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Kansas Invalidates Transgender People’s IDs After GOP Legislature Passes New Law The law, which goes into effect on Thursday, provides no grace period for the people it affects.

Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth.

This was a truly horrifically bad article. Yes, there were Jewish connections, but the framing makes it sound like that was his *main* access to power.

And no, that was not the case. He used every avenue possible, and there were many.

In this environment this article is dangerous and misguided.

Federal courthouse in Nashville

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

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‘Melt the ICE’ Organizers Share Lessons Ahead of Week of Action Against ICE read at UnicornRiot.Ninja

As the Twin Cities prepares for an upcoming week of action scheduled to take place from Feb. 25 through March 1, organizers with the group behind the initiative, “Melt the ICE,” shared some reflections and lessons on ICE resistance tactics with Unicorn Riot. Read in full at website-link to follow.

Folks feeling pretty good after the first day of arguments in the Prairieland trial! The prosecution's opening arguments were long and meandering. Importantly, they spent a lot of time talking about political beliefs and first amendment activities as evidence of their fantastical conspiracy.

☎️ Phone Zap for Prairieland 📞
Last week's phone zap WORKED! The 9 defendants @ Tarrant County Jail got tablets for communication & reading, & were moved to cells w/ working showers. But they're still suffering horrible treatment @ Tarrant, where they were moved Feb 9 for federal trial.

Listen to this!!!

📣📣📣 Prairieland jury has been selected!!

‼️ However, the live stream cut *right as* Judge Pittman was listing which jurors were being picked at 4:29 pm! We could not see the jury!

This is the whole point of voir dire: To know the jury pool. The public could not see the jury pool. ‼️

‼️ UPDATE ON LIVESTREAM‼️
Prairieland livestream is back at 4:43 pm, out from 4:29-4:43 pm—14 minutes during jury selection! The 12 jurors & 2 alternates are already sitting and in the middle of getting instructions from the judge about the trial. The public completely missed who was the final pick.

The first trial of protestors charged with domestic terrorism under Trump's anti-antifa order is off to a(nother) great start today 🫣

Trump's "defeat" on tariffs is an attempt to make his regime sustainable. Tariffs will fully collapse the economy and thereby finish the administration off. The Supreme Court isnt going against his agenda, theyre trying to shape it for more capitalists and protect it from its own worst tendencies

Those who oppose fascism today do so at great personal risk. We know more lives will be lost in the coming year, but Bob Sheldon's death shows us that the spirit of liberation cannot be killed. Long live I-Books! His memory is a blessing ❤️‍🔥

The legacy of Bob Sheldon, founder of Internationalist Books The Internationalist commemorates Bob Sheldon’s life, 20 years after he was murdered, Monday, Feb. 21, 7-9 p.m., with speeches from old friends and a rousing march to the site of the old store with an...

Without Bob Sheldon, there wouldn't be a Firestorm Books.

35 years ago today, Bob was assassinated outside Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, NC. We still don't know who killed him, but the shooting took place in the shadows of the Greensboro Massacre and the Shelby gay bookstore murders. 1/

The literal face of fascism

Adult Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map of the United States. Florida, Kansas, and Texas are marked "Do Not Travel" with dark crosshatched shading. Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming are dark red for "Worst Laws Passed." Georgia, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Montana, and South Carolina are orange for "High Risk Within 2 Years." Alaska, Kentucky, and North Carolina are salmon/pink for "Moderate Risk Within 2 Years." Arizona, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, and DC are light blue for "Low Risk Within 2 Years." California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington are teal for "Safest States With Strong Protections."

Youth Anti-Trans Legal Risk Assessment Map of the United States. Florida, Kansas, and Texas are marked "Do Not Travel" with dark crosshatched shading. The majority of states are dark red for "Worst Active Anti-trans Laws." Montana, Nebraska, Alaska, and several others are orange for "High Risk Within 2 Years." States including California, Colorado, New York, and other previously protective states are now light peach for "Moderate Risk Within 2 Years," reflecting the update that no state is considered low risk for transgender youth. No states appear in low-risk or protective categories.

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here.

For trans adults, Kansas is the newest "Do Not Travel" warning, only the 3rd state to achieve that warning.

For youth, a change to the map increases risk to Medium in many states.

Nationwide risk remains extreme.

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To all the people defending Mamdani's supposedly kinder, gentler encampment sweeps:

Taking away people's agency and destroying their belongings is violent, whether it's cops or social workers doing it.

*And* Mamdani himself said that cops will still be involved, as "observers."

Judge Pittman just announced that *he* is going to run voir dire (jury selection). Attorneys may submit questions Friday before noon *for consideration* but they will not be able to ask themselves.

He is also cutting opening statements down to 8 minutes.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

BREAKING: Voir dire will only be visible to the public and media at a remote viewing room 30 MILES away from the courthouse.

Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline Damage was minimal but police are investigating.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Whose got good anti-ICE / anti-fascist zines for teens and tweens? 👀

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 2 images Call for 3-5 more contributions to my next curated zine: “Pandemic Care without States: Prefigurative Practices in Supplying Well-Being from Below” Length: prose, @ 75 to 250 wor...

Call for 3-5 more contributions to my next curated zine:

“Pandemic Care without States: Prefigurative Practices in Supplying Well-Being from Below”

Length: prose, 75 to 250 words
Due: by or before Fri, Feb 27
Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo

See @cindymilstein IG

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Under tight security, Fort Worth trial begins in Prairieland ICE center shooting About 20 of the potential jurors told the judge they have strong feelings in opposition to ICE.

About 20 of the potential jurors told the judge they have strong feelings in opposition to ICE.

BREAKING: Judge Pittman threatens to declare mistrial, retires to “do research.”

Follow @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social for live updates from the trial, which started today!

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.

The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

“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.”

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️