Guards at an ICE detention facility in Texas raided the dorms of immigrant families Tuesday, in order to destroy children’s letters that threatened to shed light on the horrific living conditions. trib.al/tDaTXGT

An Ash Wednesday gift from U2 - a whole EP of 6 six songs, reflecting the times: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I guess I'm spoiled living in Philly, which is relatively inexpensive. I'm heading up toward Princeton tomorrow, and places to eat up that way (and I was scoping out a wide area) are so pricey. Handhelds at brewpubs that would be $12-16 in Philly are $18-24 up there.

Ew. Gross.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

This whole thread. Except for a slim group of committed MAGAs, Americans did not vote for the current immigration approach and certainly do not approve of what is being done.

"A tyrant...violating both word & oath, begins to shake the foundations & unloosen the bonds of the associated body of the commonwealth...thru avarice, pride, or perfidy cruelly overthrows & destroys the most important goods...such as peace, virtue, order, law, & nobility." ~ Althusius, Politica 38

I don't think the regime realizes the depth of the backlash their oppressive tactics are generating.

FDR knew this and explained it in various speeches, especially his "Four Freedoms" speech and "Second Bill of Rights" speech. As he said, "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence."

I continue to be astonished how the ruling class has no interest in grammar, spelling, or punctuation in their emails. Or is this a Boomer thing?

Why would any boy listen to this weird little smirking self-loathing gremlin?

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

“Tyranny is the contrary of just and upright administration. By it, the foundations and bonds of universal association are obstinately, persistently, and insanely destroyed and overthrown by the supreme magistrate against his pledged word and declared oath..." - Johannes Althusius, Politica 38

“If a government is under one man who seeks his own benefit and not the good of those subject to him, the ruler is called a tyrant.” – Aquinas, On Kingship 2.11

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

This is a fucking outrage and absolutely a betrayal. There are Afghan refugee families already in the US with relatives separated from them and stuck in Qatar. They should be reunited not pushed to self-deport or shuffled off to yet another country. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Today I learned my doorbell doesn't work and my landline ringers are off. There's a gas leak in the sidewalk out front of my house and the crew out there tried to get hold of us so they can check our basement for leaks. I became aware of all this when a cop standing in my living room called out...

Last year @washingtonpost.com kept my subscription by offering me a deal too good to refuse when I threatened to cancel over Bezos's shenanigans. Never again. Not only has Bezos eviscerated the staff, but the paper is also rapidly devolving into a propaganda machine for the billionaire class.

Pam Bondi really needs to be removed from her position.

Judging by what I've seen on social media, I'm beginning to think I'm the only 56yo white dude who has had "Tití Me Preguntó" as his ringtone for the past three years.

I've been tearing up repeatedly as I run across reaction videos of Latinos (and others) watching Bad Bunny's halftime show. Representation and joy. If that's toxic empathy, then I'm happily a hazardous waste dump.

I rewatched the halftime show on YouTube this morning - it went by so quickly last night that I missed the texture & detail. I found it delightful, full of energy & celebration, while making subtle (& less subtle) social commentary on our cultural & political moment, calibrated for emotional impact.

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

Drake Maye will be the first starting quarterback in a Super Bowl who was not born in the 1900s. Sigh. Okay. At this point, you can just put me on a iceberg and float me out to sea.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Swung by the store today to get ingredients to make arroz con gandules, tostones, and empanadillas for the Benito Bowl on Sunday. Still need to figure out drinks and dessert.

At a nice Mexican restaurant recently with what looked like a well-stocked bar, they had very nice añejo tequilas on the menu for decent prices, so I asked if I could get a pour of one, but treat it like whiskey & make it an old-fashioned. Apparently not, since they had no sweetener or bitters...

The National Prayer Breakfast has always struck me as a religiously strange and problematic event. But holding it under the current regime and having our national leader get up and rave like a madman really seems to cross over into "taking the Lord's name in vain" territory.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

As someone on Skyrizi, oof. With my insurance, the co-pay recently went up from $75 per dose to $225 per dose. Fortunately, the drug company covers the cost of the co-pay. (The drug itself is insanely expensive, but very effective with zero side effects, at least for me.)

Indeed. Our opposition politicians need to wield the power they're elected to exercise. Instead of following polls, like teenagers chasing the latest fashion trend, they need to become shapers of opinion and get busy forging alliances and attracting public desire toward goodness and justice.

This is horrifying. The individuals working under DHS who perpetrate these crimes need to be brought to justice and prevented from ever harming people again. "Abolish ICE" is indeed the moderate position at this point. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

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

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Proletarian Literature 2. Medieval Jewish Literature 3. Existentialism 4. Chaucer 5. Solar System

Tom Homan, basically: People keep shouting at our officers that they're violating people's rights and murdering them. If this doesn't stop, we'll be forced to violate more people's rights and murder more of you.

Designers of the President’s House are grappling with the dismantling of its slavery exhibits last week following orders from the Trump administration. “It’s sort of now a memorial to the death of democracy and truth,” said Troy C. Leonard, an architect who helped design the site.

Call Bovino "retiring" what it is - a good start. But until Noem, Miller, Vought, Bondi, and the rest of these fascists are gone - especially puppet master Miller - this is just "symbolic compliance" to quell public outrage. It's no real change.

BREAKING: Stephen Miller has assumed his vaporous form in order to escape and reconstitute his dark powers.

I watched an agonizing video of ICE agents struggling with one Latino man - not a youngster or in great shape - unhindered, for over 7 minutes trying to restrain him before they were successful. Let me be clear that I do not want these goons more competent or better trained. I want ICE abolished...

It's really impressive how these people never allow truth to interfere with their messaging - a rare talent for speaking at length without disturbing the facts. I wonder what Leavitt, as someone without any experience, thinks about those who exercise a conscience?

Documentation that federal judges have ruled that *2300* people have been illegally detained by the government. 2300! In six months. Twenty-three hundred.

Reminder: The Epstein files aren’t delayed. A law is being broken. We’re still missing 99%.

We know that when white people stand up for the rights of Black & Brown people, their whiteness won't protect them. In the eyes of white supremacists, they are race traitors and deserve what happens to them. Ask Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, ​Viola Liuzzo, Jonathan Daniels, James Reeb, et al.

Jerusalem Temple officials say Jesus overturning tables was a violation of religious freedom and called on Roman guards to protect the Temple precincts.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

White House propaganda. The White House manipulated this image to deceive the public. Same moment, altered expression, manufactured narrative. That’s intentional. And yes, it looks racist. Using a doctored image of a Black woman to signal criminality isn’t subtle. Expect more of this.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

ICE is out there just executing people. They clearly have zero training on how to restrain people effectively (or are too stupid to remember it). I had more training during the decade I worked in juvenile corrections and could single-handedly take down a violent almost-18 yo without harming him.

These mfers deserve whatever consequences history will mete out. (I don't mean the NPS employees, but those making these decisions in service to white supremacy, racism, and ignorance.)