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I love this bit so much its so good

As soon as white people enter trader Joes they lose all fear

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Border Patrol agents say 'time to get aggressive' in footage that contradicts claims against Marimar Martinez Martinez is expected to announce a new lawsuit stemming from her Oct. 4 shooting by a Border Patrol agent at a press conference Wednesday. Her attorneys say newly released evidence will show an agent ...

Chicago's U.S. attorney's office has released evidence from the case against Marimar Martinez, pre-empting her press conference later today.

It even released text messages it once claimed would "sully" a Border Patrol agents's rep.

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Seriously, we need think pieces about how more swole dudes can learn from Bad Bunny to have mobile hips and glutes so they too can have the balance to easily dance on top of a truck while expressing a strong political message.

This story mentions "Oak Brook Gateway" in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook as one of the buildings in which ICE is supposedly planning office space.

Oak Brook Gateway is managed by Fairbridge Partners LLC. I tried to contact them, but the only email listed on their website bounced back as invalid.

similar dynamic with Pritzker in IL. Hugely disappointing from someone who wants to be the role model for standing up to Trump.

Office of the Attorney General State of Arizona Kris Mayes Feb. 9, 2026 Dear Secretary Noem, I write regarding public reports that the DHS's recently purchased a large warehouse in Surprise, AZ, for use as a U.S. ICE processing and detention facility for 1,500 migrants. The 418,000 square foot warehouse near the intersection of Sweetwater Ave & Dysart Rd is located just 300 yards from residential homes & just over a mile away from a high school with a large Hispanic population and a preschool with afterschool programs for children under 12. Local officials have stated publicly that the city was not informed of the purchase in advance & remains without basic information about the facility's intended use, timeline, & impacts.' A Surprise City Council meeting on February 3 confirmed that City residents remain in the dark regarding DHS's plans & have grave concerns regarding the proposed facility. At the meeting over 80 residents spoke at length of the project's harm to their community given the facility's proximity to local schools, its likely strain upon municipal services, including fire prevention, water, wastewater, trash & emergency medical response, & the long-term impacts of the facility upon property values & local economic development. Many federal, state & local environmental laws & regulations apply to the construction & operation of facilities similar to the proposed ICE detention facility. As Arizona's top law enforcement officer I have authority to compel the abatement of activities considered a public nuisance due to being "injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property that interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community or neighborhood or by a considerable number of persons." A.R.S. 13-2917. I note with approval your statement on the DHS website, that "through technical support, training, & oversight, DHS limits liability by ensuring continuous compliance with

federal, state, and local laws and regulations, in the operation of DHS facilities and the execution of mission essential functions. "2 Prior to the starting any construction or operational activities, DHS must answer basic questions about the use of the facility and its impacts upon the local community. In seeking such information in this letter, I join the bipartisan chorus of federal lawmakers, in particular U.S. Representatives Paul Gosar (R-AZ-9),3 Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-3), Greg Stanton (D-AZ-4), and Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ-7),* who have demanded answers from your office regarding the planned facility. Accordingly, I request your Office provide written responses to the following questions regarding the proposed ICE detention facility in Surprise, Arizona, no later than February 17, 2026: 1. Copies of all DHS responses to the fifteen (15) questions posed by U.S. Representative Paul Gosar in a letter to Secretary Kristi Noem dated February 4, 2026. 2. Copies of all DHS responses to the ten (10) questions posed by U.S. Representatives Yassamin Ansari, Greg Stanton, and Adelita Grijalva in a letter to Secretary Kristi Noem dated February 5, 2026. 3. Details regarding all measures DHS will put in place to ensure the construction associated with the conversion of the warehouse to an ICE detention center and the operation of the center will not interfere with the functioning of any nearby school or the health and safety of their students, including that of the Dysart High School, whose student population, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, is over 60 percent Hispanic.

