I acquired this link to a David Nihil short in 3 different ways, but it will not embed. I promise it’s worth the click, and it’s short.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qdFI3Y1Xa2o?si=yhsp9ugIcxHkeAqi
I feel detached from reality
This morning I had an MRI on my lower back. It all went well and was quick. The reason for it is my right leg feels as if it is being tased and it makes it difficult and challenging to stand on the leg. I took an extra dose of instant morphine and a muscle relaxer before the MRI, as those tend to be very painful for me to lie on the table in one position for that length of time.
Since I got home I have felt more and more disconnected from reality My pain levels in my back have increased so I struggle to sit in my desk chair and have had to take even more more pain relievers of all kinds. But I still struggle, I am feeling lost like debrie in the wind of a storm. Ron has contacted me three times to forcefully tell me he loves me. But I feel lost, ungrounded, I find myself relieaziing I am simply staring into space or have not heard a word of what is playing on the video computer.
Plus, Sam Seder is talking to someone about the abuse of Palestinians in Gaza such as how their lands are being torn from them and they are being terrorized, yet I find I am not registering large parts of the video. I simply am missing large segments of the video and have to rewind to watch so much of it again. I am zoning out. I have seriously thought of going to bed. So much pain and abuse toward people who have no way to fight back or protect themselves. If I let my mind focus I am instantly thrown back to my own childhood situation as a child unable to fight back against all the abuse from much more powerful people who seemed to have all the authority behind them.
But it is more than the normal remember, be very upset, cry, sob, and try to find a way to deal. Currently I simply am lost like I am moving in slow motion as I struggle to focus on what I need to do. I feel like I am on go …
I just realized that for some time, I am not sure how long I have had my head down on my folded arms on my desk. I was not crying, I was not sleeping, I simply checked out. This seems much scarier than when I sob and cry out of control. For an unknown part of time I just checked out of reality. This is not normal. I am going to go lie down for a few minutes. Hugs
I went to lie down. I had texted Ron with my situation. I was just lying there not thinking, no intrusive thoughts which is strange enough, just checked out when he called all upset. He offered to start for home right away. I explained to him that was not needed. I am not feeling upset. Just lost. Just like I don’t comprehend what is happening within my eye sight and hearing. My mind was not registering what the inputs were. I admit it feels a bit like when I had my stroke, everything stopped making sense for a while. Anyway while I was laying down the medication started working and I feel a bit more connected to reality. I am not writing this to upset or concern anyone but to try to explain what is happening to me in my life. Thank you for letting me have a place to explain my feelings and for all of you who are willing to listen. I appreciate it, it means a lot to me. I can’t explain how important it is for me to have this space to exspress my feelings / life and know the people reading care about me. Hugs.
Your Josh Day Next Day
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I need your help looking up a meme / cartoon story.
Hello everyone. I am looking for a meme / cartoon story I had a few years ago and can’t find again. It is of a kid going out in the morning with a sign hanging from their neck down to their chest. The sign said something like I am good and I am happy. Then through the day every insult and attack on the kid tore pieces of the sign off so when the kid got home the sign was destroyed being just a bit of what they started out with. I really want to find it again but every search I try to do fails to give me what I am looking for. Thanks. Hugs
GOP Official Snatches Thomas Massie’s Mic In the Midst of Comments at Kentucky Event
As much as they wish to deny it maga republicans cannot stand an independent Republican not sucking up to tRump so they yanked his mic before he could convince the audience of the truth / reality. Hugs
GOP Official Snatches Thomas Massie’s Mic In the Midst of Comments at Kentucky Event
Feb 7th, 2026, 3:48 pm
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a microphone snatched right out of his hand Friday night as he spoke at the Oldham County, KY, Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner.
Massie was in the midst of saying, “If you are a congressman, you work not for the Speaker of the House, I work for you!” pointing to the audience, when event emcee and state House Speaker David Osborne (R) decided he’d heard enough.
Osborne grabbed the mic away as someone yelled, “Welcome to the snake pit, baby!”
Massie then walked off “in solidarity” with supporters who left the event because he’d been cut off, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
Massie told the paper that he joined supporters for drinks at Ernesto’s Mexican Cuisine in La Grange.
“I said, ‘Well, if they’re going to walk out for me, I’ll walk out and meet with them,’” Massie said.
Oldham County Republican Party Chair Blaine Anderson said Massie’s mic was taken only because he had gone over his allotted time limit.
In a text message to the paper, Anderson said Massie and his primary opponent Ed Gallrein were given “explicit instructions that they had five minutes to speak.”
