“None of the deportees are Cameroonian citizens. And almost all had received protection from American courts, which banned the government from sending them back to their home countries, where they would most likely face persecution, according to government documents obtained by The Times…”

Absolutely amazing!

Rep Ted Lieu claims what 99.9999% of the world already thinks — the unredacted Epstein files contain allegations of Trump raping children. 😳👇

Oversight Democrats are not backing down.

If Les Wexner claims he doesn’t remember, then he needs to turn over his financial records and let the money tell the story.

Survivors deserve justice. It’s time for the cover-up to end.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.

See what changes are in store for your county 👇

This is why we don’t give up.

Council blocks construction of ICE detention center in Hunt Valley The Baltimore County Council took swift action Tuesday night to block the construction of an ICE detention center in Hunt Valley.

Baltimore County Council bans immigration detention centers. 6-0 vote.
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Tomorrow, the Oversight Committee will have the opportunity to question Les Wexner about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Survivors told us from day one: follow the money. That is exactly what we intend to do.

Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway.

New:

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Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.

I mean, that about captures it www.axios.com/2026/02/17/t...

Headline: Immigrants who say their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 cases. It's a historic high. Graph: A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few habeas cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.

The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.

➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov:

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DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

The Big Picture | Substack The Big Picture provides a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today, from a variety of unique perspectives. Click to read The Big Picture, a Substack publica...

This week in politics: what you need to know about ICE's plans to expand its prison camp detention capacity. And going beyond Trump's spin about “antifa,” what is the truth about the movement to eradicate fascism from our streets? Worth a read if you want context beyond the headlines.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

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Oregon woman headed to buy socks for teen son. She’s now stuck in ICE detention U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici has pushed ICE to release Maria Trinidad Loya Medina so she can care for her seriously ill husband and their two children. Medina has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 year...

I recently visited Maria in the Tacoma detention center. She is a loving mom, pays her taxes, and has no criminal history -- not even a parking ticket. She deserves to come home to her two children and her husband, who is recovering from surgery. I will not stop fighting until she is home.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) making a statement too. Our minds are blown. Damn pardon our French but hell is freezing over. NRA and GOA calling for an investigation but not the government. Fuck.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Something is happening here, what it is isn’t exactly clear. The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus told local media they want the state BCA granted full and equal access to all evidence so an independent investigation can happen.

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Protesters attempting to block an armored vehicle from advancing earlier today in Minneapolis

Legal experts question ‘highly unusual’ DOJ probe of Minnesota officials The Department of Justice issued subpoenas to the offices of Gov. Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and others as part of probe into whether they obstructed immigration enforcement.

The experts said comments made publicly by Democrats Walz and Frey, including fierce condemnations of the ICE crackdown and calls for residents to record activity and peacefully demonstrate, are constitutionally protected.

Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”