The point of comparing this moment to the Nazis is because we want to prevent atrocities if possible. The Nazis didn’t start with gas chambers and crematoria and inhumane medical experiments. Let’s not get to that point here!

weird how so many democrats from competitive seats feel compelled to vote against the party line (and national interest), but republicans don't. makes you wonder if they are taking bad advice that has little to do with electoral performance, and GOP pols know this

We Europeans pride ourselves on respecting the rule of law, but all of this evaporates when it comes to our treatment of migrants www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

Seems the Pentagon is testing anti-drone high-energy lasers near Fort Bliss in El Paso, and didn't feel this was dangerous enough to close airspace over. The FAA administrator disagreed. Last week, these lasers successfully protected the American people from a sinister children's party balloon.

⚡️ Russians are blackmailing the families of Ukrainian prisoners to register Starlink terminals for military use against their own country. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

The New Mexico State Land Commissioner has called on federal and state justice departments to do a thorough investigation of a New Mexico ranch formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein after an email alleged that two girls' bodies are buried in hills near the property.

"when you look at the network of planned facilities we already know about, what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—Soviet Gulag, Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China."

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

- Mr Lulea, you’re a Romanian nationalist? - Lulea: Yes -So you’d defend Romania from foreign invasion? - Lulea: Well no, not if it’s Russia invading - I have no further questions Funny how every European “nationalist” would sell their country out to Putin

In just 24 hours in Sumy Oblast, russia killed two civilians and injured ten more, including four children.

Perhaps a large state or coalition of states should take up vaccine safety review and approval if the FDA won’t anymore.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

Seven people in the high school, not including the shooter, are now confirmed dead. Two additional people have been found dead at a location believed to be connected to the shooting. Just unspeakably awful.

Good to see Austria doing a somewhat better job than others at recruiting academic talent from the US. However, the scale of lost jobs and funding in the US is so great, on top of existing precarity across western academia, that these initiatives will only retain a small fraction of what was lost.

I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ah yes, the tariff-necessitating national security threat of the Swiss president being mean

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit. The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Pure corruption of the crudest sort. And Lutnick and Trump are in on it. A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Thread. 🧵 (1/x) On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes. To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

"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.

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71% of Canadians agree with Eby calling separatists traitors "Even though they were told ahead of time that none of the activities of the Alberta Prosperity Project met the definition of treason or sedition under the Criminal Code" nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

People need to realize that, along with citizens swept up in immigration raids, they have also detained citizens for being involved in activism.

There is increasing evidence that the atrocities committed by Russian forces during its escalation of Ukraine were a systemic effort to terrorize Ukraine and Ukrainians. www.spiegel.de/internationa... (1/2)

It’s somewhat funny how some Americans react when people talk about America the way Americans tend to talk about literally any other country

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

When a headline says it all:

Two things can be true: -ICE will ignore whatever the law is, and legal approaches alone will never be enough. -There are actual legal actions that could be taken here and yet the Dems have chosen the "we think the public is stupid" approach.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

This is not good. Trump ordering CIA and other agencies to share anything and everything -- SCI at a minimum -- with a private attorney 'investigating' 2020, a guy with about as much credibility and professionalism as Sydney Powell. Great. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

some things are actually getting worse here.

FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing. “Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Canada put up the money for this international bridge because the US wouldn’t do it. The cost is to be repaid over time by tolls. Now that it’s close to opening, Trump says he wants half ownership

Agencies in Ukraine are warning Russia is planning more mass child kidnappings. It seems to be a risk from the start of next month, when Russia states Ukrainian documents showing legal adoption or guardianship will have no legal bearing.

Every attack like this is just going to push Canada further away from the US, leading to Trump launching more attacks, as neither he nor the GOP have any concept of the ability to do more than double down. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My take on "Trump wants to seize ballot boxes" is the same as "Trump wants mass deportation." Even if he cant do 100% that, even if it is a half hearted effort, the sheer levers of power at work and what we've seen even limited or partial actions can do is worth taking is seriously. Be cautious.

it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

⚡️Russia lost 31,700 troops in January alone as battlefield casualties continue to outpace the Kremlin’s recruitment efforts.

DHS is torturing people en masse in detention, which is getting a lot less attention than their abuses in the streets. Certainly basis to bring crimes against humanity charges against everyone involved.