Mike Lowder

Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday according to an announcement sent to Congress today, marking the seventh detained death of 2026 and nearly the 40th since Trump took…

BREAKING: Seventh Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody This Year

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Philadelphia, you are the best

Goldman: "Republicans have created distrust of our electoral system -- not based on evidence -- and then they're gonna say, 'Oh, we have to solve this mistrust we've created.' No. That's not how it works."

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted.

This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

Susan Collins' vote for Justice Kavanaugh led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade — and she still thinks it was the "right vote."

I protected reproductive freedom and the right to an abortion in Maine, and I'm ready to take that fight to the Senate.

I mean at least there’s a study to wave about for the thing we all already knew

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Oh God are we doing this again?

A LARGE SWATHE OF YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD BEFORE THE AGE OF FIVE.

SCARLET FEVER WOULD HAVE CARRIED YOU OFF IN DROVES

From Doug Wilson’s 1996 book on the History of Slavery.

Appalling is an understatement.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

People always ask, "What would you do if you were born in another time period?"

With my health the answer is almost always, "Die before kindergarten."

Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.

We’ve spent the last two decades learning that an information stream designed exclusively for the purpose of validating and reinforcing your priors makes people delusional and unhinged. This is just the ultimate expression of that.

I am fairly certain whoever chose the images for the Johnson County (TX) Sheriff website told AI to change some people to women in their fabricated pictures, because well, zoom in.

(H/t to my student studying this sheriff this semester).

There are a lot of complicated dynamics on display in this video, but the assertion that "people encountering occasional reminders on social media that they are worthy of love and respect no matter what they look like" is a net negative is ludicrous.

Photo of Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing basketball

It’s important to understand they were just people. Movements are made up of everyday people.

Florida: we deported all your hard working employees, but have no fear, we're bringing back child labor to fix it.

Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here

Guilt by Association: First ‘Antifa’ Case Sweeps Anti-Trump Activists Into One Terrorism Conspiracy This article is part of TPM’s ongoing “Creating the Enemy Within” project,...

A protester accused of being part of a Texas "antifa cell" was held in solitary confinement for three months.

“They went and poisoned everyone against the defendants before we ever even knew what was going on,” her sister told
@joshkovensky.bsky.social

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The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance.

“Right now, we’re seeing our rights trampled on around the country. Depending on how this case turns out, some precedents could be set that will haunt us for decades to come.” @stevanzetti.bsky.social on the new red(/black?) scare: www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

The GOP hates the Constitution.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched...”

YES. I've been begging for this. They are running illegal detention facilities in office buildings. Municipalities shut down businesses all the time for health code or zoning violations far less severe than ICE's. Pressure your cities!

The other intellectually consistent position is that, since the nonexistence of mass voter fraud is a scientific fact just like the direction of the sunrise, we stop lying & restricting suffrage & just hold elections.

The GOP is welcome to embrace democracy & either of these positions at any time.

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

Right wing media has dominated the info space about trans issues. Fox News alone writes more stories about trans people than even LGBTQ news outlets. That doesn't even take into account the influencer space where algo engagement favors this kind of narrative.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/fox-...

In other words, the backsliding is real and serious. This is perhaps the most unfavorable that the public has been toward trans rights in quite some time. Republicans have successfully and effectively exploited several flashpoint issues, like sports, in order to shift public opinion in their direction, while progressives have been unable to effectively muster persuasive arguments. Some of this may be down to an unwillingness to even entertain a debate, in an unsuccessful effort to maintain a unified front. Progressive activists and organizations have often been confrontational when challenged with dissenting views, leading critics to claim that these tactics left little room for actual debate. The net result, however, is the worst-case scenario for progressives and trans individuals alike, as a previously sympathetic public’s support of trans rights has completely unraveled over the last decade.

The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution.

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Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect

Cannot be said enough: we win by making the argument, not by ignoring or reinforcing the lies of our opposition. This means more than being against enforcement, it requires making full throated case immigrants embody the bravery & tenacity we claim to admire.