Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions. Children do not belong in government detention.

Tom has crafted new interchangeable knitting needles and Tunisian crochet hooks - the site has been updated with all the new sets! 🧶 www.dyakcraft.com

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:

For those keeping score at home:

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

It’s time to vote for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award 2026! 📸 🐻‍ From a playful lynx to adorable bear cubs, which of the 24 breathtaking images is your favourite? You can vote until 18 March 2026: brnw.ch/21wZqLT

I'm taking seven of my quilts up to the Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont for their Stitched Together show February 13-March 28. A treat for me - Donna Bascom is loaning her quilt I made for them, and she brought it over this weekend for me to deliver. Haven't seen it in a year+.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

New Data For Progress poll: Voters support removing Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, and think Dems should refuse funding for DHS unless multiple reforms for ICE are put in place (including requiring ICE to focus on deporting convicted criminals — at +48) substack.com/profile/4791...

Ross Farm, on the national register of historic places, lost their circa 1910 barn last night, all their beautiful sheep, equipment, and so much more. Please donate if you can, please share widely. Amy Ross Manko needs all the help we can offer her right now. www.therossfarm.com/news/the-his...

Portland judge writes: "In a well-functioning constitutional democratic republic, free speech, courageous newsgathering, and nonviolent protest are all permitted, respected, and even celebrated. In an authoritarian regime, that is not the case." katu.com/news/local/j...

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Trump says he is “weighing” strikes on Iran, but he’s keeping Congress in the dark. The Constitution doesn't grant the President the power to start wars. Moving the Lincoln Strike Group was a red flag. We must demand a public debate and a floor vote NOW.

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

How did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.

Cruelty is big business

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

Performer debunks Trump's 'complete lie' about Kennedy Center repairs www.alternet.org/trump-kenned...

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

⚠️More on Tulsi Gabbard in Georgia: • Trump personally ordered her there. • Gabbard met with FBI agents searching ballots related to Trump’s conspiracy theory about the 2020 election being stolen. • Gabbard called Trump who spoke to agents on speakerphone. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

BREAKING Star Tribune: Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month.

when you're planning on ending democracy but don't want the people to know until it's too late:

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to having a unique status among anyone born in a US state or territory.) Now the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. Months of reporting in this story:

JUST IN: Judge reissues TRO requiring DHS to allow fed lawmakers into detention facilities. Judge Jia Cobb (Biden/DC) says DHS' claim it can use only Big Beautiful Bill funds to enforce the policy seems dubious. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“This ought to be the final nail in the coffin of congressional Republicans’ breathless efforts to gin up impeachment charges against a judge whose only actual sin, as it turns out, was to decline to roll over when the government defied one of his orders, and then lied about it.” Me @ “One First”:

ICE in my neighborhood this morning. They've started pretending like they're observers, rolling through neighborhoods honking their horns like they've spotted an ICE vehicle to bait people out of their homes. Stay safe out there.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

Radley Balko: The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the US for 20 yrs. He had one misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Abu Dhabi poured a secret $500 million into Trump’s company. Then Abu Dhabi got the highest end AI chips that it had coveted (which could then go to China). & the Trumps took steps to try to cover it up. This should rank among the greatest US scandals ever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Oh: Brad Karp? This Brad Karp? I’m getting a sudden sense of clarity about his unhesitant bend of the knee to the Trump II White House.

JD Vance in 2021:

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks Probably nothing! 🙃🥶

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

JUST IN: Immigrant rights advocates file lawsuit in federal court in Boston to invalidate DHS legal memo claiming immigration agents can enter private homes without a judicial warrant. Assigned to Judge Julia Kobick (Biden). Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”