4. Details regarding all vehicular traffic occasioned by any construction associated with converting the warehouse to an ICE detention center and the operation of the center, including the number of vehicular trips, the roads to be used, the type and estimated number of vehicles, the days of the week and time of day of vehicular trips, and the estimated amount of pollutants, dust and noise that will accompany the vehicle traffic to and from the facility. 5. Details regarding noise impacts from the planned facility, including during the construction and operational phases, and including whether such lighting would be in compliance with City and County lighting requirements, if applicable. 6. Details regarding outdoor lighting from the planned facility, the hours outdoor lighting will be present, including whether such lighting would be in compliance with City and County lighting requirements, if applicable. CITATIONS - 'City of Surprise, AZ., "A Statement from the City of Surprise," Jan 30, 2026, https://surpriseaz.gov/1155/City- News?contentId=2a6d02c6-8bb9-4aбf-b2b4-9734b84b929a. - U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Environment and Energy at DHS, https://www.dhs.gov/ocrso/eed#:~:text=DHS's%20environmental%20planning%20responsibilities%20include:%20 *%20Analyzing,federal%2C%20state%2C%20and%20local%20laws%20and%20regulations (emphasis added). - Letter from the Hon Paul Gosar to DHS Secretary Krisi Noem, Feb, 4, 2026 (demanding DHS's response to a list of 15 questions within 10 days). - Letter from the Hons. Yassamin Ansari, Greg Stanton, and Adelita Grijalva, Feb. 5, 2026 (demanding DHS's response to a list of 10 questions with 15 days).

7. Details regarding the amount of water that will be needed for all uses associated with the construction and operational phases of the proposed facility, the projected source of the water, and the impacts of the facility's water demand upon competing demands for water locally. 8. Details regarding the generation and disposal of all liquid and solid waste from the facility during the construction and operational phases of the project, including the expected amounts of each type of waste and whether hazardous and/or non-hazardous, how it will be disposed of, where, and all steps that will be taken by DHS to prevent such disposal from interfering with existing waste disposal services in Surprise, Arizona. 9. Details regarding DHS's plans to ensure all persons housed or working at the proposed facility are provided adequate medical care, including mental health services, through onsite and off-site medical clinics, offices, and hospitals, as well as the emergency response personnel and funding that will be available to guarantee that such medical care is readily accessible to those in need of such care. 10. Details regarding all other impacts to local municipal and county services, including fire, law enforcement and emergency response that will be occasioned by the proposed conversion of a warehouse into an ICE detention center and the operation of the center. Thank you for your prompt response to this request. Sincerely, Kris Mayes Attorney General link: https://mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206/files/204a936a-1317-4665-86ed-4510d8315389/Letter_to_Secretary_Noem.01.pdf

AG Kris Mayes also sent a letter to Noem demanding answers over DHS's $70 million purchase of the Surprise warehouse. Mayes notes the schools in the direct vicinity of the proposed concentration camp and says she has "authority to compel the abatement of activities considered a public nuisance..."

Whoever started putting potato chips on the Charcuterie board i hope God do something nice for you tomorrow

"And in Oakbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, ICE is moving into the Oakbrook Gateway, an office building located near both a Bright Horizons daycare center and a hospice center."

I don't know how it works in NYC, there probably are differences there. I think ald perog needs to be torn out root and stem. However, that doesn't stop the mayor from having open hearings with tenants, and it doesn't stop him from trying to pass legislation to rein in abusive landlords.

Its barely been a month and he has done ten times more than brandon johnson has in two and a half years. 😔 (I know that hearings don't mean anything is going to change necessarily, but this is still meaningful)

now that Bowen is gone who will be a bad bunny grass performer on SNL

Its all financial gobbledygook and meaningless anyway. I briefly worked an investment related job and I don't follow one bit of it

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Yayyyyyy someone else who loves yelle!!!! Shout out to my friend the French teacher who introduced me to French pop music.

Post a banger that isn't in English

undersexed?!?!?!? The one thing I expect from Emerald Fennell is some sex

1. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, just did an interview where he said, on camera, that the director of the FBI threatened to investigate one of his staffers for fraud if Massey did not stop pushing for the disclosure of the Epstein files.

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music is sound art. it is textural, rhythmic, melodic, a game of tension and release, a conversation between expectation of the listener and the song itself, and reduce it to lyrics only displays the same lack of artistic palette as someone who can only appreciate “realistic” visual art

“This may sound extreme,” Bushman said. “But when I was making this decision, I couldn’t help but think about how the people who fed those imprisoned in concentration camps were still part of the Nazi regime.”

Kid Rock's dad owned multiple car dealerships and he grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries and recording his songs in his room to winning multiple Grammys. Which one is the better encapsulation of hard work and the American Dream?

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.

seriously, if you can't be goofing with the one you love then is it really love?

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

Great politics should look like a party you want to join