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It’s really anywhere that’s 60%+ college grads, though these days there’s a strong partisan correlation with that. But it’s education rather than partisanship that’s the key factor.

A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:

“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

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.

2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ

ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school

These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them

The Economic Costs of Brexit on the UK | Econofact Brexit has had a substantial economic impact on the United Kingdom, with adverse effects on investment, productivity, employment, and growth.

New economic research: "We estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time."

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this family’s struggle at Dilley.

They’ve been locked up for 130+ days.

I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.

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

That‘s true of any effective politician, I guess. VP is a terrible job for a good person. Decent launching pad though. She‘d be quite a Speaker.

I could imagine Pritzker/AOC

In the late-filed declaration by Rich, Defendants explain that in-person visits are operationally challenging and pose safety risks. Rich explains that there are rooms available, but non-law enforcement is not allowed in this area, and it "would create a significant safety risk to provide access to these rooms" to attorneys. (Rich Decl. I 7.) Any change to standard operating procedures "would require significant resources." (Id.) And there are other rooms available, but they are in disuse because of "a lack of security functions" and because the master key does not work to these rooms. (Id. I 8.) They would need more funds to renovate these rooms and to station additional officers near these rooms. (Id.) The Court is underwhelmed by this evidence. The record shows that Whipple allowed in-person visits before Operation Metro Surge, and Defendants make no effort to explain why in-person visits suddenly strain their resources. The record also shows that during Operation Metro Surge, the rooms are not used. Putting these evidentiary concerns aside, forbidding in-person visits based on a generic and unspecified risk to safety and lack of resources is excessive. Defendants chose to operate a detention facility, so "they must meet constitutional standards." Campbell o. Cauthron, 623 F.2d 503, 508 (8th Cir. 1980). Defendants allocated substantial resources to sending thousands of agents to Minnesota, detaining thousands of people, and housing them in their facilities.

Defendants cannot suddenly lack resources when it comes to protecting detainees' constitutional rights. Likewise, Defendants practice of rapidly transferring detainees out of state without an opportunity to consult with counsel is unconstitutionally excessive. The Ninth Circuit has acknowledged that enjoining transfer may be appropriate if transferring the detainee would interfere with an existing attorney-client relationship such that access to counsel is effectively denied. Cent. Am. Refugees v. I.N.S., 795 F.2d 1434, 1439 (9th Cir.), amended, 807 F.2d 769 (9th Cir. 1986). That reasoning seemingly tees up a distinction between detainees who have already retained counsel and those who have not. But other courts have concluded that a detainee's right to access counsel can still be violated even if they do not yet have an attorney. For example, in Torres v. D.H.S., the court countenanced "extensive allegations regarding conditions so restrictive as to prevent them from forming any attorney-client relationship to begin with." 411 F. Supp. 3d 1036, 1049 (C.D. Cal. 2019). The same is true here.

Here is the meat of it:

"Defendants chose to operate a detention facility, so 'they must meet constitutional standards.'"

It’s spreading, too igamingbusiness.com/finance/tax/...

This Sat, Feb 14th will be the 1 year anniversary of the Tesla Takedown

These projections are a fab way to kick it off!

@teslatakedown.com
@alexwinter.com

#DumpMusk
#TaxTheRich
#EatTheRich
#BillionaireWealthTax

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

These dudes think this is so clever.

Beyond the difference in harms that accompanies the age limits for booze and voting, there were 26,000+ arrests of minors for liquor law violations in 2019. It’s a relatively common crime.

There are functionally no arrests each year for in-person voter fraud.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE’s Massive Jail in Texas The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration jail has nearly tripled since October.

“Medical professionals have repeatedly documented how ANY amount of detention has long-term negative consequences for children.”
--Setareh Ghandehari, @detentionwatchnetwork.org

truthout.org/articles/chi...

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

Esp so since the bathrobe in this one is a local journalist:

Good summary and what I suggested hours ago was the most likely scenario.

It didn’t even occur to me that DOD would be stupid enough to give directed energy technology to the CBP though.

This photo by @leilanavidi.bsky.social deserves the Pulitzer. This is the Minnesota resistance in a picture.

Kiley repositioning for his newly drawn CA district!

It all has a very Internet of 1998 feel to it, which is one reason it's nice to be old: yes, it will change things. No, it won't be in the ways you most expect, and in the end it will still be humans all the way down.

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.

However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

If anyone helped engineer this, you are a genius. Making this about a photo rather than an indecipherable screaming match gives clarity to everyone who cares or who can be made to care.