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“He remembers ICE agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him & striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he was beaten again.”
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
apnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
“He remembers ICE agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him & striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he was beaten again.”
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EXCLUSIVE @npr.org - the State Department is directing employees to archive + delete all X posts on official accounts from before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE @npr.org - the State Department is directing employees to archive + delete all X posts on official accounts from before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
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New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
www.publicnotice.co
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."
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NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
www.democracydocket.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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This is a very big deal:
DEVELOPING: Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her
U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis pointed out that Martinez is "presumed innocent of any offense of which she has not been convicted." Martinez's attorney said the text messages and other evidence ...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This is a very big deal:
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"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
Democracy Under Occupation
What we’ve learned in Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 PM
"I don’t know how other people react when they get bullied, but I don’t back down when I get bullied. I fight harder. Everyone I see out here is like, What do you think—we’re gonna quit? We live here."
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA bonus episode, from Minneapolis
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
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“A book critic, or a newspaper book section, is a convener, bringing people together around a new book or writer, a literary trend or controversy. When such critics and editors disappear, every part of the literary ecosystem suffers,” Adam Kirsch writes:
What Happens When Books Aren’t News
In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
“A book critic, or a newspaper book section, is a convener, bringing people together around a new book or writer, a literary trend or controversy. When such critics and editors disappear, every part of the literary ecosystem suffers,” Adam Kirsch writes:
The truth is that President Obama solved all of Trump’s current foreign policy issues but Trump destroyed Obama’s diplomatic work. Trump knows he can’t fix his own mess so he immediately resorts to tired, old racism. It eats him alive that he’s a weak gnat compared to President Obama.😂
Here is a reminder that Donald Trump is a racist scumbag in addition to his other repugnant characteristics.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump shares social media video with racist depiction of Obamas | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is sparking backlash from Democrats over a late-night social media repost in which Barack and Michelle Obama are superimposed atop the bodies of apes.
www.cbc.ca
February 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The truth is that President Obama solved all of Trump’s current foreign policy issues but Trump destroyed Obama’s diplomatic work. Trump knows he can’t fix his own mess so he immediately resorts to tired, old racism. It eats him alive that he’s a weak gnat compared to President Obama.😂
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Donald Trump reminds us every day that he's a miserable, corrupt, fascist, ignorant strongman. I guess today he wanted to remind us that he's also a racist.
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Donald Trump reminds us every day that he's a miserable, corrupt, fascist, ignorant strongman. I guess today he wanted to remind us that he's also a racist.
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Bang on the money:
“Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”
Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'.
His curse is that he won't be.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
“Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”
Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'.
His curse is that he won't be.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
‘A stain on our history’: outrage after Trump shares racist video about Obamas as White House attempts to brush off the post – live
Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes slams Trump for posting racist video on Truth Social; Karoline Leavitt says criticism is ‘fake outrage’
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Bang on the money:
“Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”
Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'.
His curse is that he won't be.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
“Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”
Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'.
His curse is that he won't be.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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“The f*ck are we doing?”
February 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
“The f*ck are we doing?”
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3x Trump voter: “He takes bribes blatantly, now he’s being a racist blatantly.”
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
3x Trump voter: “He takes bribes blatantly, now he’s being a racist blatantly.”
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I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
February 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
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Devastated to see what’s happening at a place that I loved because it was the writing home of so many people I loved. what a gutting week
Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht?
Advice for Jeff Bezos
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Devastated to see what’s happening at a place that I loved because it was the writing home of so many people I loved. what a gutting week
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... Really f’d up! #TrumpEffect
Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... Really f’d up! #TrumpEffect
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons
Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... Really f’d up! #TrumpEffect
Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u... Really f’d up! #TrumpEffect
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Trump says he won’t extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia
Trump says he won’t extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia
The New START deal was the last vestige of arms control between the world’s largest superpowers.
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February 5, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Trump says he won’t extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia
Ukraine-Russia Talks End With Little Progress and Hints of Impasse
American negotiators trumpeted plans for a prisoner swap, but that was small recompense for months of diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w... Wasn’t this war supposed to be resolved on day one?
American negotiators trumpeted plans for a prisoner swap, but that was small recompense for months of diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w... Wasn’t this war supposed to be resolved on day one?
Ukraine-Russia Talks End With Little Progress and Hints of Impasse
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Ukraine-Russia Talks End With Little Progress and Hints of Impasse
American negotiators trumpeted plans for a prisoner swap, but that was small recompense for months of diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w... Wasn’t this war supposed to be resolved on day one?
American negotiators trumpeted plans for a prisoner swap, but that was small recompense for months of diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/w... Wasn’t this war supposed to be resolved on day one?
“Macho displays and transgressive memes mark a significant shift in how the federal government sees and promotes its mission—and sanctions state violence.” All to please their mad king.🙄 #fascism #TrumpEffect
The MAGA new right “seems to be betting that the American polity has a deep reserve of untapped nativist rage”—but may also be “underestimating the everyday decency and patriotism of the American public,” Laura K. Field argues:
The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP
The mainstreaming of transgressive ideas is the culmination of a yearslong conservative project.
bit.ly
February 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
“Macho displays and transgressive memes mark a significant shift in how the federal government sees and promotes its mission—and sanctions state violence.” All to please their mad king.🙄 #fascism #TrumpEffect
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Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv
On the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried their few belongings in plastic bags.
Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank
An award-winning portrait asks Americans, ‘Who is human?’ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
“Neal’s portrait isn’t just a portrait of protesters, or a prescient reminder that if no one is watching the watchmen, the watchmen will go rogue. It is a portrait of entrenched distrust between the..
“Neal’s portrait isn’t just a portrait of protesters, or a prescient reminder that if no one is watching the watchmen, the watchmen will go rogue. It is a portrait of entrenched distrust between the..
Column | An award-winning portrait asks Americans, ‘Who is human?’
The winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious portraiture competition paints a disturbing picture of America.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
An award-winning portrait asks Americans, ‘Who is human?’ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
“Neal’s portrait isn’t just a portrait of protesters, or a prescient reminder that if no one is watching the watchmen, the watchmen will go rogue. It is a portrait of entrenched distrust between the..
“Neal’s portrait isn’t just a portrait of protesters, or a prescient reminder that if no one is watching the watchmen, the watchmen will go rogue. It is a portrait of entrenched distrust between the..
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February 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r...
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r...
They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
They Went to the Woods Because They Wished to Live Deliberately
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r...
Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r...
In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts
Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w... #HumanRights #TrumpEffect
Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w... #HumanRights #TrumpEffect
In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts
Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w... #HumanRights #TrumpEffect
Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w... #HumanRights #TrumpEffect