February 19, 2026
· One min read
February 17, 2026
· 3 min read
Everybody vs. ICE
- J. Doe v. DHS - ACLU of Pennsylvania
- Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times
- Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts
- Tom Homan: Minnesota Should Say “Thank You” for DHS Operation
- With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients
Tech Industry
Pennsylvania Local
- What some Philadelphia students will learn in the new MOVE bombing curriculum, and what’s not included
- Souderton School Board considers expansion of middle school world language offerings
- The Trump administration must restore slavery exhibit at Philly’s President’s House, federal judge rules
- Shapiro wants Pa. to be a ‘national leader’ on home construction
Health Crisis
- CMS posts Proposed NBPP 2027. Be afraid; be very afraid (Part 1)
- Pennsylvania workers spend larger cut of income on employer-sponsored health benefits, new report shows
Election 2026
- What if everyone had to prove their citizenship to register to vote?
- Election officials warn Trump-backed voting bill may be impossible to implement by 2026
First Amendment
- Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… - YouTube
- Growing the open social web
Organization
February 16, 2026
· 6 min read
Everybody vs. ICE
- As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
- Montco Activists Aim To Protect Residents From ICE: 'When In Doubt, Record' | Norristown, PA Patch
- Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, whose skull was broken during St. Paul, Minnesota ICE arrest, says beating was unprovoked - ABC7 Los Angeles
- DHS issues update following ICE incident in Lindenwold, NJ - 6abc Philadelphia
- ICE Wanted This Kansas City Warehouse. The People Resisted and Won.
- The people of Minneapolis show us the way.
- Neighbors of planned ICE detention center in Berks County say opposition crosses political lines
- Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for Pa. detention centers, warns facilities may not get permits
- Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student
Election 2026
- How Many Voters Could Be Affected By Earlier Mail Ballot Deadlines? We Ran The Numbers
- What’s next for Liberty Vote, the company formerly known as Dominion?
- Rumors Grow Over Possible Krasner Primary Bid Against Mayor Cherelle Parker
- What Is The SAVE Act and What Does It Mean For You?
- State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications
Rotten Cabinet
- Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT - POLITICO
- Trump nominates a hospitality executive to lead the National Park Service
- The US Government Will Not Stop Sharing Nazi Propaganda
- Kristi Noem’s hastily-arranged Arizona visit stokes rumors in wake of feds’ unprecedented actions
Data Centers and AI
- Pennsylvania man turns down $15 million to turn farm into data center | ABC27
- As Electricity Costs Rise, Everyone Wants Data Centers to Pick up Their Tab. But How?
Pennsylvania Local
- Two crashes with entrapments, multiple patients shut down Sumneytown Pike in Towamencin Monday afternoon - North Penn Now
- Shapiro pitches $1B housing program to build new stock, reduce barriers to ownership in Pennsylvania
- Sen. Haywood publishes opinion piece regarding Trump administration’s removal of slavery exhibit in Philly
- As ICE expands its footprint, DHS is leasing a high-end office space on the Main Line
- Congressional Republicans hound Trump admin over ICE facilities planned for Pa., other states
Network Security
What the DOGE Did
Health Crisis
Unions are Good Actually
Transgender Rights
- Trans Bathroom Ban Bills Now Expanding To Private Businesses
- European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
Murder of Alex Pretti
- Statement from BCA Superintendent Drew Evans on Alex Pretti shooting investigation | Minnesota Department of Public Safety
- The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
Tariffs
Epstein Files
Cruelty is the Point
Resistance
February 15, 2026
· 6 min read
AI Ruins Everything
- Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
- 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans
Second Amendment
Everybody vs. ICE
- As ICE Expands, an AP Review of Crimes Committed by Agents Shows How Their Powers Can Be Abused
- DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different.
- Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
- New Jersey residents can upload videos of ICE activity to a new state portal
- Shapiro Blasts ICE Detention Plans in Schuylkill, Berks Counties
- DHS Claims to be Winding Down in the Twin Cities. Local Leaders Are Still Pissed.
