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Husband, Dad, Teacher & Researcher. Trying to be a decent Citizen in an Uncivil World. The flag of my native land says “Sic Semper Tyrannis”

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Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

16.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 21135    🔁 5378    💬 555    📌 335
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To End Abuses, Eliminate ICE and Give the Money to Police Abolishing ICE would not end all deportations. But it would make them much more dependent on state and local cooperation, which would be a particular boon to “sanctuary” jurisdictions like Boston.

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people.

A right-wing think tank.

www.cato.org/commentary/e...

17.02.2026 00:55 — 👍 1190    🔁 383    💬 61    📌 45

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

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Anderson Cooper Leaving 60 Minutes — Turned Down Offer to Renew His Deal With CBS News Anderson Cooper is reportedly leaving 60 Minutes after turning down an offer from CBS News to renew his contract.

Good on Anderson Cooper for having the integrity to leave Bari Weiss’ CBS

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jus...

16.02.2026 23:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Is Definitely His Legacy….

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If Virginia redistricts, would at least be even in terms of gerrymandering battle

GOP can’t get enough seats out of TX and FL if there is even modest shift blue with Latinos

A more extreme shift would actually give Dems a net gain of seats

15.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

Masked ICE agents had elementary school kids running for their lives in South Jersey. Now they're afraid to go outside or go to school.

Listen to these kids and tell me with a straight face that we can "reform" ICE. You can't reform that.

14.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 164    🔁 73    💬 5    📌 4

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

14.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 6663    🔁 2275    💬 56    📌 70

Every day it becomes clearer that capitulation (Columbia, Perkins Coie, etc) was the wrong strategy

14.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 437    🔁 96    💬 15    📌 5

"first they came for my property value"

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“We left one tyranny and came to another kind of tyranny,” Nikita said in Russian. “Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this.”

13.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 26    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
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Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

11.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 4330    🔁 1211    💬 148    📌 159
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

Reuters Exclusive:

The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from USAID, the former U.S. foreign aid agency, to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul cut thousands of federal jobs.

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These goons deserve to be shamed and shunned for the rest of eternity, and by their own friends and family, too.

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$38 Billion to cage people — as Brentwood, TN-based @CoreCivic says they want even more

13.02.2026 22:14 — 👍 943    🔁 459    💬 71    📌 30
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A year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better Trump has squandered virtually every advantage that won him the presidency.

www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...

13.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is just unconscionable man

13.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 6462    🔁 2491    💬 87    📌 115

House and Senate Dems, get this through your thick skulls: you are not to vote for any further funding of ICE. You are to take all steps possible to abolish ICE. This is not a request. We, the people you serve, are giving you a direct order.

Now DO IT!

11.02.2026 03:09 — 👍 1471    🔁 411    💬 37    📌 20

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

11.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 27235    🔁 7006    💬 1967    📌 433
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

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Today in immediate presidency-ending scandals for anyone but the One Special Boy.

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Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

10.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 4325    🔁 1937    💬 87    📌 161

in conclusion, statehood for dc and pr

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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

09.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 11999    🔁 2662    💬 58    📌 64

people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW

09.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 2722    🔁 382    💬 36    📌 11

It's dope that it's an annual tradition now that the super bowl halftime show makes republicans extremely angry. We should just keep doing this

09.02.2026 02:46 — 👍 1956    🔁 258    💬 44    📌 10
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I'm done!

05.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0