“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

Trump's DOJ seeks examples of 'egregious' judges for Congress to review President Donald Trump's administration ramped up its pressure on the U.S. judiciary on Tuesday, with the Justice Department saying it has asked federal prosecutors to supply it with the "most egregio...

Impeach Trump the dictator.

This is flipping nuts: Trump's DOJ seeks examples of 'egregious' judges for Congress to review

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Rand Paul and Democrats Demand Answers on Pretti and Good Killings “If you don’t admit that there’s a problem, we aren’t going to get anywhere,” Paul said.

“If you don’t admit that there’s a problem, we aren’t going to get anywhere,” Sen. Rand Paul said.
https://www.notus.org/immigration/senate-homeland-security-ice-cbp-pretti-good-killings

White House: no changes to Trump metals tariffs unless president announces them Trump administration officials said on Friday that there would be no changes to President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs steel and aluminum and thousands of products made from the metals unless Trump announces them.

White House: no changes to Trump metals tariffs unless president announces them reut.rs/4tA75JJ

#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy Live !!!
#ResignLunatic

Howard Lutnick at CBS Epstein Files: Life is beautiful

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

NEW: Health Secretary Kennedy's allies are pushing in states to repeal school-entry vaccine requirements.

Vaccine proponents view the effort as an escalation in dismantling the nation's vaccine system:

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

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.

This moment will be remembered. Masks are not going to help. History always asks who stood up - who stayed silent - and who was complicit. ICE are being conned by the man who created a fake university, and bankrupted a casino - you will never get that bonus. If you believe in dignity, due process, and the Constitution — this is your moment. We’ve found one way to do that: 👉 http://www.PAXIS.app PAXIS puts clear, lawful, know-your-rights guidance directly into the hands of every immigrant. This moment will be remembered. Masks are not going to help.

This moment will be remembered. Masks are not going to help.: This moment will be remembered. Masks are not going to help.

History always asks who stood up - who stayed silent - and who was complicit.

ICE are being conned by the man who created a fake university, and bankrupted a casino - you…

Christian Menefee leads Al Green in reshaped 18th District, UH poll shows Christian Menefee leads Al Green 52% to 28% in the Democratic primary for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, according to a new poll conducted by the University of Houston.

Christian Menefee leading Al Green in reshaped 18th District primary, UH poll shows www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/ele... #ProudBlue #USDemocracy Texas GOP was determined to defeat Al Green. That may happen. But what did they gain? A vibrant exciting young Christian Menefee. Abbott loses again

For every promise about lowering mortgage rates or targeting private-equity homeowners, there’s a construction tariff — on wood, on steel, on copper, on rebar, roofing, window frames, stoves, sinks, kitchen cabinets and vanities. 🤡

ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

“Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting “unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants,” and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke wit...

“Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

Jason Leopold surfaces the FBI General Counsel office's guidance to agents in redacting the Epstein files. The problem: it's flagrantly noncompliant with the Epstein Act.

5 years ago, 700+ Texans died freezing in the dark while Greg Abbott let utility companies jack up prices and his donors profited.

As governor, I will never allow energy companies to profit off of Texans' suffering.

Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

The most grotesque perversion of government in our nation's history.

I guess that's what you get when you elect perverts.

www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...

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.

America Won’t Be Easily Forgiven—Even After Trump Is Gone The president’s belligerence against Greenland and Canada was no joke to Europeans and Canadians, some of whom say they’ll never trust or visit the U.S. again.

Not your fault? Maybe not. But repairing the damage we’ve inflicted on the world is a responsibility in which we must all share, and must meet through democratic engagement beyond our safe spaces and comfort zones. (2/3)

newrepublic.com/article/2059...

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

‘DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections’: West Virginia’s GOP election chief pushes back on voter roll grab “State law is clear: voter lists are available in a redacted format from my office, but I'll not be turning over any West Virginian's protected information,” Secretary of State Kris Warner said in a s...

West Virginia’s GOP chief election official denied the DOJ’s demand for full access to the state’s voter roll:

“State law is clear: voter lists are available in a redacted format from my office, but I’ll not be turning over any West Virginian’s protected information.”

Advocates of the GOP's SAVE Act often charge critics of the bill with being at best tactical federalists and with simply being opposed to voter ID, but that's pretty silly in the case of those of us who were staunch opponents of the old centralizing H.R. 1 and who have no problem with voter ID.

GIFT LINK:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is so true and has been for 10 years. Stop taking him on one at a time and join together to do it en masse. You’ll all be better off and so will the country.

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Dismissed with prejudice means that the legal authority (state or federal) CANNOT refile the charges and try them again.

It's a YOU FUCKED UP SO BAD notice to the charging Attorney.

In other words, the Feds relied on perjury to bring charges against the people they scapegoated in an attempt to justify their illegal gunfire at protestors who posed no risk of imminent violence.

When I was an AUSA (2001-04), the DOJ Civil Rights Division would have indicted the LEOs under S242.

This is the type of person who supports the GOP’s deceptively named “Save America Act,” which does a lot more than require a simple Voter ID. Proceed accordingly.

Flying around with her side piece in a private jet to photo ops at concentration camps, all on the taxpayer dime