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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

I was shared this animated map built from locally collected data along with other crowd sourced sites showing ICE activity in Minnesota during “Operation Metro Surge”

Jury deadlocked in the trial of Stanford students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024 A judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of five current and former Stanford University students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the felony prosecution against Stanford students who were arrested in connection with their pro-Palestinian activism. Now would be a great time for Stanford to do what it should have done long ago: tell the DA to drop the charges. apnews.com/article/stan...

Putin is pleased. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

What if the biggest conspiracy is our government’s refusal to believe more than a 1000 women (and children) for many decades?

“Konstantin, 4, a sociable boy, is often frightened by loud noises and guards, his parents said. He once cried for hours after a small toy airplane was confiscated.”

Grocery prices in Chicago have climbed double digits in the last year despite Trump's vow to lower them The Sun-Times has been checking the prices of 35 common grocery items at four Chicago stores for the last year, and most items haven't become cheaper.

All right. It’s been over a year of slogging through these grocery price checks here in Chicago, and this is what I found:

(No paywall at the Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Public Media, thanks to our wonderful members)

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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.

The woman Alex Pretti defended from ICE was also a health care professional—and she was denied the chance to help Pretti in his final moments. trib.al/Y0dRX2x

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Mayor Kaohly Her 'cautiously optimistic' about reported end to federal immigration surge The St. Paul mayor took office during a surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota. The Trump Administration announced Thursday it is ending what it calls “Operation Metro Surge.”

The same morning as Homan’s announcement, Mayor Kaohly Her signed a new city ordinance that requires law enforcement to display their names or badge numbers visibly on their uniforms.

She said there are challenges to holding federal agencies to local laws, but the city has “mechanisms” to do so.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Looks like ICE is opening another detention center in Tennessee — in LEBANON. Part of the $38 BILLION push, as @CoreCivic complains they haven’t detained enough people.

Cruelty is big business.

From @TNLookout: tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/i...

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.

see 'inheritors of the klan hood and the slave patrol' is a) fucking fire and b) doesn't make an erroneous direct comparison to either being secret police or inspiration for them

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

From 2024. Even more true now.

Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

tl;dr: Protests work: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Free idea: suburban driver’s ed courses should include one day when they go downtown and walk around for an hour or two as pedestrians, then spend an hour or two on Divvys in mixed traffic

We devoted three episodes of the Into the Mix podcast to this issue, and I’ll never forget reporting for it. The people here are so full of life, and their unnatural deaths are so normalized.

Federal judge orders U.S. to bring Babson student back after deportation error A federal judge minced no words Friday, ordering the Trump administration to bring back a mistakenly deported Babson College student, saying, "Now it is time for the government to make amends."

A federal judge minced no words Friday, ordering the Trump administration to bring back a mistakenly deported Babson College student, saying, "Now it is time for the government to make amends."

Jeffries: "Y'all saw the embarrassing display by the so-called attorney general the other day. Who would trust her or the weaponized DOJ to independently investigate wrongdoing by Trump administration officials or by ICE agents? That's a reasonable demand. It's also a hard line in the sand."

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Some personal news

DHS lies about everything. Example 7-zillion:

I’m just going to leave this here

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.