BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

We can’t have someone enforcing the law who isn’t even following the law himself. The American people deserve to know if Tom Homan took $50k from an FBI undercover agent and what he did with the money.

current front page in the onion newstand

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Simply incredible

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Sen. Jacky Rosen calls for DOJ review of Tom Homan and $50,000 bribe investigation - MS NOW

Nobody is looking at what’s going on in America and is thinking “we want some of that!” www.politico.eu/article/port...

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Anyone with a heart and soul should agree that children and babies do not belong behind bars. Thousands of kids will carry a lifetime of trauma and PTSD, done in our name, funded by our tax dollars.

NYT Editorial: “Trump Could Interfere with the Midterms. You Can Help Defend Them” electionlawblog.org?p=154085

Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."

I mean, be fair!

"The press has every right to attend public trials and to make its own editorial decisions about what to publish," FPF's Seth Stern writes. When judges forget these fundamentals, "they are ignoring the oath of office."

“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social. Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @WIRED.com and @404Media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.

Read @freedom.press' @laurenleharper.bsky.social on the government's raid of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson:

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent. theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Troublemaker is my middle name.

PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

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Rep. Raskin blasts the “pay-to-play” corruption of the Justice Department and then calls our FCC Chairman Carr for taking $12,000 Kennedy Center tickets from Paramount while reviewing their merger!

Tonight from 7-10pm mountain time I will continue my Top 250 Artists of 2025 series on @krclradio.bsky.social

The Bank of America sponsorship is the pièce de résistance here. I was born before women could have bank accounts in their own names

Tonight on @krclradio.bsky.social I'm sharing volume 2 of my Top 250 Artists of 2025 on Bubbling Up. Join me.

So important. Check this out. www.aspenpublicradio.org/government/2...

Nothing they like more than putting the bulldozer in charge of the henhouse www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective...

Halfway done which means you still have time to tune in for 25 new songs Bubbling Up on @krclradio.bsky.social as I count down the top 250 most played artists on my show this year

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Where we are as a country

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

"never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary’s own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians."

Letter: The world the book banners dream of seems within reach

Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper US shift on human rights reut.rs/4pkkiDu

More and more corruption....

Brendan Carr's latest completely bogus "investigation" is just a blatantly political threat to public media. The censorship czar is back, baby! I'm not sure how Carr's expanding his jurisdiction to the BBC, but then the point is always just spreading fear and scoring cheap points with Trump.

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Check out Bubbling Up on @krclradio.bsky.social tonight 7-10pm mst for 50 new songs.

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Everyone needs to read this thread. Everyone.