“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

We don't need to look to another country for a comparison. All Black people, including free Black people before the Reconstruction Amendments had to produce proof of how they became free on demand. Whites routinely presumed someone with Black skin o be enslaved w/ the burden on African Americans. 1/

We need positive language and worker protections around people who refuse to use AI in industries and organizations that heavily promote or mandate it. Conscientious objectors, but for AI.

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

jesse jackson was constantly played as a punchline on 90s late-night TV to the point that i didn't understand his history of activism and serious left-leaning political platform until i was much older. i have to think, to some degree, that was on purpose.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who preached about hope and “somebodiness” and was a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died today at age 84. My @rns.org photo from 50th anniversary of ’63 March on Washington and my @rns.org story about him: religionnews.com/2026/02/17/j...

Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I love reading about Olympics cheating scandals, they seem so quaint relative to other world events. Oh, you touched a stone a couple inches past the line? Injected your penis with hyaluronic acid? Nice.

This Ossoff guy genuinely has a way with words

Looks like this bill won't move forward this year. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

At some point I'll do a deepdive thread about Larry Summers and Elisa New; suffice to say that they were intimately connected to Epstein and gladly took his money and advice, well after his 2008 sex trafficking conviction

How many biological children did Jeffrey Epstein have, if any? That's the question I can't seem to find an answer to in all the rigorous reporting about his interest in eugenics, genetic testing/editing, and passing on his own DNA.

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

One weird and racist thing that I couldn't figure out from the Epstein files: on Dec 22, 2014, philanthropy advisor Barnaby Marsh emailed Epstein a list of "potential names" for 92nd Street Y, a well-known community center in NYC. No idea what the names were for. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Most random thing I've found in the Epstein files so far: some unnamed person mentioned they started playing chess and asked Epstein for tips, and he responded with "Stockfish," which is an actual chess engine and learning tool www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Kathy Ruemmler: Did you read David Brooks today? Jeffrey Epstein: he is a pesudo intellectual www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

"I didn't feel at home anywhere,” said Braathen in a recent interview "I adopted the local accent, imitated the behavior. I changed my personality, my accent, my interests, so frequently, only to lose them later. So I stopped and learned to be myself.” Isso aqui!

If I were a Democrat working on NDAA appropriations stuff, I would starting thinking about how to excise some of these companies.

Say what you will about the Folgers incest commercial, but when I needed to get instant coffee for a recipe the first brand I thought of was Folgers.

This is chilling

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but bc of what I believe it can become.' -Grace Lee Boggs

Part of this I think is Epstein's fetishization of the Great Men of Science ideal: he explicitly sought out people who he thought to be the smartest or best in their field, who coincidentally were a lot like him: middle-aged, white, male, hungry for influence/money/connections.

They are background characters to the main character in Epstein’s world, but I don’t want to downplay their agentic role in academia where they can gatekeep their little fiefdoms and push people out through teaching, advising, paper and grant reviewing, committee work/nonwork and hiring…

I haven't read it, but here's the link: www.royalroad.com/fiction/5750...

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

Parenting multiple kids is a feat because someone will get hurt during playtime and before you can figure out what happened, the responsible party will try to shut it down by saying they already apologized, as if that not only undoes the hurt but removes the need to discuss it any further

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Not just refusal to act, but retaliation, too. Publishing unredacted information that puts them in danger, including nude photos, while redacting and withholding files containing information about perpetrators.

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

Me if a cop asks me who she is

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

All these years later and the title for Grossest Way to Eat a Tomato is still held by... Denethor.

You need to understand that for every store that gets out, there are easily 5 more. There are segments of la frontera that are known as death valleys because of the difficulty of maintaining hydration and CBP‘s institutionalized culture of destroying water sources left behind by crossers & activists

In the white supremacist imagination, if funeral potatoes and meatloaf no longer represent the dominant foodways, that's akin to civilizational collapse.

You ever sign your kid up for an extra curricular activity then realize from overheard conversations that you're in a TOTALLY different income bracket than some of the other parents... Because 👀👀

BREAKING: Clark C. Gilbert, known for his crackdown on BYU professors, has been elevated to the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve.

This photo by Kent Nishimura is WILD zoom in!!!!!!

There should be hearings about this.

And here’s the absurdity of calling the police on ICE. You’re calling their backup.

In general a lot of moderate liberals find it very annoying that leftists, radical liberals, and libertarians all end up at open borders, missing the "obvious" middle ground position, but the thing is that if you examine the issue at all, borders are pretty damn hard to actually justify