The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

The owner of xAI predicts a future where machine learning operates in binary directly, strikingly similar to how it did in 1959 when it was invented and routinely thereafter.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

Not that I’m complaining, but Stephen Miller went from being on camera 24/7 to the MAGA Witness Protection Program.

This ad should concern Susan Collins.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 did way more damage than repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, but Nobody ever talks about THAT. I guess it sounds more important because it has Fairness in its title.

“If a future Congress wants to...put control of electricity in the hands of the public, they may find it more affordable than you might expect…Americans…could enjoy a genuine decrease in the cost of living and…more money into millions of pockets.” 😍 www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...

No one could accuse me of being a Mike Johnson apologist (someone on his team said I asked a "dumbass" question). So believe me when I say him warning Pam Bondi about looking up members' Epstein search histories is not insignificant. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

From Flock cameras to fusion centers, “free” surveillance equipment funded by tech vendors, federal grants, and private donors locks cities into recurring costs and long-term data‑sharing, including with ICE. The end result is an erosion of our civil liberties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Trump’s nominee “dismissed the creation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday as ‘race hustling and white-shaming,’” and repeatedly described the late George Floyd as a “’violent felon’ and ‘thug’, writing that he was ‘looking up from hell’”: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We will give you our lunch money if you stop making me hit my own face while asking “Why are you hitting yourself?”

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Guys! Listen to this! My immediate reaction to ICE disapproval numbers in the AP-NORC poll today

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

To those in this community supporting and widening the scope of research and advocacy; Pat yourself on the back. Real progress is slow and steady.💪🏻

Arizona Trifecta Incoming: Karrin Taylor Robson suspends her campaign for governor, essentially guaranteeing that Andy Biggs will be the Republican nominee.

It’s Lincoln’s birthday so I asked @hcrichardson.bsky.social to come on the pod to talk about him, the war, public memory….and vampires. You’re welcome, America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Makes sense. Stone's a clown. Kushner's a player.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

Breaking: California officials voted unanimously to list Central Coast and Southern California mountain lions as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. bit.ly/4kwyicd 📸 National Park Service

Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know. The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project. Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.

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The persistence of Twin City residents will become the stuff of American legend, inasmuch as our legends generally celebrate American citizens defending democratic values against autocrats, fascists, and totalitarians. buff.ly/WcvLp8v

She didn’t turn around. She didn’t look at them. They were right there. She could have arranged to get their contact information. She could have shown a scrap of sympathy. But Pam Bondi wouldn’t even look them in the eye. And that was a defining moment. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

How long until this asshole is gone?

NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs. CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs. www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...

I've disgorged the contents of my brain into a few paragraphs, and a plethora of footnotes, with a little something, I hope, for everyone.

Kavanaugh Stops. Now street legal, courtesy of the most debased court in the land. Be alarmed, sure, but not shocked.

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

RALEIGH!!!! Let's laugh it off this weekend. I love y'all and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it and whatnot.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

NEW: Fulton County’s commission board chair called the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election records last month “a serious attempt to overturn and to take control of elections.” He warned that if Trump’s scheme in the Georgia county proves successful, his efforts will spread nationwide.

I think the correct take is that (1) LLMs are normal automation technology. They eliminate some jobs that can be automated, create other jobs managing the automation processes, and increase the productivity of workers who gain mastery of the tools; and… 1/2

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Criticizing your president at the Olympics is un-American Tweeting a racist picture of a president is not The Super Bowl "belongs to America" An American singing in his native language is Un-American Confused?

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

C'était un ballon?!

Palantir billionaires are spending heavily to get this guy into office. The race for California governor is about to become a major flashpoint for tech fascism.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

“.. a largely symbolic but politically consequential rebuke that Republicans had fought for a year to prevent.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...