This is the FBI’s list of “Prominent Names” it was tracking in the Epstein Case. This list appears in this slide show, FBI email correspondence, and FBI tip sheets — all of which I saw unredacted today. Believe the survivors. You can see this file on DOJ’s website www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

There are many awful things in here but the phrase “non-marital teen birth rate” is utterly horrific. The party of rapists and rapist protectors just coming out and saying with their chest that they think that statutory rape is fine, so long as it happens within the confines of marriage.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

Punish the villains

As far as I know, no federal agent who has assaulted or murdered people during this admin has been disciplined or fired, much less prosecuted. Is it that hard to draw basic conclusions about their leadership based on this? Do we need another law that tells them not to assault and kill people?

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now. Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

It absolutely appears to be a massive betrayal of O’Hara. The other thing is, no change to ICE tactics can salvage this thing. The damage at this point is coming from the terror that’s keeping tens of thousands in hiding and leveling the schools and businesses. “They’re nicer now” won’t fix that.

Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.

This is exactly right. In general MN law enforcement has stayed far away from assisting ICE. But it only takes one major agency to start cooperating to cause public anger and confusion. And today we are swamped with reports of sheriff deputies riding alongside ICE and helping pull over observers.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Best thing I read today. "One song protects mythology. The other tells the truth. What a nation chooses to sing together is, eventually, what it chooses to become." The Black National Anthem Is Breaking MAGA’s Brain — And Here’s Why open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...?

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

After being interrupted by the chair for asking Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons if he thought he would be going to hell, Rep. LaMonic McIver tells the Lyons, the others testifying, and her Republican colleagues, "The people are watching you," adding, "[T]hat's why we should abolish ICE."

Swalwell's performance is first time this hearing has come to life. He brought up Lyons' comment that he wants deportation to be like "Amazon Prime, but with human beings" & is asking whether Amazon Prime ever shot a mom in the head, or a nurse in the back. Old/young Dem divide here is so stark

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

TIL what DARVO means, a helpful term for this hearing: "An acronym for 'Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender,' a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as abusers or sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior."

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

Reparations! "Imagine liberals in the antebellum South making slavery acknowledgements: 'This meal was provided by stolen labor, which we all now enjoy. We’re not going to do anything about it, but I thought we’d acknowledge it.'" Stop Talking About Stolen Land open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

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It's honestly just funny that the first half of my life was spent listening to politicians bitch incessantly about the deficit and the national debt And now it's "YOLO more Gestapo" bsky.app/profile/fsqu...

I spoke with non-citizen Massachusetts residents who have been put through absolute ICE hell, including malnutrition, solitary confinement, denial of medical care, and deportation—all of which might have been avoided if not for Massachusetts working so closely with ICE. boltsmag.org/massachusett...

I'm afraid I missed this Superbowl again, but did you know since Gonzales v. Williams (1904), followed by the Jones-Shafroth Act (1917) the US and Puerto Rico have had free movement? Great example of how you can open borders and... nothing bad happens. More wealth, more culture. More better.

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love, but hate’s still got control of all branches of government and an approval rating of 41 percent."

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people. The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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Good job lads

Chatsworth & its gardens in all their glory, 1703. Huge picture by Jan Siberechts of Antwerp, whose day is today.

Reason Magazine, incidentally, went in particularly hard against women over #MeToo, positioning themselves thoroughly on the side of abusers.

When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

ICE is using the Mobile Fortify app to identify protestors and pull them from TSA precheck or global entry as a form of unlawful retaliation. viewfromthewing.com/court-filing...

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

Yes. For those covering Springfield Ohio and team Trump’s obsessions with terrorizing it these days, DHS is being tied up in court, but if you’re checking in with your people there today, you’ll see the climate of fear and confusion is already having an effect on residents, Haitian and otherwise

every study of term limits shows that it makes pols less responsive to constituents and gives lots of power to staffers who have no commitment to constituents. term limits are a shitty, counterproductive idea. I wish ppl woudl stop treating it like god's brainstorm.

Accountability should include the Trump crony-profiteers who build the concentration camps on a for-profit basis, who outfit them, and who shuttle the prisoners around on their jets, usually in conditions that also constitute torture.