"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Congrats to the editors at the Irish Times for their timing in publishing two news pieces this morning: Shannon Airport has been used for ICE deportation flight refuelling; an Irish man with no criminal record and a valid work permit has been held at an ICE centre in Texas ***since September 2025***

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This feels like the payoff on a monkey's paw wish some Jets fan made 7 years ago.

I'm seeing differing reactions to the Darnold Super Bowl win: Vikings fans: "Good for him. He'd never win one with the Vikings anyway." Jets fans: "I'm building a rocket ship to heaven so I can fight God for creating the fuckig Jets franchise."

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social -- sorry that Jason Myers and Michael Dickson got edged out for Super Bowl MVP...they were simply the second and third most valuable players on the Seahawks in that win. I so totally wanted to see your reaction to a kicker winning Super Bowl MVP.

I like defense! #GoHawks

We’re living in the fascist police state Alex Jones told everyone liberals would build and he’s deepthroating the boot while the sheeple he criticized risk everything The fascists called us snowflakes and they’re wetting themselves over a halftime show and regular people are studying street warfare

This is 45. My face belongs to me. Imagine surrendering your very distinct face for a fembot template designed by deranged Republicans.

Seconded.

Strict gender binaries are a gender ideology. White supremacy is DEI for the failsons of the glabrously hued.

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

BREAKING: Congress has scheduled a vote on the SAVE America Act, a bill that would restrict the freedom to vote for millions of Americans.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people

"Cops are great.'

ethics professor here, can confirm

What language does the inscription have to be in to funnel ICE agents into a Mesopotamian netherworld? There has got to be a suitable Venn overlap of Ancient Linguistics needs nerds and ceramacists in the Twin Cities. Someone's getting a Ph.D thesis out of running this as an experiment!

Massie, like Nancy Mace, is learning they there are no refunds on selling your soul to protect the Epstein Class for *decades*.

as someone who tries to work in these spaces outside my work.. this is such a brutal, elegant gutpunch of reality. (try fighting with San Franciscans on efforts to open even the most modest Safe Injection Site!)

My Muppet Show host picks off the top of my head: Janelle Monáe, Margot Robbie, Michelle Yeoh, Ryan Reynolds, Ncuti Gatwa, Ian McKellen, Ted Danson, June Squibb, Selena Gomez, Donald Glover, Orville Peck, Ron Funches, Kristen Bell, and all of Alasdair's picks, but esp. Michael B. Jordan.

Utah is having a moment with a signature petition drive: Republicans are trying to erase a Democratic SLC Congressional district. The deadline is the 15th. They have about 52% of the signatures needed. There's a much higher than normal rate of questionable signatures.

Have you seen what happens to those who've publicly named those in the EPSTEIN circle? She wasn't claiming that, but Starmer claiming they'd ensure victims got justice once in power, then dropping them like a soiled tissue? If that's your sympathy... sussexbylines.co.uk/news/how-dar...

there is value in people from unexpected demographics signifying allegiance to progressivism; it makes vulnerable people feel safer around them/in public, and it gives others from their demographic “permission” to join them - as most humans won’t swim against a current alone

Partisan gerrymandering should be constitutionally barred. SCOTUS says it isn't. Until a constitutional amendment changes that we can't have unilateral disarmament. Which means once Republicans kicked off mid-decade redistricting this was the only possible response

If you analyze how NBA shots changed when Steph Curry broke the 3-point shot, he broke basketball! Then he taught his teammate his tricks, and it spread! (This isn't unique to Curry; the 1970s also had tricks that broke the game as understood at the time!)

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Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

Okay, so one of the sports dudes playing tomorrow uses the Merlin app to ID the birds in his yard, so I would like him to win because this is so cute. Also, his team is a bird. www.youtube.com/shorts/7NoPa... #SuperBowl

Tax prep companies are terrible, and have lobbied to make our lives more complicated and expensive. But it's _not true_ that the IRS knows what you need to pay, if you're a freelancer. Or work from home. Or are a teacher. Or have a kid in college. Or have significant medical expenses. Or ...

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Reminder that children, elders and immunocompromised folks etc implicated by their bringing this plague to DC certainly don’t have a fucking choice about this at all.

The only military force that should be using Smaht Glaaaases is the Russian Army and Russian Air Force. As a force multiplier.

@dieworkwear.bsky.social -- what sartorial choices would you give to ALF here?

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for every ICE abuse.

We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical

every study of term limits shows that it makes pols less responsive to constituents and gives lots of power to staffers who have no commitment to constituents. term limits are a shitty, counterproductive idea. I wish ppl woudl stop treating it like god's brainstorm.

I do believe the ruling class is engaged a project to acquire and destroy news media. And the thing is, even if they’re not consciously planning it, that’s the result of their ideology and idiocy

One of the reasons I am *begging* everyone to stop using “Minneapolis” as a synecdoche for the entire Twin Cities metro area is that leads to inaccurate reporting like this. These are Minnesota State Police, who are under the command of Tim Walz, and this is not happening in Minneapolis.

Rita Levi-Montalcini was raised by a strict father who disapproved of women in higher ed. She convinced him to let her study medicine. She went on to co-discover the Nerve Growth Factor. She received the Nobel Prize in 1986. She was another immigrant that gifted the US with pioneering work. 🧪

I still haven't forgotten that he voted for the Laken Riley act.

I had a story idea about the SECOND wave of human interstellar exploration, where they follow the path of a first wave exploration ship, and find civilization after ruined civilization. And discover the first ship, centuries ago, spread social media like a virgin field memetic pathogen...

Amazing how many comrades helped make this happen. Folks on the ground in Texas - I have no idea who they are - got the person food and shelter and a phone. Someone whose name I’ve already forgotten have me the person’s details for me to get the ticket. Others made sure they got on the plane safely.

LLM based chatbots are the Great Filter. Change my mind.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

I’m sure this hasn’t been lost on anyone, but tomorrow, there’s going to be a cultural battle between indigenous iconography and nationalist branding. Just, you know, in case that has been under discussed. Anyways, #GoHawks.

Sigh. Another set of deeply suspicious floaters in my right eye.

A teenager who was detained for 49 days over his friend’s killing at a SEPTA station contends police “buried” footage that showed he was innocent. Now he’s suing the city and transit officers.