the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it.

Still there! youtu.be/XVA8BYt41MU?...

If this is even a little true I wanna burn something down www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTe...

"Real men wouldn't let their kids grow up to be wimpy communists. Anyway, I've got to get going. I'm already late for visitation at the Burger King."

If only...

MAGA: We want our money back Ukraine: Fine. Give us our nukes back & we'll call it even.

Look at Britain. Who does and doesn’t have platoons of investigators digging through their bins and cupboards, looking for incriminating emails and incorrectly filled-in forms? Who does and doesn’t have newspapers constantly interviewing and promoting people who hate and want to harm them.

I don't know how @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social @gowder.io keep their composure. I'm not even in the legal academy and I feel like screaming all day, every day, continuously. Which is not sustainable given my job and care duties.

Why discuss or debate anything, when you can just hork up a bullshit panic over anything or nothing and then call in the cops or the regulators, who may or may not be in your pocket or otherwise highly cooperative? Take those enemies right off the board, then rinse and repeat.

Catch-22

“Glorious Chairman Donald Trump has a record breaking level of testosterone! His fingers are penises now and everyone who shakes his hands gets pregnant, even men!”

I was in a meeting recently where someone was wondering aloud about why sociology has faced more political scrutiny than econ and psych. And I think it's that sociology centers the social (i.e., systemic) causes of human outcomes, thus directly challenging the individualism on which fascism thrives.

“.. Federal action in the streets of Minneapolis goes well beyond immigration. It is a test of the government’s power to use violence against its own citizens ..” @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

The judge is correct in that (pull quote) assessment, so that government agencies and agents (as it were) continuing to defy the rule of law says everything.

Relatable. See also: glasses

Find out in the next issue of Marvel's "What If...?"

You really can’t appreciate the immense self-regard of the key actors until you’ve seen them brag relentlessly over four hundred pages about how awesomely smart they are, how deeply in tune with the public, how strategically adept, how brave and determined, and how puny and stupid their enemies are.

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

Italy should literally just deport them at the airport

I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.

american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes

p.s. the robots will suck

All you have to do is look at the straight-up Nazi propaganda the government is putting out on social media.

It’s like if Teapot Dome, Watergate, Kent State, Credit Mobilier, and Iran Contra had all happened in the same week.

The reason Anne Frank's story has resonated with so many people over so many years is not because circumstances have to be exactly the same as her's for anyone to care, but because anything remotely like it is wrong, and societies moving in that direction should oppose it well before they get there.

I have a feeling the Minnesota protester photos released by DHS are going to be used in exactly the same way. Heroes, all.

Page after page of DHS agents too ashamed to be pictured doing their job isn’t actually sending the power signal Pam Bondi thinks it is.

You couldn't pay me enough to write "I'm afraid of white ladies yelling shame and throwing Aquafina bottles at me" in the paper

“One vigilante per inner tube” was rejected as too partisan following input from donors associated with the inner tube lobby

Haven't seen the details, but "require ICE to coordinate with local authorities" sounds a lot like "authorize local cops to help ICE kidnap people."

Which is to say, this is a reaction to an emergency, yes. But it's also a sign that people are stepping out of their silos, embedding themselves into meatspace communities, and trying to reconnect with their basic humanity, which requires real world interaction.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

I think I love this couple, in part because the man says "they were acerbic."

Ain't that some shit

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.

Checking in on Bari Weiss' CBS

"That’s the problem with believing in other human beings. We let each other down so much, but not always. And it’s the “not always” that makes it worth it. We can be beautiful to each other, but only when we try." @garrettbucks.bsky.social with the most timely guest essay for BASKETBALL FEELINGS

Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.

"Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."

Hint: The answer starts with “mid” and ends with “terms.” www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...

Read the whole thing A pull quote (one of many many aces within that I could have selected): "In sum: guns are for white people to kill ‘marauding’ brown people. Every fiction spewed by 2A advocates in the U.S. flows forth from this point." www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...

Exactly so

“You idiots don’t GET IT, traditional news is DYING because nobody TRUSTS it anymore, and you need to BE UNIQUE and you’re very lucky I’m here to fix it by replacing BORING beat journalism with things people can’t get anywhere else like PODCAST QUACKS and 22-YEAR-OLDS TALKING INTO IPHONES.”

It occurs to me the "imagine how different if Kamala Harris" conversation is the "imagine how different if Al Gore" conversation twenty-five years on, and y'know, if the DNC hasn't figured out how to right that ship yet, well then... maybe put someone else in charge

Since colonial times, we have had legal migration restrictions. States ran international + interstate migration until the feds took over in the late 19th c. Yes, states deported people & could tax, ban them from entry. There's a book for that, due out March 10. 👇1/

I mean why are you even asking WHETHER it's appropriate for ICE to enter homes without a warrant? ICE is entering homes without a warrant at the president's orders, SENATOR, what are you doing about it?

"Ask a constitutional lawyer." "We asked 162 of them, they all said it was clearly blatantly unconstitutional. Since you just acknowledged that constitutional lawyers should rule on this question, what are you, as one of 100 people who are empowered to do stop a constitutional breach, going to do?"

Can we please

This is an impeachable statement. It should be a career-ending scandal to avoid a question, especially one of grave import and consequence, by claiming ignorance about the most basic fundamental aspect of your job.