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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: Trump brutally lawmogged by SCOTUS for tariffmaxxing, a decision sure to spike White House’s cortisol

We're all going to have to keep paying higher prices because the president is throwing a tantrum

Wyden, Warren Probe Lutnick Firm’s Potential Conflicts of Interest Related to Massive Tariff Bets | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Wyden, Warren Probe Lutnick Firm’s Potential Conflicts of Interest Related to Massive Tariff Bets

This might be relevant www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

I wonder if Trump will be resistant to Alito or Thomas retirements because he can depend on them to support anything regardless of law.

I mean he's not wrong. That's usually their deal.

New Site Tracks Oregon Corporate Ties to Federal Immigration Enforcement A new website exposes Oregon businesses who have official government contracts with ICE and CBP

Hey Oregonians:
www.wewillfreeus.org/new-site-tra...

I hate that you can't get pumped that tarrifs got overruled because it just makes it more likely Trump starts a war with Iran.

youtu.be/hqXaJqqp2SI?...

Oregon senators introduce legislation to ban ICE from using facial recognition tech U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon introduced legislation Friday that would ban federal immigration agencies from using facial recognition and other biometric technologies.

ICE is using facial recognition technology to trample on our privacy and civil liberties.

I co-led the ICE Out of Our Faces Act for everyone concerned about protecting their privacy and fundamental rights.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

two old chinese guys, one very old, one smoking a cigarette and one extending a cigarette to the viewer. from a viral tweet that said the ancestors are going to need you to lock in son.

the energy with which i am wishing you all a happy new year

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Wow.

Oregon’s first Black female state senator Avel Gordly dies at 79 PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A trailblazer in Oregon politics has passed away. Avel Gordly died on Monday, her sister Faye Burch confirmed to KOIN 6. She was 79 years old. Gordly was elected as Or…

BREAKING: Oregon’s first Black female state senator Avel Gordly dies at 79
https://www.koin.com/news/politics/oregons-first-black-female-state-senator-avel-gordly-dies-at-79/?cid=bluesky_ 

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

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.

dame never even took off his warmups. bonafide serial killer.

Trumpists do not believe that people who disagree with them are entitled to a voice in government.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

FTC Applauds Law Dork's Motion Seeking to Increase Public Access to Case Filings in Minnesota FEBRUARY 13, 2026

More people should be applauding Law Dork, I always say.

Thanks, @fixthecourt.com! fixthecourt.com/2026/02/ftc-...

Breaking:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Feds open criminal probe into whether ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis.

Rep. Salinas, Sen. Merkley Lead Letter Opposing ICE Detention Facilities in Oregon - Merkley Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led Oregon’s Democratic Members of Congress and ten additional House Members in a letter to Dep...

No more ICE detention facilities in Oregon. HELL NO.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

> @alivitali.bsky.social