Cynthia Hope Laub

It’s kind of astonishing the sorts of conversations we have these days.

They are moving from Colorado.

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.

Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.

This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🧊✈️ Wrapped & Hooded ⛓️😲

In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas 👀

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.

HEADS UP TEXAS VOTERS
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I had a great conversation today with the incomparable Allison Gill of @muellershewrote.com about the isolation that leads men into hate groups and into storming the Capitol. You can watch the full conversation at HateComesToMainStreet.com.

this is one of those things that everyone knew and assumed to be true, but it's good to have the hard evidence. Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff also emailed staff after Charlie Kirk murder to suggest another new Ring feature could have been used to help catch his killer. Both emails in article

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...

John Roberts Wrote the Permission Slip for the Fulton County Fiasco - emptywheel DOJ's improper seizure of Fulton County's 2020 ballots may be a test of the new powers John Roberts gave Donald Trump in his 2024 opinion in Trump v. US.

John Roberts Wrote the Permission Slip for the Fulton County Fiasco

emptywheel.net/john-roberts...

ORAL MOTION by USA to dismiss as to Jacqueline Guataquira (exr, ) (Entered: 02/18/2026)

The UNITED STATES ATTORNEY charges: On or about October 3, 2025, at Broadview, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, JACQUELINE GUATAQUIRA, defendant herein, did forcibly impede and interfere with a person designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114, namely an employee of the United States, while he or she was engaged in the performance of his or her official duties; In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a).

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz.

Assuming its’s granted, Jacqueline Guataquira would become the 17th of 32 known defendants cleared.

None of the 32 has been convicted.

Docket entry and original charging doc below:

NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

"Even while acknowledging that elections are one area where the President doesn’t have a defined role, he still included language lumping federal elections under the Take Care Clause, effectively flipping that principle on its head."

YouTube video by DRM News “You’ve Crossed a Line” – Sen. Slotkin Grills ICE Director Lyons in Fiery Senate Hearing | AC1N

Marcy embedded this clip of @slotkin.senate.gov dragging ICE nudnik Lyons and it's very worth your time: "conduct of your agency has put us in a position where the average American doesn't know whether to trust law enforcement. that is terrible and scary" youtu.be/Jh2CP6s1iqw?...

Emptywheel excerpt with my highlights

"I fear this is a dry run, testing what 2020 would have looked like if Trump had replaced Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, if Trump had turned DOJ into his own election-theft organization" @emptywheel.bsky.social #FultonCounty emptywheel.net/john-roberts...

Fucking Monsters

For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.

Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Broken link! I wanna read this

Activists Want the City to Enforce Code Against the Dallas ICE Field Office. Can It Be Done? Cities across the state and nation are finding ways to hold ICE accountable. Will Dallas?

New in @dmagazine.bsky.social

"In June 2025, DHS waived the original 12-hour limit on holding people at field offices, increasing it to 72 hours...between July and October 15, at least 336 people were held at the Dallas ICE field office for more than 72 hours."

www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

This poll has Trump’s issue approval on immigration at -11%, down from -13% last week but still higher than any level of disapproval registered in their polls last year.

This language on the TrumpRx site.

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.

After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't sell his stocks Roberts and Alito are the only two justices who own individual stocks. Also: A new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin's removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument.

I just saw a bunch of the credulous reporting on this new conflicts check system, and, my god, it's so embarrassing.

Please, read and subscribe to Law Dork for independent legal journalism. Save yourself from the bullshit.

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

Do you have a working link?

“The guardsman was never found”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

This

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
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