I would like there to be some reflection on the news desks that ran with the "junior staffer" excuse only a few hours ago. It's like accepting ICE statements at face value. There is a trend of lying first the backing off...but every scandal is like a fresh layer of snow. No footprints to track.

here is a list of extremely important things: * being kind to others * being kind to yourself * making little noises * curling up cat-like in a warm corner * fighting for the things that matter * letting go scarred-over hurts * creating art * creating shitty art * celebrating wins with friends

This is a really interesting question

Really appreciate the photo choice CNN made for this story. There's a way to cover racist bullshit without wallowing in it. www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

For my entire life, "Go back to Africa" was the most explicitly, undeniably racist thing a person could say short of using the n-word. Trump crossed that Rubicon a couple of weeks ago when talking about Somalians in Minnesota, making barely a ripple in the Beltway.

just so you know, the spectrum between "requires some human intervention at some point in the operational cycle" and "mechanical turk" is as vast and diverse as the field of robotics itself

This may have a very outsized impact on the politics of ICE. From the bits and fragments we've learned so far, the way the officers spoke about her (and lied about her and, well, shot her many times) was appalling. The stuff ICE wanted to hide could be explosive.

the penmanship 🤌

The story is also double-bylined by women of color, which is noteworthy.

It's incredible what government can do when they aim to improve the micro-experiences of everyday New Yorkers. Bring back the one good thing the pandemic wrought!

Just waiting for the apologies and admissions of defeat....

Currently reading a book that looks at the history of the Southern Methodist church pre-Civil War, in which (white) Methodists went from ardently, aggressively abolitionist to lickspittle pro-slavery evangelists in a span of about 20 years. Mentioning for no reason.

I often cringe at Nazi comparisons because they are often be done with a level of recklessness bordering on dismissiveness that can deeply hurt people. But this comparison -- bringing atrocities down to the level of individual choice -- is incredibly apt and useful.

I'd argue this isn't even just the best way to avoid dooming -- it's the only way.

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

Yeeeeeeeeeesh

The marketing budget for "Melania" alone would cover the annual salaries of about 200 journalists.

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

It's also wild that Craig Newmark remains one of the few tech titans (and he's not even that much of a "titan," in comparison) to atone for his sins and heavily invest in the industry he unintentionally destroyed.

Jeff Bezos. Elon Musk. Donald Trump. I hate what they've done with the place.

It's pretty incredible that the one tool every party has used forever when dealing with an unpopular president from their own party -- demonstrating distance from that president -- isn't even on the table. No R is taking strategic stands against Trump to show independence. It's still pure fealty.

Trump earns "Immigration Crackdown" AND "Fraud Crackdown" headlines in the same day! That dude loves to crackdown.

AI is so weird, objectively.

I'm very skeptical of AI as an industry but I am fascinated by it as a piece of technology that we don't understand at all. Have we ever built tech before that does stuff and we don't know why? www.instagram.com/reel/DURmAUJ...

What would you do if someone talked to your colleague this way? If you're a member of the WH Press Corps, the answer is "fuck all."

Astonishingly reckless. Truly astonishing.

These posts back to back made me sad.

It's pretty incredible that it's broadly understood that our federal government isn't pursuing new criminal investigations in large part because the current president may be implicated. It's both unspoken and the most important!

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

"It's insulting to expect us to play by the rules" is pretty much the Republican platform since Newt Gingrich.

This take misunderstands the difference between crisis response and sustained support. I worked at a major NYC food bank during the pandemic and was told repeatedly that "community fridges" would mutual aid our way out of local hunger. Those fridges are empty now, but the food bank still delivers.

But I've been assured by many on here that Abolish ICE is now the mainstream position and Dems are just weak losers for not delivering!

But for real, what happened here? Who pitched the NYT this story? And why did they acquiesce?

"Political Foes Face Harshest Scrutiny" my god people can you just write a normal sentence

No, no, no. The NYT assured me this very morning that this is a legitimate "fraud crackdown" that has sadly gotten slightly tainted by politics. (Worth noting the NYT itself was the first to resurrect the years-old Minnesota fraud story in November with zero news hook. TikTokers followed the NYT)

The entire premise of this story is so messed up. It claims that there is a real "Trump fraud crackdown" which, sadly, got a bit tainted by politics....rather than the truth which is that the "fraud crackdown" itself always was a tool for political retribution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

The anti-pedophile mob!

We're gonna look back on the 2025 capitulators with great disgust and spit upon hearing their names.

"My t-shirt...

The Kennedy Center is a memorial to an assassinated president. This is all just so ghoulish.

there's literally zero news value in granting anonymity for a football player to say that Puerto Ricans aren't American.

Johnson had to alert his son after the post.

It's wild how some Leftists think politics is a thing that happens to and around them and therefor are not responsible for its outcomes. Politics must be responsive to them, but not the other way around. A lot of liberals, conservatives, and indies think this way, too! It's always bad!

What on earth is the Secretary of the Interior doing talking about foreign policy?

Good for him. Staying sober is hard and it's always good when people demystify that.

Really hard to do politics against a guy who legitimately believes every 1980s Urban Legend. boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-u...

During the early days of Trump 2.0, I had regular convos with a former Obama/Biden DOJ official who kept asserting that my fears were overblown because "the DOJ is filled with good people who won't let it abandon its mission." His passionate belief in institutions kept him from seeing the obvious.

Are you saying that not all Gen Z men are Groyper Catholic converts?

Outside of Larry Summers, has anyone in the Files experienced even the slightest professional blowback from any of this?

Entry-level coding is the "decent union factory job" of the 21st century and is likely to result in a similar social and political souring of a different young male populace.