February 8, 2026

Racist Donald Trump

• Trump posts a racist video and then lies about it.
• Drive Racists Out of Public Life Forever, and Other Lessons From Black History
• Montco officials issue joint statement in response to video shared by the Trump administration on Thursday
• "Later tonight on Air Force One, Trump said that he had posted it himself."

Rotting Cabinets

• Shipyard Bosses Forced to Pay Overtime to Get People to Stay for Pete Hegseth Speech
• NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump | US national security | The Guardian

Concentration Camps in PA

• Immigrant Beaten by ICE Agents Suffered 8 Skull Fractures and 5 Life-Threatening Brain Hemorrhages
• OPINION: Too much ICE ahead
• U.S. Senator John Fetterman seeks DHS answers on new ICE facilities' impact in Schuylkill and Berks Counties | wnep.com

Election 2026

• Mail ballot application error adds to Chester County’s woes
• INTERVIEW: Could Progressive Congressional Candidate Lucia Simonelli Shock PA-01 With a Victory in the May Democratic Primary?
• Bensalem’s Bryan Allen Wants to Help Democrats Expand Their Majority in the Pennsylvania State House
• Trump Is Pushing to Federalize Elections in Pennsylvania and How Delco Can Push Back
• Norristown community’s lack of trust in police on full display in response to police vehicle hitting naked man

Resistance

• How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back

Health Crisis

• Trump policies at odds with emerging understanding of COVID’s long-term harm

First Amendment

• The Bloodbath at Washington Post Is All Jeff Bezos’s Fault
• Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

Epstein Files

• DOJ Deleted an Epstein Prosecution Memo About Possible Co-Conspirators. We Saved It.

Datacenters and AI

• New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers

Baltimore County

• Health department closed the Perring Plaza Dollar Tree due to a rodent infestation : r/BaltimoreCounty