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Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

Source is Reuters.

GOVERNMENT February 14, 2026 10:07 AM UTC Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. By Nate Raymond, Kristina Cooke, Brad Heath

Courts say ICE broke the law—thousands of times. The abuse continues anyway. This isn’t enforcement. It’s systemic disregard for constitutional rights, enabled and defended by the Trump regime. Republicans are treating the Constitution like toilet paper.

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.

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WTF!!!

Our GOVT. is looking for ICE CRITICS ONLINE!

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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Alternate last line suggestion:

"and fucking end I.C.E."

No, Matt, it is all of our responsibilities. That includes the politicians.

In other words, whatever you do, don't lead.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Happy Valentines Day from THE LIBRARIANS team!

Are you inspired by the superhero librarians featured in our film?

Show your love for your community and get involved in your local school boards today - attend a meeting, speak up, and make sure you're registered to vote!

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that lib

In a deliberate strategy, to harm women and hits rural women first & hardest. The U.S. State Dept. ordered public libraries to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that communities rely on and that has run smoothly for years.
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Someone is feeling emboldened.

AI will do to intellectual pursuits what the gun did to swordsmanship.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams

Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
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…she will make sure they vote for “the right leaders?”

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

Trump: “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!“

Trump: “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired … There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!“

The fucking cruelty

is

the fucking point

This is child abuse at scale. I am ashamed to live in a country that treats children like this.

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.

Congress should once again reject the SAVE Act. Add your voice to help protect the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor

9/ The GOP’s Save America Act also would deem certain requirements met if election officials hand over their voter rolls to the DHS’s inaccurate SAVE program.

WTF?! The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which consistently marks citizens as noncitizens, per this report by ProPublica & Texas Tribune. The Act imposes *no penalty* 4 faulty purges. 1/

YouTube video by PBS Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens

A wonderful documentary called The Librarians is now available on YouTube. If you want to know how librarians have been affected by organized, national book-banning efforts, I highly recommend you watch it. youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?...

YouTube video by PBS Banned Books and the Librarians Caught in the Political Battle | Full Documentary | Independent Lens

You guys, The Librarians (full documentary) is up on YouTube for free! Go watch it and share it widely!! youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE?...