ICE is a for-profit scam Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

it’s one red card suspension how much could it cost

Tucson, not even a checkpoint: agents smash windows, drag a US citizen to the ground, falsely claim he had a gun — then assault the man filming it. Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, § 242, all violated in one stop. This is what 'law enforcement' looks like when profiling replaces probable cause.

Ya see, in Murrica you can use a gold card to beat a red card. Don't leave home without one.

Well no wonder Republicans keep ruining the economy—this is what they think “thousands celebrating” looks like, what kind of math is this 🥴 www.threads.com/@mamasissies...

Bold thing to say when your party is in control of literally everything.

In this BizzaroWorld of political theater and Trump thievery-as-policy, "family business" makes The Godfather look like AA ball.

This isn’t just oddly inappropriate. It suggests that the ongoing Middle East negotiations are intertwined with private profit-making opportunities for the Trump family.

Who did this?

Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)

Are you a Scottish visitor in Boston who's been denied a pint because of long queues, stock outs, overcrowding or too much sing-song? You may be entitled to compensation.

NYC schoolteachers, calling roll in a few years: Jalen Mamdani Finnerty OG-casio Weinberg Nobie Chan Josh "Bang!" Posole, but friends call him "Yes!" (and not one named Dolan)

This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.

Bombing as a temper tantrum.

This forever

Calling in a favor to my Canadian folks--my very pregnant wife is craving Honey Shreddies and Hawkins Cheezies! If anyone could help me out, shoot me a PM and I'll pay for the food and shipping--I'm only an hour and change from the border!

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

If you're a Barack Obama or Bill/Hillary Clinton lookalike anywhere near NYC, pls get to Game 3 Spurs/Knicks at MSG, I want to buy your ticket, a hotdog or an adult beverage.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

As editor-of-BlueSky, @firstpersonshooter.bsky.social is it more correct (or extra-cringe) to "cosplay as. . ." he asked sheepishly.🤡 Y'know like "naan bread" or "katana sword"🤐

Everyone should be demanding Congress vote on Trump's theft

It would be cheaper to give every coal miner $5m every year than it is to keep them employed in coal mining. Not even joking; there are maybe 40k coal workers, but annual economic burden of U.S. coal is $200B-$500B (climate change, public health, water & ecosystem damage, dispatch inefficiency).

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

All economic news today could be headlined: No one said resegregation would be cheap and easy.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

We’re watching, and failing to respond to, a social engineering project meant to make impossible any belief in modernity having any positive aspects. This is a sociopolitical revolution, not a benign “political era.” An excision of alternatives to constrict human imagination and possibility.

New reporting exposes the Trump airport grift in Palm Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the deal to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump is packed with perks for Trump’s business. Under the tentative agreement, airport stores would be forced to buy branded merchandise only

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

U.S. debt just crossed 100% of GDP — first time since we were fighting Nazis. We paid that debt down over 25 years by taxing the rich at rates up to 91%. Not a typo. Eisenhower didn't apologize for it. The debt shrank. The middle class grew. The economy boomed. Now we're cutting taxes on billionaire

Sheesh, those seashells by the seashore?!? Comey indicted for not leaving only footprints? Preposterous on the law and I'll wager a Fisherman's Platter that 70 pct of sea creatures polled ALSO want Orange Julius Caesar gone.

Register today for our free, all-day @whatworks-nu.bsky.social webinar for local news folks on "Audience, Events and AI," to be held May 21. Kicking off the day's workshops will be Emily Turner, deputy editor of community at boston-dot-com. #journalism www.eventbrite.com/e/audience-a...

How powerful is this - and sad.

I was writing jokes for Amber Ruffin when she was supposed to host the White House Correspondent's Dinner last year, but then she got fired for saying bad things about Donald Trump. I think tonight, I shall post a few of them here.

Looking at Earth in a different way through the Dymaxion Map shows humanity is really living along a giant archipelago with Antarctica at one end & Australia at the other. R. Buckminster Fuller's map makes it easier to understand historical human migration. www.instagram.com/reels/DW6VvT...

Could you imagine if Biden…oh hell, never mind. Obligatory @jaketapper.bsky.social

Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

How many insanely overpriced bus/train fares do you have to purchase to get a FIFA World Cup Peace Prize? (asking for a tourist)

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Coming next, NYTimesPitchbot asks a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine in this Kankakee diner for reactions to U.S campaigns in Afghanistan.

Harvard University is offering a free online course on the U.S. Constitution, taught by my friend and mentor Thomas Patterson. Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Here's how you can enroll. www.edx.org/learn/govern...

Exactly 💯

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Only six more days of Congressional holiday, what could possibly go (more) wrong?