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262 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
262 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll—whom he was found liable for sexually assaulting in a B...
The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean Carroll—whom he was found liable for sexually assaulting in a B...
263 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
263 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - Vice President JD Vance, standing alongside Second Lady Usha Vance, was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan. As team USA entered San Siro Stadium, the crow...
JD Vance booed at Winter Olympics amid anti-ICE protests
Trump called the reaction “surprising,” and falsely claimed his vice president “doesn’t get booed in this country.”
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February 15, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - Vice President JD Vance, standing alongside Second Lady Usha Vance, was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan. As team USA entered San Siro Stadium, the crow...
264 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
264 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the Chines...
Japan embarks on a deep-sea mining experiment with unknown consequences
“We are not prepared.”
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February 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the Chines...
265 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
265 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - In a Minnesota town outside the Twin Cities, Emily is a nurse who treats many immigrant patients. She can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer. The patient ...
How Minneapolis taught America to fight back
Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.
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February 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - In a Minnesota town outside the Twin Cities, Emily is a nurse who treats many immigrant patients. She can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer. The patient ...
From the ACLU -
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We’ve been getting calls about and seeing a lot of discussion about an ad that the doorbell camera company Ring (owned by Amazon) ran during th...
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We’ve been getting calls about and seeing a lot of discussion about an ad that the doorbell camera company Ring (owned by Amazon) ran during th...
Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out | ACLU
Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers
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February 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
From the ACLU -
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We’ve been getting calls about and seeing a lot of discussion about an ad that the doorbell camera company Ring (owned by Amazon) ran during th...
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We’ve been getting calls about and seeing a lot of discussion about an ad that the doorbell camera company Ring (owned by Amazon) ran during th...
266 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 AM
266 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - On a frigid Thursday afternoon in late January, in a now-viral video, employees at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park were captured removing interpretive signs about slavery posted ...
Drive racists out of public life forever, and other lessons from Black history
Author Brian Jones on how we win—and protect—social progress for all of us.
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February 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - On a frigid Thursday afternoon in late January, in a now-viral video, employees at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park were captured removing interpretive signs about slavery posted ...
267 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
267 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - This story has been removed. Following publication, we learned that the video that we were told was of a warrantless raid in Memphis was from another incident in a different city. As a result, we are...
Editor's Note
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February 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - This story has been removed. Following publication, we learned that the video that we were told was of a warrantless raid in Memphis was from another incident in a different city. As a result, we are...
268 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
268 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought...
These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway.
A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought...
From the ACLU -
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nora Ahmed joined the ACLU of Louisiana as Legal Director in 2020. She has helped to build the organization’s policing, immigration, voting rights, and First Amendment dockets from the ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nora Ahmed joined the ACLU of Louisiana as Legal Director in 2020. She has helped to build the organization’s policing, immigration, voting rights, and First Amendment dockets from the ...
Navigating Louisiana's Complex Immigration Landscape
ACLU of Louisiana’s Legal Director reflects on how she designed a blueprint for immigration work in the state, despite Trump's aggressive deportation efforts.
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February 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
From the ACLU -
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nora Ahmed joined the ACLU of Louisiana as Legal Director in 2020. She has helped to build the organization’s policing, immigration, voting rights, and First Amendment dockets from the ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nora Ahmed joined the ACLU of Louisiana as Legal Director in 2020. She has helped to build the organization’s policing, immigration, voting rights, and First Amendment dockets from the ...
269 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
269 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - You have “nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out.” That’s what Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino said in December, as he and h...
Watch: Four shocking months with Gregory Bovino
The Border Patrol "commander at large" leaves behind a legacy of fear and violence.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - You have “nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out.” That’s what Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino said in December, as he and h...
270 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
270 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers...
Trump is still posting about arresting Obama and prosecuting election workers
The president’s response to intense national backlash over ICE: post through it.
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February 8, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama should be arrested, and how Georgia election workers...
271 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
271 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - While the country was still reeling on Wednesday from the killing of two Americans by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, the Trump administration undertook one of its most blatantly authori...
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous
The seizure of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, follows the DOJ’s demands for voter data in Minnesota.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - While the country was still reeling on Wednesday from the killing of two Americans by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, the Trump administration undertook one of its most blatantly authori...
From Citizens for Ethics - The post When DHS operates without oversight, democracy itself is at risk. appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
When DHS operates without oversight, democracy itself is at risk. - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
ICE and CBP are increasingly operating outside of established legal constraints without meaningful oversight.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
From Citizens for Ethics - The post When DHS operates without oversight, democracy itself is at risk. appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
272 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
February 7, 2026 at 12:30 AM
272 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
From Mother Jones - As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE...
Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out.
ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
From Mother Jones - As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE...