Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

All those reporters who report Trump’s “change in tone” get real quiet when it changes back.

NEW: Records also show DHS rushed Mobile Fortify out after abandoning its own facial-recognition oversight rules. Central privacy review was sidelined under orders from a Project 2025–linked former Heritage Foundation lawyer now serving as DHS chief privacy officer. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

Congress has a real chance right now to influence and change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in the US and arrest the use of ICE and CBP as a fascist secret presidential interior police. Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

“In any other foreign country, if a US reporter was writing about these raids and the occupation of Chicago last fall or Minneapolis right now, we wouldn’t hesitate to call ICE or CBP as a ‘paramilitary force loyal to the regime’ or ‘masked right-wing militia’”

Thanks to @govpritzker.illinois.gov for setting up the Illinois Accountability Commission to document the abuses of Trump and Stephen Miller's invasions of cities. And thanks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social for this detailed testimony about CBP's history and culture: drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6...

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

A few pages of Jeff Sutton telling Chad Mizelle to shove it — repeatedly — is definitely a good little read that all the more clearly illustrates how unfit Mizelle was for public office.

This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis. Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

In addition to abolishing the Department of Homeland Security, we also have to destroy Palantir and prosecute its leadership

Is it the unitary executive when POTUS sues the executive branch?

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“Wow, I can’t believe that my employer Dr Evil tried to do evil. What a totally unexpected and unacceptable turn of events!”

Immigration officers are caught on video violating policy, training, and settled law pretty much every day. The administration just cheers them on. What makes anyone think they're going to implement any of these "guardrails?" They think de-escalation is woke. This is just giving them more money.

“It is sickening that ICE is using this flawed app and unacceptable invasion of biometric privacy to supposedly determine whether someone is undocumented and deport them or even worse,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ices-facial...

"You want I should freeze or get down on the ground?"

“protesters” are not “clashing” with law enforcement. violent federal agents have waged war on minneapolis and regular people are telling them to get the fuck out. and last time i checked being in a group chat doesn’t mean you’re in a professional organization. it means you have friends.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

This is who voted against establishing DHS

New: Brian Hofer/Secure Justice updated Flock lawsuit filed this week. In addition to initial allegations that OPD breached previous settlement, its own policies & City's purchasing laws, it also alleges Brown Act violations during Rules process that scheduled the contract

Company: We have to raise our prices because the new AI features are expensive for us to maintain 🤷‍♂ Me: I never asked for those features 🤔 C: We gave them to you anyway 🤷‍♂ M: I'm not going to use them 🤨 C: Money, please 💸

The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.

There's going to be a requirement that US Atty offices and federal departments break precedent and unload a lot of awful details to the public about their offices in 2029. I do not have much faith in the current Democrats ability to actually do this. It will be important to have new blood.

NOTUS: Dem House Rep Steven Horsford: “They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me. These are the same people that I’m supposed to call to coordinate security or to do support when I have a town hall.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

We have to demand that Trump’s federal agents are held accountable for killing Americans just like we do when state and local . . . . fuck

Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Is there a running tally of major news stories that were briefed ~4 weeks earlier by Jon Oliver's show?

UPDATE: The Florida Department of Transportation deleted its own social media posts that praised a rainbow crosswalk near the Pulse memorial for “enhancing safety” amid a controversial street art crackdown. The records came hours after the Orlando Sentinel sued the state for failing to release them.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

Contrary to Council attitudes about public participation, institutionally, the public are viewed as participants in the legislative process, not bothersome nobodies and weird freaks that have to be interpolated as unrepresentative of general views

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach

There is good coverage of a Palantir co-founder & Trump bud calling for public hangings. It's unhinged. What is missing is the same person's work to pass laws that make it a crime to be homeless. His lobbyists are pushing for a 1,300-bed homeless detention camp in Utah. That's also unhinged.

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

This piece highlights how rural officials desperate for revenue are offering tax incentives and other special treatment to try to lure data centers into their communities, responding to the claim that they will be economic boosters, when they are anything but.

Fani Willis is an excellent illustration of the concept that MOST Americans are super-deferential to prosecutors to the point of ignoring their bad behavior, so long as the prosecutors are going after someone the Americans in question don’t like.

You may have heard the news Flock failed at Committee, but you haven't seen all the details, like who was awake and who was asleep during the meeting, among other things. Also reports on Oakland People's Arms Embargo & a fateful vote at Police Commission

BREAKING: In Judge Boasberg's contempt inquiry, Plaintiffs include Emil Bove, now a Third Circuit judge, on their list of potential witnesses. Others include Erez Reuveni and Drew Ensign—both of whom Boasberg mentioned as likely witnesses—and Yaakov Roth, a senior official in DOJ's Civil Division.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

Looks like San Jose is also getting sued over Flock...by a consortium of organizations arguing that mass surveillance with low efficacy rate is unconstitutional warrantless search

I'm not a legal expert, but I think its truly bizarre to have a public record of a DA prosecutor helping the defense in an antagonistic exchange with the actual judge in open court. Even the completely invented charges against Price never approached this level of corruption

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