' about whether public officials must abide by court orders, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, called him a “danger to the rule of law.”

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/16/a...

YouTube video by Ohh that's RICH The vile motives behind maga’s desperate push for the #SAVEAct #trump #elections

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Trans Bathroom Ban Bills Now Expanding To Private Businesses Last month, Kansas passed a bathroom bounty bill that could target private businesses. Now, Idaho will hear a similar bill that is more explicit that private businesses are also impacted.

For god's sake, leave these people alone. The meanspirited pettiness of these goons is a horrifying glimpse into the benighted barrenness of their innerscapes. I...ALMOST...have some compassion for them.

Trans Bathroom Ban Bills Now Expanding To Private Businesses open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

'Let me not mince words': DC insider blasts Kristi Noem in scathing open letter The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google (owner of YouTube), Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts ...

We all need to tell her.
www.alternet.org/robert-reich...