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mikehixenbaugh.com
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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natashabertrand.bsky.social
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Note the framing here:

It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Politics With Congress gone, much of DHS is set to run out of' money after midnight Democrats nave refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal imm gration agents, including requiring them to wear body cameras and tighter rules on warrants. Today at 14:24 MT
February 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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lartist.bsky.social
Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
cartoon of the brown hoodie kid from Chicago who confronted Danny Spud in his high school Caption: You're gonna get in trouble! Brown: Ok. FUCK ICE
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
> 40 million dollars
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washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h
The Trump administration spent more than $40 million last year to send hundreds of migrants to at least two-dozen countries they weren’t from, a tactic Senate Democrats described as a costly strategy aimed at sowing fear and intimidation. https://wapo.st/4rhbvDJ
February 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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tranniehathaway.bsky.social
How much is this fleet and attending maintenance costing us?
#D2A
iceflightmonitor.bsky.social ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 17d
An ICE Air flight (OAE3982) is currently en route to Bulgaria from Portsmouth, NH to refuel. The flight departed Harlingen, TX early this morning and will possibly make deportation stops in South Asia.
January 27, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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schooley.bsky.social
I do kind of wonder if the media will ever caveat statements from DHS or the White House with "these people lie more often than not."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement. ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
February 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
At MississippiFreePress.org, we reported that the Mississippi Today story saying staff at the Myrlie & Medgar Evers Home National Monument removed brochures calling Evers' killer a "racist" were wrong.

A fair writeup from Susie Banikarim at Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Last Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that the National Park Service removed brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument that called the murderer of Medgar Evers a racist. The article cited Park Service officials who “asked not to be named for fear of retribution.” Evers, a renowned civil rights activist, was assassinated in 1963 by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Condemnation was swift. “The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical,” Martin Luther King III posted on X in response to the story. “Sanitizing history from violence and racism does not bring the country together. It weakens our understanding of who we are and how far we still have to go.” Senator Raphael Warnock also weighed in: “This administration is celebrating Black History Month by erasing it. We won’t let them get away with it.” And it would indeed be appalling if the administration were attempting to erase the context of Evers’s killing. There’s just one problem: it appears the brochures may not have been removed or edited at all. When Jaylin Smith, a Mississippi Free Press reporter, visited the site for a follow-up piece, she found that the brochures were still available and unedited. Keena Graham, the monument’s superintendent, told another Free Press reporter, Kevin Edwards, that she was unaware of any directive to scrub references to racism, noting that any planned updates were merely cosmetic and operational. Strange. “We just did the most basic thing you could do and sent our reporter to confirm the brochures were gone,” Ashton Pittman, the news director of the Mississippi Free Press, told me. “But when she got there, they were still there.” Before publishing, Pittman contacted Jerry Mitchell, the author of the Mississippi Today report and a local journalism hero, to clarify the discrepancy. Mitchell maintained the brochures were missing during his own visit “sometime last week, likely on Saturday,” per the Free Press, and that he had been told they were “in the office.” Then, about an hour after the Free Press published its report confirming the brochures were available, Mississippi Today posted a follow-up claiming the brochures had been “returned.” Absent from the update: any mention of the Free Press reporting. “That was a red flag from a journalistic point of view,” Edwards said. Faced with this new, conflicting narrative, the Free Press went back to Graham for a final clarification: Had the brochures ever been removed, even for a second? Her answer was “Not one second. Not one day. That’s all I can tell you.” When I spoke with Mitchell, he said he later checked his records and that he actually visited the home on Tuesday, January 20. He declined to share specifics about whom he spoke with while there, but he was certain that he had been told the brochures were not available. He also noted that his original reporting was based on information from multiple sources. Mitchell told me that he did not reference the Free Press because an Associated Press reporter had told his editor that the brochures were available earlier the same day, and he had already drafted his second story before speaking with Pittman. But here’s another weird thing: the AP does not appear to have published a story on this topic. In another piece published yesterday about the Evers monument, Mitchell did reference the Free Press reporting, but did not include a correction to his earlier coverage. When I asked why, he said, “We’re still digging into this. I think that’s the correct answer.” Pittman stressed when we spoke that the intention of the Free Press was not to discount Mitchell’s report: “This is not about undermining the credibility of another news organization. It is just about reporting the facts.” But he said it is important that the staff at the monument are not misrepresented. “We saw comments from people saying shame on the staff at this monument for removing his brochures, for complying with this directive. And the fact is they didn’t do that,” he added. “If there was wrongdoing that we could find, we would report it,” he told me, “but we just don’t believe that that happened.”
February 13, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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mims.bsky.social
I finally read this whole piece and the sheer scope of chaos and infighting inside DHS it depicts is breathtaking.