After Massie was given an extra minute “as a courtesy,” Anderson said Osborne took away the mic.
“This had nothing to do with what was being said by the Congressman,” Anderson wrote. “It was about speaking time expiring.”
Massie called Anderson a “great guy” and said he didn’t blame the chairman for the mic incident. “But he’s swimming upstream,” Massie added. “There’s some Massie Derangement Syndrome in Oldham County among the establishment.”
President Donald Trump threw his support behind Gallrein after a series of rogue moves Massie made against House Republicans. Massie has stood firm in his call for a full release of the Epstein files, condemned U.S. involvement in Iran, and denounced Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” that became law last summer.
Earlier Friday, Trump called Massie a “moron” while remarking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
“There’s something wrong with him,” Trump said of Massie who continues to challenge the president on the release of the Epstein files. “We call him Rand Paul Jr. They just vote no. They love voting no. They think it’s good politically.”
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-11-2026
Three MS Now clips on the culture wars the economy, and racism.
The video below does include some information about the Epstein files redactions that clearly protect tRump. Hugs
Texas man arrested after getting into fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE
I have put the videos I found below. Notice that the governor and the attorney general blame the kids and claim the schools have taught them radical left wing extremism. The kids see the news media about what ICE is doing and have friends who are not white. They are angry and they are future voters. That is what scares the republican leadership in Texas so much they are demanding schools push a hard right Republican bigoted racist agenda onto schoolchildren in the hopes of raising a new bunch of maga. They don’t blame te adult man who got out of his truck and walked into a group of minors with the intention to force his angry racist maga views on them. Note he shoved a girl. In his mind how dare she talk back to a male? That is who maga thugs have degenerated into. Hugs
Law enforcement say the 45-year-old man was the ‘primary aggressor’ in the fight that went viral
MS Now clips about the new Epstein file releases. Pick a couple or watch them all your choice
Names of the wealthy abusers still redacted. Hugs
The DOJ is making it as difficult as possible for the congress people to see the files. Only 4 computers are set up for hundreds of congress people. Plus they are still redacted not of the victims but of the names of the abusers. Hugs
Yes, investigation claimed at least 1,200 detainees ‘dropped off the grid’ from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/yes-investigation-claimed-least-1-110000366.html
Taija PerryCook
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- Investigations by the Miami Herald found that the whereabouts of two-thirds of over 1,800 men detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” during July 2025 were unknown, contradicting claims that 1,200 detainees were missing from the facility.
- The Herald used two detainee rosters obtained in July and August to determine that 800 detainees had no record in ICE’s online database, while over 450 had no location listed, raising concerns about the accuracy of detainee tracking at the Florida migrant detention center.
- Despite claims of missing detainees, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied that anyone was unaccounted for at “Alligator Alcatraz” in ICE’s online detention locator system, highlighting discrepancies between public reports and official statements regarding the facility.
In January 2026, a claim resurfaced online that approximately 1,200 detainees were “missing” from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida migrant detention center touted by Trump as the “new standard” for immigration facilities.
“BREAKING NEWS 1200 detainees at alligator alcatraz are missing and their records have been wiped,” read one Instagram post (archived) on Jan. 28.
While it is true that according to a series of investigations by the Miami Herald, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” during July 2025 were unknown, January 2026 posts claiming these findings were “breaking news” were misleading. The Herald published its findings in a series of investigations in summer 2025.
We first broke down the Herald’s investigations on Sept. 25, 2025, when a number of social media posts (archived, archived, archived) circulated the claim. The Jan. 28 Instagram post above was a repost of a video (archived) originally shared by TikTok account @rark.muffalo on Sept. 23, 2025:
The Herald did not claim to independently verify whether family members could not locate the 1,200 detainees, as the posts above claimed, but rather used two detainee rosters the outlet obtained to inform its reporting. It was unclear whether any significant developments took place since we first published our assessment of the investigations, but we reached out to the Herald reporters who reported the stories seeking any relevant information, and will update this story if we receive a response.
On July 14, the Herald first published the names of more than 700 detainees housed at “Alligator Alcatraz.” The story noted:
The list — made public for the first time here — was shared with the Department of Homeland Security and the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which oversees the site. Neither disputed its accuracy.
On Aug. 19, the Herald published another story based on a second list the outlet obtained of 1,400 detainees’ names. The reporters did not list each name on the roster as they did with the July 14 story. In the second story, reporters compared the two datasets and searched names on the detainee locator system for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and found that two out of five immigrants on the list of detainees from the outlet’s July 14 story were moved elsewhere. The Aug. 19 story read:
More than 40% of the 750 detainees in the initial list were sent not out of the country but to other ICE facilities, the Herald found. Another 40% were still at the detention center.
