Trump, Miller and Noem are seeking vengeance… …On a five-year-old

this is a Minnesotan thing, but it’s also a gender thing. Lots of women in MN clock ICE as just the most heavily armed version of “that type of guy” they’ve had to deal with their whole lives. And they’re not tolerating it! So many badass women and femme folk on the front lines for that reason.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social, the only party leader actually leading. At last politics thats on our side and not the side of corporations and foreign interference

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

If I were a different person, maybe I’d share some of the nasty responses I got last spring when - amid the CECOT flights - @andreapitzer.bsky.social @chenoweth.bsky.social and I put on a seminar on concentration camps. Outrage over “offensive” and “overblown” comparisons. Wish they’d been right.

"I had no reason to believe the known liar was lying to me" is at least something Starmer has in common with his core supporters.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

That‘s the spirit.

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

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.’”

Oh.

News from Helsinki, Finland which recently became coal-free when the last two coal plants closed. The local government just released a statement that the coal exit led to very clear air quality improvements. Can you spot the coal exit in the graph of SO2 concentrations?

I was crying, yes I was 💔 @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social "I need everyone in the UK to watch Josh Johnson's London set about Alex Pretti 🙏 'Everywhere that this evil can go, the difference has to go'" OP: www.threads.com/@millydayy/p...

I'm quite serious, logistics is a vulnerability & forcing them to forage takes time everyone at DHS who knew how to requisition a case of MREs at the allowable rate and get it delivered to a Best Western was fired by DOGE kids 'they have to eat' is a crack where the light gets in, hammer it open

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

A good reminder for everyone, but especially lawyers, journalists, therapists, and anyone else with files or messages they'd rather not have police/feds/ICE read: Turn off facial and fingerprint recognition, and use a passcode instead.

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Long Covid friends— A bill in the Maryland legislature would create an R&D fund for LC—a big deal when new federal funding is stalled. The advocate behind the bill is asking for people anywhere to submit written testimony on Fri 2/6 on your experience w/LC, to say why this is needed! More info:

I attended a vigil tonight for Alex Pretti, Renee Good and all who have lost their lives due to ICE actions. It was held at the US Embassy in London. The full list of names was read. We stood together in grief and solidarity. I long for peace and safety for those protesting Trump and ICE.

finally a good dating app

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

A friend told me he'd heard a new term to describe an administration that takes extreme actions seemingly to generate social media reactions: a Clicktatorship. I hope whomever coined such a perfect word has a fantastic week.

you work for a company whose co-founder said it was created to "blow up commies", who tf did you think you were going to be helping?

This is a serious argument that Democratic leaders across the country cannot dismiss. ICE has committed atrocities, extraordinary crimes, and was purposefully trained to act outside the law not within it. I don't know that it can be reformed. 8/ bsky.app/profile/rami...

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...

Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime. I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller. A thread: bsky.app/profile/simo...

A state literally filled with the descendants of Vikings

@ashleystclair.bsky.social is really out here doing the work and trying to make amends with marginalised communities for harm she caused as a MAGA influencer. She doesn't expect reconciliation without accountability and I really respect that. Check out A Bit Fruity Pod youtu.be/KG-pL7aZoeY?...

BRB, starting a WeRateComrades account to give @weratedogs.com 147/10 and a solidarity nose boop.

no yeah something is happening

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Q: They defied a search warrant this morning. Do you think they'll abide by a federal court order? FREY: Everybody listen to that question. The question is 'will this administration abide by a court order.' These are the underpinnings of our democracy and Constitution. The answer better be yes.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in. 'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.' Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

Look, I’m just saying that when you leave disabled people off the list of vulnerable people every single time or assume we identify strongly with your et ceteras and so on— We notice. There’s a lot of talk about eugenics that doesn’t even mention that we are the first to go historically.

I can’t imagine this administration thought this would go any other way. They’re creating people who are willing to be killed by the feds purely because the feds have invaded their city and are terrorizing their neighbors. The Trump admin created this.

People are being murdered because our politicians think their reelection campaign is more important than our lives

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

That’s it … I’m voting Green from now on. Labour has proved that it is incapable of standing up for the values I thought it was created to represent. This video shows exactly what life in today’s UK is like and promises to change it.

The main thing Elon Musk took from us when he bought Twitter was destroying the only customer service platform that corporations will actually answer you on