It's 20 stories' worth of scoops crammed into one omnibus account of an agency riven by incompetence and turf wars.
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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politicsgirl.bsky.social
He’s a liar. He lied under oath. He lied to get the job. Impeach him.
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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jeradwalker.bsky.social
Lede buried in the seventh paragraph:
Documents released in late January offered further insight into their relationship, including apparent attempts by the two men to arrange business opportunities for each other and how they exchanged messages about women. In a 2009 email, Mr. Epstein wrote to Mr. bin Sulayem, "where are you? are you ok , Iloved the torture video." It was unclear which video he referred to.
February 13, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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katz.theracket.news
This time Carl Hulse’s editors didn’t even bother to link to their bs article, and chose instead to just straight up print a lie in the newspaper.
Republicans, who only weeks ago appeared to be pivoting on immigration following the killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis, appear to have snapped back to a bellicose stance, buoyed by polls that show voters are firmly behind President Trump's handling of the issue.
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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theintercept.com
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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washingtonpost.com
The U.S. military has nearly completed the transfer of thousands of suspected ISIS fighters to the Iraqi government, setting the stage for the expected withdrawal of many — perhaps even all — American troops from Syria within months, officials said.
Transfer of ISIS suspects nears end as Trump pursues Syria exit
The movement of between 6,000 and 7,000 detainees to Iraqi government control, underway for weeks, could be complete as soon as Friday.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.
erininformation.bsky.social Information @erininformation.bsky.social · 1d
Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."
The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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atrupar.com
New in PN: The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting

"The SAVE Act is not expected to pass the Senate, but in some ways, it doesn’t really need to. It's already served the same purpose as the raid: undermining confidence in elections by amplifying debunked lies about fraud."
The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting
And it's disturbing that a magistrate judge signed off on it.
www.publicnotice.co
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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jongraywb.bsky.social
This is the article being quoted

Again, just in case the original post gets lost due to Palestinians being deleted
February 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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jongraywb.bsky.social
Screenshotting this and alt texting all of it since it will most likely get deleted because Hammam is Palestinian. It deserves to be seen and not erased.
A post by Hammam, a known Palestinian nurse here. It is a wuote by an account of a man named Nathan Kalman Lamb who is posting an excerpt from an article. The article reads: Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies "the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw-and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken." Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive-via brain death-or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners' torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can't. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as-is—a soldier. Nathan says hes honestly speechless. Hammam quotes him to say: The director of the hospital where I work, Al-Shifa Hospital, stated that the occupation forces returned the bodies of women whose organs were missing. Another source also reported that the occupation forces were using a school in northern Gaza to detain women & civilians and harvest their organs
February 12, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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bbkogan.bsky.social
CBO significantly raised its projections of the interest rate the government pays on its debt. This is a key driver of debt/gdp sustainability.

It also means higher interest rates on credit card debt, auto loans, mortgages, etc. And it means higher prices, since business investments cost more.
Interest rates are still below the 2007 level, but much higher than recent lows.
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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brandonseifert.info
In honor of THIS particular take, here are a few of my favorite recent articles about the various perils we face from LLMs. 🧵

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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rincewind.run
most saturday morning cartoon villains would throw these guys out of their organizations for being too evil
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
What if McCarthyism but even dumber

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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?

KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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aurelius.quest
All of these stories are terrible but it's the bigger picture that terrifies me even more.

The US only has 350m people. If you can't turn a profit without access to the US market that's ONLY because of our dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.

Today it's vaccines.
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
themodsisyphus.bsky.social Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM