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EVP, Race Forward; Senior Fellow, Southern Poverty Law Center; Co-Founder, States At The Core (STAC); Co-Founder, CultureGuard. Boards: Auburn Theological Seminary, National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, Proteus Fund. Fellow, Moment Institute #SAFC
Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.
While Tuesday’s State of the Union felt like 1929. I kept thinking about something from 1969.
Just one number.
I went back and looked at it. You should too.
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“As Mr. Trump was speaking, Ms. Rahman was seen being escorted from the gallery above the House floor by Capitol Police officers. She could be heard shouting for someone to call Ms. Omar, and that all she had done was stand up.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
“Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.”
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
“A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island, Texas. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
Oregon state representatives approved a measure Thursday that would prohibit a president from deploying another state’s National Guard to Oregon for law enforcement or immigration enforcement purposes without the Oregon governor’s permission.
Tuesday night I watched a film about Mulugeta Seraw, murdered by white supremacists in 1988.
His death galvanized organizers across the Pacific Northwest and Mountain States.
Backlash organizes. It studies. It waits.
Some stories aren’t about the past.
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Fixed The Headline NYT. You’re welcome:
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Companies to Build Hitlist for ICE Reprisals
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Two federal agents have been suspended, and criminal charges against a man one of them shot have been dropped, after a prosecutor in Minnesota revealed that the story those agents told about the shooting was not true.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
Andrew Paul Johnson, convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children received a full pardon from President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...
“The Department of Homeland Security is on the defensive Thursday morning over new bodycam footage that contradicts its version of events in the Border Patrol’s shooting of Marimar Martinez in Chicago last year.”
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“This is the most disturbing arrest that we’ve had here,” Hodges said of Johnson during a news conference on Tuesday. “He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security and federal agencies.”
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Under the shadows of the #EpsteinFiles this doesn’t feel like suspicious and absolutely inappropriate?
A girl in MN alleges immigration authorities separated her from family, detained her overnight in a hotel and was forced to share a room with federal agents.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
“[She] had asked her father during the Trump row: ‘How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?’
Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.”
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“Carrie Prejean Boller, a member of the commission and a former Miss California, said she opposes Israel and defended Candace Owens from allegations of antisemitism”
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“White with Fear will stream on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org. The documentary is written, produced and directed by Andrew Goldberg, produced and edited by Diana Robinson, co-produced by Eric Ward, with cinematography by Robert Hanna.”
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Imagine being Trump and spending your entire life trying to look powerful and then Green Day opens the #SuperBowl reminding everyone that three chords can still ruin a bully’s whole day
Watched the pre-game and one thought. This year’s #SuperBowl is turning into one big F-U to Donald Trump
“According to an investigative reporter with experience in the area, it's entirely possible that the staffer is the controversial White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.”
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“When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled Mr. Bovino saying that he did not intend to 'calm it down,' but instead, he said, 'We’re going to put it down.'"
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Trump has made #Obama28 one of the fastest trending hashtags of all time and #BadBunny a friggin’ American icon. Hahahah. #KeepItGoing😂
Reaction to Trump’s Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Independent probe sought in fatal shooting of Los Angeles man by off-duty ICE agent
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WHITE WITH FEAR premieres PBS • Tue • March 24 • 10/9c (check local listings)
Honored to share that WHITE WITH FEAR has received a Writers Guild of America Awards nomination for Documentary Screenplay.
Are they just asking people at the exact address? The block? Mile square radius? Not knowing must be confusing to people in “the area.”
DHS claimed they shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, OR, but Prosecution records obtained by The Guardian tell a quite different story
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Meanwhile in Eugene, Oregon: “Protesters alleged in social media posts that the Eugene Police Department broke windows in order to deploy tear gas and other munitions and then blamed the damage on protesters.”
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