“The plan to convert a newly built 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse into a concentration camp where as many as 8,500 humans — double the size of the current largest federal prison — would be housed for as long as 60 days.” This is what it looks like. There shouldn’t be another $ for ICE/CBP.

Come for the wood ducks, get distracted by the cormorants. Typical. 🪶

When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract to operate a new detention center in Texas, it made headlines. Why? Because the company that won the job was so small, it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Just when you thought the #EpsteinAdministration couldn't degrade our country any further:

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

Oh fuck we're doing *this* again. The SAT is an imperfect metric. We really shouldn't be deciding admissions via rank-ordering of anything, even SAT scores. It is, however, much less prone to manipulation by the rich and privileged than just about any other admissions method.

If you take over a social media platform for the purpose of creating a safe space for white nationalism, you're not a free speech hero, you're a white nationalist.

Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social

As an eighth-grade student from Community Action School was bravely speaking about not wanting to lose her school, an assistant professor, mistakenly believing she was muted, made this racist comment. Our students deserve better. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Particularly classless from an administration that wouldn’t lift a finger to protect an eagle.

Reminder of how they plan to build out and furnish the ICE camps:

JD Vance personally delivers an invitation for the Pope to visit the US this year for the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. In response, the Vatican recently announced that Pope Leo will be spending the 4th of July this year with migrants instead. time.com/7380294/pope...

Maine on a mission. Sixty-plus democracy defenders out there on the bridge today! Gorgeous weather, no MAGA intruder, fun with the bingo cards, lots of support from passersby, too … it was a good day! Thanks everyone! You inspire and give me hope!! ❤️🖇️❤️🖇️

WHO KNEW that an #adoption agency would partner with ICE. Adoptees, that’s who. Listen to adoptees.

Area men can’t decide how best to achieve another FIFA Peace Prize.

“This is how authoritarian governance works: when backlash makes extremity costly, the state dials it down just enough to shift the narrative, and what remains is recast as normal.”

A) truly embarrassing shit from the WH and B) indicative that Trump is still obsessed with Trudeau. What a pathetic little man he is

I keep coming back to this. He actually implied that there was foreign influence over the Supreme Court.

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

SATs are a socially acceptable form of social Darwinism. They reinforce the idea that "the best and the brightest" are the people most deserving of wealth, power, and opportunity. And the people obsessed with them are usually those who feel they haven't gotten what they deserve for their scores.

Thread. Until Covid, I had thought that while people could believe all manner of crazy things when their own interests were not at stake in a fairly obvious way, they would get serious when they were. I will never get over being proven wrong about this.

ICE just bought a massive warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia for $128.6 million. Call it what it is: an internment camp expansion happening in town across the country. 1/2

Think of the trial of Data on Star Trek. Pretty clearly a metaphor about how we fail to extend full humanity to *certain groups of humans* AI monopolists are the bad guys of that episode, not that heros. Remember Musk has killed hundreds of thousands of actual people.

Most of us have consumed science fiction about sentient robots and how we should be nice to them. This is now being used against us by tech monopolists.

Bangor Maine, still at it.

Floor plan for an ICE concentration camp. (Gift link for the @willbunch.bsky.social piece is in the thread.)

but we can't afford universal health care and housing for all.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

And beyond even our research, it's important to protect the night sky just for its own sake. I spent most of last summer living in a Bortle 2 area, and the stars were life-changing. Everyone should be afforded that experience, and AI compute shouldn't be allowed to take it away.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal

if you wanted to crash the economy, embolden criminals, aid our enemies and hurt people, these are the exact policies you’d enact

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

A Black farming leader erupted Sunday to correct a Trump "lie," all while exposing a purported "all-white" meeting held by the president.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

We kan daunse yf if plese us We kan leave thy friendes behinde For thy friendes daunse not and yif thei daunse not Then no friendes thei are of myne Ich saye, we kan wende wher it plese us, A place thei shal nevir fynde And we can act lyke we come from Brocéliande Leave the real worlde far behinde

I sometimes think about the fact that the only consequences Trump faced from Jan 6th were having accounts suspended by banks and social media apps. Which he subsequently has sued or otherwise punished while pardoning all of the insurrectionists. This is how I feel every time I recall that.

This isn't what America is about, its about, hang on *flips through history textbook* ummm *flips through another* Uh oh.

They've been doing this for YEARS.

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

So they’re just trafficking kids out to adoption, got it.

Just in case anyone thinks this is a new development: destroying families and trafficking their children into new ones is and has always been one of the *paradigmatic* forms of American terror. Here’s a preeminent scholar of this history talking about it. 🥚 www.dsausa.org/blog/we-are-...

I'm doing the online check-in for my doctor's appointment next week and the very first question is basically "have you got a new rash/have you had exposure to someone with the measles" I'm 45 years old and that is the first time I've seen that question, and that is SOME GRIM SHIT. Whew.

congrats to everyone, well done, no notes

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.