"Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li'l laptop screen, and the gigantic TV was showing a tape-delayed CNBC broadcast of mixed doubles curling."

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

But doctor, the Great Pagliacci says, his voice cracking with despair, I AM the Great Pagliacci. Oh, says the doctor. Oh, I'm so sorry, says the doctor. I had no idea— www.indignity.net/the-clown-jo...

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

can this man call me? I have 100 questions defector.com/biathlon-oly...

More McIver (D-NJ) to ICE chief at today's hearing: -"How do you think Judgment Day will work for you, with so much blood on your hands?" -"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?" -"How many government agencies are you aware of that routinely kill American citizens and still get funding?"

What I appreciate from Wired though, and what sets it apart ethically, is that they just don’t tell a vague story about expansion but explicitly list out the locations to help the people preparing to resist this state violence. It’s very courageous. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

NEW: Over the last several months, ICE has carried out a secret campaign to place new and expanded facilities for its agents and lawyers in nearly every state and major metro area in the US—over 150 in all. @wired.com is publishing dozens of these locations; @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop:

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

the drama! defector.com/the-super-bo...

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

on benito, and america

i like all the different types of helmets they have now. every few seconds a guy will cross the screen who looks like he asked his mom who doesn't watch football to make him a helmet for christmas

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Not beating the Nazi allegations over there

this is creepy because for years i had regular dreams about a part of town that only existed in my dreams and in it there was a forested hillside that had a riveted iron door to hell in the side of it

would eat but also, would never order

it'll take ten years of ads where a smiling man holds a can of beans in front of the camera saying "you eat them. in your mouth" before we can sell a real product again. maybe we never find the golden age of the gorilla on a drum kit ever again

Never Forget

at the end of the six months, only one of you will have written a book

Paul Maidment-ass clown

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

fully capable of believing that our president would knowingly post wildly racist content, that he doesn't actually bother or have the attention span to actually watch what he reposts, and, this is the key thing, that he's a racist prick who shouldn't be in office regardless

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

Now that Trump has deleted the post, the defenses will shift from "stop the fake outrage" to "see he deleted it, not a big deal"

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.

Is this good chat

what we loved about Dan McQuade defector.com/what-we-love...

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

i don’t doubt that people are sincere when they say this stuff, but this has been the line for over 40 years and is perhaps the biggest reason why “sorting out the rest” never, ever, ever happens

the thing is, people already pay for journalism. as @pareene.bsky.social points out, that’s no small part of what they pay their ISP for: so they can access the news. none of that money makes its way to press shops or journalists, so we end up trying to survive on the margins of people’s budgets

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to defeat extreme wealth taxes, that was great, i love to share a party with people who think he should be president

don't worry, i'm sure once they've finished intentionally crippling our ability to discover and tell each other what they're doing, they'll be satisfied and will stop there

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

"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

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

one of the two of us doesn’t know what the word “prolific” means, either me or Shams

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

sorry nothing short of “these people never get to have lives in public society again” is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one

alleged constitutional scholar mike johnson: imagine if everyone we wanted to arrest was "due" some sort of "process"