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Conservative sounds alarm on under-the-radar Trump move to pay off cops to assist ICE During an appearance on MS NOW Monday, conservative commentator Matt Lewis raised the prospect of Donald Trump taking over local police departments by paying them off to help out in rounding up immigr...

White middle class Americans are right to ask whether their own local police departments will protect them from ICE. This largely unknown program by the regime suggests the answer is no.

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The U.S. killed two more civilians in a boat strike today. A survivor will likely die at sea.

Milly Silva: the new PSC executive director - PSC CUNY Milly Silva, a veteran of the labor movement, has joined the PSC as executive director. She has already hit the ground running.

𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘
𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐚: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐒𝐂 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫
Milly Silva, a veteran of the labor movement, has joined the PSC as executive director. She has already hit the ground running.

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HOME ESPN FOX NBC MORE E Pat McAfee blown away to learn San Francisco is not what conservative media makes it out to be "This place has been gorgeous. It has been incredible." F 2.6.26 #PMSLIV PAT MCAFEE SHOW ** UNE FROM SAN FRANCISCO ** SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS TIGHT END GEORGE KITTLE Credit: The Pat McAfee Show By Sean Keeley on 02/06/2026

tfw you leave Plato’s cave

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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants

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Refugees International’s Jeremy Konyndyk warns that “the Trump-Elon cuts are killing people.” A new report by the group documents deaths directly tied to the collapse of U.S. relief funding, which fell from $14B in 2024 to $3.7B in 2025, leaving 25 million fewer people with aid, even as global need surged. Health care and food aid, among the most life-saving interventions, were not protected. Food aid funding dropped 40%. More than 2,000 health clinics in crisis zones were shuttered. Communities began resorting to “negative coping,” a famine-warning pattern that includes consuming seed stocks, selling productive assets, sinking into debt, survival sex, and child marriage. These measures keep people alive short term but severely impact long-term survival, he writes. All of this devastation flows from a $10B cut in U.S. humanitarian support, what Konyndyk notes is a rounding error in a $7T federal budget.

See new posts Conversation Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk · Feb 5 A year has passed since @elonmusk began the wood-chipper-ing of @USAID . Since then, global humanitarian funding has collapsed by almost 1/3, mostly due to the Trump/Elon cuts. Vast suffering has ensued. 🧵 Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk US relief aid collapsed from $14bn in 2024 to just $3.7bn in 2025. This meant global humanitarian relief reached 25 million fewer people, even as the number of people needing aid rose. We at @RefugeesIntl have a new report that assesses the emerging human toll.

Refugees International’s Jeremy Konyndyk warns that “the Trump-Elon cuts are killing people.”

A new report by the group documents deaths directly tied to the collapse of US relief funding, which fell from $14B in 2024 to $3.7B in 2025, leaving 25 million fewer people w/ aid, even as global need...

There are lots of important books about concentration camps; two that I have used in my own teaching are "KL" by Nikolaus Wachsmann and "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Golfo Alexopoulos.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

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If you need to scramble an F-35 to hit a drone you are going to have problems down the line.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

Sports betting reshaped newsrooms, and it’s “a little gross.” Now, here come the prediction markets "Sports media is kind of getting bribed," as one former ESPN reporter told journalist Danny Funt.

"As a former ESPN reporter put it, “Sports media is kind of getting bribed.” Another reporter who was pursuing a story that could discredit sports betting said it may end up being career suicide, saying, “I worry I’m tying a noose around my neck.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/spor...

“If we’re going to say it’s OK to kill so-called terrorists in the Caribbean, for actions that have traditionally been dealt with as a criminal matter, using due process — what’s to say you can’t do the same in an American city?” asked
@scanlon.house.gov

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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

🚨 Trump: ‘Republicans Should Run Elections’ The US president all but calls to end American democracy, Kristi Noem caves while on thin ICE, and the Epstein files pit Bari Weiss against her newsroom?

"Trump is a raging ball of racist, power-hungry id. He means what he says, he says what he means, no matter how ludicrous, monstrous, or completely untethered from reality. So, yes, Americans should be very, very concerned about his expressed desire to “nationalize” elections."
- Today's First Draft

A lifetime of representing PSC members - PSC CUNY Howard Prince, who represented PSC members in contract enforcement for half a century, looks back on a career of feisty unionism.

𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘
𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐒𝐂 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬
Howard Prince, who represented PSC members in contract enforcement for half a century, looks back on a career of feisty unionism.

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A news article displays a photo of a person in a dark face covering and blue jeans being led away by two heavily armored officers in tactical gear, one wearing a gas mask, on a city street. The article's headline reads: "ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises," with the photo caption stating "ICE in action in Portland."

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation.

#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

Last night, GOP Senator Rand Paul went on national TV to flatly reject DHS's lies about the Pretti execution:

"My advice to [DHS], if they're watching:

If you come into [our hearing] and try to justify that [Pretti] was assaulting a police officer, that cannot be acceptable."

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

How to Film ICE Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

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#ICEOUT #fascism #terrorists

Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them? From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.

theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...

I seriously doubt that ICE is going to lose a penny of funding right now. What I would rather see the Dems in office focus on is doing something constructive to hold them accountable for their actions.

Image of four newspapers on a table. One is the New York Daily News from today with a new font and three are the Daily News from last week with the old font.

informal, small-n newsroom poll finds that old font was preferred but also had a tacky tabloid feel while new font seems more business-y. @nydnunion.bsky.social

Don Lemon’s Arrest Is a Warning to Every Journalist in America The Trump administration isn’t just enforcing the law—it’s using arrests as intimidation, and the press is the target.

Don Lemon wasn’t arrested for disrupting a church service. He was arrested because the Trump administration wants journalists afraid. This is intimidation, plain and simple.
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