- ‘Traumatized’ Montgomery County family demands probe after ICE raid in Lower Providence
- How agencies under Gov. Josh Shapiro's control do — and don't — cooperate with ICE
- 3 local towns asked about immigration enforcement
First Amendment
- A note about personal security
- Worker-friendly newsrooms are not all the same
- Building The New York Times Product Team: The Right Team for the Job
- From the Editors: Separation of powers keeps us free
Network Security
Pennsylvania Local
- State Senator Steve Santarsiero: How a Bell-to-Bell K-12 Cellphone Ban Bill Took Shape
- Montgomery County Democrats urge Republicans to condemn Trump racist post
- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Voted to Grant Trump Dictatorial Authority Over Tariffs. This Time His Vote Wasn’t Enough
- Shapiro pitches more support for child care workers and student teachers. Home aides feel left out.
Resistance
- “The Tide Is Turning”: Democratic Military Vets Respond to Trump’s Failure to Indict Them
- Grand jury declines to indict Dems who urged military members to resist illegal orders in video
- Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
- FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door
Election 2026
- [Eugene Volokh] Voting Machine Company Smartmatic's Defamation Suit Against Ex-Trump-Lawyer Sidney Powell Can Go Forward
- The GOP’s “Show Us Your Papers” Bill Is the Latest Effort to Help Trump Take Over Elections
- How many voters could be affected by earlier mail ballot deadlines? We ran the numbers.
- Pennsylvania plans to test out internet-connected pollbooks in 2026 primary
Fourth Amendment
- How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?
- A privacy breach at the IRS: Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
- Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
Health Crisis
- In which major Insurer earnings reports confirm everything I've been warning about (with important update/correction)
- I Regret to Inform You that the FDA is FDAing Again
- Why VA Psychologists Are Quitting in Record Numbers
Epstein Files
- Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Survivors
- Pam Bondi’s Gutter: Five Ways the Attorney General Confirmed She Is Engaged in an Epstein Cover Up
- Attorney General Bondi shames the Department of Justice—forever.
- Trump Has A Pam Bondi Problem
Transgender Rights
Software Design
February 14, 2026
· 3 min read
Election 2026
- Breakfast Briefing: Inside the 2026 PA House Race - Candidate & Campaign Briefing - YouTube
- Fetterman backs SAVE Act, says voter ID ‘not Jim Crow’ | ABC27
- The FBI’s Fulton County Raid Was Based on Debunked Claims By Election Deniers
First Amendment
- DOJ fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
- Grand jury refuses to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with illegal military orders video
Cruelty is the Point
- Children Describe Life Inside Dilley ICE Detention Center — ProPublica
- Habeas Petitions Filed in Second Trump Term Hit Historic High — ProPublica
- Trump’s Immigration Officials Don’t Want to Talk About the Cruelty
Health Crisis
- New money for rural health care isn't easing closure worries • Spotlight PA
- Why a $193M injection for rural health care in Pa. isn’t easing closure worries
Pennsylvania Local
- Many PA property assessments out of date by years if not decades
- Federal Defense Dollars Set to Turn Philly Into a Defense Hub
- Tremont Council President: “As Far as ICE Goes, We Try to Stay Out of It.”
- Data centers explained: What they are, why the Philly area is seeing more of them and how they affect us
Epstein Files
Resistance
- Opinion | The Glorious Spectacle of a Republican Gone Rogue - The New York Times
- US Gold Medal Olympian Amber Glenn: "They Hate To See Two Woke Bitches Win"
- Don Lemon Hires Minnesota’s Top Public Integrity Prosecutor to Defend Against Harmeet Dhillon’s Lies
Transgender Rights
Greenland Still Somehow
February 11, 2026
· 2 min read
USA vs. Canada
Housing in Ireland
Everybody vs. ICE
- Report and BWC from Firearm Discharge in Hotel • MuckRock
- ACLU’s Lawsuit Over ICE Raid at an Idaho Racetrack Could Be a Game Changer
- ‘Brutal’ and ‘cruel’ ICE raid in Lower Providence sparks outrage from Montco elected officials
Except Big Tech
Epstein Files
Health Crisis
- Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok
- RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
Election 2026
- GOP US Rep. Fitzpatrick of Pa. heads into midterms with huge fundraising advantage
- Election 2026: What Are Nomination Petitions? And Why Do They Matter?
