Monday, February 09, 2026 |
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS |
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A key senator said publicly that he believes the DNI "hid" a whistleblower complaint against her from Congress, despite legal requirements. |
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| The president didn't deny the absurd proposal, but he did try to blame the Senate Democratic leader for the idea. Schumer called it an "absolute lie." |
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The president didn't deny the absurd proposal, but he did try to blame the Senate Democratic leader for the idea. Schumer called it an "absolute lie." |
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| We're dealing with an executive branch in which the right hand doesn't know what the even-further-to-the-right hand is doing. |
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We're dealing with an executive branch in which the right hand doesn't know what the even-further-to-the-right hand is doing. |
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| Remember when the president vowed new economic penalties on countries that do business with Iran? A month later, his threats have been exposed as hollow. |
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Remember when the president vowed new economic penalties on countries that do business with Iran? A month later, his threats have been exposed as hollow. |
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
- Will that warehouse become an ICE detention center? Locals push back.
ICE's push to turn commercial warehouses into detention centers has faced backlash from local residents and elected officials from both parties.
(USA Today)
- "Everywhere that this has happened has been kind of a real dumpster fire," said the Republican Orange County executive. "It's been greeted with controversy, protests, violence, and it's not something that we want."
As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance
(New York Times)
- "The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said 42 people were arrested outside the Whipple Federal Building this afternoon after some protesters lingered following an order to disperse."
Sheriff's office says more than 40 arrested at Whipple protest today
(Minnesota Star Tribune)
- Mournful, ceremonial: Minneapolis VA memorial gathering overflows to remember Alex Pretti — Nearly 1,000 of Pretti's colleagues found one way or another to watch the service in the hospital's chapel.
(Minnesota Star Tribune)
- "If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it'll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island."
- "The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates."
(Aaron Reichlin-Melnick shares Bruno J. Navarro quoting NBC News)
- "We have some great photogs that captured our protest in Hyannis, MA today!!! 200++ in the cold snow! #indivisible #nokings
@indivisible.org @maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social @msnowreports.bsky.social @velshi.com @midcapeindivisible.bsky.social"
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(Cape Cod Women for Change INDIVISIBLE)
- Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
(NBC News)
- RFK Jr.'s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files
(The Daily Beast)
- John Phelan, Trump's Navy secretary, listed in Epstein flight logs — The documents indicate that Phelan was a passenger on Epstein's Boeing 727 for two transatlantic flights in 2006.
(Washington Post)
- "Good news tonight as both CB16 prohibiting private ICE detention centers & CB17 providing county employees guidance for dealing with ICE & CBP, passed here in Howard County, Maryland. Thank you to CE Calvin Ball and the council members who sponsored and co-sponsored this legislation!
#Resist #ICEout"
(Columbia Democratic Club)
- Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility
"For 280 days we haven't eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can't see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
(L.A. Taco)
- Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas denied entry to the facility. Members of Congress have the legal right to enter and inspect federal detention facilities with no notice.
(NBC San Diego)
- Crow Wing County Sheriff in northern Minnesota: "We are definitely collaborating..."
In rare move, this northern Minnesota county is working with the feds to make arrests amid ICE surge — Deputies assisted federal agents in arresting four employees at El Potro Mexican Restaurant in Brainerd.
(Minnesota Star Tribune)
- Southern Nevada activists organize ICE response network
(News from the States)
- Fetterman letter expresses concern over proposed ICE facilities
(WFMZ)
- Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care?
(National Catholic Reporter)
- "The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."
New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law
(KFOX14)
- DHS document confirms site of new ICE detention center in Clint, Texas
(El Paso Times)
- "This story is so good"
- "A small group of protestors assembled near an empty warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, in mid-January with one objective: to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from converting the building into an immigration detention center."
(Donna Ladd shares Mississippi Free Press [direct link])
- "NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed."
(Kyle Griffin shares New York Times)
- "Representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from El Paso, visited Camp East Montana five times and said that during her most recent, on Jan. 29, she met a woman who was six months pregnant and had lost 10 pounds, an elderly woman who had collapsed because of high blood pressure, and a woman who said she had H.I.V. and had not received medication. All the women were wearing snow boots and winter attire, Ms. Escobar said, the same clothes that they had been arrested in three weeks earlier."
(New York Times)
- "Longtime Hutchins resident Felix Madrigal attended Wednesday's meeting wearing a nametag that read "No ICE In Hutchins."
"I look at it as a moral issue," the 86-year-old said. "We just cannot allow ICE to come in, truck migrants in like cattle."
Hutchins city leaders meet to discuss ICE detention center as residents continue opposition
(KERA News)
- "The deployment is on track to exceed $600 million at the one-year mark, in August.
"Despite that significant investment of taxpayer dollars, the National Guard has been unable to identify any measurable public safety outcomes attributable to their presence..."
(NBC News)
- oh dear
NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
(The Guardian)
- DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
(NPR)
- "He says sometimes the weight of what he's witnessing each day catches up with him.
"These people, when they're hobbling up the steps in chains, a lot of them are pausing for a moment at the top of the steps, and they're taking a look around, and I can't even imagine what they're thinking," he says.
But, Benson says he's going to keep doing it.
"I think it's the most important work that I'm ever going to get an opportunity to do," he says, starting to tear up a bit. "But I really wish I didn't have to."
And then he looks at his watch. Another flight is coming in soon.
Nick Benson grabs his tripod and his camera, and heads out the door to count."
Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
(NPR)
- Current Water, Sewer Systems Can't Handle Proposed 7,500 Bed ICE Detention Center in Schuylkill County
(Coal Region Canary)
- "It's more soccer moms than hardcore activists, they said. But the challenging conditions have brought them closer together. After knowing each other for just weeks, they feel like they'd give their lives to protect one another if necessary..."
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
(MPR News)
- The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe's political class. In the US, they're getting a pass. — As Europe moves to address its shame, it's highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
(Politico)
- "'The pastors' group that I'm in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..."
(New York Times)
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