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  Democracy Now! 3.15M subscribers Jan 14, 2026 Latest Shows Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... A new report finds the number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump's first year back in office, driven by indiscriminate arrest policies that have locked up more and more people without criminal records, "an unprecedented situation for immigration detention." We break down the numbers with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which published the report. Reichlin-Melnick explains that ICE's annual budget has approximately quintupled, even as 2025 marked the agency's deadliest year so far. Four more people have already died in detention in just the first two weeks of 2026. "Crucially, all of this has been slower than they wanted," he adds. "Their hope was to have over 100,000 people in detention by today; they've hit 70,000." Democracy Now! is an independent ...

Trump And His Regime May Be Heading Towards A Legitimacy Crisis Congress returns to a series of crises on Monday, and must act with great speed and ambition now Simon Rosenberg Nov 29 Morning all. A sketch of a post to introduce themes we will be driving next week when Congress returns….. The bottom line - it’s possible that the events of the past few weeks may be pushing Trump and his rancid regime towards a legitimacy crisis. Consider: 1 - Public rebukes, no confidence votes, Congressional chaos - Senate roll back of the tariffs; entire Congress voting to force him to end the Epstein cover up; a blow out election; having to defend a +22 Trump seat in Tennessee; Kennedy repeatedly skewered in Senate hearings; MTG’s emergence as an opposition leader; utter chaos on health care and the budget in Congress. 2 - The newly released Epstein emails directly implicate Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, confirm that he and Bondi have been lying and covering all this up, and that Epstein m...