Bamboo Grove

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

“The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Dorian Orange

I immediately thought of that older British show. I remember watching it as a kid on PBS.

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A Big Bend reporter told KXAN that nearly all local residents oppose the border wall. That opposition includes the local sheriff, who was in Border Patrol for 26 years. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/big-bend-reporter-says-locals-reaction-to-park-border-wall-almost-completely-negative/ 

Also, these numbers do not include the many people who worked on federal contracts and grants in academic settings and at nonprofit research organizations. The nonprofit research company where I worked had to lay off hundreds of staff in 2025 due to DOGE-canceled funding.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers receive far less training than almost any other federal agents given a badge and a gun — even less than officials tasked with investigating exotic animal smuggling and odometer fraud, a CNN analysis found. https://cnn.it/4bivQlt

Harrowing 911 calls capture children’s medical emergencies at Texas ICE facility Texas emergency crews dispatched nearly a dozen times in six months, according to call logs

Harrowing 911 calls from ICE detention center reveal children unable to breathe, suffering seizures and broken bones: report

literally DOZENS of jobs!

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

Again and again, immigrants in Minnesota have been released from detention centers without work permits, Social Security cards, and other documents that prove their status.

“As far as I can tell, it’s the practice of ICE to throw everybody’s documents into a black box and then lose it.”

Essential reporting:

“In its filings with the California attorney general, DIAG identifies four individuals as past and present officers. Among them is Jennifer Poyer, who has a close affiliation with Genspect, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.”

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Christian wanted people to know what immigrant families like hers were going through inside the Dilley detention center, so she gathered dozens of letters and hid them in her jacket. She and others told me and @mckenziefunk.com its becoming harder to speak out www.propublica.org/article/dill...

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

A Guardian analysis of government records has found that the vast majority of people who entered deportation proceedings for the first time in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the Trump administration’s rhetoric and reality.

Witness who saw friend fatally shot by immigration agent in Texas last year dies in car accident A Texas man who saw his friend get shot and killed last year by a federal immigration agent died last weekend in a fiery car crash.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Witness in car who saw friend Ruben Ray Martinez fatally shot by an immigration agent in Texas last year died in a car accident in San Antonio on Saturday.

apnews.com/article/texa...

Wow.

I don't like to disparage other people's appearance, but her face looks odd to me. Do men really prefer that? I think she looked better before she had all the work done. But then, I'm a straight woman, so.

Excited about Project Hail Mary (loved the book; read it twice!) and The Sheep Detective (love mysteries, and who doesn't love sheep).

Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military Some senior officials resisted the decision to approve the major military spending increase, people familiar with the matter say.

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

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Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them.

Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

Plot twist
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If you can gamble on politics why not war

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Screenshot of a post from James Talarico claiming Trump didn’t want an interview aired, alongside a still image of Talarico sitting across from Stephen Colbert on a late-night talk show set.

Make sure everyone sees this then. The FCC apparently changed its “equal time” rule on talk shows to make it hard for Colbert or The View to air interviews with candidates like Talarico. Video link in comments.

Michigan ICE detention center owner reports $254 million profit, record new business in 2025 The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 mill...

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track

www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.