Friday, February 13, 2026

If an image can be worth a thousand words, I give you an image link, you write your essay.

 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/99db/live/09b252e0-028a-11f1-9972-d3f265c101c6.jpg

I bet you write a horror story. Masked goons running amok. Slash and burn.

I did not write anything because I did not need to. Script's there already

AND - If you want another image, I'll link another image

How y'all doing? 

 

Thursday, February 12, 2026

"McLaughlin also gave a statement to the Post that denied any mistreatment or deprivation of constitutional rights and said that detainees get proper meals, medical treatment and showers, and also access to lawyers and family. The letter from the advocacy groups, however, cites claims of “excessive force” inside the Camp East Montana facility, where guards allegedly utilize sexual violence to enforce discipline."

Two mid-item paragraphs run together are the above headline, the source being: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/texas-ice-camp-abuse-immigration  -- quoting

In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command, the coalition accuses officers at the immigration detention facility on the base, called Camp East Montana, of being “in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections”.

The advocates called for the immediate closure of the camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held in a complex of tents.

“In light of these abuses, we urge the end to detention of immigrants at Fort Bliss,” said the letter signed by eight organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Humans Rights Watch, Estrella del Paso, the Texas Civil Rights Project and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.

The letter was addressed to ICE acting director Todd Lyons and others, and copied to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office of inspector general and the Senate armed forces committee.

ICE officials in El Paso directed media inquiries to the DHS, which denied all the allegations.

“Any claim that there are ‘inhumane’ conditions at ICE detention centers are categorically false. No detainees are being beaten or abused,” said the DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, in a written statement.

In Minnesota, the key detention center, the Wipple Building, once defense lawyers were admitted to meet with clients, was found to be only a bit short of a cesspool. 

Crowding detainees together is a health risk, where the wrongfully kidnapped ones are then turned back into the general Minnesota population or into other home states. 

This while the quack Kennedy runs health policy. It is dumb as dirt to be that inconsiderate of things.

That Texas site is where the two TB cases were detected, and where the total number of detainees varies day to day, packing densities are unclear, and wrongful kidnapped citizens from all over the States could be exposed carriers released back into their communities. 

 

Stauber and his Minnesota Iron Range support people should take a tariff stand cognizant of the fact that all their processed taconite goes international through Canada's Welland Canal. Etc. re the St. Lawrence Seaway.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2025/01/30/canada-tariff-biggest-threat-to-great-lakes-since-war-of-1812/

Perhaps Stauber is more concerned with being on Trump's good graces, than he is with the economy of his constituents. A move is timely if he pressures the mentally declining man and his economic advisor pool, before it is too late. With Vance seeming disinclined to exercise 25th Amendment duties, Stauber may either see what a stonewall looks like, or he moves the needle.

Either way, he has to try. And that involves contact and discussion with JD.

Emmer cannot avoid having a role. 

 

 

The Economist tracks Trump on two levels - polling and the economy.

 https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker/economy 

Crabgrass bet = it only will get worse for Trump.

The dementia situation is not specifically an issue in Economist reporting. That, or I missed it as one of the many trees making up the forest

Biggest takeaway - The economy is a wreck and people know it and dislike it being that. It is the biggest single factor moving the needle into net negative territory.

If nothing else buries him, the wretched things he's done to ruin the economy will bite.

The overall poll reporting differs little except for being less comprehensive. Readers can do independent research, but they should not expect different results other than in detail.

 

 

The rancor remains. Current Gov Walz speaks after Homan's "Vietnam exit-boogie announcement" and next Gov. Klobuchar is interviewed.

 Walz.

Klobuchar.

They don't think it's that easy, over and out. It's Wait-a-minute... 

Trump's poll numbers have not yet plunged enough, and Minnesota needs to be made whole for the plight Trump inflicted upon the State.

It is not over. The siege perps go, the damage remains, and the King Perp remains in the White House demented but unbowed. It sucks. 

 

 

The courts are not always wrong.

 Politico.

 

With immigrants a topic, some legal ones did open a Pandora's Box.

https://visitthereach.us/the-immigrants-of-the-manhattan-project/