Alligator Alcatraz detainees often did not appear in ICE’s locator system, the Herald found, and the fate of the rest — around 150 detainees — is unclear. Some of them were likely still at Alligator Alcatraz but others may have been deported.
The numbers in both data sets are snapshots in time, and fluctuate as detainees enter and leave the facility.
By Sept. 16, reporters Ben Wieder and Shirsho Dasgupta used the two detainee lists the Herald obtained in July and August to determine that, “As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.”
They then broke the numbers down. According to their findings, 800 detainees showed no record in the online database for ICE, while more than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to “Call ICE for details.”
We wrote to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — which oversees ICE — as well as the Florida Division of Emergency Management — which oversees operations at “Alligator Alcatraz” — seeking information on detainees reportedly not accounted for. DHS responded: “FALSE. No one is unaccounted — including at Alligator Alcatraz — in ICE’s online detention locator system. This is yet another hoax about the facility.”
While the Herald did not reveal where it had obtained the two lists of detainees, the news site did use public records to reportedly verify the accuracy of the lists. In an email to Snopes, Wieder wrote:
To inform our reporting in this story and our prior stories, we compared information on the lists we’ve obtained with information from ICE’s online detainee locator system. We’ve also verified information from the lists with the EOIR immigration courts database and with other public records. Our comparison of the data we’ve obtained with these other external records and numerous interviews has confirmed the accuracy of the data.
Broadly speaking, the detention center — which is technically run by the state of Florida — has reportedly made it difficult for attorneys to reach their detained clients, therefore allegedly violating detainees’ First and Fifth amendment rights, according to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Sept. 16 story, while dependent on these two detainee rosters for evidence, also presented testimony from family members of two detainees who had reportedly gone missing.
One man, a 53-year-old Guatemalan detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” whose family asked that his name not be included for fear of retribution, didn’t show up for a hearing, according to his attorney. A government attorney told the man’s attorney that he’d accidentally been sent to Guatemala instead of being transferred to a different detention center ahead of the hearing, as planned.
Communication from another man, Cuban national Michael Borrego Fernandez, went silent after ICE transferred him to another facility in California. His family described the situation as “psychological torture,” as they were worried about his health, given a recent surgery. They then found him in Mexico, where ICE had deported him without notice.
In sum, while Snopes had not independently verified that each name on the purported lists the Miami Herald used to determine that two-thirds of the detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” during July 2025 were missing from ICE’s locator system, evidence exists from real cases that detainees apparently have gone missing for stretches of time, or are not where ICE said they were. Therefore, the possibility exists that other detainees reportedly missing from the ICE system were also deported or sent to other unknown facilities without their family’s or attorney’s knowledge.
Sources:
Camacho, Pedro. ‘Lawyers Report Disappearance of Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz Detainees From ICE Database: “It’s a Black Hole”‘. Latin Times, 18 Sep. 2025, https://www.latintimes.com/lawyers-report-disappearance-hundreds-alligator-alcatraz-detainees-ice-database-its-black-589703.
Ceballos, Ana, et al. ‘Is Your Family Member or Client at Alligator Alcatraz? We Obtained a List’. The Miami Herald, 14 Jul. 2025, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541770.html.
Fernández, Abel. ‘The Mysterious Disappearance of Hundreds of Immigrants Detained at Alligator Alcatraz’. EL PAÍS English, 18 Sep. 2025, https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-18/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-hundreds-of-immigrants-detained-at-alligator-alcatraz.html.
Loe, Megan. ‘”Alligator Alcatraz” Is Real. Here’s What to Know about the Florida Detention Center’. Snopes, 2 Jul. 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/alligator-alcatraz-fl-detention/.
Ndonwie, Churchill. ‘Alligator Alcatraz Revival: Appeals Court Pauses Order Shuttering Detention Camp’. The Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311976400.html.
Wieder, Ben, and Shirsho Dasgupta. ‘Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Drop off the Grid after Leaving Site’. The Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html.
Wieder, Ben, et al. ‘”Psychological Warfare”: Internal Data Shows True Nature of Alligator Alcatraz’. The Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311718011.html.
Updates:
Feb. 3, 2026: This story was updated to clarify that an Instagram video from Jan. 28, 2026, was a repost of a video originally posted on Sept. 23, 2025.
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