Could surge hire with recently retired or service separated veterans, build a rapid pathway for prior AID workers to return, and also 3x-5x the Presidential Management Fellows program and other talent programs to rebuild agency capacity.

Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

It's virtuous to be consequential about voting.

But the consequences of voting should be measured by the extent to which they promote deontologically derived rights [Amartya Sen laser eyes dot png]

Josh Johnson destroying Elon Musk for begging Epstein to come to the pedo island is the funniest shit I’ve seen this morning.

SB SB Spoke to my dems. This weekend. Boy are emotions running high 11:11:10 pm Steve Bannon Going to blow him up right out of the box-- WH has zero plan to punch back-- Fort Apache with no cavalry enroute 11:14:37 pm And no soldiers in the fort. He is really borderline. Not sure what he may do. 11:18:35 pm Steve Bannon I think it's beyond borderline - 25 amendment 11:42:29 pm 2019/01/01 Sent an attachment Filename: IMG_5931.mov Path: IMG_5931.mov Size: 6 MB Type: video/quicktime 12:30:46 pm Steve wynn. Wants an intervention 01:14:56 pm It won't work. He respects no one at the moment. 01:15:24 pm EFTA01615546

SB SB SB Steve Bannon "She has a way about her!...!! 01:17:31 pm Saving the world in my view 01:17:51 pm Steve Bannon Then we really need an intervention 01:18:18 pm EFTA01615547 Would just increase his paranoia 01:18:40 pm Very dangerious 01:19:45 pm He needs a bigger bully than himself. This is what you have to do .!! Don't ask his advice. Once you do that, he thinks you're a dope 01:20:50 pm Once you treat him with respect he thinks youre a dope 01:21:20 pm And immediately loses respect for you 01:21:46 pm Thats why he listens to Ivanka. She knows he is a dumbfuck 01:25:18 pm But is on his side 01:25:27 pm Mulvaney is as close to the nonexistent cos you predicted.. someone on his side that has disdain for him. Can turn it 01:26:26 pm Barrack is too much of a suck up. I think Reid Weingarten could help him.. 01:30:23 pm Steve Bannon Would Reid even take this on??? 01:30:45 pm EFTA01615548

Steve Bannon talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Jeffrey Epstein.

The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

No more Epstein files will be released, DOJ tells Congress The Department of Justice said in a letter to Congress that it has released all the files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Department of Justice said in a letter to Congress that it has released all the files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary. I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s ...

Via PBS News Hour, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, today endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

"Your sucess is our sucess," Rubio said.

Orbán, of course, has been the model for controlling the news media as a way to stay in power.

www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

THE “EPSTEIN CLASS”

The DOJ is using selective redactions and half lists that protect the powerful while intentionally confusing the public.

They’re protecting reputations, not survivors.
@khanna.house.gov

FBI formally refuses to share evidence in Alex Pretti killing, Minnesota investigators say Minnesota's top investigative agency said Monday the federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti.

Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Hysterical. A National Park Service pipeline pollutes the Potomac, and Trump throws a tantrum and blame it on the governor of Maryland.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Brilliant, from the Colbert show the other night: Ian McKellen recites a speech, “The Stranger’s Case,” thought to be by Shakespeare in which Sir Thomas More addresses an unruly London crowd that has rioted demanding that strangers from abroad be sent back. “What would you think, to be thus used?”

The Trumpists like to present themselves as defenders of the West.

There is one country fighting against brutality and barbarism, and in defense of everything we cherish about the West: Ukraine.

The Trumpists are hostile to Ukraine.

The Trumpists are betrayers of the West.

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.

But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Ofelia Torres, the teen with cancer who fought for her father’s freedom after ICE agents arrested him, has died. blockclubchi.co/3Zzncth

Appreciate the talk about banning ICE masks in shutdown negotiations.

But the non-negotiable should be congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities. Full access, no appointments, no permission slips.

No compromise.

(there is something very funny also about Rubio adopting a late 18th century european chauvinist’s contempt for ‘creole’ peoples. like, dude, you’re *cuban*)

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

The drawing Kamilla made at Dilley while I spoke to her parents over Zoom this week.

It shows her near the lone tree that stands on the detention center’s grounds, butterflies fluttering around it — one of the few places, her mother said, where children sometimes see something alive and colorful.

Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.

UK government: “consistent, collaborative work has confirmed through laboratory testing that the deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuador dart frogs (epibatidine) was found in samples from Alexei Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death” www.gov.uk/government/n...

Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: “Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

“I spoke to an aid worker who has worked in conflict zones for 20 years. She said she had never seen sexual violence on this scale. “