Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

What's the difference between states like Florida, where ICE arrests are sky-high, and states like Illinois with much lower rates of arrests? It's all about police & jails. Arrest rates out of homes, workplaces, etc are similar – but reining in sheriffs makes all the difference.

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

“To prove discrimination, blacks were repeatedly dispatched as testers to Trump apartment buildings to inquire about vacancies, and white testers were sent soon after. Repeatedly, the black person was told nothing was available, while the white tester was shown apartments for immediate rental.” Gift

"65% of Americans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has 'gone too far,' according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll." https://n.pr/3NZq6F4

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic. Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country: "The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023." Facts matter.

Supervisor Fielder is proposing a tax on financial institutions to fund the creation of a municipal public bank. The bank would allow the city to issue low-cost loans for affordable housing, small businesses, and green infrastructure. via @io-y-g.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-j...

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

New 25-page @centeronbudget.bsky.social paper from me summarizing the distributional, fiscal, and economic effects of One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts and cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and climate investments. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Another concentration camp in PA

Rural people are just speed bumps to flatten and bags of blood to suck dry to these monsters. Cut Medicaid, which leads to closing hospitals, replace actual doctors with AI-avatars, generated by data centers, that jack up your electricity bills and drain your drinking water.

See how Project 2025 has hurt rural America this week: —Senate Dems probe Trump childcare cuts' effect on rural families —Electric grid watchdog warns data center demands could weaken reliability —States reeling from winter storm encounter a smaller FEMA

Re-upping this thread from a year ago because it's very relevant to understanding the resistance in Minnesota and its effects

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...

Trump's aggressive and arbitrary immigration enforcement could devastate the care sector. Immigrants are nearly 30% of direct care jobs, and 40% of home health aides

It's amazing to hear all the musicians speak out against ICE at the Grammy's. The contrast is all the more striking with the film industry saying almost nothing during the Golden Globes, even though the ceremony was just a few days after Renee Good's murder. 1/

Trump took it over, remade it in his image, and failed so spectacularly that it just no longer functions. It's like a fractal, endlessly repeating, at micro and macro levels.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Thought we should check in on the total list of legislative flips during Trump 2.0. The tally so far (including tonight): Democrats: 26 flips Republicans: 0 flips

"Since October, 73% taken into ICE custody had no criminal conviction and only 5% had a violent criminal conviction, according to a Cato Institute review of ICE data." https://seiu.co/4ru127H

Kevin Warsh, Trump's pick for Fed Chair, in the Epstein Files. newrepublic.com/post/205991/...

This is how you do it. Recap what happened. Empathy. Explain what caused it. Explain who and what choices are responsible for it. Explain how we fix it. No focus groups copy script, no LinkedIn-speak, facts only, better things ARE possible

It's no joke: Supreme Court is hearing birthright citizenship case on April 1.

Local cops should be focused on local crime. Today I'm announcing the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act to stop ICE from deputizing police to do a federal agency’s job.

The Trump Administration's "American Dream" is taking food out of the mouths of children.

If Dems have a trifecta in 2029 I don’t think we’d get a huge fiscal package like we did in 2021 but Warsh being Fed Chair through May, 2030 would certainly change the monetary policy response to any fiscal stimulus.

What you can expect from Warsh as Fed Chair -More emphasis on what suits POTUS if it's a Republican -Sudden concerns about inflation and fiscal deficits the moment it's not an R in the WH. Don't expect the Fed to be a good-faith broker if govt is divided in the next crisis

Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted along party lines to advance a crypto market structure bill to the full Senate. They shot down amendments that would try to address Trump’s corruption or that would prohibit bailouts of crypto firms.

Richard Epstein is famous for thinking he's an expert on everything. In 2020 he was an expert on why COVID would only kill 500 Americans. Now he's telling SCOTUS why the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not apply to natural born citizens. This brief is a joke.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop? www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...

From the Vatican: The violence practiced by Trump's secret police in Minneapolis is not acceptable and must be called out for what it is. www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...

Good read from Matt Hildreth of @ruralorganizing.bsky.social. Matt worked on immigration for years, mostly while living in Steve King's Iowa CD. He knows the Miller beast: The American People Are Turning Against Stephen Miller’s Immigration Agenda open.substack.com/pub/ruralorg...

Trump approval, per The Economist — Georgia: -18.6% Maine: -18.4% Texas: -17.2% Michigan: -15.8% North Carolina: -13.6% Ohio: -9.2% Iowa: -8.7% Florida: -7.5% South Carolina: -7.3% Mississippi: -6.9% Alaska: -6.6% Louisiana: -5.1% Nebraska: -1.8% These states all have Senate elections this year

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Economists have measured what happens when immigration enforcement expands. It reduces employment for likely undocumented workers — no surprise there — but it also lowers employment and wages for US-born workers." jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...

The thief of tens of millions of dollars in crypto from the United States' stash of seized crypto assets is allegedly the son of the owner of a company that contracts with the US Marshals to manage said seized crypto.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Stressing how hard it's going to be to "reform ICE." ICE has been operating OUTSIDE the law, disregarding the law not enforcing it. DHS agents are criminals, having committed thousands of felony level crimes, incl murder. You don't reform that. You prosecute that. 5/ bsky.app/profile/simo...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI