Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

I am not exaggerating: Removing this webpage warning against fake autism "treatments" will kill autistic people. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

Not enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop. ICE must be abolished.

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.

Justice for Book World! Justice for Ron Charles! &c.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

This may not have been designed, but it’s the result of deliberate indifference to human life at both policy and personal levels. At scale this is a terrifyingly effective method of mass murder. By 1942, epidemics were the primary cause of death for Soviet prisoners of the Nazis; 5k died per day.

Oh look, some enterprising reporter spent a bunch of time with the Taylor Rehmet campaign and wrote about it in the context of the regional, far-right politics!

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

‼️‼️‼️‼️ Per reporters on scene, Leigh Wambsganss has shut down her party. She hasn't conceded to Taylor Rehmet yet, but apparently told supporters that “we’ll be back in November.”

This administration worships the devil

I’m thinking pacific palisades in ‘43, Mann and Brecht having beef

Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less

just finished CLUTCH by @emilynemens.bsky.social and I loved it — it reminded me of the best of Margaret Drabble (& not just because I’ve been reading a lot of Drabble—the way EN constructs scenes & perspective here is very reminiscent). Highly recommended! Out Tuesday bookshop.org/p/books/clut...

girl, they have it under control

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

Wael Tarabishi, the last person I wrote about for the Star-Telegram, died on Friday. Wael’s health declined rapidly after his father and primary caretaker, Maher, was detained by ICE last fall. The Tarabishi family believes that if Maher had not been arrested, Wael would still be alive. I do too.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

NEW: Dozens of detained immigrant families braved the cold outside the Dilley, TX facility to protest conditions and long detentions, sparked by the recent arrest of 5 y.o. Liam Conejo Ramos. A detainee said the boy & his dad briefly participated. apnews.com/article/texa...

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

“They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.” www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...

it's always time for justice/resurrection for ACORN-- now, tomorrow, onwards

WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT

Having finished my reread of Midnight’s Children a few hours ago, I ended up reading 261 books this year. These are 20 standout works of fiction that I read for the first time.

Starting a thread of little scraps of things that are in my head, just because where else am I going to put them. “We are shearing sheep! We are shearing sheep!”

if Edmund Bertram has a million haters, then i am one of them. if he has ten haters, then i am one of them. if he has only one hater then that is me. if Edmund Bertram has no haters, then that means i am no longer on earth.

good turn of phrase from E. Taylor's At Mrs Lippincote's: "The darkness was beginning now to hold away from the evenings and there was a period of neutral coloring and undecided light..."

this was basically proust

judge rao ruling that trump is king and can render anyone, including the plaintiff (garfield), a navy veteran who posted a mean meme on instagram

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

the only things I call orwellian are snitching and being annoying about other people’s writing not being spare & Anglo-Saxon enough

Trump supporters in 2016 when social conservatives were scared and voting for Cruz

special screening of Moonlight at BAM with Jenkins and McCraney there/doing a discussion after, three days before it came out. Never experienced anything like it before or since.

I think we know who to thank for the failure of Trump's effort to bully Indiana Republicans into passing a new gerrymander: Aftyn Behn, Eric Gisler, and every Democrat who's run in a special election this year. The GOP saw all these overperformances, and they were right to be scared.

Not saying the other volumes of Proust are bad, it’s just that Le temps retrouve is so insanely electrifying that it’s unreal

BREAKING: Democrats have flipped a conservative state House seat in Georgia in yet another upset. It's a 14-point overperformance *and* the 25th legislative flip of the year for Dems. Republicans? Zero. Read our complete writeup here -->

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

The whole world is watching … and will it matter?

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.

the mill on the floss really is very good

Is Knopf not deckle-edging their books anymore?? Has this been happening and I just noticed it? I’ve read a number of new Knopf releases this year, but I’m realizing they were all digital copies…

sometimes you (I) just want/have to be like “I’m a proud Sodomite (:”