Sunday Tidbits February 1, 2026 They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway. “Dozens of refugees with valid status were sent from Minnesota to Texas to be re-vetted, prompting a lawsuit. Those released had to pay their way back.” What it’s like to be Mexican-American these days. Heartbreaking to think this is Carl’s America. He keeps telling me that Biden let “millions” of murderers and rapists into the country. Well, they’re not doing a very good job of murdering. These days, Americans should be more afraid of being murdered or raped by masked government agents (Joe Rogan likens them to the Gestapo) than by asylum seekers. Yes, Trump has hung a photo of him and Putin in the White House. In the war for freedom and democracy, Trump has switched sides. The Hartmann Report: Trump’s New Grift: A $10 Billion Demand for “Reputational Harm” After his Income Tax Avoidance Was Exposed. Seriously. A man is now serving a 5-year prison sentence for leaking Trump’s tax returns to the press in 2018, and he wasn’t even a federal employee; he worked for a contractor. But Trump still thinks his embarrassment when we learned he’s been a tax cheat most of his life is, Trump says, so severe that the American government must give him and his two oldest boys a massive pile of cash. This family never saw a grift it couldn’t embrace… Fareed Zakaria: Why unchecked state power — not immigration — threatens the West The Trump administration has declared war on civil society — media, universities, nongovernmental institutions, law firms and even private businesses. The Justice Department’s plans to investigate organizations like George Soros’s Open Society Foundations — with the president describing it as racketeering — signals something dark: the criminalization of disfavored groups. It is the logic of Hungary and Russia imported into American politics: You do not rebut critics; you investigate them. So worth reading in full. Join Indivisible! Support the opposition! Tomorrow (or soon): Take Heart!