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Berlin, Germany, March 27, 1936 An enormous banner of Hitler with the words "Freedom-Peace" on the front of the Berlin railway station Washington, DC, February 19, 2026 An enormous banner of Trump with the words "Make America Safe Again" on the front of the DOJ He's not even pretending anymore

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

"To know they’re destroying innocent lives and the fabric of society while you pay their bills leaves you raw, scraped bare, and hatefully sad." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-badge-is...

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

BREAKING NYT: The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

Came across this passage from Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent "New York: 2140," which I think perfectly captures how I am getting through these next few years (and have gotten thru the ones that have come before).

Reporter Georgia Fort, who was arrested along with Don Lemon for doing her job as a reporter (covering an ICE protest at a MN church) speaks out about the experience in the @nytimes.com. Endorsing every single thing she says here. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

There’s gotta be a German word for the cursed experience of reading the Fulton County affidavit after reporting on the 2020 election in extreme detail. Even redacted, every niche witness jumps out—many conspiracy theorists with no real expertise. The US government treating them as credible is nuts.

UPDATE/SCOOP: An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds. Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

. @wired.com: "Bovino told them it's their country and no one can tell them what to do, right?” forum members wrote, referencing Gregory Bovino, who, up until January, held the title of Commander-at-Large of Border Patrol. “I guess they’re [sic] taking him seriously.” www.wired.com/story/inside...

No international unions have backed the call for a May Day general strike yet. However, rank & file union members are changing the dynamic rapidly.

Defense attorneys say law enforcement obtained "30 days" of camera images of Marimar Martinez's car all over Chicago. "They presumably wanted to be able to show her driving from the dynamite factory … to the suicide vest store." They say she was likely caught going to Target, instead.

I'm looking for people to interview whose budgets are extremely tight this year because of 1) Increased health insurance premiums, 2) catching up on student loans or being forced into a higher payment plan or 3) both. Contact me at mpotts at tnr dot com (monicabpotts.57 on signal) if this is you!

DHS Secretary says filming ICE is illegal and amounts to doxxing. They’re absolutely wrong. Recording law enforcement in public spaces is protected by the First Amendment — and courts have affirmed that right time and again. Watch @freedom.press’s @trevortimm.bsky.social explain.

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

Somehow we wound up getting professional wrestling, the clergy, and concealed carry bros.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

holy shit

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family https://theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-easy-win-by-deporting-own-family/

the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

"We must ready ourselves for more extreme measures. They may attempt to physically block us from voting. We will stop them. In extremis they may try to destroy ballots. We must be ready, with citizens actively following federal agents and monitoring election facilities.”

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

We must not Doom Dooming is the mindkiller www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

"We will get the Democrats on board with American Reconstruction. We will primary the squishes. We will elect those who know we are at war and fighting is no longer optional. ... We will walk into the corridors of power with a plan to repair our broken republic."

David Villarreal, 36, a Border Patrol agent from Laredo, TX, was sentenced on Oct 27, 2021 to two years in prison after admitting to sexual assault and tampering with evidence after forcing an undocumented woman to have sex with him and threatening to deport her if she refused.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Troublemaker is my middle name.

"But don't let it be a black and a white one 'Cause they'll slam ya down to the street top Black police showing out for the white cop"