And if you're wondering why it is that it's so easy for the federal government to control where a habeas petition is filed simply by moving a detainee around after their arrest, allow me to introduce you to #SCOTUS's (5-4) 2004 ruling in the Jose Padilla case: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. It does this by stripping food away from children, the disabled, and the working poor. Not one more penny.

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."

So great to see my schools meals for all ally Sen.-elect @ebpforva.bsky.social earn election to represent the 39th District tonight! She’ll be a policy-focused, workhorse addition to Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus. Congratulations to EBP and Del.-elect @kirkmcpike.bsky.social on their victories!

this only makes abolishing ICE an even higher priority. they are racing to get this done before they lose their trifecta. but there is a danger that a Democratic government would simply allow these camps to continue to exist. every single one must be dismantled before fully operational if possible

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

Well, this is interesting! The U.S. Attorney’s Office had a draft statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” dated August 9, 2019. He didn’t die until August 10. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

NEW: Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions. In their Friday night ruling, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law. Law Dork:

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

No funding for ICE or other terrorist organizations. It's that simple.

Call it what it is, @nbcnews.com. Concentration camp. Every time. The OED defines a concentration camp as “a camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities.” 👀

Warner: "There is a very real threat without reforms at ICE that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations. And people say, 'Why would that matter if they're all American citizens?' We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos ... you don't need to do a lot to discourage people from voting"

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas. Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points. Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

The GOP is entering the “finding out” phase of gerrymandering. By the same metric, Dems got almost 40% of the vote in Utah and currently hold zero congressional seats due to gerrymandering

"Trump for Europeans conjures up the pre-war era when what we now call populism but then was called fascism engulfed country after country and led to a continent-wide catastrophe that killed millions of people."

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

I will never hear “Antioch” the same after visiting the Whitney Plantation. That church was originally named Anti Yoke.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

The big difference between YIMBYs and others on the left is that when we see a great city, we don’t think “keep people out.” We think “build enough so everyone who wants to live here can.” The scarcity mindset sucks!

3/ There is a real tendency to invalidate any progress made if it isn’t yet “the ideal”, which negates the work people have done, the efforts people have made and the progress that has actually occurred. Perfectionism doesn’t encourage hope, but despair. It doesn’t energize, it exhausts.

The goal was to destroy the Washington Post. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...

AOC should replace Chuck Schumer in the Senate.

My kid started using the word “nipples” when she means “freckles.” Should I tell her, or just let this be a fun surprise at daycare on Monday

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

I always wonder what people who start following expect. I mostly repost things. Good things, but still just reposts.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

The current exposure for the California FAIR plan (California’s insurer of last resort) sits at $724 billion. Its liability almost doubled in two years and is now more than double the state’s annual budget. In its most recent financial reporting it had about $1.5 billion on hand.

ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

Q: Are you open to negotiating on warrants when it comes to ICE? This is an ask from Schumer TRUMP: Meaning? Q: Requiring search warrants for ICE TRUMP: I haven't even thought about it. I'm not thinking about search warrants

Hello. Do you know that African Asylum seekers - two of whom are people I know, one who escaped enslavement and the other saw her father killed in front of her - are being told in court that they will be sent to Uganda for processing? And now their attorneys have to fight that?

FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

A bystander took a heart-wrenching picture of Liam Ramos in his hat and Spiderman backpack, and there was pressure, and he and his father are free. We must not forget all the prisoners still in the camps whose names and faces are known only to their loved ones. We must make miracles for them, too.

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:

like, somehow returning to the obama status quo is absolutely not the goal. we need blanket amnesty and citizenship for every immigrant in the US, and that's just for starters. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...

boy do I hate the argument that Obama deported more people with fewer deaths and that shows trump's incompetence. Obama's deportation policy was ugly and inhumane and it's part of how we got to this miserable point. 1

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough. And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Israel has attacked Gaza on 89 of the 104 ceasefire days, killing more than 100 Palestinian children, including at least 60 boys and 40 girls, according to UNICEF. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine