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The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

The NAACP sued Elon Musk’s xAI Tuesday, alleging the company’s efforts to power its data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi are creating a health risk for local residents.

Dems running for the Senate posted some massive fundraising hauls in the first quarter. The most striking number so far: James Talarico brought in $27 million over the past three months.

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

📽️NEW: The DOJ is sitting on half the Epstein Files — and Congressman Robert Garcia says that's no accident. Rep. Garcia breaks down where the Epstein investigation stands: who's been subpoenaed, what the DOJ is hiding and why this is already worse than Watergate. https://bit.ly/47zoAAn

EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them. The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.

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Make no mistake: The thousands of new recruits to ICE, driven by a $100 million “wartime recruitment” push, were selected with violence in mind.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

"The country has also detained a U.S. citizen, which has not been previously reported..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“President Trump has launched a war that offers opportunities to the Middle East, and threatens danger to constitutional freedom at home,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/VoDEKjGp

Death cards made famous in a war that ended more than 50 years ago have made a reappearance. It shouldn’t be a surprise that a war of extreme brutality rooted in racism would have resonance with ICE. https://bit.ly/4cjACBk

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

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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. 🧵

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

Even with the so-called "drawdown," many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they're preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable after two fatal shootings of US Citizens by federal agents in January. https://cnn.it/4rAFZ34

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Bill Clinton reportedly plans to tell Congress what he knows about Trump-Epstein, which could lead to impeachment.

ICE watch has been life-changing: “I feel like our whole lives as Minnesotans...it’s always kind of like, ‘Don’t even start that kind of thing because you have to live around these people. I feel that’s gone in me personally — I don’t even care if I ruffle feathers.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.

President Trump claims that his goal of his anti-fraud campaign is to save taxpayers money, but it's largely become a tool for political retribution. Some state officials also say his actions are legally dubious.

Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos. His success could have dire consequences for American democracy, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. (From November)

President Donald Trump said that Republican lawmakers should nationalize voting — claiming a power explicitly granted to states in the U.S. Constitution.

It has been rare for companies working with ICE to criticize the Trump administration’s deportation surge. But in the wake of two killings of protesters in Minneapolis, several international companies have said they were rethinking their business relationships.

Federal immigration officers in Minneapolis will start wearing body cameras “effective immediately,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Monday.

Last fall, Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security to help oversee election security. (Published Aug. 2025)

A group of nonprofit organizations and U.S. citizens Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's sweeping suspension of immigrant visa processing for people from nearly half of the world's countries. n.pr/4tfrVh4

@jimacosta.bsky.social: I hope Don Lemon sues the hell out of Trump and the DOJ. That is the way we win, by not bending the knee.

The Epstein case reflects systemic issues within the American elite. Despite clear evidence, the perpetrators will probably never be charged. They engage in exploitative practices without consequence.The American oligarchy has amassed its wealth through parasitism

Can we all agree that no country that claims to be a democracy should ever have masked militarized goon squads full of pardoned domestic terrorists and militia?!

Sen. Jacky Rosen calls for DOJ review of Tom Homan and $50,000 bribe investigation - MS NOW

“We are trying to show there are economic consequences to choosing the side of fascism,” she said... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten... #RIP_Alex 💔

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Woke 2.0 back with a vengeance. You love to see it.

Michael Coard, an attorney and founding member of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), pledged to restore the slavery memorial at the President's House site.

I keep the 50,000 reasons I oppose this guy in a Cava takeout bag. #SayNoMan2Homan 👎

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

And they wonder why we choose the bear- Epstein Files

so the government’s been sitting on these files without arresting anyone because all their biggest donors are in it huh