Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas confirms Trump prison camp purchase called off, and vows to ensure that no other site in Kansas City gets one either.

KCUR story about "Platform Ventures" no sale:
www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

Mayor's confirmation from instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DUqpKhwkUJb/

Kavanaugh Stops.

Now street legal, courtesy of the most debased court in the land. Be alarmed, sure, but not shocked.

Voter Passport The SAVE Act

The SAVE Act was never about election integrity or keeping elections fair. It is about building a paywall around the ballot and hoping we’re too exhausted or too broke to participate.

The SAVE Act is meant to keep us home so they can steal an election.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/voter-pass...

Two cases and the grease that breaks democracy The obvious lesson many are drawing is that ordinary citizens are more reliable protectors of democracy than judges in black robes.

How did we end up with a MAGA U.S. attorney in Missouri successfully shepherding a ridiculous search warrant past a magistrate judge to seize six-year-old ballots? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-...

Excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Kendzior 2020

"We cannot afford to overcome. We are too busy doing GoFundMes for the funerals of our friends whose previous GoFundmes failed to cover their health care."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been making this point for a while and does not paywall her work. I so appreciated that when I was too broke to pay and am happy to do so now that I’m a bit better off. Pretty much everyone I know got a copy of her latest book for Xmas this year from me.

Everything about this video is so St Louis

This is all due to the incredible resistance of the people of Minnesota.

Their resilience - and their determination - helped enforce the Constitution in a way that political elites in Congress and the courts did not or could not.

The Dems should invent a board game where voters get their donor lists and a list of predators from the Epstein files and see how many matches they can make. Voters can play it on the kitchen table so it's a "kitchen-table issue".

House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.

🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

Way-hey! After concerted local pushback, New Jersey company decides not to contract with ICE:

"The contract with ICE will not move forward, a Holman spokesperson told Patch.

"I have been informed that we declined that particular body of work," the spokesperson said...

patch.com/new-jersey/c...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

The U.S. government and Europe provided illegal thermal weapons to Israel that *evaporated* nearly 3,000 Palestinians according to an Al Jazeera investigation. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Local immigrant defense networks were deluged with life and death cases. They put a call out for private lawyers to step in and provide pro bono help.

My firm did. And since we joined the effort on January 14, it’s been some of the hardest, most exhausting, most depressing month of my life.

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Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it.

The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after.

I’ve had a front row seat.

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I work for a Minneapolis-based firm. MPLS was and is under attack by the federal government. Hundreds of people are being snatched off the streets. Undocumented immigrants, DACA recipients, asylees, asylum seekers, refugees, lawful permanent residents, citizens.

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15 years ago when I went to law school, 12 years ago when I began practicing… hell, a month ago, I wanted nothing to do with immigration law.

On January 14, however, what I wanted stopped mattering.

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(And let me note that immigration law FAVORS such horrific outcomes. Asylum is very hard to win. Immigration “court” isn’t a real court. It’s a kangaroo court where DHS is judge, jury, and executioner. You have no right to counsel. And the law tilts against non-citizens all conceivable ways.)

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The same rationale applied to immigration law. Immigration outcomes are life and death. People can be uprooted from the life they built (for some who arrive as children, the only life they know). They can be sent back to deadly situations in countries they fled fearing for their life.

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A month ago, I knew almost zero about immigration law. I hadn’t dealt with it since clerking >10 years ago. I had no interest in immigration law.

I knew even before law school I didn’t want to go into criminal law. I didn’t want power or responsibility over someone’s freedom or their life.

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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Colourful photograph of pink and purple flowers growing among green foliage in a garden border

Marianne Majerus, born in Clervaux, Luxembourg, one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers #womensart

Three self portraits of the artist, two at the easil, one, head and shoulders in hat and coat

Nicknamed the "Indian Frida Kahlo' by some, lndian-Hungarian painter Amrita Sher-Gil had her own identity with self-portraits stradding aspects of her heritage while presenting herself as a confident, complex modern woman with an outward direct gaze #WomensArt

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump' Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.

A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.

Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

color snapshots
back road at sunrise
2.10.26

Rep. Magaziner: "A family of US citizens who were out to get groceries…Your agents sprayed pepper spray out of their vehicle and into the driver's side window…Is it proper procedure to aim pepper spray into the window of a moving vehicle?"

CBP Comm'r: "We try to avoid that."

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...

Listen, you don’t need to tell me about pedophiles.

I was once a little girl…

Every time I hear something new about the whistles I start crying I stg.

As this article notes, they started as a tactic in LA and are supported by a network of disorganized volunteers who are, as Bree's skeet demonstrates, global
www.theverge.com/policy/87495...