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Capitol News Illinois: ‘My own government attempted to execute me,’ Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies
- Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times by immigration agents last year, testified at a public forum on immigration agents’ use of force in D.C. on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
- Panelists and members of Congress called for immigration enforcement reform and civil liability of federal agents.
- This is the second forum hosted by two congressmen who opened an inquiry in October to investigate reports of immigration agents detaining U.S. citizens.
- Two other citizens who accused immigration agents of assault testified at the forum.
AlterNet: Federal agent took ‘trophy’ photo of woman he shot: victim
Raw Story: ICE agents mocked autistic woman for asking for wheelchair after dragging her out of car
AP: Immigration agents draw guns and arrest activists following them in Minneapolis
Bulwark: ICE Was Terrorizing Worshipers Long Before Don Lemon Entered a Church
CBS: Feds releasing Elizabeth Zuna, 4th-grader who’s from same school district as Liam Ramos, officials say
Jennifer Rubin: Who is Hurting Kids?
… the number of children Trump has harmed in his second term exceeds even those victimized by Epstein and his enablers.
Thom Hartmann: Over 70,000 People Detained in 225 Concentration Camps, With Plans to Double Them: Why Isn’t This a National Emergency?
ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…
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Current Affairs: Why ICE Treats Phones Like a Deadly Threat
The agency wants to control the flow of information, flooding the internet with pro-deportation propaganda and suppressing any evidence of their crimes. No wonder they hate being filmed.
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Jack Hopkins: Deeper Inside ICE’s Data Machine
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CNN: The Trump team can’t get its story straight on the president, Gabbard and Fulton County
The Trump administration last week launched an extraordinary new gambit in President Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to sow doubts about the 2020 election: a controversial search of an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia.
But even as it’s undertaken this historic step, it’s struggled mightily to get its story straight.
That’s especially the case with the problematic involvements of both Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
(CNN more…)Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 4, 2026
On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J. Trump has called for his administration to take over the polls before the 2026 midterm elections. …
…MAGA leaders’ solution is to reject the results of any election that doesn’t put them in charge.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)AlterNet: ‘You are the worst’: Trump erupts at female reporter who asked him about Epstein
Heather Delaney Reese: Trump’s masterplan to undermine the elections
But that wasn’t the only unconscionable thing he said from the Oval Office today.
AlterNet: White House shuts down Melania Trump event after Epstein questions
Charlotte Clymer: A Guide to the Epstein Files, Part I
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NY Times: We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Can’t Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.
The authors all served as general counsels or acting general counsels for the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly issued a memorandum that authorizes its agents to enter private residences forcibly without a judicial warrant. James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, recently defended the department’s policy and wrote that “deep-state actors in the federal government have for decades told ICE officers that they may not enter a fugitive alien’s home even with a final order of removal and administrative warrant.”
We disagree.
We previously sat in the seat he now occupies, serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations; this is not a partisan issue. We disagree not only with Mr. Percival’s position but also with his characterization of lawyers at the Department of Homeland Security and elsewhere who seek to uphold the rule of law.
It is not the so-called deep state that has restrained ICE from entering homes using only administrative warrants. It is the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution — and the lawyers who took an oath to support and defend it.
(NY Times more…)Daily Beast: DHS Panics After ICE Barbie’s Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed
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Guardian: ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel
Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’
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James Eagle: Who is funding the Ukraine war effort
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Hans Christensen: X Offices Raided in France, Musk Summoned
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NY Times: The melting continent
Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a research vessel bound for Antarctica. They’ve been there ever since, traveling with an international team of scientists on a high-stakes expedition to study the continent’s most unstable glacier.
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Bulwark: Inside Dems’ Plans to Beat Back Trump’s Attacks on the Midterms
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Your Local Epidemiologist: Do clinicians make money off of vaccines?
One of the loudest claims circulating on social media right now is that clinicians recommend vaccines because they profit from them.
These concerns don’t come out of nowhere. The U.S. health system is profit-driven. Insurance companies are massive corporations. Doctors, like everyone else, operate in a system shaped by money. Many Americans are in massive debt due to large medical bills. And, people are understandably fed up.
But is the claim true?
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Usually, no. In fact, they often lose money.
(Your Local Epidemiologist more…)
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NY Times: Prosecutor Fired After Voicing Frustration With Immigration Caseload
LAWdork: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today
“I am not white, as you can see,” Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. “And my family’s at risk as any other people that might get picked up too …”
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Kennedy Center Arts Workers: Kennedy Center Unions Demand Transparency and Worker Protections in the Event of a Temporary Shutdown
ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.- January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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