When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

Please help if can! psr.org/climatedefense

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

RFK Jr/MAHA world say they're not reducing access to vaccines for anyone who wants them, only giving people "choice" to opt out. But by refusing to even review new vaccines, yes, they are absolutely blocking those who want a new immunization from ever having access to it.

I called up one of the White House "special government employees" linked to the Fulton County ballot seizure. I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours. It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Gallup and its chair, Jim Clifton, have long postured as non-partisan, but this move is a distinctly partisan in this environment. Like so many other institutions, Gallup is destroying brand integrity in the service of fascism.

LLMs cannot ever generalize to anything meaningful beyond probabilistic pattern matching, and even then they are limited only to data they've seen before during training. LLMs are a complete technological dead end with no uses, and it boggles my mind we've put so much resources into their R&D

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

Some personal news

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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.

"Everything about our society should make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even more alienated from even more of society??"

While the Washington Post was giving Pam Bondi a thumbs up for being "qualified" and "serious", Democracy Docket was calling her an "Election Denier." I started Democracy Docket to be unapologetic and pro-democracy. Support its work by subscribing today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵 thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...

And yet, no one asks Republicans how they will pay for tax cuts or military spending or paramilitaries the way they ask how Democrats will pay for reducing child poverty or student loan debt relief. No matter what Republicans do, they are still treated as "deficit hawks": bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Bondi should be impeached based solely on her conduct today. Talking money when the topic is Epstein victims should earn her contempt of Congress and disbarment as well. She is a disgrace to the legal profession.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

I wrote today's BW Daily newsletter about last night's crop of Mad Libs-ian nostalgia bait celebrity Super Bowl ads. I am begging the people who buy this ad time to find anything resembling a new or even just moderately clever idea. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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.

“The names of Jane Does, who had remained anonymous for 30 years, were exposed at grave personal cost. Reprehensibly, our own government published nude photographs of women, and possibly minors, in the released materials, which constitutes the dissemination of child sexual abuse material.”

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

Remember that Stphen King movie "Hearts in Atlantis" remember how they used the lost dog posters to hunt the people they were looking for. That Ring commercial reminded me of that movie. It had a very creepy dystopian vibe.

Did those folks really get married in the halftime show? Sub question: How many MAGA heads do you think we can get to explode if we tell them that was the first live televised hetero couple being gay married ever? 😂

Super Bowl Sunday felt like the right time to remind folks what real team work looks like. I’ve always believed Texas is full of heroes. Not the movie kind… the real kind. The teachers. The workers. The parents. The folks showing up every single day trying to build a better life.

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

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:

HELL yea

they are not "immigration enforcement efforts" @georgiarecorder.com because they do not target people who have broken immigration laws. They target by race and the turmoil is about violent racism and broader intimidation. Please, update your style guide!

I'd like to know DOJ's reason for redacting who Epstein was emailing after the 2016 election, including "Holy hell! Is this good or bad??" and "By the way - do you think my long ago invitation to come to Mar a Lago 'whenever you want' still stands?? Hee hee" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

It's so cool how we just accept that federal accountability is dead and the president will just pardon any federal crimes as easily as he pardoned everyone for January 6, and we just live with this fact instead of tearing down the rest of the White House around him.

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

This is a red alert moment. Trump and MAGA Republicans are trying to steal the 2026 election. We have to start working to protect polling places from Trump's paramilitary ICE goons before it's too late.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

They are beating prisoners and thinking they can force their lies onto the medical professionals. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

What have the anonymous DoJ redactors done to merit the benefit of the doubt here? They’re clearly working to protect Trump and don’t care about the victims at all. Why would anyone assume that their failing to redact victims’ names and nude images was an accident?

In a historic reversal, China pushes Open Door Policy on influential US firm.

Holy shit. Not only was Tulsi Gabbard present for the raid on Georgia's election center, she called Trump and put him on speaker phone to the FBI agents conducting the raid! (Gift link)

The far right's smartest people are deeply ignorant. Here's Curtis Yarvin showing he knows nothing about the history of civil disobedience. Henry David Thoreau invented the term in 1849, to describe practices that had existed long before that.

Corruption, plain and simple. Steve Witkoff, David Sacks, and Howard Lutnick must testify in front of Congress. And Congress needs to grow a spine and put a stop to Trump’s crypto corruption.

Federal Judge Give's Trump Administration a "Civics Lesson": Orders 5-Year-Old Liam RELEASED! youtu.be/TtnGrPmgj-I?...

“Pictured: me with new haircut, my new giraffe and my Balinese temple horse. All preparing to hit the road! Berkeley Tuesday. Will possibly have more pointless stage animals.” -Peter

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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.

Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/

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