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Some personal news
Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails rev...
www.bloomberg.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Some personal news
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Dear God.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Dear God.
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ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 AM
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
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ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
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Mejia Declares Victory in New Jersey Race After Her Main Rival Concedes
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
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Democrats should really ne making loud connections between "the Epstein class is in charge and covering up mass sex crimes" and "they are separating teen girls from their family to hold them alone" in the public eye
An agent told the teen to call her family and ask them to pick her up. But the agent said that if they came, ICE would send the entire family to Texas. The girl writes “My family decided not to come and pick me up as a result of this threat. ICE decided to take me to a hotel.”
tinyurl.com/3nkf9sbd
tinyurl.com/3nkf9sbd
After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents
A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...
www.mprnews.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Democrats should really ne making loud connections between "the Epstein class is in charge and covering up mass sex crimes" and "they are separating teen girls from their family to hold them alone" in the public eye
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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PSA for magistrate judges
"FBI search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims ... that have been widely debunked."
"FBI search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims ... that have been widely debunked."
Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated With Election Denier in Trump White House
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
PSA for magistrate judges
"FBI search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims ... that have been widely debunked."
"FBI search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims ... that have been widely debunked."
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I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.
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Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...
I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
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The judge allowed this seizure of ballot boxes and other 2020 election material in Fulton County, GA, based on dubious and long-discredited theories, writes @ariberman.bsky.social and @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The FBI's Fulton County raid was based on debunked claims by election deniers
The evidence provided for seizing 700 boxes of ballots was shockingly thin.
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The judge allowed this seizure of ballot boxes and other 2020 election material in Fulton County, GA, based on dubious and long-discredited theories, writes @ariberman.bsky.social and @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Instead of train cars, we'll have semi truck trailers of people being loaded into concentration camps where they'll race substantial likelihood of dying from neglect, malnutrition, disease, and murder.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Instead of train cars, we'll have semi truck trailers of people being loaded into concentration camps where they'll race substantial likelihood of dying from neglect, malnutrition, disease, and murder.
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2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are:
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC to cut staff as it continues digital transformation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Tuesday it will lay off staffers in the newsroom and other segments of the business.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:25 AM
2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are:
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
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“every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color”
2/9 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs are:
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
· Alia Pharr, a metro Atlanta local government reporter
· Maya T. Prabhu, a statehouse reporter whose last day will be the end of the ongoing state legislative session
Again: every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color
BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
“every single person laid off has been a woman and/or a person of color”
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Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Kids like 7-year-old Mia write about missing their friends and family, wanting to go back to school, and not sleeping or eating well at the Dilley detention center in Texas. These stories expose the inhumanity of this administration's immigration policies.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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My take on AI use
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
www.patreon.com/posts/149942...
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
www.patreon.com/posts/149942...
Don’t Let The Machines Do The Living | Culture Study
Get more from Culture Study on Patreon
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February 10, 2026 at 3:30 AM
My take on AI use
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
www.patreon.com/posts/149942...
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
www.patreon.com/posts/149942...
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When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her.
The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.
thebarbedwire.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...
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Ken Klippenstein uncovers a disturbing report in that DHS is spying on Reddit users for messages and posts critical of DHS and ICE.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Ken Klippenstein uncovers a disturbing report in that DHS is spying on Reddit users for messages and posts critical of DHS and ICE.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...