In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

The U.S. military says it carried out strikes on three boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 11 people and again providing no evidence of alleged drug smuggling. This brings the total number of strikes on boats in waters near Latin America to 42, resulting in at least 145 deaths.

🚨 "She grabbed my tit!" a woman who had been detained by ICE in Portland screamed toward a female ICE agent... "And you liked it," the ICE agent responded with a grin on her face. "I remember you shivering and crying." @jtcestkowski.bsky.social reports ⬇️

Quoted in @motherjones.com about DHS’ disability law issues and the impact of axing civil rights staff.

This answer - from one of the president’s key economic advisors - is disgraceful. And, fwiw, the number for tariff pass through is closer to 94-96 percent

she's so cool, god

we then throw out one of the actually interesting parts of TLJ - that Rey is a nobody who is incredibly powerful in the force Just Because - in order to retcon her into a Palpatine, because fuck you we've got to shrink this sandbox as much as humanly possible horrendous, cowardly choice

I’ve been to multiple genocide museums across Europe in my life. You want to know how many had pictures drawn by children in the exhibit? Every single one.

2026 basically

Happy “don’t accidentally tell people they have some schmutz on their face” day to all who observe.

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Y'all, Humble Bundle has the ENTIRE Discworld series in ebook form. There are a lot of them, and this is an astounding deal. Charity proceeds go to HFC, which helps folks affected by Alzheimers (which sadly affected Pratchett in h is later years) www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

UPDATE: Just spoke with the head of CSPL. They have *still* not heard from ICE/DHS about granting clergy access to the Broadview ICE facility. A federal court order issued last week required ICE/DHS to work with CSPL to grant clergy access to the site on Ash Wednesday. Today is Ash Wednesday.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem ideal that we're going to have to create a network to smuggle drawings and letters our of our national network of punitive detention camps and keep them anonymous so that the authorities can't retaliate against children.

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The administration keeps calling the judges who rule against them biased, partisan activists There's a simpler explanation: Judges across the political spectrum keep condemning the Trump admin as lawless because the Trump admin keeps brazenly breaking the law! ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each. At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The Trump administration's handling of the legal immigration system is so malignant and incompetent that ICE ended up deporting a human trafficking victim seemingly because so many people have quit that her application for relief was sitting in a mailroom in a box unopened.

If we rebrand mRNA to mRNAI we’ll have vaccines again by Monday

A lobbyist used AI to falsify 20,000 public comments to tip the scales against reducing deadly air pollution in homes. This has been illegal since at least 2019 - but enforcement would require a prosecutor brave enough to argue that "bot" can mean "AI". Crickets. www.latimes.com/environment/...

We murdered 11 more people on boats last night

It’s a crisis manufactured by the US.

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

Only days after rushing two month old Juan Nicolas to the hospital ICE deported him-and his entire family This is the inhumanity which defines Donald Trump and his government One day-hopefully soon-this administration will be gone But the stench of its atrocities will last for generations

Gotta admit I was surprised at how many states have online ballot tracking, at least for non-provisional ballots. Go y’all! bsky.app/profile/diar...

No idea how many hours it took her to get her hands on a provisional ballot. But she showed up with passport in hand, and they still found a way to tell her no. With zero “ICE” presence on the ground. Imagine how this goes without early voting available. Election Day is utter chaos, ICE or no ICE.

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According to internal emails obtained as part of a FOIA request, top ICE officials knew as early as March 2025 that officers were using dramatically more force against civilians and the targets of enforcement operations — months before federal officers shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

I’m all for more glitter in syrups!

It's weird to say, but my publisher (who's American) never told me to register for the public lending right I found out via fellow Canadian authors back on old twitter. So if you know a Canadian with a book out in the past year, maybe tell them to go here? publiclendingright.ca

5. Bibi: bsky.app/profile/bibi...

Wow.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

How about I put that yellow star on my arm? Like an identifying badge of sorts?

Step 1: Invent computer. Step 2: Put computer in everything. Step 3: Make parts for computer prohibitively expensive and difficult to procure in general. Step 4: Collapse economy, burn earth, all die. Brilliant!

The SAVE ACT is before the Senate.... And there's no guarantee what Republican will do They want to disenfranchise millions of voters So please CALL YOUR SENATORS 202 224-3121 SAVE US FROM THE SAVE ACT

OMG THEY'RE SO TINY!!!!!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!

Well slap my ass and call me Sally.

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

wow I...I gasped at this one. good Lord

They confiscated the letters!!?!?! Sweet Jesus they’re ghouls.

the evil is simply bottomless and jeffies and schumer are saying this can be reformed and hillary clinton is boasting about how many people her husband and obama deported

This!! Also, the people selling you AI believe their own hype, and think that AI is a neutral solution to all the complicated ills that shitty humans perpetuate. But behind every AI is people. Either building the models with their own biases or acting on the alerts with their own biases.

In my exp, AI summaries of these appts are riddled with errors— some minor and some major. In my case, it names a body part on the wrong side, which is kind of a big deal when surgery is pending

There are no conditions under which it makes sense to think of LLMs as sentient or having self-hood. The philosophy of why isn’t even all that complicated. But having philosophers on-staff who will gesture at spookier conclusions is good for hype, so the firms find ones who will gesture nonetheless.

Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist. It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.