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Slide into autocracy 48 : Surveillance : Police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations. Multiple law enforcement leaders acknowledged this.
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A real sweetie : Jeremy Carl, Trump’s nominee for a senior State Department post, struggled at his confirmation hearing to answer what should have been an easy question, since he wrote an entire book about it: What is white identity and why is it under threat?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
The E.P.A. has officially rejected the scientific consensus that greenhouse gases threaten human health and the environment.
“This was all a scam, a giant scam,” Trump said on Thursday. “This was a rip off of the country by Obama and Biden.”
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"All I'm asking is for clarification, who are you and why am I being detained," recalled the child's mother, who said the men responded: "I'm gonna [expletive] blow your head off" "They kicked me, they punched me, they stepped on me," she said.
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Slide into autocracy 47 : “Reports suggesting children were zip-tied ... are completely false.” - FBI. (KIVI-TV sends photo of 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.) “Reports suggesting YOUNG CHILDREN were zip-tied... are completely false.” - FBI.
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“You are here, Mr. Lyons, because white people are getting shot in the face and chest when the cameras are rolling, because now my Republican colleagues care about optics.” - Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) to Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE at a congressional hearing.
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Slide into autocracy 46 : Once upon a time, prosecutors were hired to skillfully and impartially enforce the law. Under Bondi, they are hired for political or ideological fealty to Trump. Many have left and the Justice Dept. is having trouble attracting top talent.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Sarah B Rogers, a senior US state department official, has been publicly attacking allies' policies on hate speech and immigration, while promoting far-right parties abroad, becoming the public face of Trump’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies.
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"A modern-day concentration camp... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US. He was interviewed on Ireland's RTÉ Radio
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A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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False DHS claims : The DHS said Brown had made a “deliberate attempt” to run officers down with his car. In court, however, the case against Brown quickly unraveled as a judge found that the government failed to present any evidence supporting its claims.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Slide into autocracy 45 : "What happens when democratic states adopt the methods of the regimes they once condemned? Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people... more submissive."
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Apparently Trump wants more nuclear weapons. What could go wrong ? 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Attention Europeans living in the US : An Irish man has spent five months in ICE detention and faces deportation despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record.
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Powerful, inspiring, intense, touching, much more than the usual biographical documentary. Well worth the $3 on amazon.com (USA site). If you are out of the USA, use a VPN.
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Slide into autocracy 44 : "The crackdown on dissent and speech in Minnesota this winter follows a pattern that is common in countries that slide from democracy to autocracy... We are moving our assessment of "stifling speech and dissent" up one notch, to Level 4."
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Great new LP from our Edinburgh friends The Screamin' Kick ! Listen free on Bandcamp. PS Somebody please add it to Discogs !
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The brutality of USAID’s closure and the disregard for the human toll betrayed a vision of a crueler, meaner, more insular world — one in which America aspires not to any pretense of moral leadership but simply to naked power, dominance and extractive self-interest.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
I've known Green Day since they started out nearly 40 years ago and I respect them for keeping a political perspective and speaking out strongly against Trump. But they wasted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take strong action at the Super Bowl. Chilling effect ?
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It just keeps going ! 😮 This Wikipedia article is 34,000 words, or about 66 pages when pasted into MS Word. Check it out.
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Slide into autocracy 43 : Kash Patel halted an FBI civil rights investigation of the Good killing because it might contradict Trump’s claim that she “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who shot her. Yes, read that again.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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“I have the outtakes to The Apprentice where he says every bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever,” Arnold told the Seattle-based radio station KIRO. “It was him sitting in that chair saying the N-word, saying the C-word, calling his son a retard...”
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Richard Hanania, a political scientist, said such accusations were part of the game. “They do everything up to the line; it’s kind of clever,” he said. “‘We’ll Have Our Home Again’ is a white-nationalist song.” He added that to his knowledge, no other groups would use it.
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