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Wondering if any republicans in Congress who flipped out when Clinton and Lynch ran into each other, or wouldn’t shut up about Jack Smith “conspiring” with Biden, would have anything to say about this shit.

But it's "newsworthy" to treat AOC like a fucking dumbshit because she said "um"

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

A recreation of a basketball hoop at Manzanar, with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background

A park ranger holding up a photo of gardens at Manzanar during WWII, up against where the gardens would have been

A view from camp, with huge, snowy mountains overlooking Manzanar

The Manzanar monument to those that died at camp, just beyond the camp grounds. Barbed wire is in the foreground of the photo.

In 2019 I had the incredible opportunity to visit Manzanar concentration camp with other young Japanese Americans. Feb 19th marks the day FDR issued orders removing and imprisoning 120,000 Japanese Americans, and my trip is especially top of mind today. I took these photos—more details in alt text.

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Instead, Counsel for Respondet complains that he has too many cases concerning people—fathers, mothers, children, friends, and neighbors—unconstitutionally detained by Respondents. Id. at ¶ 9. As recently explained in a case against these same parties, Respondents “allocated substantial resources to sending thousands of agents to Minnesota, detaining thousands of people, and housing them in their facilities. [Respondents] cannot suddenly lack resources when it comes to protecting detainees’ constitutional rights.” The Advocs. for Hum. Rts. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., Noem, Lyons, Easterwood, No. 26- CV-00749, slip op. at 29–30 (D. Minn. Feb. 12, 2026) (Dkt. No. 95). Counsel for Respondent cannot rely on the sheer unlawfulness of his clients’ conduct as an excuse for his failure to defend such unlawfulness.

Don't even get get me started on how an AUSA, in a sworn declaration filed in federal court, complains about how many habeas cases they have and how hard it's making their life. Pathetic.

It’s a really simple upload function, but if I really couldn’t figure it out, the number of people I would wake up or otherwise bother in that half hour before midnight would break records.

DAILY MEMO: ICE Used 14 Vehicles to Take 6 People from Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse

"Girls"

Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

More than a year after the Trump administration was first sued over its anti-transgender prison policies, DOJ literally showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy — and it is even more anti-trans, aiming to end trans-related care in federal prisons altogether.

This is a crime.

If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.

This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

A person with witchy gray hair and glasses, trying to type while a large brindled tabby cat rests on their neck and shoulder.

Trying to write

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

It happened to me: my dad started saying "frigging" and "dude" when I started saying them as a teen, and I suffered so much psychic damage they left my vocabulary for the most part by age 15.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.

They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.

I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

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It's like they looked at Oliver Twist and said hey we can be even more evil...

Minneapolis estimates 76,200 residents are now experiencing food insecurity because of the federal immigration operation.

The city also estimates a negative economic impact of at least $203 million.

There's got to be a lot more accountability for a lot more people in Epstein's world. That's why I'm not letting up on my follow the money investigation.

Note: Judge Tenheim initially ordered these memos to be filed under seal, meaning the public wouldn't have access to them.

Law Dork moved to intervene on Tuesday, asking, among other steps, for the sealing to be lifted.

The judge lifted the sealing order on Thursday.

So, the memos are now public.

The 13% illuminated waning crescent on Saturday at 5 AM (UTC+7).

Happy Valentine's Day, Artemis! ♥️
We will visit you again soon. 🚀🌕

Right wingers literally HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA that DHS lies abt every use of force incident. Tricia McLaughlin never confesses she was wrong/lying. Noem does not. Kash does not. And Fox sure as hell never corrects. Some right wingers are uncomfortable right now but simply cannot believe DHS lies.

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ICE was created after 9/11 to protect Americans by targeting terrorists, violent criminals, and serious threats to public safety, not to spend tens of billions of our tax dollars detaining large numbers of people in warehouses with no violent criminal history.

That’s enough to help millions of Americans afford health care, lower premiums, or protect coverage.

Instead, Mike Johnson and Trump’s minions in Congress are spending it on locking tens of thousands more people in converted warehouses, most of whom are contributing positively to our economy.

Meanwhile, ICE’s own data shows the vast majority of those they’ve been detaining aren’t violent criminals at all.

And think about what $38.3 billion represents.