I remain unable to tell if Nick Adams, Alpha Male is an actual person or the longest running bit American politics.

I somehow? heard a song called in my mouth and I honestly thought it was the little bit Alexis song from Schitt’s Creek. I’m sorry?

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

OMG.

Far-right extremism has permeated the ranks of law enforcement at all levels in America -- from small-town (and big-city) sheriffs to federal ICE agents. And they don't really care if you object. They think they control the levers. h/t @dburghart.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

Thousands of union members & supporters gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront on Jan 31 for an anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The family-friendly event turned chaotic after federal agents met the peaceful crowd with tear gas as they marched outside Portland’s ICE facility.

God’s getting really tired of us not figuring it out yet

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

The public is largely unaware there’s a slow creep in drone usage by police that’s set to expand in the coming years.

Every time I see images of tear gas filling the streets, I think about how it has been linked to spontaneous abortion. Fascists will prevent people from getting abortions while endangering wanted pregnancies. It’s reproductive control and coercion. www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

so, anyways, if you’re not vaccinated against measles, it’s a great idea to change that; if it’s been a few decades, check your titers & see if a booster would make sense

ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here

Secret police put a beat down on a grandmother in Oregon, tearing her rotator cuff while pulling her from a car, before dumping out her purse and fleeing the scene after finding a US passport.

It can't be overstated how different this response is to that of the Portland city council that was in place in 2020 when federal officers turned downtown into a nightly combat zone. The majority of the 2020 council was much more willing to openly blame Portlanders who showed up to protest.

Councilor Morillo is calling on the county district attorney - someone who ran on a platform of criticizing protesters - to find legal recourse for the indiscriminate attack on people exercising their First Amendment rights.

Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes. As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them. Effectively a mark of rank.

I saw it too:

It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

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.

Like many have said, the gassing outside ICE today was really bad, and it impacted a huge group of people. I heard multiple people say they felt like they were going to throw up as they tried to leave the area. (I experienced similar effects.) It followed a peaceful protest led by labor groups.

Not gonna shake the image of a little girl, maybe 6, in agony after a full blast of gas

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

Thousands of protestors marched across Portland and enveloped the blocks around the ICE building Saturday. Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Who wore it better?

it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater

Still thinking LLM are smart? "Last spring, security experts raised concerns that malign actors, including Russian propaganda networks, were churning out massive volumes of disinformation in an effort to seed AI models with lies, a process called “LLM grooming”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

The economist:

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

Lovely to see the Oregon Republican Party promoting the work of Joey Gibson (who led a group that wore t-shirts saying “Pinochet did nothing wrong” and “RWDS” Right Wing Death Squad) and a guy named Schultz who regularly recorded himself making death threats towards his fellow Oregonians.

George Washington University, 1970 student protest against the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

“It would cover essentially anyone they want to arrest without a warrant, making the general premise of ever getting a warrant pointless,” she added.

Trump's awful post about Alex Pretti am confirms this point -- he's not sorry, he's not pivoting, and he'll use the same playbook as ever to survive yet another scandal that would have destroyed any other politician my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

so a LOT of what's been released are anonymous reports and with a case this famous you are gonna get some nuts sending in nonsense. but the repeated references to Robin Leach, Trump and Epstein at the Rancho Palos Verdes golf club make it pretty clear a bunch went on there involving those people.

In this News Brief, "ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism," we detail the fundamental problems with Senate Democrats' cosmetic reforms, the strategy of letting outrage blow over and the conspicuous absence of any proposal that touches ICE's obscene budget.

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

3 more years of this and the DOJ is going to be staffed by Nick Fuentes fans with correspondence school law degrees. Who don't need to pass the bar because of "the emergency."

When you do business with Uline, you're helping fund fascism.

Organizing creates the conditions under which electeds make decisions. The DA is elected. Do NOT leave more problematic/conservative electeds out of your organizing plan because they seem unmoveable. You will end up expecting perfection of your friends and nothing of them, that hurts the cause.

As of now, four Black people have been arrested, two journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - and two activists - Trahern Jeen Crew and Jamael Lvdell Lundy. It would be unwise to overlook the racial motivation to focus only on the political one. In fact, they are related to one another.