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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...

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Uh,

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

County executive addresses rumors of ICE office opening in Hunt Valley The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session on Tuesday to consider legislation about the purchase, similar to a move that Howard County made to prevent a private detention center in...

"The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session Tuesday to consider legislation to ban private persons, corporations, property owners or third-party contractors from gaining permits to operate detention centers in the county...."

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?

Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

Of course, Pelosi also holds a long-standing personal vendetta against AOC because AOC's political career began with a stunning upset primary victory over Pelosi's hand-picked successor, Joe Crowley.

It does make you wonder: Why was Pelosi both times so resistant to impeaching Trump and so adamant that the investigations and impeachment proceedings be far briefer and narrower in scope than they could have been?

Remember when Nancy was whipping votes from her hospital bed in Austria to stop AOC from getting that seat on Oversight?

She's part of the Epstein Class Dem Wing whether you like it or not and Gavin is the perfect encapsulation of everything they stand for.

this is very bad but I’m curious what effect it’s going to have in practice - if American car manufacturers move back towards extremely emissions-heavy cars they are basically surrendering the global market and are extremely vulnerable to domestic politics shifting back

it’s bad business

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.

They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

The NYT is exactly who you think they are. Pro-Trump pedo protectors mixed with some misogyny, racism, and plenty of transphobia

social media is paradoxically both exhausting and insomnia-inducing at the same time.

So much of our government is being willfully destroyed that it overshadows areas where things haven't been working correctly for a while, like medication shortages. ADHD drugs since 2022. Local anesthetics since 2015.

Even stuff as basic as "sterile water for irrigation" since 2023. Seriously.

If you model spending only as discretionary choice, treat anything beyond the most basic food and shelter as expendable, as gravy, something optional or superfluous, you will never make sense of what human beings actually experience, and the ructions of behavior that results. /fin

Feels like there’s an erosion of social trust and trust in the good faith of law enforcement here that is going to be hard to unwind

Might be in the GOAT conversation for parts in some of the great underrated dramas: Falling Down, The Paper, Network. He was in so many good movies, maybe only Network shows up in the obit. That's a full-ass 95 years, RIP.

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

Between him and Hackman we’ve lost some classic guys who would hit the note exactly right for every character they had to play.

RIP Robert Duvall. A screen legend and true icon.

MEMORANDUM OPINION February 16, 2026 “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.” George Orwell, 1984' As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto "Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…

CONCLUsION For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place. Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy Presidents Day.

WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

To paraphrase Ewan Roy, billionaires may give away a few million of their billions, but they are not generous people. They're mean. And they make but a mean estimation of the world.

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

If there's one thing American voters love it's party insiders who have been in office for decades — particularly if those party insiders are really old. This is especially true of younger voters.

obama, mccain

trump, clinton

look we all know the person with the most experience always wins the presidential election. you just have to wait your turn and then you win.

Kind of weird that the DNC just straight up won't release the post-2024 election autopsy so we know why they lost. 🤔

I predict the biggest effect of this will be the death of what's left of the American auto industry. The only thing American car companies make anymore are comically large trucks and SUVs that are unsafe, inefficient, and overpriced. Making them more polluting will kill demand at home and abroad.