I don’t think federal officers should fire flashbang grenades and tear gas canisters into a car that has children in it, causing a baby to stop breathing and sending kids to the hospital. I think that’s bad, not good. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

surely THIS time old Donald Trump won't betray her.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

“Sigüenza said he was brought to a room with agents from the Department of Homeland Security and asked to provide the names of people he knows that are undocumented or the names of protest organizers in exchange for money or legal protection.”

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

This is the way. The shooting, for all its awfulness, is going to be a mess of supremacy clause immunity and defensive force's inverted burden of proof. Whatever the morality, the legal fight is messy. But stealing and selling the phone? SO much easier to pin those unpardonable state charges.

We could have paid teachers at any time. We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time. San Fransisco could be clean right now. It was always a matter of political will.

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

You do not hate Congress enough

Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

It’s wild that Democrats are still negotiating their little appropriations bills as though everything is normal and Republicans won’t vote unilaterally to break the deals when Trump asks.

leftist plan to increase the birthrate: - universal health care - free child care - better paid family leave - better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear" ok i did it www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

Remember when Elon Musk gloated about having "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper"?

As a note, they unveiled a red logo at their conference in October 2025, but the emblem is for the ballot paper and "can only be registered in black and white or grayscale". Source ➡️ www.electoralcommission.org.uk/how-register...

They submitted this emblem (with a sword) to the Electoral Commission last year, it was rejected for being offensive in November 2025. So it seems like they've removed the sword and are trying again. Source here ➡️ www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-re...

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

this is the AI bailout that finance knowers keep assuring people will never happen. it was always going to be in the form of long term contracts for products that don’t work

Everything about this is so fucking bad but the part that stands out to me is where the woman is like "can we call someone for help?" and the answer, unspoken, is no. There is no one to call. The Minnesota government has failed to call up the National Guard or otherwise protect their people

a preview of the US economy in 2026

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

When she said she wasn't mad, it meant she wasn't afraid, it minimized him, he lost control, his hatred for women bubbled, and he fired.

Still waiting

Cop “unions” are a repulsive stain on the American labor movement, and it’s truly an embarrassment that so few labor leaders are willing to admit that. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

The Times was right behind Trump in his first term, cheering him on and denouncing his opponents as elitist leftist swine who hate the working man, right up until that torchlit Nazi march where that fascist killed that girl. Then it all went sotto voce. No such concerns, this time.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

have you thought about how the only thing keeping the american economy above water right now is the kiddie porn generator we’ve invested trillions of dollars in

This BBC drivel was parodied 44 years ago by Alexander Cockburn: harpers.org/archive/1982... It is - literally - beyond parody.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

Mike Johnson currently sprinting down the halls of the Capitol, with his fingers in his ears screaming, “LA LA LA LA LA!” at the top of his lungs so he can pretend to not be aware of ICE murdering observers.

This is not in any way, shape or form a clever riposte. 41.6 million people are Canadian, and the one thing we have in common is being SICK TO FUCKING DEATH OF OUR FASCIST NEIGHBOURS. Get in the bin.

napkins should be tortillas. you’re wiping food off your face; that food is still good. it can go on the tortilla, and then you get to eat it at the end. why am I always the one coming up with the good fucking ideas

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

have a column on this in the next issue of the New World - between stuff like below and people turning up to eg non-existent fireworks or Christmas markets, I wonder if AI companies won't regret releasing their products too soon: people can be lazy and/or forgiving but they don't like feeling dumb!

This seems pretty inevitable when the left party becomes obsessed with executing the right's agenda. "My opponents are racist fascists, but I'm going to steal their ideas on immigration" impresses no one but the right-wing media, who will destroy you anyway.

It’s very frustrating. “The American empire CANNOT be evil. It’s just trump has misunderstood it as evil and previously all this death and destruction was for GOOD reasons!!!”

This is a version of the phrasing Richard Spencer used right after Trump's first election win back in 2016. His ensuing collapse provides some useful examples for how to counter this type of fascism.

I’m dead thehardtimes.net/breaking/ice...

In which Mumsnet women persuade each other that voting Reform will give the establishment “a kick in the arse” Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them. It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all. (Sunday Times)

The last time Gabbard mentioned the nation of Venezuela was in early 2019. It’s a big mystery why she’s apparently out of the loop.

So the plan seems to be to replace chaotic Venezuelan corruption with more efficient US corruption.