Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

Finally the white supremacists in Idaho have their air force.

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

The father of a family in our apartment complex has been kidnapped by ICE.

My daughter found out when she went to walk our dog and heard one of the children crying from the hallway.

This consistent strategic idiocy in Maine politics is what led to two terms for Paul LePage.

The Dem candidate and the somewhat lefty independent candidate split the non-Republican vote, and the Republican wins.

Collins has this in the bag now.

Does this generation of politicians not know they’re allowed to retire?

Venezuelan Americans supported Trump in 2024, and this is how he repaid them:

english.elpais.com/usa/2025-02-...

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

At least 22 people have died while in ICE custody — the highest number in two decades.

Human rights groups link the surge to overcrowded facilities, lack of medical care, and Trump’s aggressive mass detention strategy. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Accurate, but this is part of the overall equation:

And this one

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas www.propublica.org/article/elon...

📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀:

At a newly reopened ICE facility run by CoreCivic, detainees say conditions are “hell on earth” — overcrowding, filthy cells, denied medical care, threats of solitary confinement, and agents using aggressive force. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Left: Megalomania in 1930s Berlin

Right: Megalomania in 2025 Washington D.C.

Electing Shitarelli will lead to enshittification for Pennsylvania.

I wrote about the inconvenient success of Mississippi educationwars.substack.com/p/the-inconv...

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

Somebody should inform the Trumpers of this:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

I think its thesis is “We at the NYT know goddamn well Trump will not get the Peace Prize but this is another opportunity for us to demurely fondle his crotch.”

"The Supreme Court has made clear that it will allow Trump to violate every constitutional prohibition, removing any obstacle in his way, and crediting the most farcical legal argument."