In a new WaPo-ABC poll, 79% of Democrats say they are certain to vote in November, compared to 65% of Republicans.
The largest gap in that question since 2006.
(You're basically seeing exactly this in special election after special election.) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I wrote about the background to this case last year.
It’s a grim story, but also an inspiring one. One lawyer literally stood next to the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...
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Ashley Fairbanks @ziibiing.com launched Stand With Minnesota standwithminnesota.com, a mutual aid repository supporting residents under ICE's siege, in early Jan. in the weeks since, it's facilitated covering people's rents and flown folks detained back home from Texas.
she can help you do it, too.
The MAHA movement is ready to primary Sen. Bill Cassidy — despite the fact that the senator was the pivotal vote that guaranteed Kennedy’s confirmation to lead the HHS in early 2025.
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Apple weather: “Blizzard Warning Blizzard Warning. These conditions are expected by 6:00 AM (EST), Sunday, February 22. National Weather Service”
what the fuck
21.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 84 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 2just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike
20.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 3718 🔁 949 💬 252 📌 93“An anonymous government is no government at all."
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Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.
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a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
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They're having trouble getting jurors in one of the cases against Elon Musk because "so many people hate him so much"
www.law360.com/articles/244...
Michelle Cowley, a London-based communications specialist, and her husband spent nearly two years planning a $16,000 vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida. Then their children, ages 7 and 11, heard about Renee Good and Alex Pretti being killed by ICE agents and didn’t want to go.
The lede on this story
11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America’s Continuing Tourism Slump
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...
In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?
20.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 4056 🔁 780 💬 50 📌 20BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
20.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 4313 🔁 1133 💬 126 📌 559So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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We’ve got @hunterw.bsky.social on today’s podcast episode, talking about the FBI raid on a Georgia election office and why we have to take the Trump Admin’s contempt for democracy seriously, even if the people leading it seem cartoonish and incompetent.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
I went on the Posting Through It pod with @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social to talk about what's going on in Georgia and Trump's larger assault on elections.
We got into a bit of the debate about whether focusing on this is "doomerism." www.patreon.com/posts/080-ma...
@hunterw.bsky.social spoke to @jaredlholt.bsky.social + @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the Fulton County raid and how Trump and his allies could undermine the midterms.
Check it out on Posting Through It: open.spotify.com/episode/6ToR...
A protester accused of being part of a Texas "antifa cell" was held in solitary confinement for three months.
“They went and poisoned everyone against the defendants before we ever even knew what was going on,” her sister told
@joshkovensky.bsky.social
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tiktoke...
Defendants form a version of “antifa” that a prosecutor in the case described as an “anti-President Trump and anti-ICE movement,” but that experts warn tips dangerously toward an attempt to prosecute based on ideology. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...
16.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 118 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 6Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
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Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
@davidkurtz.bsky.social on Trump ending the EPA's endangerment finding: "Beating back the flames of fascism while the fascists fan the flames of global warming is the dual-threat 21st-century apocalypse that I can still scarcely get my head around."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️
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The Department of Homeland Security wants to hold as many as 8,500 people in some of the several warehouses it has purchased in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Texas.
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Geo Group, one of the largest private prison companies, is looking to operate massive detention centers in red states
But even their exec chair calls the prospect of retrofitting warehouses + making them function as mass prisons "concerning" @llanosjackie.bsky.social
www.notus.org/immigration/...
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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