Nothing is more dystopian than gathering pregnant migrant children in a detention center where adequate reproductive health care isn’t available for high risk pregnancies.
Horrible things happened today. The Speaker of the House called for six Democrats to be criminally charged for their video encouraging military service members to refuse illegal orders. Despite court orders against it, the IRS shared migrant tax data with DHS. And somehow CBP now has laser weaponry to disable drones and fired it in Texas without alerting anyone.
None of the other stories matter. Get on the phone, get into your email and messages, and tell every single politician who relies on your vote to stop the government from sending pregnant children to a detention center because they are unaccompanied. Every state and county has child protective services. Use them instead of jail cells in a state where abortion is banned.
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FAA declares "national defense airspace" over El Paso and grounds all flights for 10 days with no explanation, authorizing deadly force against aircraft that enter the restricted zone.
Today’s GovBrief News
NATO launches "Arctic Sentry" mission to boost military presence around Greenland after Trump backed off his seizure threat in exchange for a joint security framework.
Source: AFP
February 11, 2026
Trump tells Netanyahu Iran negotiations will continue but hints at military action if talks fail, saying last year's Operation Midnight Hammer "did not work well for them."
Source: UPI
February 11, 2026
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota sue to block $600 million in CDC public health funding cuts the states say are driven by political retaliation over immigration enforcement disagreements.
Source: Reuters
February 11, 2026
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials' objections.
Source: The Texas Tribune
February 11, 2026
House passes SAVE America Act 218-213, requiring in-person proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, but Senate Republicans say they lack the votes to break a filibuster.
Source: NBC News
February 11, 2026
CBO projects national debt will hit $64 trillion in a decade, with Trump's tax and immigration policies canceling out the $3 trillion in deficit reduction from his tariffs.
Source: Politico
February 11, 2026
Trump orders Pentagon to purchase power from coal plants, signing the executive order with Peabody Energy's CEO at his side.
Source: CNBC
February 11, 2026
Pentagon lets CBP fire an anti-drone laser near Fort Bliss without FAA coordination, triggering a chaotic airspace shutdown the administration blames on a cartel incursion.
Source: The Associated Press
February 11, 2026
Pentagon tells a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare for Middle East deployment as Trump warns Iran of military action if nuclear talks fail.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
February 11, 2026
AG Bondi brought a printout of Rep. Jayapal's Epstein file search history to Wednesday's hearing, prompting Rep. Raskin to call for an Inspector General investigation into DOJ surveillance of lawmakers.
Source: CBS News
February 11, 2026
DOJ fires a U.S. attorney hours after federal judges appointed him in Albany, with Deputy AG Blanche announcing on X: "You are fired, Donald Kinsella."
Source: CBS News
February 11, 2026
Federal judge blocks Trump from transferring Biden-commuted death row inmates to supermax prison, ruling the transfer process "cannot be a sham."
Source: Newsweek
February 11, 2026
CBP signs $225,000 deal with Clearview AI to use facial recognition built on 60 billion scraped images for "tactical targeting" of border intelligence operations.
Source: Wired
February 11, 2026
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
Source: 404 Media
February 11, 2026
ICE jailed a lawful permanent resident for 143 days and tried to deport her over two bad checks totaling less than $75 written more than a decade ago.
Source: The Washington Post
February 11, 2026
IRS improperly shared confidential tax data of thousands of immigrants with DHS, breaching legal protections courts had already ruled violated taxpayers' rights.
Source: The Washington Post
February 11, 2026
New Jersey launches website for residents to report ICE conduct and signs executive order barring federal immigration enforcement on state property without judicial warrants.
Source: The New Jersey Monitor
February 11, 2026
Florida House votes 92-14 to ban the term "West Bank" in schools and state agencies, requiring use of "Judea and Samaria" instead.
Source: 3 million Palestinians live in the territory
February 11, 2026
Trump calls Oklahoma Gov. Stitt a "RINO" after Stitt, as NGA chair, pushes back on excluding Democratic governors from annual White House dinner.
Source: KOCO Oklahoma City
February 11, 2026
Bondi lashes out at lawmakers during House Epstein hearing as Democrats and Rep. Massie accuse DOJ of exposing survivors' identities while shielding potential co-conspirators.
Source: Roll Call
February 11, 2026
Speaker Johnson says six Democratic lawmakers "should be indicted" one day after a grand jury refused to indict them, as Kelly calls the failed prosecution "straight from the authoritarian playbook."
Source: The Hill
February 11, 2026
Trump's Religious Liberty Commission removes member Carrie Prejean Boller after she challenged witnesses on Zionism and Israel's war in Gaza during an antisemitism hearing.
Source: The Hill
February 11, 2026
Protesters stage sit-ins at Target stores in more than a dozen cities, pressuring the Minneapolis-based retailer to publicly oppose the immigration crackdown that killed two residents in its home city.
Source: The Associated Press
February 11, 2026
House passes resolution to end Trump's Canadian tariffs 219-211, with six Republicans breaking ranks despite Trump threatening primary challenges minutes after the vote.
Source: Newsweek
February 11, 2026