Pennsylvania Local
February 10, 2026
· 3 min read
Pennsylvania Local
- Neighbors sue Gov. Shapiro over property dispute; Shapiro team calls it 'political stunt'
- Luzerne County Republican Party blasts NEPA Republicans leader for 'hateful' anti-Hispanic video
- Investigation of Incident Involving Norristown Police Officer Concludes; Officer Charged •
- Lehighton Area School Distric Book Audit Responsive Documents • MuckRock
- Norristown police officer charged after hitting naked man with patrol vehicle
Rotten Trump Cabinet
- Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe Bridge | CBC News
- Trump administration’s changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says
- Trump loyalist Sen. McCormick defends controversial White House aide Stephen Miller
Everybody vs. ICE
- ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
- Exonerated PA man’s immigration case to be reopened
- Subu Vedam: Deportation order vacated for State College man | Centre Daily Times
- Judge blocks California’s ban on federal agents wearing masks but requires badges be clearly seen
- Pennsbury High School Students Plan Walkout Friday to Protest ICE
- Congresswoman Houlahan talks AI data centers, ICE and federal shutdown in annual address
- Montgomery County elected officials condemn ICE raid in Trooper
Immigrants Build ULINE
Election 2026
February 9, 2026
· 3 min read
Transgender Rights
Immigrants Built America
Health Crisis
- Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo | WIRED
- Schedule Policy/Career will ruin our civil service
Everybody vs. ICE
- Moderate Senate Democrat ‘Absolutely’ Expects a Partial Shutdown - NOTUS — News of the United States
- Fetterman Shares Concerns Over Proposed ICE Detention Centers in Schuylkill, Berks Counties
Except These Judges
Election 2026
- What did Trump mean by ‘nationalize the voting’? No one is sure.
- What did Trump mean by ‘nationalize the voting’? No one is sure.
Pennsylvania Local
- ‘Children will be what they see’: A longtime Philly book fair puts Black stories — and young readers — at its center
- Why Gov. Shapiro wants to scrutinize electric utility profits
- New Jersey’s homeless population is growing. So too are concerns about federal assistance program budgets being slashed
- Fitzpatrick among Republicans who want nothing to do with conservative efforts to ban same-sex marriage
- Pennsylvania Must Act to Limit Greenhouse Gases, Lawyers Argue
Black History
The Big Game
Software Development
War in Ukraine
February 8, 2026
· 3 min read
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
Health Crisis
First Amendment
Epstein Files
Datacenters and AI
Baltimore County
February 7, 2026
· 4 min read
Racist Donald Trump
- Trump says "I didn't make a mistake" after racist video of Obamas removed
- Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates
- ‘There’s No Bottom’: Trump Shares a Racist Video That Depicts the Obamas as Primates in a Jungle
- Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes
- Shapiro Condemns Trump’s Post of ‘Racist’ Video
- Democrats erupt in fury over Trump demanding Schumer help rename Dulles, Penn Station
- OPINION: Republican Silence on Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Is Complicity
Asset Tulsi Gabbard
- Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over 'CIA activities' | TechCrunch
- Republicans reject complaint about Gabbard as Democrats question time it took to see it
Election 2026
- Pennsylvania criminal case highlights problems with third-party voter registration drives
- 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
Epstein Files
- “If you want this fight . . . let’s have it . . . in public.”
- When Jeffrey Epstein Was the World’s Leading Expert on Getting Away With It
Everybody vs. ICE
- How to Resist Like Minneapolis
- Inspector General Investigating Whether ICE's Surveillance Tech Breaks the Law
- North Penn High School students walk out in anti-ICE protest
- North Penn students share thoughts behind walk out against ICE
- Testing Kristi Noem’s Transparency Claim
- Immigrant Beaten by ICE Agents Suffered 8 Skull Fractures and 5 Life-Threatening Brain Hemorrhages
Pennsylvania Local
- Residents demand 'accountability' after naked man struck by Norristown police vehicle
- Who owns Pa.’s digitized history? We’re a step closer to an answer.
- Governor Shapiro’s Call for Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Earns High Praise from Pennsylvania Cannabis Advocates
- Can the infrastructure in Schuylkill county deal with the ICE Facility? : r/Pennsylvania
Health Crisis
- Newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr.’s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip before measles outbreak
- The Trump admin keeps citing unreviewed vaccine trial proposals in its call for ‘better science’