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gregsargent.bsky.social
Remarkable: Trump's deranged threat to block the bridge connecting Detroit to Canada is backfiring, giving Dems a big issue in 2026 races in Michigan, which could help decide control of Congress.

Michigan Dems tell me they'll use this against Republicans big time:
newrepublic.com/article/2064...
Trump Tirade over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon
His corrupt threat to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge is about to become a big albatross around the necks of GOP candidates in pivotal Michigan.
newrepublic.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.
IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS
The tax agency only recently discovered it improperly disclosed tax information on thousands of the wrong people to immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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joro.bsky.social
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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atrupar.com
Sen. Katie Britt, who just a week ago was allegedly crying over the plight of Liam Ramos: "We have got to crack down on sanctuary cities"
February 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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pamkeithdc.bsky.social
Henry Cuellar, the ONLY Dem who voted to pass the GOP wet dream SAVE act,

Has two primary challengers. Please vote in the primary for anyone but HIM. March 3 is around the corner
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.
The New Work Cimes In Rare Victory, Immigrants Prevail in Suit Over Meat Plant Raid The workers accused the government of racial profiling and excessive force. The agreement is very likely the first class settlement over an immigration enforcement operation at a work site, experts say. Under earth is a photo with this caption: “Residents of Morristown, Tenn., protested in 2018 against the raid, in which armed agents burst into a meatpacking plant and rounded up all but one Latino worker. Charles Mostoller for The New York Times” In February 2019, several nonprofit organizations, including the National Immigration Law Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a lawsuit against the federal agents and the U.S. government, accusing them of targeting workers based on their ethnicity and violating their civil rights. (Last August, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee certified the case as a class action, paving the way for relief for all the Latino workers.) A search warrant had authorized entry into the plant by federal agents, but it did not authorize the arrest of any workers, even if they were undocumented, according to court documents. "They used the pretext of a tax investigation of the plant's owner to plan and carry out a full-blown operation targeting the Latino workers," said Michelle Lapointe, deputy legal director for the National Immigration Law Center and the lead attorney in the lawsuit. A video, reviewed by The Times, showed agents separating Latino workers and frisking them. "White workers were allowed to walk free," Ms. Lapointe said.
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“A modern-day concentration camp”

Seamus Culleton, an Irishman still detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 5 MONTHS (making private prisons rich), here LEGALLY for two decades, married to a citizen— describes horrific conditions: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Most Real IDs do *not* prove citizenship. (EDLs, which are available in only 5 states are an exception) The GOP’s “SAVE” Act thus misleads when it says voters can prove citizenship w/ “a form of ID issued consistent with the reqmts of…REAL ID…that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the US…” 1/
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
The administration was hoping for the theater of its paramilitaries squaring off against black bloc street fighters.

And instead it got this.

Hard to label the lady in a bathrobe as a “terrorist.”
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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msantiagophotos.bsky.social
That photographer is Kent Nishimura and incredibly talented photographer!
cwnewser.bsky.social Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 21h
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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balint.house.gov
AG Pam Bondi brought a portfolio of degrading insults before the House Judiciary Committee today, but failed to bring evidence, answers, or accountability.

Today’s hearing confirmed that this DOJ protects pedophiles and sex offenders in power, not the American people.
February 11, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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thesteadystate.org
A ProPublica investigation found that > 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested or detained by immigration agents, including cases where agents ignored or dismissed REAL ID–compliant driver’s licenses and other proof of legal status during enforcement operations.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
The federal agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about it has been placed on leave. This wouldn't have happened if everyone had accepted Homeland Security's blatant lies in this case.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22h
JUST IN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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atrupar.com
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
NEW: With a final House vote expected Wednesday, Republicans are intensifying a coordinated push to pass the SAVE America Act, which experts say would be the most restrictive voting bill ever passed and could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘They want illegals to vote’: GOP uses lies in push for SAVE America Act as House prepares final vote
Those false accusations have become the centerpiece of the GOP’s closing argument.
www.democracydocket.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Pam Bondi sounded a little different before she started doing Trump's bidding.
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
This is a damning, astounding opinion from Kelly, writing about the Justice Department's treatment of federal prisoners under their control:
Plaintiffs Are Likely to Succeed on Their Due Process Claim The crux of Plaintiffs' due process claim is their allegation that Defendants "carried out a sham process solely to effectuate a predetermined result," thereby "imposing uniquely brutal conditions ... without any meaningful process." ECF No. 4-1 at 28, 31. Whether they are likely to succeed on this procedural claim under the Due Process Clause is assessed in two steps. "[T]he first asks whether there exists a liberty or property interest which has been interfered with by the State; the second examines whether the procedures attendant upon that deprivation were constitutionally sufficient." Ky. Dep't of Corr. v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460 (1989) (citations omitted). Here, Plaintiffs have shown that it is likely that their redesignations were predetermined-and thus violated their due process rights-because officials with authority over BOP made it clear that they had to be sent to ADX Florence to punish them, no matter what result the ordinary BOP process might have yielded. The Court does not reach this conclusion without careful considera-tion. But Plaintiffs have proffered an unusual array of evidence in support of their claim. That evidence, described below, shows it is likely that (1) officials with authority over BOP sought to punish Plaintiffs because then-President Biden had commuted their death sentences; and (2) those officials intervened in the BOP redesignation process that was already underway, dictating out- comes with which BOP officials subordinate to them were not genuinely free to disagree-and which resulted in a dramatic, uniform about-face in how the redesignations were handled. From all this largely consistent and unrebutted evidence, it is not hard to conclude that it is likely that "following the Executive Order, the BOP committee was told to look at what the President and the AG were saying," that "[t]he BOP committee members took that to mean that everyone needed to be referred to ADX [Florence]," and that in the end, BOP officials understood that Plaintiffs had to be transferred there. ECF No. 4-32 91 12-13. It strains credulity to believe that subordinate BOP officials carrying out this process felt free to disagree with what had been demanded at the start by officials far senior to them, with authority over their careers and livelihoods. Thus, it is likely that there was no genuine opportunity for Plaintiffs— at their hearings, during their appeals, or at any other time-to oppose their transfers to ADX Florence.
February 12, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
A majority of cases will never be reported, either.

Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Dec 21
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.

Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Hamish McKenzie Disiointed • Subscribe 1h Edited Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we've heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views). liust want to make it clear that we don't like Nazis either-we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away- in fact, it makes it worse.
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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jmetr22b.bsky.social
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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pbump.com
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."
Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
www.cbsnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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bay161.bsky.social
The founder of a SPLC designated Hate Group headquartered in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco has just been identified.

So lets rip that klan hood off...

"On Blast: Charles Roome McLaughlin of SF Running Neo-Nazi Record Label from Tenderloin Apartment"
bay161.noblogs.org/bhol/
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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atrupar.com
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM