James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

They will be warehousing people. And treating them as objects. These are concentration camps.

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The New Republic and @gregsargent.bsky.social did it earlier and better.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Concentration camps. That's what they are.

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

oh dear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There are lots of important books about concentration camps; two that I have used in my own teaching are "KL" by Nikolaus Wachsmann and "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Golfo Alexopoulos.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

6/ Many of the files are already being taken down without the American people being told of it. The number of hits for Donald Trump in the Files is going down by about a hundred or more each day, reportedly, and with 3 million documents in the archive it is impossible to track what is being removed.

5/ Half the files—well over 3 million pages—are still being *illegally hidden* by Donald Trump. And the half we have is so improperly and even illegally redacted that it'd be fair to say that we are only seeing the most innocuous one-third of the Files. You cannot imagine how bad the full Files are.

lol: “We’re All Canadians Now” 🏒 This sounds outrageous but is not unprecedented, as my book Shell Shocked shows: “Recent revelations that U.S. officials have been meeting w/ Albertan separatists have indicated that Trump administration may not have given up on the idea of Canada’s dissolution”

ICYMI — Dr Oz wants you to work longer to cover for the trillions they just handed to the ultra wealthy (as they pretend to care about the debt) www.rawstory.com/oz-seniors-w...

"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements." bell hooks 1997 we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.

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I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

Every American needs to watch this:

It's hilarious that Trump is lazily going through the motions of the National Prayer Breakfast as his cult is planning to erect a literal golden idol of him.

You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity

“The masses of the people, however, did not realize how much the industrial tycoons, the Army and the State were benefiting from the ruin of the currency.” — William L. Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”

"She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening." --"The Lady of the House of Love," Angela Carter

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

there has been no de-escalation.

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

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.

I saw it too:

JD Vance in 2021:

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

It’s looking more like Epstein was in the Trump Files.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

Friends, there are 29 DOJ search result pages when you look up "From: Elon Musk"

This one is pretty redacted Epstein to Musk: I was really looking forward to finally spending some time together with just fun as the agenda. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This appears to be a very friendly email from Melania to Ghislaine Maxwell:

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

There are 1400 mentions of DOGE founder Elon Musk in the Epstein files.

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

New Epstein files dropped. That would explain the extrajudicial DOJ arrests. https://bit.ly/4aagPl1

Republicans set fire to the 1st and 2nd Amendments for Donald Trump. Masked agents murdering civilians and arresting journalists aren't things that happen in America, until now.