Notices by JamesWNeal (jameswneal@mstdn.social)

Reminder of what Trump won't accept for #ICE reforms.

1. Targeted Enforcement
2. No Masks
3. Require ID
4. Protect Sensitive Locations
5. Stop Racial Profiling
6. Uphold Use of Force Standards
7. Ensure State and Local Coordination and Oversight
(more in next post)

They also call for Kristi Noem's removal.

(WaPo) He made a fake ICE deportation tip line.

After reading dozens of reports, he was stunned by how many people seemed driven by personal annoyance. 1 woman reported the new girlfriend of her ex-husband. Another reported his neighbor after he used his trash can.

One tipster called after she went to Publix and the worker who helped her find the water didn’t speak English. “And then she did help you find the water?” Palmer asked, “Right, she walked me right to it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/20/fake-ice-tip-line-viral/

If you wonder where Trump got the idea to create his own internet based b.s. firehose, why he works so hard to get right wing voices amplified, everyone else shut up, here's why.

"Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not. . . . The algorithmic feed led users to follow more right-leaning accounts, which they continued following when the algorithm was off."

For some folks, facts, it seems, are whatever they're told.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

(Reuters) Tusk told a gov. meeting that authorities would establish a team to investigate any potential fallout in Poland from #Epstein's crimes, in particular in relation to what he said was possible involvement by Russian secret services.

"More & more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services," Tusk said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-probe-possible-links-between-epstein-russia-pm-tusk-says-2026-02-03

Moore also said it was “not lost” on him that he is the only Black governor.
“I find that to be particularly painful, that the president is trying to exclude me from an org. that not only my peers have asked me to help to lead, but then also a place where I know I belong in,” he said. “I’m never in a room because of someone’s benevolence nor kindness (or) b/c of a social experiment. I’m in the room because I belong there & the room was incomplete until I got there.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/08/trump-democratic-governors

Yes, indeedy, Trump was already Trump in 2006, but damn, he slipped up and acknowledged he knew what Epstein had been doing with young girls, but of course he "got the hell out of there" every time . . . except those times he was photographed with young girls, too . . . https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/02/09/trump-reportedly-called-police-about-epstein-in-2006-said-ghislaine-maxwell-was-evil

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the federal government’s ongoing investigations.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kevin-moncla-election-researcher-fulton-county-georgia

Kid Rock-Led 'Rock the Country' Festival Canceled in SC After Nearly All Performers Pull Out.

From Shinedown to Ludacris, why major acts fled Rock the Country’s Anderson date—and what it means for Kid Rock’s polarizing festival brand. https://www.complex.com/music/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/kid-rock-rock-the-country-tour-canceled

Minnesota Democratic - Farmer Party tells certain people at the federal level to "fuck off."

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JamesWNeal/115911382115406585

Here, figure out which of these people Trump would like to deport and ask why it hasn't happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austria), Jackie Chan (Hong Kong), Charlize Theron (South Africa), Liam Neeson (Northern Ireland), Christian Bale (Wales), Natalie Portman (Israel/USA), Javier Bardem (Spain), Anthony Hopkins (Wales), and Michelle Yeoh (Malaysia),

@inthehands @WideEyedCurious pretty much. Guess we understand grooming when we see it.

Saying "ICE is doing just what they've been trained do do," is at least a tad bit wrong. It's like saying you need to train that box of grenades with rusty pins to go off.

You set them out on the street and just - wait.

Illinois Attorney General sues all of Trump's nazi departments "10. The federal government’s menacing, violent, and unlawful incursion impedes Illinois and Chicago from carrying out core sovereign functions in violation of the Tenth
Amendment.
11. It also violates the Administrative Procedure Act many times over. Each of the
actions that accompanied Border Patrol’s incursion exceeds Defendants’ statutory authority and is
arbitrary and capricious, including: " https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/News-Room/Current-News/001%20-%20Complaint%201.12.26.pdf?language_id=1

“If this was really about narco-terrorists and about protecting Americans from cartels and drugs being brought into America, the Trump administration would be attacking the Mexican cartels,” MTG said on “Meet the Press, one day before she steps down.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JamesWNeal/115838095025472969

(Cuba's next) “If I lived in Havana, and I was in the government, I’d be concerned, at least a little bit,” he (Rubio) said in response to a reporter’s question.

“I presume 1 of the 1st demands that we would have as the U.S. with whoever is running things in Venezuela is that any support for Cuba will stop on the theory that that will then destabilize that regime and lead to a better outcome,” said Kevin Whitaker, who served as U.S. ambassador to Colombia during the first Trump administration.

Trump: Mount Rushmore is in such a state of disrepair. People are so unhappy about it, attendance is way down. I have a plan to fix it by remaking the carving of least popular president so it looks like me.

DOJ - SDNY "just found" over a million documents.

Latest document dump - (Wapo) An assistant U.S. attorney for SDNY wrote in 1 Feb. 2020 email released this week it was “basically impossible for us to keep track of what we’re getting, and what has been completed, w/o some kind of identification or labeling system.”
A follow-up message in the email chain later that month states that investigators received access to “well over a million documents, & we don’t have any idea what we’re looking at.”

By now you've heard the official response to this is basically, "lies, all lies," but my unofficial take is Epstein was telling a kindred pedophile that he was planning on taking his own life, may have already succeeded by the time the message got to Nassar, but first he wanted to put out there that Donald Trump was just like him - only he was managing to get away with it.

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California Attorney General asks the public to help identify federal agents engaging in misconduct. And yes, you can submit video. Here's the link. https://oag.ca.gov/ReportMisconduct

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JamesWNeal/115737281617390260

Smith said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents . . . and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.

“I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election,” Smith said. “We took actions based on what the facts and the law required — the very lesson I learned early in my career as a prosecutor.”