If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Love you, Detroit. ⛽️

Me too. And I’m happy to spell my name slowly so the folks at DHS get it right.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS

So I realize that stopping fascism is #1 on the menu, but we must push HARD for Medicare for All. Our taxes should be for the health and common welfare of the people. Prevention is the best cure. We don't need another billion dollar bomber. We need billion dollar healthcare.

It is madness that we live in a time when, as a parent, I’m getting an email like this from my kids’ school district. Whatever the future looks like, it has to include severe consequences, including social ostracism, for the people who brought us to this.

Everyone in southeast Michigan knows the score on this…

Good that the grand jury rejected this obviously illegal move to indict sitting Senators for making true statements. But horrifying that the government tried. The DOJ has been fully corrupted into a Trump propaganda arm. It will have to be rebuilt from the ground up www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

If you want AI proliferation, you must support Universal Basic Income. Otherwise, your ethics are compromised. If we gave everyone subsistence, no, we wouldn't have a lazy society. There's no limit to what people might do if their basic needs were met... we'd have less peril and more innovation.

I usually ignore any words that follow the words "Trump says"..

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

To all those criticizing US Olympic athletes for speaking their minds, very diplomatically I might add, I just want to state: I’m with the athletes. #Olympics

These people have voted for Trump three times. THREE. And he still has like a 38% approval rating. Give up. Stop trying to change their minds and focus on people who actually want to make this country better

Man I'm loving all the USA athletes speaking out. Tactfully, humbly, with gratitude and grace. Real patriots right there.

Good news for my fellow Michigan voters.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember... Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts. Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts. Is this the world we want to live in?

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Some academics approach peer reviewing as if they mistook the field for the WWE arena.

the lyrics to the Bad Bunny song Ricky Martin sang, by the way: "They want to take away my river and also the beach They want my neighborhood and for Grandma to leave No, don't let go of the flag and don't forget the lelolai Because I don't want them to do to you what happened to Hawaii"

It’s interesting to see the backlash against Ring cameras after that ad. I think many have been skeptical and vocal against it for a long time but I think the ICE operations in cities has perhaps made people more acutely aware of the dangers of mass surveillance.

do folks really not understand that if your job can be completed by automated tech you’re likely to get more than a day off

Remember when "America has many groups of people in it and that's good and makes us strong" was an uncontroversial - even cliched - viewpoint that was universally endorsed across the political spectrum? We can go back! We just have to get rid of the tiny handful of bitter, angry men in the way.

Edtech is like ring cameras: sold everywhere and everyone seems to be a customer, but the product is about data and surveillance not providing any kind of really useful service. So much tech is just selling you a basic product cheaply because the profit is in data from your use of the product.

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything. We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

This is intended to make us feel impotent. It means exactly the opposite. Resist.

"It was a mistake. A staffer posted it. I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, … a terrible flood, …locust’s. It wasn’t my fault!!"

Friends, if you screenshot terrible takes from Over There---even just to dunk on them---you are at least muted, and probably blocked.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

"To be engaged in learning of any kind is an exercise in patience and practice. And if we practice the humanities and learn from other cultures, we’re more likely to understand who we are, where we came from and where we’re going." bit.ly/3MuDyjP

No, that racist post from the famously racist guy who has said racist things about those same people is not acceptable. But it is also not new. Organize.

I'm looking forward to the pendulum swinging in the direction of legalizing everyone, which would be more humane and cost-effective than spending billions to expel perfectly decent people from the country.

Every American needs to watch this:

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

7. I've also learned - painfully and over time - to listen to people in my community to have access to "whisper networks" that I don't have. I've had my nose rubbed too many times in the "well, they were always nice to ME" mess to think that fact is mitigating or exculpatory to what else people do.

Something I've been trying to impart on people is that the ICE occupation in Minnesota is both an ethnic cleansing and an ideological terror campaign. It's clear that the second part has utterly failed; the community is not terrified. But ICE is now desperately trying to salvage the first part.

Eight years today.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

with the Olympics coming up, I cannot recommend enough just picking random sports and getting really into them at a moment's notice did I know anything about women's foil before the last Olympics? I did not did I become the world's biggest Lee Kiefer fan immediately? absolutely I did

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

I will give him this: it’s a skill to be able to be this intentionally oblivious with a straight face.

Happy 136th birthday to a legendary Ypsilanti landmark, the Ypsi Water Tower! Yes Eastern Michigan made this graphic.

I mean, real estate probably got pretty cheap after Thanos' Blip. Maybe we should try that? (These people are ghouls. All of them.)