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The 1st in-custody death of 2026 was Geraldo Lunas Campos at Fort Bliss, Jan 3. This, 47 days later, was the 9th death of the year. That's 1 death every 5 1/3 days.

This admin gutted DHS's detention ombudsman and civil rights office. DHS's IG is a Trump appointee. People in detention lack recourse.

The low admittance rates are a scam for many schools bc most relorted rates do not take into account ed (affirmative action for the well-off). Vassar 38% vs 18%, Smith 50% vs 20%. They game it by actively recruiting so many students who do not stand a chance.

Lol. The most toxic part of our oligarchy would collapse, and the oligarchs would have you believe that means you, too. But it very much does not.

As we review the site plans for the Social Circle, GA, detention warehouse, we find ourselves asking:

Why does a detention warehouse need a gun range?

What's especially galling is that a lot of the people the government has detained are being detained for not filing their paperwork on time. Why should a sworn officer of the court be held to a lower standard than some poor guy whose immigration paperwork was filed late?

NEW: As expected, SCOTUS invalidates tariffs. Billionaires don’t like it when you mess with the markets. Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh dissent. Importers will now get refunds on costs they’ve already passed on to us, making the rich even richer.

But placing him above the law by granting immunity and letting him wiggle out of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is totally cool.

This. At every step he downplays what they are obviously planning to do bc he takes them at their word.

Why focus only on what they claim are their plans when they lie about their plans? Their plans were to arrest the worst of the worst. Every claim/ stated plan has been found to be a lie but let's continue to give them the benefit of the doubt. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Why take them at their word that the goal is to move people through efficiently? They repeatedly lie re who they're detaining & why. They lie re conditions in detention. It's not hysteria to acknowledge the disconnect between their claims & what they are doing to immigrants & so assume the worst.

You’ve got to click through to really be able to read this, but note that the box on the top right says this will actually be a two-level facility, with around 5,200 beds on the ground floor (if I’m reading the blurry text right) and around 3,100 on the “mezzanine.”

A one-man tour-de-force of corruption, using his money and connections everywhere he went to build networks which would prevent anyone from holding him accountable.

I know we sort of live in a time in which personal morality is irrelevant in politics, but it’s worth noting that there are very credible allegations that at least two cabinet secretaries are presently engaged in affairs with coworkers; one with her right-hand man and the other with her bodyguard.

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Over at Lawfare, I examine the peculiar constitutional theory undergirding OPM's final rule on Schedule Policy/Career

Revetting that they say takes about 4 hours but then the govt insists they must br imprisoned while awaiting a determination, which takes 8+ months.

210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*

Really appreciate @stevevladeck.bsky.social for writing this because one of the biggest failures of the mainstream press has been writing headlines and articles about Trump's increasingly deranged declarations around elections as if he has This One Weird Trick to completely upend the Constitution.

Isn't it rich, isn't it queer?
Watching free speech so quickly disappear?
And where are the fascists?
Quick, send in the fascism.
Don't bother, it's here.

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U.S. judge throws out immigration board's ruling endorsing Trump mass detention policy A federal judge threw out on Wednesday an administrative board's decision endorsing the Trump administration's policy of subjecting thousands of people arrested during its immigration crackdown to man...

Does this ruling have any impact on what DHS is doing regarding refugees?
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Refugees, upon conditional admission, are provided notice that they must apply for adjustment of status to become LPRs.3 This notice is provided on the USCIS website and may also come from CBP upon the refugee's admission at a U.S. Port of Entry or from nonprofit resettlement agencies who are charged by the U.S. Department of State through cooperative agreements to assist refugees. Such agencies generally provide, among other things, information on permanent resident alien status and should encourage and assist refugees as soon as possible after arrival to obtain or complete immunizations as required for adjustment to LPR status one year after arrival. Accordingly, DHS believes that refugees are, and have been, on notice of this requirement and cannot have valid reliance interests in any prior lax enforcement. Nonetheless, DHS acknowledges that refugees may have believed that the prior USCIS and ICE guidance implied that refugees could fail to comply with the statute-i.e., that they could either not apply to adjust status or not appear for examination and inspection-without consequence. DHS considered whether such refugees could rely on this misguided belief and thus fail to take steps to prepare to return to custody for the time necessary for DHS to conduct the required inspection. For example, they could fail to make arrangements with family members, employers, or legal representation or they could mistakenly believe that any custody would be limited to 48 hours. In that case, refugees could potentially experience adverse consequences upon arrest and detention under this new policy, such as financial consequences of missing work, unmet household and family obligations, and a delay in securing legal representation.

In a section of the memo that is truly Orwellian, the Trump admin actually says it's REFUGEES who have the "misguided belief" about the law — even though this policy is a brand new interpretation of a 45-year-old law — and therefore it's THEIR fault they're traumatized when ICE comes to jail them.

Published Jan. 26, 2026 Updated Jan. 29, 2026 Selamawit Mehari, an Eritrean single mother of three, was starting her day when federal agents showed up at her apartment in St. Paul, Minn., on a recent morning. As her 13-year-old son wailed and her older daughter produced paperwork proving her mother was in the United States lawfully, the agents shackled Ms. Mehari and took her away. "They didn't explain anything," recalled her daughter, Yosan, 21, who described the encounter to The New York Times. "We didn't understand. We had done everything right." The next day, chained at the wrists, waist and ankles, Ms. Mehari, 38, was shuffling up the steps of a plane bound for Texas, tears streaming down her face in the frigid wind.

In Minnesota, this policy involved ICE officers arresting refugees who had done EVERYTHING right, then flying them to Texas in chains for interrogation.

Remember, these people had filed every application on time, had done nothing wrong, and were here in the country 100% legally.

Making matters worse, the Trump admin is REFUSING to adjudicate green card applications for refugees who come from one of the 39 countries Trump banned.

So under this policy, a refugee who applies for a green card exactly on time, doing nothing wrong, can (and DHS says must) be jailed by ICE.

😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but it’s still destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the president?

Thanking Donald Trump for signing the budget bill, which spared NIH from the knife was unseemly and unnecessary. In fact, the destruction of American science is gathering steam under this administration and appeasement won't help. My latest for @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Note: the British arrest the King's brother as part of the investigations into Epstein and the South Koreans send their former president to jail for life for trying to overthrow democracy after he attempted a coup over false election integrity charges.

Here? We take NO action against Trump

$413,000 per bed. Insanity.

While they cut health care, food assistance, etc.

Surprise ICE warehouse could house up to 10,000 detainees for months at a time, new documents show After weeks of speculation about what the 400,000-square-foot warehouse in Surprise might be used for, the documents confirm it will be retrofitted as an ICE detention center, potentially housing 7,00...

We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...