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Wow.

If we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

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.

The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

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:

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

This man is so awful.

This is a big deal.

No matter how many awful things come out of this White House, you can organize your community to fight back against tyranny.

We must also continue to boycott ICE's corporate collaborators like Amazon, AT&T, and any other company trying to profit off this misery.

Looks like Musk is getting deposed!

Cc: @annabower.bsky.social

NEW: A rupture between DOJ and ICE has emerged in Minnesota, where overwhelmed prosecutors keep dropping the ball — and saying ICE won't return their messages.

The crisis has had real-world consequences for migrants illegally detained

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.

When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the new California congressional map to stand, rejecting Republicans’ bid to block it. It’s a huge win for Democrats heading into the midterms.

USAID fraud - no arrests

Medicare fraud - no arrests

Social security fraud - no arrests

Election fraud - no arrests

If MAGA didn’t have the collective IQ of a moldy peanut butter sandwich, they’d realize they were being scammed by now.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Reform UK labeled ‘racist’ over two-child benefit cap policy A Reform spokesperson said the policy has ‘nothing to do with race’ and that MPs are ‘wilfully misrepresenting the policy’

Any policy that risks pushing children into poverty because of their parents’ nationality should be rejected outright

Good to see @sianberry.bsky.social “utterly reject the racist agenda” behind Reform’s U-turn on lifting the two-child benefit cap

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

Mamdani Secures a Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Over Delivery Worker Wage Theft Uber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan also agreed to reinstate 10,000 wrongfully deactivated workers.

📰 Deliveristas victory now featured in @thenation.com by @prajwalmanipal.

$5.2M is going back into Deliveristas’ pockets after apps admitted wage theft.
As @helloDCWP Comm. @saalevine said: “Cheating workers will not be tolerated.”

Read more 👇🏾
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani.

This is what economic justice looks like.

And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds Modelling suggests 5.4m children under five among those who could die if budgets of donor countries such as UK and US continue to be slashed

Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030, study finds

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

❤️

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

USAID bars its own experts from agency closeout jobs “The investment in training new contract staff ensures that the final closeout of taxpayer-funded obligations is handled by a team with no prior experience in the matters being settled,” reads an inte...

An administration defined by incompetence and cruelty, and responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths through the dismantling of USAID, is not suddenly going to demonstrate competence or compassion.

A dense winter protest crowd fills a city street, many people wearing coats, hats, and face coverings, with visible breath in cold air. An American flag waves prominently in the foreground. Protest signs are visible in the background, including one reading “ICE OUT.” Overlaid text reads: “COURIER. NATIONAL SHUTDOWN TOMORROW. NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO SHOPPING. Turn out tomorrow, January 30th to show your solidarity against ICE.” The Courier Newsroom logo appears at the bottom.

Stand up.

Truly insane