GovBrief Today #384

Feb 19, 2026 12:43 PM

GeorgeBounacos

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The government made it impossible for refugees to get green cards, then ordered their arrest for not having them.

DHS halted green card processing months ago for dozens of countries, and yesterday issued a memo authorizing federal agents to arrest and indefinitely detain any refugee who hasn't obtained one. An estimated 100,000 people entered this country legally, were vetted, and were promised protection. Now they're targets.

No administration has ever done this. Meanwhile, judges in two states have documented more than 140 court order violations, and the government's own attorney called a ruling against them "lawless abuse."

Today a judge in Minnesota issued the first contempt finding, with a DOJ attorney personally liable for $500 daily fines. Courts are reaching for personal consequences because the government treated judicial orders as suggestions. Call your senators and your representative and demand they reverse the green card freeze that made this manufactured crisis possible.

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[3] https://go.govbrief.today/moderna-reconsidered
[4] https://go.govbrief.today/fda-trials
[5] https://go.govbrief.today/fda-autism-warning
[6] https://go.govbrief.today/nih-cdc-leader
[7] https://go.govbrief.today/legal-refugees-threatened
[8] https://go.govbrief.today/potomac-emergency
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[10] https://go.govbrief.today/hassett-punishment
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[12] https://go.govbrief.today/iran-buildup
[13] https://go.govbrief.today/us-syria-withdrawal
[14] https://go.govbrief.today/doj-atty-contempt
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[17] https://go.govbrief.today/federal-wfh-rules
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Raw fucking camel milk? My tism is offended by this raging dumbassery, what the fuck

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’m so looking forward to tomorrow’s. Because tariffs.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jfc I don't even know where to look

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

11, good to see my hellhole potato state contributing to the greater hellhole nation to make it even worse. It's amazing how literally every day is still worse than the last. It'd be impressive if not for the existential dread.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you, OP.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I want to add this here so others can be just as pissed as myself.

Brenna Perez – "The Good Samaritan Trap" Ice is using to destroy trust in one another /gallery/1W93jXl

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

From #11 it just got worst.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As someone with an anxiety disorder that Is debilitating, fuck 17 man. Fuck them fuck them fuck every last one of them fuck every secretary every intern every career employee just trying to keep their head down till this all blows over FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE THEM FOR ALL OF THIS BUT ESPECIALLY THIS ONE. it won't be long before that's repealed from Ada I think and it hits more than just govt employees.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm sorry. GAD and its siblings is a real thing. I've had it. But I honestly believe that Congress would block any such move. It would be ridiculously unpopular. And if the midterms secure the House for Democrats, there's zero chance.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everyone involved in 16 on the Trump's admin. side should be bitch-slapped with child neglect, child endangerment, & attempted negligent homicide, with conspiracy to commit, in addition to whatever procedural and constitutional laws they're violation of.

They won't be, and even if they were they'd have to be levied at the state level to have a hope of bypassing Trump's pardon powers. Even then Texas is sitting in Trump's cuck chair so the case would get dismissed. But they should be.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#5 I would have thought that now most know about PFOS and PFAS, the rise in childrens neurological disorders and early adult cancer death is clearly linked with toxic chemicals from the petrochemical industries.
Now with the old witchfinder general in charge, you get further from the truth.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Anyone else think it weird that the guy who re-renamed the Department of Defence to the Department of War is also pushing a 'Board of Peace'?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bored of Peace. (snicker)

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All of it's bad, but 10 and 11 really stick out as them prepping for even worse shit to do to us.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Handmaids tales is becoming real life.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I so badly want a trump voter to read these headlines and try to explain each of them.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You just hit on the whole reason for GovBrief. One of my key concepts from early on has been diversity of sources. It's not AP, NYT, Wall St. Journal, CBS, and 12 other outlets that have colluded. C'mon, step away from the Newsmax. It'll mess you up.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#12 They'll do anything to keep from winding up like their buddy Andrew. (I say *they* because he's not up there by himself.)

1 month ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

#21 US government announces online portal to allow the circumvention of EU internet blockades. Which are used to block access to shit like fascist propaganda or right-wing terrorism websites.
Of course, anyone with a VPN can already do that, but this shows you what kind of freedom this regime thinks is actually endangered.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Keep 'em flying, and thank you.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Howdy, Wolf. Good weekend to you and yours!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

More Smol!

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Parents: "Now what do we do?"

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This wasn't in the book

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That zoom in about halfway through is gold.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

its time to stop referring to it is "our government" and "federal agents". they are all agents of a foreign piwer and they are all blatantly against the constitution. leadership needs to lead.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#13 I think I've seen this one before!

1 month ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Oh, it's absolutely a repeat and the first viewing wasn't great.

That said, anything American is toast in Syria if he attacks Iran.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No one should ally themselves with these nazis. They will never keep their word.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I hope the Kurds learned from the last time. Don't trust America. America is asshoe.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

You get a copy of the Reddit one because my upload here didn't take and my computer was on a different floor and turned off. 😂

1 month ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 1

Thank you.

1 month ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Looking so proud!

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That makes sense! I was wondering. I'm glad you're on Reddit too. Those guys love reading.

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It's in the name. Read it.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Sure is!

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you, George. Your work is appreciated

1 month ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

You're very welcome - thanks for spreading the news!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#5 this psycho is out here genociding autistic children and people are just letting him

I need his skin for drums.
Does pigskin make decent drums? If so, human would work. Now would leathery Kennedy make a good drum? I'ma hafta ask an elder I guess lol

1 month ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

Every day that cunt makes me wish facehuggers from the alien franchise were real. Dumb motherfucker would be on live tv claiming the hugs are beneficial to human health. So long as he gives a demonstration.....

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The wrong Kennedys were shot...

1 month ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

They didn't name the band Dead Kennedys for nothing

My favorite proof the Kennedys are all bastards is the grande squallor they allowed family to live in as seen in grey gardens


I wanted to be rich as a child and that film changed my mind after years of MTV cribs style brainwashing

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Chlorine dioxide is "bleach therapy" 2.0. In the early 2000s, a fraud by the name of Jim Humble advertised a "miracle mineral supplement" that was essentially bleach as a cure-all for everything including autism. As a result, lots of gullible parents started torturing and poisoning their autistic kids with bleach drinks and enemas. When that didn't help they switched to the equally toxic chlorine dioxide in the 2010s. This nonsense has caused multiple deaths.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Iirc chelation therapy is trying to treat illness with coffee enemas, so that…not great

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

There is a legitimate medical therapy for heavy metal poisoning, where a chelating agent is administered that binds to the metal molecules (e.g., lead) and prevents their uptake and tissue accumulation. But alternative "medicine" has run away with the term and uses it for all kinds of pseudo-scientific woo-woo

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