NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

America 2026.

Never enough for healthcare or education, always enough for bombs.

Come on

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Trump abused his authority. The power of the purse doesn’t belong to one person — tariffs are a tax, and any decision to levy the American people must be made by Congress alone. It wasn’t here, and working families paid the price. The federal government must return the money it stole to the people.

The Supreme Court:

Children are suffering in a for-profit prison. Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.

the video game industry is a mess

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

I just want to spell out the issue with the harm reduction narrative. It is technically true, but it is not a winning platform, which means you will lose and more people will get hurt, so you should not use it. Stand on business for once for fucks sake.

Twin Cities Unions Planning 'Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years' as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis #ICEOUT #FDT #Rent #Eviction #MN #ICEOUTNOW www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

there is also something very “i have never interacted with a human being” about the idea that you can pick and choose which rights you’re going to defend without any backlash within your coalition

AIPAC is toxic with Dems now, so they appear to be disguising themselves as they attack progressives in Democratic primaries. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

more sketchbook

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

come on

The US Women’s Hockey team is terrifying. They have scored twenty goals in this Olympiad so far. Their opponents? One.

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Get that doomer shit straight the fuck outta here

People are so desperate for some leadership that someone will give a speech that doesn’t sound like a room of centrist, corporate consultants typed it up and everyone starts asking if the guy is the front runner for president. Demand. More. From. Politicians.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

A man assaulted Representative Ilhan Omar at her town hall, but she responded by dropping an f-bomb. Both sides need to tone things down. Coming tomorrow, by someone who thinks of themself as a serious person.

Shoutout @kenklippenstein.bsky.social for giving me a much needed laugh this morning, fuckin Chuck man

Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor. Let's get it done.

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino discovered to have been one child in a trenchcoat

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked

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.

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

It can get lower!

Trump and his thugs can do a great deal of damage if not stopped. We must not succumb to fear or despair. What can we do now? A few action items occur to me: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mourning-in-america

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.