Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them. HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

DESPITE?

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

One thing I think abt a lot: Just imagine how well the economy would be doing if Trump hadn’t spent all of last year trashing the great economy he inherited? Tariffs, huge govt layoffs, slashing research/medical/science spending, torturing US cities with immigration raids. Economy would be humming!

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Venality and Vanity. My latest.

I prefer the clarity of using the word "Lies" in headlines instead of things like "Unfounded Claims."

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

This NYT piece never mentions the most important detail of the hearing. THESE PEOPLE ARE UNLAWFULLY being held--and many are unlawfully being snatched in the first place. The reason there's such a caseload is bc ICE is kidnapping people illegally.

Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

To be fair, apparently measles is one of the big donors for the Trump ballroom

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

““We are a welcoming community, not a detention zone,” Garcia said. “ICE’s current operations do not reflect Dallas County’s values. We believe in keeping families together, protecting due process and investing in people, not in cages and mass incarceration.””

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

Bullshit framing. The question is not CAN he de-escalate tensions? It’s WILL he? Or even more specifically does he even WANT to?

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

Q: On ICE protests, what did you mean when you said 'people will suffer an equal or greater consequence'? TRUMP: If they do anything bad to our people, they will have to suffer, I'm sorry. If they throw bricks at one of our very expensive vehicles, they are gonna be met with very very serious force

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Don’t say this is “un-American.” If journalists are being arrested for doing journalism, then we are not the America we claim to be. That just means we have work to do. I stand with Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and those demanding their immediate release.

Also missing from Prof. Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship brief: The Act of Settlement 1701, a fundamental constitutional statute. Not only is subjecthood tied to geography, but eligibility to hold a position on the Privy Council or sit in Parliament was tethered to birth within the realm alone.

Yes: we have tens of thousands of Minnesotans who are, for all intents and purposes, in hiding right now. Most are documented, many are even citizens. Doesn't matter, because ICE doesn't care. Our schools are at COVID-era levels of attendance, with no extra resources for support. Unimaginable harm.

“And then they come over to try to perform some type of medical aid by ripping his clothes open with scissors, and then maneuvering his body around like a rag doll, only to discover that it could be because they wanted to count the bullet wounds to see how many they got, like he’s a deer.”

C'mon folks. Didn't we all know that the 2nd Amendment only meant "the right to bear arms" for SOME people?

Worse than ignorant. This is a blatant lie. This is the head of the absurdly named Golden Dome claiming that there are no technical challenges to nation missile defense. It's just a matter of rapidly manufacturing the interceptors. Complete nonsense. Golden Dome will never work, let alone by 2028.

Marshall Islands' nuclear past and precarious future explored in London exhibition reut.rs/468ANLx

Now compare this to the tech oligarchs bending the knee

Statistic: 2/3rds of murders in Minneapolis so far in 2026 have been committed by DHS agents

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

It is a choice to call far right cop assailant Jake Lang a "conservative influencer," and not a good one. [updated} www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

Elections do matter.

More See BS News. What a disgrace. What's "a bit much" is what your corporate overlords are doing to your news division.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Reistance comes in many flavors

Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

"Federal officials said the move was meant to discourage immigration by people who they deemed likely to rely on public benefits." The horrific irony is that the real grifters and con artists enrichiching themselves on tax dollars are the racists destroying democracy.

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This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

This is just a completely parallel universe