New Jersey federal judge Michael Farbiarz has threatened criminal contempt against ICE and ordered a very unusual remedy as an intermediate step: requiring both DOJ and ICE to certify receipt of his orders under oath newjerseymonitor.com/2026/03/03/j...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thankfully for the Kurds, the U.S. has no history of betraying them in the past

This should be insulting to the military and anyone with a loved one in the military. The Trump administration is killing people and putting lives at risk for content.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

Israel empieza a detener a periodistas extranjeros que cubren la guerra en su territorio www.dailysabah.com/politics/isr...

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... @pedrosanchezcas.bsky.social making the right call again 👏

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

Warren is saying “it’s so much worse than you thought” and Blumenthal says he’s more fearful than ever that we may be putting boots on the ground. Not great.

DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime? NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

77% of Democratic voters support abolishing ICE. Any Democrat running for office who doesn’t call for abolishing ICE is wildly outside the mainstream.

Really does seem like they just got excited about assassinating Khamenei Friday night and then forgot to plan step two.

Let's do it!

Morally indefensible and unacceptable.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Scenes from a personalist regime

Tonight's lunar eclipse at 3:33AM and 33 seconds on March 3rd.

Iran human rights group HRANA: "The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently . under review" "Reported civilian injuries since 28 February 2026 stand at 971, including 115 children" www.en-hrana.org/the-third-da...

2022: We worry that substantive due process lets judges impose their policy preferences under the guise of “fundamental rights” that don’t appear in the Constitution 2026: Surprise! The due process clause requires schools to out trans students to their parents. We found it hidden there all along!

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

This is half the problem with the United States waging unnecessary wars in other places. Americans themselves have no idea how horrible and disruptive this violence is to other people, but instead only feel inconvenienced by how much it will cost to fuel their fucking SUV.

By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS refuses to review a judge-made rule that bars indigent prisoners from splitting the filing fee among themselves when filing a federal suit—even though everyone else is allowed to split that fee. These defendants were allegedly tortured. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Complete it or delete it. Go forth. Great rise 🧘🏿‍♀️ #thequeencode #therealqueencode #grateful #gratitude

NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

"Israel has destroyed not only the rules-based order but also obliterated the most basic rules of war – you don’t attack children." @fbhutto.bsky.social reports on US‑Israeli attacks in Iran, where children are paying the deadly price of western imperialism.

This is a policy of genocide.

Seen in Minneapolis

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?

"Most [judges] would not appear on camera, fearful for their safety. Judge Coughenour [Reagan appt'ee] is one of few who would. He blocked Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship. Coughenour: My wife & I are at home. And the doorbell rings...& there's, I think, 5 sheriffs there w/long rifles..."

complete insanity

when i named my site the handbasket in 2022 i really couldn’t have predicted….this

Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

Yes, it is mutiny - a type of mutiny that is far more common than most realize. And there will only be more. Again, Trump looks at the military & sees only a perfect, unstoppable machine that has no flaws.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page. Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

It's all so goddamned predictable.