We could have a national ID card that clearly indicates if you are a citizen. Literally every other country does! But we are governed by idiots, so instead we have this weird system managed by 50+ states, DC and territories that doesn't actually provide a material benefit.

How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons - www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I often think of Cleopatra’s daughter who was paraded through Rome after her mother and father’s defeat but apparently delivered such a charismatic performance in the parade that the people demanded that she be spared. the highest-stakes standup routine in history perhaps

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Canadian COVID Forecast Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 CANADA VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 122 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 11.0 x higher -Long COVID: 6.3 x higher -Hospitalizations: 13.4 x higher -Deaths: 14.9 x higher

I love Lucy!

Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

I know this feeling

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

The dipshits lecturing me about how it's bad and counterproductive to criticize Chuck Schumer for being a sniveling bootlicking bitch are the same ones who once scolded me for talking shit about Merrick Garland. EAT A GIANT DISEASED DICK. NO MORE LISTENING TO LIMP DICK LOSERS.

"There’s been some mistake. Paperwork was lost, signatures fraudulently affixed, a wrong address was recorded, some comedy of errors have taken place, and for the first time, in a situation involving Ms. O’Hara, I’m not laughing."

Sometimes men really do mistake other men's misogyny for virtue—they think it's evidence of intellect or integrity.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

i’m against capital punishment and i’m an abolitionist but after seeing what i have seen in the Epstein files, these evil people should be thrown into a cage of hungry lions and it should be live streamed internationally. that’s the only rational response to this.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

It’s too cold in NY even for penguins. The Long Island Aquarium brought 20 penguins indoors due to frigid temperatures. South African black-footed penguins prefer milder weather, so when temperatures drop below 30 degrees, they’re moved inside. (ABC News)

Way to go, Philadelphia! The city has introduced new legislation putting real limits on ICE activity. Federal agents will no longer be allowed to operate anonymously no masks, visible identification required, and arrests must be backed by warrants signed by a federal judge.

GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )

In a heartbeat if I could!

Amazing! 🇨🇦

Liam is in ICE custody and his health is deteriorating. Joaquin Castro says Liam is depressed, lethargic, sleeping excessively and barely eating, repeatedly asking about his mom, and when he can go home. He’s withdrawn and not the bright preschooler he was just days ago. LIAM NEEDS A DOCTOR 1/2

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Parents — you need to organize against the conspiratorial health populist movement that thinks it’s fine to give your kids polio. MAHA came to power screaming unapologetically ab protecting kids. You have both the right & the obligation to do that too. You don’t have to be polite. Fk these people.

Show your papers. Kavanaugh stops. Your gender? We decide. ICE doesn't need a warrant. Abortion is our choice not yours. Immigrants don't deserve due process. State universities can't teach Plato. Civil rights protections are racist. But vaccination requirements threaten our freedom.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social 🚨 BREAKING: #ICE DETAINED OGLALA SIOUX TRIBAL MEMBERS IN #MINNEAPOLIS, AND NOW 3 ARE MISSING “There is nobody more #American than American Indians. We are America. How can you possibly target Native Americans? It’s legally impossible.” 1-2

drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/canadas-pr.... this is the best take on the speech. read it til the end....

damn @mark-carney.bsky.social speech is great www.youtube.com/watch?v=flsg...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

SARS-CoV-2 emerged in 2019. We have learned much about it since then, but I assure you there is much left to learn. The normalisation of this virus is both premature and dangerous. A new pathogen is infecting humans and some animals; unpredictable effects are to be expected.

If long COVID leads to Alzheimer's And 3% of Brits have long COVID Surely a good public health policy right now would be to protect more people from getting covid, developing long COVID, and in turn Alzheimer's?

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

21-year-old activist blinded by ICE: "It was completely unnecessary. I'm 5'1. I weigh 102 pounds. It's completely unnecessary to shoot me point blank in the face, in my eye, only a few feet away from me. I think he was trying to kill me. I fully believe he was trying to kill me."

The folks who are still blaming or trashing Kamala are really expressing their Anti-Black ideology. And they are pretty much enjoying all the anti-minority agendas that are being pushed by Project25. Because they no longer have to share America. Regressives in Sheets MAGA in the Streets

One of the lesser-known Holocaust stories is how China — and one Chinese diplomat in particular — helped save thousands of Jews. His name was Ho Feng-Shan, the Chinese consul in Vienna after the Nazis took Austria. 1/8

Courage can take many forms. I’ve been posting about people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who risked everything to protect and save Jews when it was dangerous to do so. I believe these stories remind us what ordinary people can do under extraordinary pressure. 1/10

love this

I see people talk about ICE by calling them the Gestapo, and while its not hard to see the comparison; they really aught to be compared to something homegrown. Because in truth, the closest thing we can compare ICE to is to federal slave catchers. The operation is the same.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

I’ve always said this,” if their penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law was only designed to target the poor.”

Some very careful ducks